530. Vancouver, British Columbia. Saturday, June 5, 1909. subscription Price Pkk Ybar 31.00 REVOLUTION COMES APACE A Journey to the Holy Places of Mammon Strengthens the Belief That His Sway Cannot Much Longer Endure. Dear Comrade: — I have just returned from my visit to the States and the Old Country, which I have 1011110? very interesting, chiefly .from the social and economic point of view. Everything is trending, as has been pointed out for years by the despised Socialist, towards a climax which, unless something extraordinary happens, must develop into a very interesting state of affairs within a very short space of time. The question which forces itself upon a man is, how long the people will stand for the awful misery and poverty which is now enveloping the masses and which makes life even for the so-called middle class, one continual round of anxiety for the future. The cause of these conditions is not hard to find if one looks at our economic system which places the products of the workers in the hands of a few not allow of it. There is, consequently, a large surplus of commodities on the market, which means that the owners of the factories will close down until the surplus has in some way been thinned down and then industry temporarily starts up again, but only to stop again with ever shortening intervals of activity. If industry were the only factor I should expect the revolution peaceably through chronic unemployment, for the owners of the machinery of production are being forced into combinations which can restrict the output of commodities, thus helping the markets from serious overflooding at any one time, although the market will grow beautifully less as more and more workers have no wages wherewith to buy. The other factor is the financial or speculative which, as money gets cheaper, threatens to upset, the calculations of our industrial owners and throw society into panics by the stoppage of all new development and the calling In of monies being used Industrially and the stoppage of credits, following which we have natural reaction and a fresh development quite unwarranted by the consuming powers of the workers. Commodities being ever produced more cheaply, that Is for less wages to the workers, theese changes from now on must take place ln very rapid succession, a condition of affairs that cannot by any means last long. Tbe outlook as I have seen lt Is very bright and hopeful for the revolution. I cannot say that out of the masses of tbe workers we have any respectable proportion of Socialists, but we have a sprinkling, and this seeming handful are the only ones who know what is going to happen and what to do when the time comes. We cannot expect a very large membership yet, the increase In Btrength Is good, but we must bear in mind the fact that the harvest is not yet quite ripe and all we can hope to do is to educate harvesters, so that when the masses are forced to make a move we shall be strong enough to pilot their movement. I am glad to say this Is being done all the world over and a band of revolutionary Socialists Is slowly but surely permeating the whole Industrial world with a leaven that cannot help but work and raise the masses when the time Is ripe. That we can educate the majority of the workers to their economic position and condition, show them the remedy and get them to accept It before we reach the last Industrial climax, appears to me to be Impossible, as I see Industrial conditions to-day. To me the final stage appears to be approaching at a pace that bids fair to give us only sufficient time to get a comparative few into line, but they, knowing what they want and making for the only road out, will be able to put the crowd on the right track. To-day I am a revolutionary Socialist of the worst type, The sight of millions of men, women and children in the lowest depths of misery and destitution on the one hand, and the arrogant display of wealth and vice by the robber owners of humanity, makes me wish for the time when those millions will stir themselves. The dis- jgustlsg charities and charity bazaars, concerts, etc., where a few upstarts air their fine dresses and pose as philanthropists, when they get tired of their ceaseless rounds of pleasure, make me angry. It Is a new plaything and a change, a new sensation which costs them practically and comparatively nothing, and makes a man get his back up and wish he could prick the bubble on which they arc floating and displaying themselves. What a howl they make when thei.- motoring Is taxed a trifle, when incomes of £2,000 and upwards are taxed, when land they hold is laved and death duties are levied I Say, Comrade Editor, won't there be some fun when we get a shot at them? Just fancy making them do a little work as well as grabbing the land, natural resources and machinery! Won't they squeal, then? It does me good and gives me a joyous feeling to think of it. How many of them ever give a moment's serious thought to the conditions under which their fellows are compelled to exist and become, prostitutes and criminals? Not many, I know. Then how much consideration will there be coming to them? If thes' escape with whole skins they will be doing extremely well. Did someone ask about compensation? Yes, I'd compensate them, but it would not be compensation in the ardinary sense of the word, 1 would spell it re-payment, and I would guarantee they would not apply twice. A few days before leaving England I went to hear Comrade Grayson speak at an Independent Labor Party meeting where, taking Bellamy's Water Tank parable, he gave the crowd as good a dose of economics as even a western revolutionist could wish, and gave the Labor Party M. P.'s a very rough handling. The only thing that we would not quite agree with him on was a suggestion he made to legislate land back to the common property of the people by means of taxation, which he stated could be done In three years. I rather fancy that we would do it in somewhat shorter order. Yours in revolt, W, W. LEFEAUX. BRITISH "CHRISTIAN" AND CIVILIZING INFLUENCES IN INDIA. (From "The Harp," New York, May, 1909.) In "The Flame" or March «th, I find the following testimony to the holy, "civilizing" influences of the British in India which will perhaps serve to make my readers share my feelings towards that "abomination of desolation," the British Empire: The British army in India recruits women for the purpose of harlotry with an almost brutal disregard for even the God of Appearance. On June 17th, 1886, Sir F. (now Lord) Roberts issued his "circular memorandum" addressed to general officers commanding divisions and districts. In it he says: "In the regimental bazaars it Is necessary to have a sufficient number of women; to take care that they are sufficiently attractive, and to provide them proper houses." In furtherance of these instructions, the officer commanding the Connaught Rangers at Jullunder wrote to the assistant quartermaster as follows: 'The cantonment magistrate has already on more than one occasion been requested to obtain a number of younger and more attractive women, but with little or no success. He will be again appealed to. The Major-General commanding should invoke the aid of the local government by instructing the cantonment magistrates, whom they appoint, that they give all possible aid to commanding officers In procuring a sufficient number of young, attractive, and healthy women." Just Imagine a magistrate acting as a procurer, at the instigation of commanders of our glorious "harmy"! Let the readers of "The Harp" remember that 'he women who are thus demanded for the purpose of gratify ing the lusts of the English soldiers are procured by seizing any decent, attractive native women the cantonment magistrate thinks suited for the purpose; and carrying them by force to the bazaar where they are kept until they grow old or diseased. Then they are thrown out to rot in the jungle. When the British were introducing the opium trade Into India they sent commissioners Into the territory they thought suited for the cultivation of the poppy, and summoning all the ryots (peasant farmers) before them, these said commissioners compelled each to set aside as much of his land as the commissioners wanted for the culture of this accursed drug. When the natives would not buy nor use the opium, the government spent a vast sum of money In giving it away free in order to cultivate among them a liking for it. The drug has ruined millions, body and soul, but it has brought a great revenue to the British Government, therefore "Rule Britannia." The universe is about tired of this British Empire, and I for one hope that the natives of India will, ere long, drive it from their shores into the sea. THE NECESSITY OF CHANGE. "Civilization must of necessity develop into some other form of society, the tendencies of which we can see, but not the deails; and it Is now becoming clear that this new state of society can only be reached through the great economic, moral and political change which we call Socialism; and the essential foundation of this is the raising of the working classes to a point that gives them a control over their own labor and its product."