Emile Vandervelde
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Emile Vandervelde 🇧🇪

Émile Vandervelde (Known as "Le Patron")
Leader of Belgian Labour Party, Author of Quaregnon Charter, President Second International
Born Jan 25, 1866 🇧🇪 Ixelles (Brussels), Belgium
Passed Away Nov 23, 1938 Ixelles (Brussels), Belgium
Lifespan 72 years old
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"The emancipation of the working class must be the work of the workers themselves."

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Legendary socialist leader known as 'Le Patron', author of the historic 1894 Quaregnon Charter, President of the Second International, and champion of universal suffrage and the eight-hour workday.

Biographical Record

A brilliant doctor of law and social sciences, Vandervelde joined the Belgian Labour Party (POB/BWP) in 1886. At the 1894 party congress in Quaregnon, he drafted the Quaregnon Charter, which remained the foundational socialist manifesto in Belgium for a century.

He led general strikes demanding equal universal suffrage, succeeding in abolishing plural voting in 1919. Serving as Minister of Justice (1918–1921), he enacted the Vandervelde Alcohol Law, abolished prison isolation, instituted the eight-hour workday, and served as President of the Labour and Socialist International.

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Ixelles Cemetery (Cimetière d'Ixelles)
Ixelles (Brussels), Belgium
GPS: 50.8167, 4.3833
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