—Delfort Bax, p. 18, "Socialism, Its Growlh and Outcome." NEWS FROM THE MARITIME Organizer Finds That the Soil Is Ready for the Seed, and That Willing Hands Are Not Wanting. LOCAL VANCOUVER'S PICNIC. The committee in charge have made arrangements with the owners of the steamer Strathcona for an excursion and picnic on Sunday, June 27th. Tbe excursion will start from Johnson's Wharf at 9:45 a.m., and will go to the head of the North Arm. On the return trip all hands will land at Strathcona Park, wh»re the picnic will be held. Bring your baskets, your friends and your families. Round-trip tickets, 50 cents. Children under twelve, 25 cents; under five, free. Tickets obtainable at propaganda and business meetings from the literature agent, and at all times at tbe Headquarters, at the Clarion office or at 108 Hastings street east. THE MODERN FACTORY. Marx describes the modern factory as being more than a mere assemblage of machines under the one roof, for It Is rather a huge machine Itself. He says: "The modern factory is an organized system of machines to which motion is communicated by the transmitting mechanism from a central automaton Is the most developed form of production by machinery. Here we have ln place of the isolated machine a mechanical monster, whose body fills whole factories, and whose demon power, at first veiled under the slow and measured motion of Its giant llmbB, at last breaks out into the fast and furious whirl of his countless working organs." THE LESTORS' TOUR Interior B. C. Locals that have not already applied for dates for Com. LeBtor and wife had better get busy quick. Write Chas. LeBtor, Box 647, Calgary, Alta. They will come by way of the Crow's Nest Pass. Coast Locals wiBhlng dates, write this offlce. CAPITAL AND COUNTRY It is but seldom that capitalist periodicals depart from the usual apologetic order of business—that of supplying the "better" classes with virtues and other distinguishing features —and allow matters of vital import to society a place on their pages. In perusing "Colliers" Of May 22nd, one Is startled by the unexpected light of a great economic truth, clearly and convincingly presented- Speaking of capital, Colliers says: "In the hard cold lexicon of capital, there is no such word as patriotism. It knows no country, obeys no king, save ItB own whims, and goes wherever money, a breed of barren metal, takes. . . . Capital does not recognize political boundaries. It recognizes only Its own interest." The capitalists, being of course the sole beneficiaries of capital, are here shown quite conclusively to be entirely exempt from any participation In that effusive demonstration so significant of intellectual stagnation, commonly known as patriotism. Having gone thus far, one might almost have expected Colliers to carry the argument to its logical conclusion and show that, Inasmuch as all wealth emanates from labor, capital being the condition under which labor is despoiled of Its product, labor is then as International In Its interests as capital. Why, then, should labor be the only part of the social division to "recognize political boundaries," "obey a king" and look after anything but "its own whims?" Surely, lt will not take labor much longer to waken to the fact that all patriotic guff, all national lines, and all political parties who stand for the Bacred" rights of employers are but Bubtle Instruments In the hands of the capitalist class used to divide the working class against itself and render Its memberB the more submissive and the more willing to be robbed of the wealth they create. It is high time the wage workers of all degrees broadened their vision and came to realize the potential possibilities contained in those inspired words of the immortal Marx: "Workers of the world unite," and following the advice thus offered, rose to that position which Is bo justly theirs. SPES. BRITISH WORKMEN'S BALLOT. By George R. Sims. I walked in a precesshin' with a banner and a band, And they said I was a nooBence In 'Igh Olborn and the Strand; I spouted at a meeting which was ln Trafalgar Square. But they sent the cops to charge me and to clear me out of there. fife, *. Oh, it's "Demmygog" and "Soshullst," and "Damn the lazy lout," But It's "Bless the British workman," with the ballot box about. The ballot box about, my lads, the ballot box about, Ob, It's "Bless the British workman," with the ballot box ubout. I struck for higher wages, and they said I was a fool, And the crafty hagitator merely used me as a tool, And when the kids were starving and we hadn't sup nor bite, They only shrugged their shoulders, and they said It served me right. For It's "Ruin to the country,' 'and it's wickedness and crime, But it'B "sacred rights 0' labor," just about election time. JuBt about election time, my lads, about election time, Oh, it'B "sacred rights o' labor," just about election time. I'm lazy and I'm 'ulklng and a nooBence and a cuss, And 1 Bits on trade and commerce like a blessed Inkybus, I'm u-draggin' down the Itempire and a swellln' of the ra'es, And a 'orny 'anded 'umbug what the upper classes 'ates. For It's "Workingmen are iluffers" and "They're never worth a groat"; But It's "British bone and sinew" when they want your blooming vote. They wants your blooming vote, my lads, they wani your blooming vote. Oh, It's "British bone and sinew" when they want your blooming vote. Being unable to hold a meeting tonight, owing to very stormy weather, I am going to treat myself to a good long talk to the comrades who take the Clarion, being some time since I Indulged in that way. I will start, not wishing to keep them in suspense, by telling them that things right east are better than I expected to find, except in one way, namely, not many subs for the Clarion yet. Have had good meetings right along, at Brockville, Montreal, Newcastle, Albert, Harvey, Springhill, and now at New Glasgow, where I have been speaking night after night to increasing audiences. Here the crowds are such as delight a speaker by coming up close to him and so sparing his poor throat. New Locals are formed at Newcastle and Springhill, the latter an exceptionally large one. Things seem to be brightening all the time. "Free Speech," a radical paper published at Moncton, N. B., has come out flat- footed for Socialism, and only a week ago there seemed to be no prospect of getting any help in that town. Your help is welcome, Comrade ,Mac- Dougall. There seemed little hope at Fred- erickton, the members of that Local being scattered, but I had word this morning that Comrade Butler, proprietor of Butler's Journal, undertakes to provide a hall, and he and Comrade Stuart's brother will see to advertising. Look out, you Western fellows, these Eastern comrades are getting into their stride. St. John and Halifax still to hear from, hut my faith is growing strong. Only thing is, every place wants me ■ to come there right away, and, of course, it can't be done, though there is not one of them at which I am not impatient to be, but, woe Is me, the age of miracles is past. For this job the demand exceeds the supply, and the wages are naturally high—INTENSE SATISFACTION. Take notice, Kingston! Say, but it is good to be a Socialist, especially a Socialist agitator on the go like this. Had the chance to be a parson or missionary, or something of the kind once; glad I didn't take it. Oh, yes; It would have been quite respectable, of course, and there would be no loss of "Boclal standing"; no one would ever treat one as a social pariah; a couple half-hours twice a week would be all the talking expected of one, of a sort not requiring much brain power, being careful to give what "pleased." other qualifications being a pleasant manner, a ready smile and constant care never to let anyone HEAR you drop even the mildest kind of cubs word. And how the dear girls of the church dote on the young parson, missionary or evangelist, as the case may he. "Isn't he NICE!" Always had an eye for a pretty girl. Oh, what I missed! And it is SO respectable. But I don't WANT to be respectable—one can't be u Socialist and be respectable, according to capitalisi ideas. I want to be free to tread on any capitalist corns, to jar any prejudices, free to tell the workers in Ihe plainest way what Is the matter, free to tell them about Socialism, the only thing worth telling them just now; free to tell them ALL I know about it, no matter who It offends, and that the party leaves me free to do, and so 1 say with Comrade Drake, "Hurrah for Socialism; we don't care whether you I like it or not." Now I have got that off my chest, let's see If I can tell you some more news." I.et me make you better acquainted with Comrade Stuart of Newcastle; you'll like to become so, I know. As far as I know, Comrade Stuart Is the veteran of the East. He Is of tireless energy and ceaseless watchfulness for anything he can turn to Ihe good of the movement. I doubt if any of us will ever fully realize how much the present success Is due to the years of hard work put In by Comrade Stuart. 1 can only say that I realize that, what 1 have done and will be able to do en this tour will be but a trifle compared to what Stuart has done. Official organizers have a necessary function to perform and are mora heard of than those who have been doing the quiet work—they cannot help that—but it is that quiet work that makes their success possible: (don't forget that they have done their bit in the spade work, however). This organizing is hard work, anyhow, but is lightened and inspired by such men as Stuart, and so we organizers are enabled to treat with contempt the cheap, mean, unmanly sneers of Kingston. You've heard of Filmore, probably, Well, you'll hear more yet, as well as of Tingley, both of Albert, N. B. These are young comrades, but Filmore Is by way of being a veteran, having started at sixteen years old, six years ago. Three desperate fighters ln Albert (the other's name I forget, except that his first is "Claude"). There are some good ones coming on, too—don't feet a bit nervous about the future ot Albert Local. Springhill is simply grand. Jules Levenne is the star fighter here, but don't you think for a moment he Is the only one, as they are too many to mention. I think Springhill must have broken the record In number 61 names on charter application. ThU is a mining camp and is seething with revolt, the prevalent Idea being, "We'll have to go In for Socialism like the Western men"—and they're going in. Not one miner had a word to say against Socialism to me. When I was a boy, my favorite hero was—-Garabaldi, the sailor who always took the side of the under dog, and after a life of fighting came to the conclusion that "Socialism is the rising sun." Our veteran comrade, McKay of New Glasgow, is just hla type, having a passion for taking the side of the oppressed, as he saw It, fighting to free the slaves tn the American civil war, getting badly wounded; later a pro-Boer and now a revolutionist. Comrade Frye you Bhould also know. He Is of the quietly steadfast, persistent kind that do much work and get little credit; but real Socialists are not out for credit on the one hand, and on the other hand, neither are they vexed when they see others getting some. Oh! I was nearly forgetting to men* tion our young comrade of seventy years of age. Comrade Smith of Hills- bro, whom I saw at Albert. By all appearance, "his eye Is not dim, nor his naturnl force abated." A recruit of smart h, he first saw the light about two veins ago, and It is a bright one to him. Proudly wearing the Socialist button, and with his eyes shining Willi hope, he said, "I can't expect to II \e very many years, but I hope to gee the co-operative commonwealth, and 1 will be ready then, like Simeon, to depart In peace, when my eyes have seen the salvation of the working class." A little bird has told me there are one or two of the boys in Toronto getting listless. Let the example of this old comrade shame tlfem, for he is working hard, and he Is nearing tho shadows, while the sun of their lives is still In the ascendant. Let us "quit ourselves like men and fight," for we not only want to see what. Comrade Smiih does, but we want him to see it, too, and some of us have got old fathers and mothers who want, and who we want, to see It. Docs your Socialism make life brighter for you now; if so, It makes you work now. If It is not that sort, it's spurious, and you had better look into the matter and see what's wrong. WILFRID GRIBBLE. COMOX, ATTENTION! It is proposed to send Organizer Harrington Into the Comox district. Comrades willing to assist In arrange lng meetings for him are requested to communicate with this office ati4 to forward such information as to ro '., etc., as may be useful. THE WESTERN CLARION, VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA. 8ATURDAY, JUNE 5, 1909. Its Western Clarion VaMlahaa cvary Saturday by tha PoclalUt Fuity of Canada, nt ttit Oflloa •f tl» WL'iiturn Clarion, riack Block ImwhhI, luo kmi.ui.ki sticut. Vaucou- tar, B o. BVDSCBIFTIORl ■1.00 r«r Ytar, SO ctuti lor Sla Muiitln, 85 ocnta for Tlir«* Muntlia. Strictly In Ailvniier iiuniii,':, ur o or mora ooplMi for , Erloil ur not Ii'mh ihuii Uirtl month,,, m a rate of oni oint par oopy par laaua. AdvvrtlMliia rutua uit ippliOatiOII, It you rtoilvl Hilt* papvr, It In puhl tor. ln mukiiiK rimlttanii by phfaut, ox- •toaiiKi' must l>u HiMoil. AiMi'iihh nil •omniunli'UlloiiH uinl tiiako all uioiioy •rdarH payahli to TBE WUBTEBB CLABIOK. Boa eae. Vaneonvar, B. o. 531 Watch the label on your paper. If this number la on it, your subscription eapirea the next issue. SATURDAY, JUNE 5, 1909. LO, THE POOR INDIAN. Some years ago, having, as wc subsequently discovered, absolutely no occasion to venture Into the "far northern wilds, naturally that is where we went. There, while engaged in the pleasant and profitable pastime of exchanging an abundance of expectations for a morsel of experience, we encountered the aboriginal in a more or less aboriginal state, modified, of course, by the fact of several generations of exploitation by benevolent fur-trading capitalists. Though this had considerably reduced the Indians In number and impoverished their hunting grounds, armed them with modern weapons and clothed them In shoddy, enhanced their thirst and prohibited Its indulgence, innocuiated them with loathsome diseases and endowed them with an admixture of alien blood, and even brought them, nominally at least, within the fold of Christianity, yet there clung to them some tattered remains of the virtues and vices, the modes and manners of their former state. Of law and Its majesty and of property and Its sacredness they knew hut what their white benefactors had been compelled to teach them in the interests of the fur trade. Hence we may Infer that of both law and property and of such other necessities to human happiness and welfare their, primitive forbears could have known nothing. Personal possessions, such as weapons, tools and clothing, they had, but true property, that which one can have to the exclusion of all others, was non-existent, among them. The hunting ground being free to all was the property of none, not even of the tribe in reality, for beyond the hunting ground frequented by a tribe lay a no-man's land, across which few ever ventured, not for fear of trespassing, but lest they fall victims to the prowess of hostile braves, and. further, because hunting was less difficult in the more familiar territory. With the products of the chase, a hospitality, virtually amounting to i communism, was the practice, yet none, unless very hard pressed, would touch the "cache" left by another. One old Indian, being questioned as to the penalty attached to the theft of a "cache," failed to grasp the idea of having a law or even a custom to deal with such a case, for such a case couldn't occur. Why should an Indian take another's "cache," of meal, (or instance, unless he was very hungry, in which cast he was welcome to what he needed of it? Having, however, been persuaded to mppose such a theft to have occurred, he naively ventured the opinion thai the thief wonld get himself very much disliked. Yet theSd people are not abnormally moral or Intelligent. In facti so inferior to ourselves are they In these respects that it has been considered advisable to send missionaries amongst them to lead them into better ways, such as our own presumably. So here we have In simplest form an illustration of the purely material Basis of ethics. The economic conditions prevailing in a society at that stage not only taught a certain ethical code, but compelled its practice. The hardest-hearted Indian, on making a successful hunt, would Invite Ws hungry neighbors to feast themselves, not because he loved them, but because he, too, might soon be looking for an Invitation. He must entertain the "Btranger at the gato" tie- cause he, too, might have occasion to wander. He must respect another's cache, as, In his turn, he would be leaving belongings of his hung up in a tree. It was the most comfortable way for the tribe to get along together, and with habit, it becomes an unwritten moral code, to violate which Is to get oneself "very much disliked." The primal impulse Is for the individual to preserve himself. For the continuance of the species it is also necessary that the progeny be also preserved. Those individuals exercising the greater care of their young lUMMd Iii perpetuating their kind in uii'iili'i' ituniliei'H than iliono not bo Inclined, iiini tiniH perpetuate dint char- totirliile ovor which sentimentalists lime lovi 'I i" KUahi "taaterHal In- IllllOt," Among, species Him live together In tlrovti, hoiilea or trlbH, ihoi* practicing the necessary principles of mutual Bid IlIVI Hie holler cluiliee of Hill- ylvlngi timl in pcrpctualo thill "In- kIIiu'Ih" mill la) Hie fiiuniliitiiinH tot tho "dlvlno liwi" uf our propheti, the •KMllinl moral lyititni uf our phii- Olophiri mill Hie lunnllloH tin "tin- lllfllbnill" iiinl oilier VlrtUd uf our liiiller-lliiin Hiimih, Ah human Moiety tvolvu from ihi Hllnple III the OOmpllIi tile workllIKH of iilMutorm Inoriiii tlu In complexity llll lliey tnlie on aipiotl up pitrenily al < plltl variance wllh their orlglnii nuil undent olhleiil code! are the more veiietnled the more venerable I hey blOOme, mill lire iiIho less observed an iconomtc conditions Ion and lens permit lltelr observance. Of material Interoiti thai which aoncorna us chiefly is Hint, ub the breach bel ween cIuhb and claBH, between mast era and workers, widens, clearer and Clearer become I heir respective class Interest8 and more and more do they dominate the merely Immediate Interest! ol' the individuals, lt is actuated by this class interest and not by any hlgh-souled striving alter justice or democracy, that the workers of nil countries are organizing, slowly and painfully, it is true, but with n steadiness that bodes no good lo the master-class. Organizing to conquer for themselves Ihe means of life in order lo preserve themselves as a class, as Individual self-preservation becomes more and more difficult otherwise. OBJECTIONS TO SOCIALISM. Quite frequently this office is favored with a clipping containing a more or less complete refutation of Socialist principles, real or supposed, and we are asked to "take a fall out of" the authors of the same. To tell the honest truth, we have never studied these "objections to Socialism" with any care, for the simple reason that they are generally too trivial lo merit It. To attempt to refute these arguments has always seemed to us a waste of time, for, on the very face of them, they are so puerile that they could convince none but those who are already so firmly convinced that the most closely reasoned refutation would not alter their opinions, or those whose reasoning powers are so conspicuous by their absence that they would be the very reverse of acquisitions to our movement. Even allowing the very worst thai they can say of us to be true. Even if the future society Is destined to be afflicted with all the ills-of which they so humanely warn us. What about it? They say the lazy would prey upon the Industrious. Ye gods! is there room on our backs for any more parasites than prey upon us now? Would "free love" be any more vile than love bought? If every one were denied the free choice of an occupation, would that be worse than having neither choice nor, frequently, occupation? If we were robbed of incentive, would the results be more degrading than to have an incentive to rob? Even were Socialism destructive of religion, had not religion better be destroyed than prostituted. And bo on through all the counts of their In- dictement. After all Is said and done, the defenders of capitalism, for all their pretended solicitude, are little concerned lest all these evils befall society. The one and only real objection they have to Socialism i» that It would destroy capitalism, the form of society of which I hey are Ihe beneficiaries. Socialism Ib not on the defensive, any way, nnd lt Is high time we realized II. It is capitalism that Is on trial and we are the prosecution, and we do not have to rustle very hard to procure evidence enough to have It hanged, drawn and quartered. We are and should be on the offensive all the time. We don't have to offer any excuses for our existence or to palliate our contemplated crime, for crime it is from the viewpoint of the bourgeois. We are bent on destroying capitalism, we have reason to believe, for our own good, but, for good or for evil, it must be destroyed. We have no right to expect that the parasites upon tho present order will like being robbed of their prey. We would be foolish to no represent our doctrines as to make them like them. And it would, be suicidal for us to seek to enlist them ln our ranks by rendering our propaganda palatable to them. Our message Is to the workers. Our purpose, to arouse them against their conditions of servitude. We are not content with bettering the terms of their enslavement. We are bent upon our own emancipation. The only argument the capitalists and their hangers-on can advance to which we need pay the slightest attention is the stern logic of superior force. To that we must boWj until the day when that superiority in-in our hands. Then It will be their turn to bow to our will, and without question. THE DEMf iC JUDGET. In Britain the loud-mouthed votaries of the war scar" bave 1 ■ tha lime been quite thrust out of the spol light by the great .idget scare. The Conservatives denount e It as a SoelallBt budget, but maki to bun- geitloni ns to how the wli d Is 10 be railed otherwise. Why .imi id moy? II Isn't up to them to ra so It. The Liberals swear iy ii nnd lo hIbI Hint It Ib the only i t'lgl til democratic budget, The Independent I. I i> ! agree! wlih the Cbniervuth Hi > i is a Fo- iliillsi budget and u piithttllu-Uc l» ItH iiipport, Bnowdui goltu no fur n» to say that even a H i Ullt Chun cellor of Ihe DxcllOQUei crtnldn't do ninth better i ul i first uttempl. The k . "Ii mo, i itn pi'UHe In their dinuncli Hon ' the "ilnlitor <iu- HlgiiB of Pruislu upi our country" lit used to be "of Ku.-- >") 'o deny that It is even i Soei.il iiumotratlc budget. The Socialist Labor Pan will no doubt draw from It argumtn s to further prove the "ncies ty tn; launching the iduRtrial Union' une more. The Sot alis. 1 arty's i 1 .ion Is not yet to hand, b"t ve can safely bel that lt will be, In effect "Damn the budget! It's noi of the wage-slave's business." In point of fac is uie great demagogic budgtt. ti s the great landlords, which i I i > ar and perfectly Bate, as they nre mostly Tories anyhow. It soaks the liquor interests and so secures mote securely the Non-Conformist vole, conscience and all. It hewt, generous slices off the large Incomes In the infinite joy of the I ir more nu' terous tribe with the big tot' arid little income. And gen- erally piuys the demagogue with a st itciently plausible assumption of democrpfv to win tbe support of "Labor ' . the persons of our very "modern Socialists." ,!ore novrer lu Lloyd Oeofg > Our gooc r ana,'inn capitalist papers were recently pie, cing that the tide of Immigration fin a the United States was pouring wt lib. by the million over "our" borierB, but it would seem by the following fro... the New York World that their hopes are to be blasted, as there appears to be a leak in the barrel bigger than the intake: "in spite of the conslt! able mo- « ment of American farnn-.'b nun, western States into Canada, ihe balance of Immigration Ftill sets the other way, according to C. B. Schmidt, Commissioner of Immigration of the Rock Island Railroad system. From official figures Mr. Schmidt reckons that during the fiscal year ending Juno 30th, 1H0S—a light one in comparison with the preceding twelvet lOuth.—56,860 persons left homes in the United States for Canada, while 58,268 reversed the process, a b.,lance of 1,066 In favor of the United States." GRIBBLE PROTESTS. Dear Comrade Editor,— "I rise to protest" against the inaccurate report of May Day | roceed- Ings, reproduced from the M" Ureal Star in the Clarion of the 151 May, in which I am credited, among other ihings, as saying that the Socii.' - "had a strong and efficient repress. ,..- tlon in the Parliament of Great Britain," I did not do so and have \ ?r done so, but have often point out that the opposite is the fac'.. TI 'ic.t is there Is not one elected to th: ody on the straight Socialist ticket, not even Victor Grayson, though ho has proved himself a fighter. As evidence that the report is inaccurate, I may say that Comrade Plgg, who is mentloi' 1 as ehi innan, took no part in the open-air teeting that though I was a witnet- if the scrimmage that took place a the door of the hall, I saw no poli' "man use his baton, but I did see oue of tr> n attempt to seize the red fliig nght at the entrance to the hall which the article said they did not do. The tone of the article is fair, but it is Inaccurate nevertheless. How the mistake was made I don't know— I am quite ready to believe it was a mistake—but lt puts me in the position of saying in one place what I have often denied ln other places, and is likely to discredit me as a straight propagandist and through me the party. Yours in revolt, WILFRID GRIBBLE. Said report was from the Montreal "Sf.ar" and could hardly be expected to be correct. If Locals would nd in their own report on time we would not have to be beholden to the capitalist press.—Ed. Clarion. "FREE" AND FORCED LABOR. Chinese In South Africa. recording to thl "Hoard uf Trade and Labor Qailttl" for February there mi. a deereiiHo during IIUis uf 84, ni.il In ho number ur CIiIiioho employed In t be Triii IVagJ, Hut It iiiiikI mil be though! thai lltere Iiiih I u u corresponding Inoi'iaii in tin- number of Vi ill I SI, al W'iih uutltipntoil by Ilium1 whu clamored m> loudly fur Hie "aboil' Hun uf (illlli'Ke hIiivoi) anil II in pluyineiit uf while liibor lu Ihe Triune vital." Thi Bium- authority igyi than lias been iiii IliereiiBO of III,17(1 colored laborer! and an IturtgM of only 1,5111) Wllltail Hut wit were tnbl Hint the withdrawal of thi QhinoM from loutb Allien would spell ruin to the country, and that It would bu ImposHlblc to profitably work the mines. However, what lire the fuels'? The Cosmopolitan Fliiuniier for Junuury snya "Soulh African ibarsi hro just ready for an all round rllO, The Industry la now in a sound condition us regards labor, economic working, capital and profit!." Again, "Mr. Leopold Albu, in his Van Byn speech, said he was 'looking forward wllh absolute confidence to a continuous Increase In the production of gold nnd lu the profltB from the mines, and would be greatly disappointed if, within tho next five yenrs, the production of the Rand hud not reached ,C50,000,000 per annum, and the average working costs had not been reduced by a further 5s. to 12s. 6d. per ton.' . . The reduction of cost is chiefly due to the labor-saving appliances and also to the supply of native labor." The saving, snya another writer in the same journul, will be about U 1,000,000 per annum. No wonder there Ib a rapid diminution ln the number of Chinese employed, It Is well known that free labor Is often far more profitable to employers than slave labor. Mr. Hrnssey ln "Work and Wages" cites some Interesting cases, and informs us on authority that prior (o the emancipation of the slaves ln Jamaica, 18 cwt. ot sugar per acre was thought excellent, while under free labor It averaged one ton. He further attributes to the British consul at Pernambuco a detailed statement of the comparative cost of work done by slave and free labor, which Shows that sugar coaling .C.4,251 to pn duce by slaves, would have cost e-ly £1,080 by free labor. To fu-ther emphasize the point that free laborers, or slaves with the opportunity of earning their freedom, are more profitable than ordinary slaves, ht says of some coffee-carriers in the Urn. lis, carrying bags of coffee weighing 2 to 3 cwt., that they worked with in, ease vigor in order to earn a sufficient sum to purchase their freedom, and generally succeeded in accumulating the amount in three or four years—an effort which too often broke their health. It was the knowledge of such facts as these that caused the abolition of chattel slavery, and not the sentimentalism of moralists and alleged Christians.—H. A. Young, In the "Socialist Standard." L Socialist Directory fgBTlvnv Local of Ihe SncUllit Parly ol I mm...In ilimild run a rard under tlili head II.ml tier in.mill. Secretariei iiIcam n.itr. DOMIMION EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE, Hlllillllnl I'mly uf t'llllllilU. Meets ivii-v iiiteinni,. Monday. l> tl Mu- Kanllli Heel elm >, Hex III, Vulieiiin el, ■BITIM COLUMBIA FBOVUTCIAI. Kxfcullvn t'oiuuilllro, Hoiiallnl l'urty of I'llllU.Ill Meets eieiy ItltelllUte Monday, II. II M. Ken/le. Heeri'tury, Hot tilt), Vim.snivel, II. O, lunn rmoTxnoiAL executive I'oiiiiiiiilee, rJuclllilHt l'urty uf I'uti- llllll. Meets every ..It. I u.ile Monday in l.nli.ir Hull, KIkIiIIi Ave. Kiist, op- posit l' posliilllee. Heerelury will fie ple-ised to answer uny comniunlcatlunH itKurdlni tbe movement la the province. A. J. Drowning-, Hec, Box 64 Cal- (titry, Aim. MAiriTOEA raovnroiAL exeou- tlve- Committee. Meeta first and third Mon.luys of every month, Jubilee Hull, corner of King und Alexander. The rieeretnry will bo pleased to furnish any information nnd answer any correspondence relative to the movement. Seert-tnry. II. w. Jnmes, 326 Hargrave St. Winnipeg, Man. ONTARIO PBOVIirOXAX, EXECUTIVE Con .1,litre. Meete In Finnish Hall, 214 Adelaide St., Toronto, on 2nd and 4th Wednesday. organizer,, W. Grlbble 134 Hogartb Ave., Toronto: P. C. Young, Secretary, 139 Vi Bleecker street, Toronto. LOCAL VANCOUVEB, NO. 1, I. T. OT Cunada. Ituslness meetings every Tuesday evening at headquarters, over Kdgett'e Btor^, 151 Hastings St. West. F. Perry, Secretary, Box 836. LOCAL VICTORIA, WO. I, 8. P. OT O. Headquarters nnd Reading Room, Room I, llngle Building, 1319 Government St. Business meeting every Tuesday evening, 8 p.m. Propogandn meetirgs every Sunday at Grand Theatre. W. G. McCluskey, Secretary, Box 770. LOCAL KANAIMO. HO. 3, S. T. Of C, meets every alternate Sunday evening In Foresters Hall. Business meeting at 7:00 o'clock sharp. Propaganda meeting commences ut 8:00 o'clockl Jack Place, Rec. Secy., Box 826. LOCAL rEBNXX, S. P. ot O, HOLDS educational meetings ln the Miners' Union Hall, Victoria Ave., Fernle, every Sunday evening at 7:45. Business meeting first Sunday in each month, same place at 2:30 p tn. J. Lancaster, Sec, Box 164. LOCAL 0BEENWOOD HO. 9, S. P. OP C, meets every Sunday in Miners' Union Hall nt 7:30 p.m. Business meetings, 1st and 3rd Sundays of each month. T. Y. McKay, Secretarp Pro Tem. LOCAL VEBHOH, B. C, HO. 38, S. P. OT C„ meets every Friday night at 7:30 ln Ttmmlns' Hall, cor. of Seventh and Tronson Sts. Business und propaganda combined. Geo. W. Paterson, Secretary, Vernon, B. C. FOR SUB HUSTLERS. The most fruitful field for those who solicit subscriptions to Socialist papers is propaganda and business meetings. Those who attend these meetings are already deeply Interested ir He Socialist movement, and, unless t y haven't got the price or already subscribe- for a number of Socialist papers, they will usually dig down into their jeans for the money to pay for a year's, six months' or three months' subscription to the paper you are hustling for, if approached In the proper way. Comrades desiring to boost the Western Clarion should arrive at these meetings early, and as Ihe audience begins to come in, tackle them Individually after they are seated, letting them look through the sample copy you carry with you, telling (hem about the struggles of the paper and then asking them to subscribe for lt. Locals would do well to appoint one or more comrades for the purpose of exploiting propaganda meetings in this way. W. R. S. SLIGHTLY MIXED. THE INTELLECTUAL PROLETARIAT. "The intellectual proletariat Is one of the most disruptive elements of modern society, as lt Is largely In syninathy with the wage-earners, and is quick to catch up with new ideas, while the position of most of Its members is worse than that of an average skilled workman."—William Morris, p. 208, Socialism, Its Growth and Outcome." ' 1 For those who are anxious for it. we append the following solution of the mysterious mlxup in Comrade Scott's and Perclval's letters: Com- rad Scott's letter on page four jumps fi im column 1, paragraph 5, line 26, io column 2, sixth line from the foot. Perclval's letter jumps from page 3, column 2, paragraph 5, line 10, to page 4, column 1, paragraph 5, line 27, and from the seventh line from the foot of olinun 2, page 4, back to page 3, column 2. Such Is Me ln a print shop. THE 8. P. OF C. BUTTON. Price, each - 50c To Locals five for $2.00. Apply to your Provincial Secretary. LOCAL LADTSMITH HO. 10, S. P. Or C. Business meetings every Saturday 7 p.m. In headquarters on First Ave. T. I. Briggi. Secretary, Ladysmlth, II. C LOCAL BOSSLAHO, Ho. IS, 8. P. OP C, meets ln Miners' Hall every Sunday at 7:30 p. m. A. McLeod, Secy., P. O. Box 674. Rossland' Finnish Branch meets in Finlnnders' Hall. Sundays at 7:30 p. m. A. Sebble, Secy., P. O. Box 766 Rossland, B. C. LOCAL POST MOODY, B. O., HO. 41, 8. P. ot O.—Business meetings first Sunday In each month. J. V, Hull, Secretary, Port Moody, B. C. LOCAL BEVEL8TOXE, B. C, HO. 7, 8. P. of C. Propaganda and business milting) at 8 p, m., tho fourth Thursday of each month In lodge room over old post offloe, near opera house. Everybody welcome. B. F, (layman, Secretary: W. W. Lefeaux, Organizer. LOCAL HELIOH, 8. P. OP C, MEET8 every Frlduy evening at 8 p.m., ln Miners' Hull, Nelson, B. C. Frank Phillips, Organizer; I. A. Austin, Secy. LOCAL PXOBHXX, HO. 8, 8. P. OP O, meets every Sunday at 8:30 p.m., la Miners' Hall. James Carson, Organizer; John Appleby, Secy. LOCAL CALOABT, ALTA., HO. 4, 8. P. of C. Meetings every Sunday at 8 p.m. In the Labor Hall, Barber Block, Eighth Ave. E. (near postofnee). Club and Reading Room, McTavlsh Block* 11817 Second St. E. Opposite Imperial Ho.el. M. Hyatt, Secy.; K Hyatt, Organ- zer, Box 647, Calgary. Alto. LOCAL BELLEVUE, ALTA., HO. II, 8. P of C, meets every llrst and third Sunday evenings, Bellevue Town HalL C. Stubbs, Secy. LOCAL COLEMAH, ALTA., HO. I. Meets every Sunday night in trie Miners' Hall and Opera House at 8 p.m. Everybody welcome. Socialist speakers are Invited to call. H. J. Smith, Secy. LOCAL EDMONTON, ALTA., HO. 1, 8. P. of C. Meets every Thursday at 8 p.m., in Trades and Labor Hall, Fourth St. Busness and propaganda meetings combined. J. R. Huntbach, Secy., 161 First St. S.; R. MacQuarrio, Organizer, 623 Second St. LOCAL XXLLCBEST, ALTA., HO. IS, 8. P. of C, meets every Sunday after Union meeting in Union Hall, Hillcrest Mines, Alta.; Alex. Whyte Literature Agt.; Carl Johnson, Secretary. LOCAL WIHHIPEO. 8. P. OP C. HEAD- quarters Klomlyke block, curlier of I'ueitic and King Business meeting every Sunday morning 11 a. m. Propaganda meeting Sunday evening 8 p.m. Everybody welcome. W. Cummlngs, Organizer. Jas. W. Amer, Secretary. 748 Victor street. LOCAL TOBOHTO, 8. P. OP C—EHO- llsh Branch. Business meetings first and third Wednesdays ot each month, Finnish Hall, 214 Adelaide St. W. Speakers' class meets alternate Mondays and Tuesdays at 134 Hogarth Ave. Economic classes meet every Friday night at 314 Wollesley St. Speakers supplied or shortest notice to Ontario Locals. Corresponding Sec, A. I.yoti, 134 Hogarth Ave. LOCAL OTTAWA HO. 8, 8. P. OP C, BUSIHESB MEETING.—1st Sunday la month at 7:30 p.m. at Roberts-Allan Hall, 78 Rldean St. Propaganda meetings following Sundays at 3:15 p.m. Economic class, Monday night, 8 p.m. Historical class, Friday night, 8 p.m., at 379 Wellington St. Charles Lestor, Organizer. E. S. Oldham, Cor. Secy., 1030 Bron- son Ave. LOCAL COBALT, HO. I, 8. P. OP O. Propaganda and business meetings every Wednesday at 8 p.m. in Miners' Hall. Everybody invited to attend. Arthur L. Botley, Secy., Box. 446. LOCAL MONTREAL, QUE., HO. 1, fj. P. of C—Meets in Labor Hall, St. Dominique street, Sundays at 3 p. m. Heaeqiiarters No. 1 St. I'harlea Horroniee st otto jalm Secretaay, 528 Chnusse Directory of Western Federation of Miners in British Columbia Executive Board Member Wm. Davidson, Sandon DISTRICT ASSOCIATION NO. 6. President Vice-President Secretary-Treasurer Jno. A. McKinnon, Rossland Thos. J. McKay, Greenwood A. Shilland, Sandon No. Name Meeting Night Sec'y. P.O. Box Add. 71 'Atlln Camborne Grand Forks.. Greenwood ... Hedley Kaslo Kimberly Lardeau Marysvllle M. & S. U. .Moyie IXelson 8|Phoenix 3SI Rossland .... "* Sandon Sllverton Slocan Tcxudn Trail M & M.. 86lYmlr Wed Wed Sat Wed Sat Sat Sat Sat Sat Sat Wed Sat Sat Sat Sat Man |Wed C. Gairns Wm. Winslow James Tobln "'atrick O'Connor W. IC. Iladden Charles Blrce Geo. Heatherton., C. Bennett T. H. Rotherham, Mike McAndrews.. H. T. Rainbow Jjoe Armstrong A. E. Carter IFred Mellette Chas, Short B. Lundin Malcolm McNeill. Paul Phillips R. Stlverthorn J. A. McKinnon... L. R. Mclnnls Robert Malroy.... Blair Carter G. B. Mcintosh... Will. Ilesketh |A. Burgess — j J. Hays James Roberta F. Phillips W. A. Plckard.... Geo. faaey A. Shilland Fred Llebscher.. D. B. O'Nealll... T. T. Rutherford. F. D. Hardy.... W. B. Mclsaac. 12 121 42 391 O 12] Discovery JCamborne MIGrand Forka ' 'IGreenwood Hedley Kaslo Kimberly Ferguson Marysvllle Moyie Nelson Phoenix Rossland Sandon Sllverton Slocan City Van Anda Trail Ymir 3fi 106 294 421 K 85 90 88S1 377 600 TYOLAISET CANADASSA Jos tahdotte jotakin tietaa tyovaen puolueesta ja aosial- ismin edistyksesta Canadassa, niin tilatkaa kohta, "Tyokauisa" Bix 197, Port Arthur, Oit. Se on Canadassa ainoa Suo- men kielinen sanomalehti, jo- ka taistelee sinunkin puolesta. Edistat tyovaen luokkaa tila- amalia Tyokansan. Makiu ainooitun, $1.50 vralkirta "Vakileiika" Makiaa, $1.25 ATENTS Wc solid, the business of Manufacturers, Engineers nnd others who realize the advisability of having their Patent business transacted by Exoerts. Preliminary advice free. Charge* moderate. Our Inventor's Adviser sent upon request. Marion & Marion, New York Life llldg. Montreal: "iid Washington, D.O, U.SJU C. PETERS SSS Hand-Made Boots and Shoes to order in all styles. Repairing promptly and neatly ly done. Stock of staple ready-made Shoes always on hand. 1456 WestmiMter Ave. Subscribe for the Clarion Propaganda Meeting Sunday Evening, 8 o'Clock 9 Cameraphone Theatre 58 HASTINGS ST. W. VANCOUVER, B. C SATURDAY, JUNE 5, 1909. THE WESTERN CLARION, VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA. THE SOCIALIST PARTY OF CANADA This Page Is Devoted to Reports of Executive Committees, Locals and General Party Matters—Address All Communications to D. G. McKenzie, Sec, Box 836, Vancouver, B. C. PRICE LIST OF SUPPLIES. Locals may obtain supplies from their Provincial Executives at the following prices: -Charters, each $5.00 •Constitutions, each 20 Dues stamps, each 10 Membership cards, each 01 Platform and application blanks, per 100 25 Platform and application blanks, (Finnish) per 100 .60 Platform and application blanks (Ukrainian) per 100 60 Constitution In Finnish, per doz.. .50 Receipt books, each $0.25 Warrant books, each 25 DOMINION EXECUTIVE. at- Meeting Held May 31st, 1909. Minutes of previous meeting firmed. Present—Comrades Mengel (chairman), English, Karme, Lambert, Morgan, Peterson, Stebblngs and the secretary. Charter granted Local Windsor, Ontario. Correspondence dealt with from Ontario, Manitoba and Alberta Executives; Locals Montreal, Que.; Port Arthur, Ont., Lettish; North Battleford, Sask.; Calgary, and Edmonton, Alta. From Organizers Gribble, O'Brien and Susnar. From U. S. National Executive, International Bureau, Brussels, and from the Marxist Fraction, Holland. Communication from Port Arthur Finnish Local referred to.Ontario Executive. Receipts, Ontario Executive (per Local Windsor) $11.50 Manitoba Executive, stamps 10.00 B. C. Executive, supplies 50.00 North Battleford 2.00 Otto Jahn, buttons 1.00 Clarion Maintenance Fund 7.50 VANCOUVER CAMPAIGN FUND. (Per Local Vancouver Finnish.) A. Rouhiainen $2.00 A. Anttila 1.00 A. Rablna 2.00 H. Niemela 50 Matt Kaupplla 26 Oskar Horkka 3.75 Otto Leino 3.00 Total $12.50 CLARION FINANCIAL STATEMENT. MAY. Expenditures. Printing four issues $180.00 Mailing 8.55 Total expenditures $188.55 Receipts. Subs : $82.75 Cards and advertisements 20.00 Total receipts $102.75 Deficit 85.80 $188.55 CLARION MAINTENANCE FUND. As the deficits for April and May more than wipe* out the balance of this fund, and as subscriptions generally fall off during the summer, lt has been decided to issue a call for further donations. Previously acknowledged $100.65 G. Gunderson .. J. S R. G. Grey Hugh Mitchell 2.00 2.00 2.50 1.00 Total $82.00 Warrants authorized to C. M. O'Brien, organizing, $50.00; Clarion, May deficit, $85.80; secretary, May salary, $15.00. B. C. PROVINCIAL EXECUTIVE. Meeting held May 31st, 1909. Minutes of previous meeting approved. Correspondence dealt with from Locals Hosmer, Ladysmlth and Nanalmo Finnish, Nanaimo, Kamloops, Rossland, Sandon, Salt Spring, Vernon and Victoria, and from Comrade Johnson, Silver Creek, re formation ot Local, and Fred Ogle and from Organizer Harrington, reporting. Receipts. Local Nanaimo Finnish, buttons and assessment $ 8.25 Local Ladysmlth Finnish, stamps and assessment 16.00 Local Hosmer Ukainlan, stamps 2.00 Local Victoria, stamps 10.00 Local Vernon, stamps and buttons 9-00 Local Salt Spring, stamps and assessment <00 Local Sandon, stamps 5.00 Local Nanaimo, stamps 10.00 Local Kamloops, assessment 3.00 Local Rossland, stamps and buttons 9-00 Local Vancouver, stamps and supplies, 10.25 R. Thomas, buttoa 50 Total $108.15 CALGARY DONATES. $87.00 Warrants authorized: For postage, $3.00; secretary's May salary, $15.00; Dominion Executive, for supplies, $50.00. NEW SOCIALISTCAME Tll6 LI3SS 0H|]£gl8 TliBwliolotftij|llTc»iii)lajlt! Mitil.,1 fn, BAe In .tn'iip.: neont, v nul.-.l. OHAKLEa H. KERR 4 00.. 153 Klndi Stmt, Oalcago, nl READ COTTON'S WEEKLY 60c per year Two for a dollar SPECIALLY FINE FOR PROPAGANDA WORK. Six months 25c. Published at Cowansville, P.Q. Local Calgary has donated the sum of five dollars towards helping the comrades In the Maritime Provinces to keep an organizer In the field. If all the comrades and Locals would help, we should soon have to form an executive committee In that vicinity. Seeing that the Socialist Party Intend holding a Dominion convention sometime next year, it Is up to us to plant our organization all over the Dominion, so that as many places as possible will be represented. We have now about three years to complete our organization before the Dominion elections come around again, and I would urge all comrades that now is the time for the spade work to be done. We cannot expect to make Socialists on the eve of an election, and if we are to be represented in the next Dominion Parliament, we will have to get move on. F. HYATT. LEWIS IN TORONTO. 60 YEARS' EXPERIENCE Trade Marks Designs Copyrights *c. Anyone sending n sketch and description may Ittlakly ascertnin our opinion free whether an Intention IB probably natentabli lions strictly confidential. HANDr " ». Oli"— * Communlca- " on Patent! sent free. Oldest agency for securing patents. Patents taken through Munn A Co. receive sjwclal nollci, without charge, lathe Scientific American. iV budiomely HUiMrati JuUtlon of any identic year: four montbi, $L A budiotnely Uluttn.t«d weekly. Liu-Beit circulation of any aoientlflo journal. Tenni, $8 a year: {our montbi, $L Sold by nil newidealen. rst.W.a'Tlngton.B.i Dear Comrade,— On Monday evening we had in the Labor Temple one of the finest debates on Socialism I ever heard. Mr. H. Barnard of New York took the negative side of the question and Mr. A. M. Lewis of Chicago took the affirmative. Mr. Barnard, while he does not grasp the significance of the materialistic conception of history, Is no jingo; he is intensely desirous of a change and is all Impatience with the stupidity and snail-like progress of the workers. Our friend, for he Is a friend, and an honest opponent faces the music. He does not erect a superstructure with his own imagination for a foundation and then proceed to dissect it; he Is better Informed than that, for he knows and does attack the fundamental principles of Marxian Socialism. Of Comrade Lewis I need say nothing. His scientific attitude and abilities are well and widely known. I might mention before going further that Barnard Is ln agreement with the Socialist as to the source of wealth, namely, labor; as to Socialism being a science he cannot see that it is complete enough for him, and then he says that it does not hang together from a logical point of view and that some of those Heaven-sent leaders of ours are not agreed on the fundamentals and their tactics are different. The Revisionist movement in Germany was cited and shown to be contrary to the Marxian philosophy; also Blatchford's statement to the effect that a few aristocrats were needed In Parliament to Insure success. This he argued was contrary to the Socialist idea of a proletarian movement. Comrade Lewis showed that this tide of Revisionism had since receded and its inBtlgator, whose name I just forget, has again taken his place amongst the Marxians. With regard to Blatchford's idea, Lewis remarked that we had been trying those aristocrats for some time, with very poor results. Science was defined by Lewis at the outset, but I cannot give you his defin itions, as I am writing from memory, wherein things scientific do not locate readily. Socialism, said Lewis, is the youngest of sciences, consequently the least developed; it had been elaborated in the teeth of the opposition of the capitalist class and, therefore, was hot so highly developed as some of the other sciences. The theory of the class struggle was attacked and contested hotly. Barnard maintained that the workers were not becoming class-conscious to the extent that Marx predicted. The workers, he said, are living more luxuriously than they did twenty- five years ago; they were more fastidious about their dress and appearance; a. larger number of working class homes had pianos, and they dined ln swell restaurants. This Btate of affairs tended to cause slumber and did not awaken the class-consciousness that was anticipated. The vote was fluctuating, he said, taking Chicago as an Instance. But say, comrades, he has not been west to the coast lately. Then again he contended that the workers were buying more stocks and bonds, that they held more mortgages and had the ability to pay them off. This, he said, had the effect of lifting ihem from the ranks of mere wage slaves and made them middle class. The tendency appears to him to be for the working mechanics and laboreni lo approximate the middle class. He asserted that capital was not being concentrated and that in spite of the departmental stores, the small ones were on the Increase, said he; the tendency appeared to him for the nations to manufacture and supply their own wants more and more; that the peoples were becoming more and more solidified and were likely to move solidly towards the brotherhood of man. Comrade Lewis contended that the class struggle was a factor in social evoution and was becoming more Intensified by reason of the development of the machine and the capitalist system; that the middle class as it evolves with its environment is getting farther away from its present and previous formation and is developing into a class of wage slaves whose interests are becoming similar to those of the men who earn their bread by the sweat of the brows. Lewis did not agree about the swell restaurants; he thought that pork and beans at 15c was about the worker's average as far as restaurant life is concerned. With regards to the stocks and bonds, comparatively speaking, he did not think that the workers owned enough to fill a thimble. Then as to mortgages, our comrade did not in the light of his experience amongst farmers glean any signs of prosperity; he thought the mortgage was a form of slavery. Mr. Barnard had shown the farmers in Kansas had been able to pay off their mortgages because of the good crops they had had, but they could not pay off the railroads, and every little while the harvester trust had to be attended to. Mr. Barnard's attitude is a peculiar one. He said at the outset that he who would understand sociology must have a knowledge of all the sciences, yet for all his apparent knowledge he does not recognize that materialism is at the bottom of it. He argued hat Christ acted as he did because he was of a peculiar type of mind. Lewis agreed with him as far as he went, but pointed out that, minus the economic condition of the .Tews under the Roman Empire, that peculiar type of mind would not have anything to act upon, and therefore he would never have been known in the connection that he is known in. Our Christian Socialist friends might put this in their pipes and smoke lt. Economic determinism was assailed from the point of view that the Jowa occupied the position in the human family they do because of religious and racial hatred. It was shown that a religion grew and developed to suit its environment, and that the conflict which ended ln the Jews being dispersed was the resultant of their distaste of the economic conditions imposed on them by the Romtms. They took their religion with them when they went amongst the Christians, and the fact that their theological opinions differed with their neighbors was the cause of strife. They were denied the same conditions as those who love their enemies, and thereby driven into the money business, and bo were doubly hated on account of their religion and the power they obtained through money. From this we can see that the reason of their position as a people Is doubly economic. This Is as far as my memory serves me. I might say In dosing that Lewis delivered a lecture on Thursday evening, May 13th, his subject being "Criminology and Socialism," which he delivered In good style. Yours in revolt, G. H. ANDERSON. LOCAL CALGARY It is imperative that a Dominion convention should be called next year to put the organization on a good basis, to inspire enthusiasm amongst the comrades from all parts of the Dominion and to prepare ways and means to make Socialists all over the country so that we can elect members to the Federal House at Ottawa at the next election. 11 y reason for writing is to call the attention of all members to the fact that the convention at Fernle passed a resolution that fifty cents per year should be assessed against each member In two half-yearly Instalments, for the purpose of raising funds for conventions. This was submitted to a referendum vote and upheld by the Locals, therefore it is up to the members to make good. Up to the present lime the members have not taken this matter seriously as the first Instalment is overdue and receipts are coming in very slow. Now, comrades, pay up your assessment and keep your cards clear and thus help your Local and the Executive Committees. Once again I ask all unattached Socialists where there is no Local to take out a card as a member-at-large and help to bear the burdens of the Party and thus help the various Executive Committees to accumulate funds to pay the expenses of organization. Yours for the expansion of knowledge concerning the aims and Ideals of the Socialist Party in Canada, F. HYATT, Organizer, Calgary. WANTS MORE. Dear Comrade,—Harrington of Fer- nie was here on May 6th. Had a small crowd out to hear him. It rained so hard that none of the boys at the mine came down. His remarks were well received and he made a good impression. One of the boys told me after hearing him that lt was just the stuff, but we wanted more stuff. That is, I mean, he says, we want more men like Harrington, and we want them to come and speak to us a little oftener. Harrington also spoke at Salmo and was well liked. Please give us the same dope as often as you can. W. B. MclSAAC. BRANDON LABOR TEMPLE. Editor Clarion:— Dear Comrade,—We have received our charter from the Provincial Government and have started to sell shares, and I wish to make an appeal through the Clarion to all Socialists In the Dominion. We are not asking any of the comrades to give us anything, as we will give value for money received... Our hall will pay a good dividend, as there is no opposition whatever, there being no good lodge hall In the city. If we choose, we could sell all our stock in a week to business men of the city, but this we do not wish to do, as we wish the stock to be held by Socialists and unionists (Socialist preferred). This is a very vital matter to Local No. 7, we not having a meeting place at all, much less a suitable place for propaganda. We have been stopped from speaking on the street, so you will see, comrades, we are right up against it. If any of the Locals In the West will ask Comrade Lestor, he will be able lo tell them what we are up against, as it cost our Local fifty dollars to get a hall for him. There Is a little hard feeling on the part of the trades unionists against the Socialists,, as the Trades Council allowed our Local to have the use of the Trades Hall every Sunday night, rent free. By doing so, the wrath of the liberty loving capitalist that owned the hall was raised, and he refused to renew the lease, thereby turning the unionists out of a home. You will see that It is up to us to help the unionists as much as possible (there are not a great number in this city) and by doing so wc shall help ourselves. Trusting that every Socialist will be sufficiently interested In helping the cause along to write for a prospectus, I am yours for the revolution, EDMUND PULCHER. Organizer Local No. 7. simplicity, but the capitalist of today In many cases uses nearly as many millions, and confines his energies to drawing dividends and gambling on the stock exchange, where the capitalists despoil one another of their plunder, whilst all the social functions of the capitalist are being performed by wage workers, rightly called wage slaves. Before the capitalist can draw his profits, they must first be created. Are they created by buying cheap and selling dear? No, they are created by labor and labor alone. Let us see how they are produced. Now, suppose it takes three hours of socially necessary labor to produce the food, clothing and shelter necessary to maintain a laborer one day, and again suppose lt takes three hours of socially necessary labor, that Is the same time, to produce a quantity of gold equal to $2, then (2 would be the price, which Is the monetary expression of value, of that man's labor- power for one day, or in other words, that would be his dally cost ot production. Then, It he worked dally for three hours, he would produce his own maintenance. But our man is a wage worker, therefore he has to sell his power to work, his labor-power, as a commodity to a capitalist, who buys It at its value. If he worked daily for three hours, he would produce his own value, i.e., $2, and In that case no profit or surplus value would be produced. We have seen that the daily value of the laborer is determined by the amount of socially necessary labor required to maintain him or reproduce him day by day, but the daily use of the laborer is only determined by the physical strength or capabilities of the laborer. There, is as much difference ln the value and the use-value of the laborer as there Is in the cost of the food a horse needs and the value of the work It can perform. The capitalist having bought the labor-power as a commodity has the right to its use-value, for a whole day, or a whole week, as the case may be, and he extracts that from the laborer by making him work. Suppose he makes him work nine hours a day, in the first three hours he would produce his No better emblem of the labor movement can be had than the party button. You will say so, too, when you get one. By rustling $5.00 worth of subs, you will be given one free. By showing it to your friends and telling them how you obtained lt, will stimulate others to do something for the cause. The first one to land the button Is Com. W. Davenport, of Brantford, Ont. • • • Only those whose names are on the voters' list can vote. It costs you nothing to put it there. It will cost you your life If you don't. • » • Comrade Gribble says it's a tough proposition getting subs, ln the Maritime Provinces and feels quite depressed at having only five subs, to send. in. • • ■ Comrade C. M. Smith, formerly of Local Vancouver, thinks that his present slave pen, New York, needs Clar- ionizing, so he sends for a bundle ot ten weekly. * * * . The Luddites smashed the machine when it was first introduced. But the machine survived. In Scotland a movement against the Standard Oil has been started. These modern Luddites should not waste their energies fighting the Inevitable, There Is nothing wrong with the trust or machine as such. It is the OWNERSHIP that is at fault. Vote to own the- trust and you won't need to fight It. Get tu- slde. «j • • • ii Comrade Norman of Vancouver finds time to rustle up a couple, and Comrade Karme of the Finnish Local makes it four, and Comrade Grundy, six. Comrade Hugh Mitchell renews and finds another to go with it to Cumberland, B. C, and also has a dollar to wages, $2, but he would not be allowed I spare, which the maintenance tund THE FALLACY OF COMPENSATION From what can be gathered along the line, those B. C. Locals which don't arrange for a visit from the ■.estors' will miss a treat. The fallacy of compensation in this case means the false argument of returning value to the capitalists for the means of production, of which we are going to deprive them at the Inauguration of the co-operative commonwealth. Why Bhould we compensate the capitalist, when, without any effort on his part, his capital Is returned to him In the form of dividends, rents, Interest, profit, surplus value or whatever you may prefer to cull It? For ex- to stop then; he would have to work another three hours, in which he would produce another $2, and then go on for three hours more, and produce another $2, making a total of nine hours worked, and $6 produced. As he sold his labor-power at Its value, $2, and has produced wealth equal to $6, you see that the capitalist by advancing $2 has received In return $6, or that the first three hours worked were paid labor, and the last six unpaid labor. It is on this mode of exchange between the capitalist and the laborer that the capitalist system is based, and lt must result in reproducing the capitalist as a capitalist and Ihe laborer as a laborer. Therefore we see that labor-power is sold on the market as a commodity, the same as bread, sugar and tea at its value, but has a peculiarity not found in any other commodity, of producing more than its value, and that which it produces over its value is appropriated by the capitalist and called profits, and that is the only way profits are made. Summing this up, we see that profits are not made by buying cheap and selling dear, but only by the unpaid labor that Is embodied in an article. All wealth la produced by labor, and money does not make money, unless it is used to employ and exploit a class of laborers who, owning nothing but their labor-power, are compelled, in order to live, to sell It at Its value and give in return its use-value. Even then It Is not the money that has produced more wealth, but the real property of the capitalists, the wage slave. Our orthodox friends get quite shocked when we preach the gospel of no compensation, and yet they have no scruples about cutting off forty hotels here In Toronto without compensating the owners. Tho hotel- keepers and the brewers are a part of the capitalist class, and it they nre cut off because they are considered detrimental to the people, why should not all the capitalist class be abolished? Are they not detrimental? Is it to the benefit of the people to be starved Into working in dangerous, unhealthy and unwholesome conditions, and many underpaid girls practically forced to make up their wages at the expense of their virtue, and, as we recently had here, a woman stealing milk to nourish her baby, the husband being unable to find u master? Is this beneficial? This Is how capitalism compensates the workers, and denies the producers of all wealth a right even to live unless they can extract still more profit out of their hides. In conclusion, If we were willing to comiiensato them, what could we compensate them wilh. As we have pro duced, so they have appropriated; they gets. • * ,» Elections are due next tall probably. It would be well for those Locals who Intend taking a fall out ot King Capital to get their ammunition ready. This being a free country, a fine of a hundred dollars must be paid for each candidate you wish to nominate. The workers make the law, so they should get ready to obey their laws by digging up the necessary cash. The cost of voting for yourself in Vancouver is $500.00. ... Also a renewal and a new one from Comrade MeBeath of Vancouver. ... Comrade Frank Phillips of Nelson has a sub. and a solicitude for the Poor Scotchman's" health. "It's no sae bad, Frank. Thank ye tor spelrln'." ... I am going to ask all the comrades who sent In one subscriber during the month of May to go and do likewise this month. Also I want aB many as possible to join the rustlers' squad and boost the circulation with a new sub. each this month. ... To be dumb and unable to express your wishes iB a sad calamity. But to be without a vote on election day is a crime. ... One apiece fall to the credit of Comrades F. Perry, Vancouver; J. H. Robertson, Bellevuo, and a comrade on SuqiiaBh Creek. ... Did you see that deficit? Who's to Wane? Has your Loral a card in the directory and does lt take a bundle? Ii not, why not? If so, how much does it owe? Are all your fellow members subscribers? No? Then, why don't YOU put it up to them? Get busy! CALLED OFF. ample, suppose a man has $100 which he Invests in a limited company, and nwn a11 ,he wea"11' wo on,y °ur labo1r power, and after our experiences In the struggle for existence during the past, should we mortgage that labor- power, our only possession? No! The next order of society must be based on freedom. G. STEWART. at the end of the year they declare a dividend of 10 per cent, and continue to do so; well, In ten years he would receive back an equivalent to his capital, but the capital would still remain Invested, producing, more dividends. I use $100 as an example for The Vancouver police got over their difficulty in finding out Comrade English's name, it not having been published in more than four local papers, by christening him "John Doe." The case of John Doe was then called ln the police court. John Doe was apparently absent, but the police Prosecutor stated that he would withdraw the case as the Socialists had agreed to so conduct their meetings as not to block the traffic. As the Socialists hail agreed to nothing of the kind, though they do make a practice or conducting their meetings with a little decency, It may be presumed that this Is n graceful method for the police to climb down. What io Read on Socialism RyOharleeH.Kerr, Kdltorof tho International Socialist Rerlew, Klglitr beanUfnUy printed pages, with many portraits ol socialist write™. Includes a simple, concise statement of the principles of socialism. On. copylrejon request. 10 mailed for 10c: WO for 11.00: 1.000 for 110.00. CHARLES H. KERR A. CO. 163 KlnilB Street, Chloago, III. THE WESTERN CLARION, VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA. LONDON LETTER A SWEATED INDUSTRY. The report of '.Mr. ,1. J. Mallon, secretary of the National Anti-Sweating League, in regard to the misery in Ihe Nottingham lace industry, like Upton Sinclair's exposure of Ihe Chicago stock yards, has crealetl an immense sensation. True to their interests, the Nottingham lace manufacturers and their henchmen vomit forth all sorts of abuse and ridicule on Mr. Mallon and his report, and the Nottingham Chamber of Commerce is even going to start an investigation to disprove the report, in all of which Mr. Mallon remains cool and says, "Go see for yourself." The report reads as follows: "The lace home workers of Nottingham who are scheduled for treatment In the Government's Trade Board Bill, number about 8,000 women, but it is a little difficult to be exact. In quiet times only the lucky ones and ^ some of the insistent ones get employment. But in a swell of work, lace is shaken out lavishly over a great area, hardly a room in Swinton or Poplar or the Bottoms is free of it. If the sun shines it comes into the streets, too, and is spilled over door steps and pavements, where the women squat, passing the lace through their swift unresting fingers. It is easy work, given good sight and flexibility of finger, your 'clipper,' 'drawer' or 'scollo- per' needs only practice for proficiency. The 'mender' of plain net must be more deft, for the faults and holes left by the machine must be surely spied out, and a very skillful needle must correct them. But the mending Is for the few. The many clip away threads that do not belong to the pattern, cut out superfluous material from between the scallops on the margin, or remove the connecting threads that hold breadths of lace together. "If there Is to be any work done in homes, this of lace seems open to least objection. Its disadvantages, which do not arise from the nature of the work, are suggested by the anaemic faces of the women, and a strange listlessness and passivity that is their characteristic. Some of them have ■wrought at lace since babyhood. In their infancy they 'clipped,' and through their teens and courtship. Marriage was but a momentary interruption, for at the best, men's wages are low. So work recommences, and anon Is shared in by new baby fingers. "There is the customary inexactness about earnings. What a worker earned last week, or is likely to earn this one, she may know. What she earns per hour is forever hidden from her. There is similar vagueness about hours. You hear of 'all night work' and work on Sundays in times of rush—the women regret it Is not always bo. But they have no heads for average, and do not keep records. After much questioning, you are left with a general Impression of earnings Of ONE PENNY PER HOUR, which, however, especially quick workers can exceed. One woman 'scalloping' at one-half pence per dozen yards said she sometimes got more. Near to her other workers were receiving three-quarter pence for Identical work. At these prices the workers agreed it would be HARD TO EARN A SHILLING A DAY. "In such variations as exist, and generally where the Interests of the home workers are concerned, the middle women, of whom there are 700, are a factor. The middle-women bargain with the factory, distribute the work, and receive It back when finished, and they are responsible for damage to It. The middle-woman is paid for it, and In turn pays the operative. These services are important, and the deduction of one-thlnl from the warehouse price which tbe middle- woman Is supposed to ctact Is not necessarily unreasonable. There Is evidence that sometimes she takes more than the usual proportion, but on the whole, she cannot, be accused of unjust exaction. This is more noteworthy, as, being the capitalist from whom momentary advances are secured, and sometimes the tenant of houses in which the worker takes a room, she is ln a position to practice oppression on a large scale. The middle-woman, as anyone who visits Swinton may know, does not exercise a nice discrimination ln her choice of workers. Lace goes easily Jnto rooms of incredible filth and Into hands of workers suffering from illness, sometimes Infectious, and in a few cases of a loathsome character. The present arrangement allows the wholesale houses no control over the distribution of their work, If the middle-women were their direct employers the least desirable homes and workers could be easily eliminated. "Whether under a trade board anything more than the adjustment of varying rates will be possible the event will show. It is certain that to a throng of workers tho tiniest betterment will mean invaluable relief. One sickens at least of these bleak and Btrlcken streets, the pallor and hopelessness of the women and the cramped rooms with their meagre chatties, 'You cannot live on lace' is Ihe general verdict. 'You can get bread and tea out of it and some are glad to get that.' "Nottingham trade is depressed just now, and the shadow of unemployment darkens .MANY A THOUSAND HOMES IN THE LACE QUARTER. Into a room containing five pieces of wretched furniture a husband comes weary from search of employment. His wife, busy with a table full of lace, mutely questions him, and receives in answer a woeful shake of the head. A sick child sprawls on the broken sofa and sobs. There is no sign of food. Questioned as to her earnings, the woman says the lace on which she is engaged is the only work she has had for three days. She will work on it for five hours and get 6 pence. Out of that, at any rate, they can eat. There are, of course, some cheerful homes, and a widow woman pointed with just and touching pride to her cosy room shining with cleanliness. Lace kept her going, she said, and she thought she would earn an average wage of 7 to 8 shilling per week. When work was scarce she had to go short, but she had never begged. But there were not many souls so brave and undaunted as this one. "A strong word of criticism must be passed on the housing conditions in the lace districts. THERE ARE SCORES OF HOUSES ENTIRELY UNFIT FOR HUMAN HABITATION THAT OUGHT TO BE RUTHLESSLY DESTROYED. These pestilent, dark and stinking places are not paralleled by anything in adjacent large towns. Some of the worst of them are built over pail closets, whence sickening odors arise. Others are encrusted with the dirt of generations. In the Poplar district are great tenements, the spiral stairs so dark that you may not mount them without the aid of a match. These and countless others are back to back and are utterly filthy and neglected. In these places an entirely vicious system of letting furnished rooms has grown up, and the proprietor, throwing in 10 shillings' worth of rubbish, exacts for a room three times its fit price. The highest rent is charged for a bottom floor, and the rent diminishes 6 pence per floor as you ascend. Thus the ground floor is 4 shillings and the fourth floor is 2 shillings 6 pence. In these places the children fare badly. A GREAT MANY, EVEN OF THE YOUNGEST, HELP TO AIAKE LACE. Many seem hungry and most are ragged. Like other submerged and unhappy districts, the lace quarter is prolific in children. As I stand at the street corner a pregnant woman comes out of a small shop, carrying a loaf and a baby. Two other children cling to her skirts, the eldest barely four years old. In one house a very small child is fastened into a chair and seems to be dying. It is emaciated and quite Indifferent to the movement around about it. It does not laugh, or cry, or move Its hands, and a noticeable glaze is on its eyes. Other children have sores on their faces, and a great many are pale and ill. Here and there aa entirely healthy babe glows like a flower amid general dlnginess. BUT THERE ARE FEW FLOWERS. The plight of the lace workers raises the whole issue of home Industry In an acute form. In given cases and taking the short view It seems beneficent ln Its operation, an Invaluable prop to independence and self- respect, an eker out of Insufficient means. A longer view fills one with doubt. The thought occurs that the work of these women has not benefited their households. There la evidence that it has made the husband worse In morale and economic position, that lt has hindered and not helped the children, that in a hundred subtle ways economic forces have acted upon it, allowed for It, and set it off, and made the last state of these households worse than their first." ROBT. E. SCOTT, SATURDAY, JUNE 5, 1909. WHAT DOES IT MEAN? Comrades: Can you see the system going? There have been bread riots in England! Charity organizations In the United States are flooded with applications for relief! The unemployed problem is acute the world over! Crime is on the increase! Suicides are of daily occurrence! The industrial outlook Is black! Business is falling off! The workers everywhere are looking with dread to the future! Old party politicians are admittedly at fault and can do nothing! What does it mean? It means that the capitalist system is on its last legs and cannot last much longer! Comrades, get ready! Can you read the "omens," brothers? The Socialists are gaining strength everywhere! Union men and unions are becoming class conscious! The revolution is ready to break out again in Russia! Labor is showing its teeth and is striking back at capital! ' Workers will no longer join military forces except under compulsion! Strikes and labor troubles are fought out more bitterly than ever! The proletarian rebels everywhere are learning to help and support each other! Reform movements no longer attract the masses! What does lt mean? It means that the working class are uniting and pre-i paring against the crash of the system. It means that the prolitariat realizes and is ready to fulfil its mission in human evolution and will soon take the machines of production and use them collectively and for the good of all! It means the coming of Socialism! Comrades, are you ready? The master class are uniting! The torture chamber is at work in Russia! Attempts have been made to railroad Socialist labor leaders to the gallows and destroy class conscious unions! A Socialist member has been expelled from the British House of Commons for daring to demand work for the starving! The rights of a free press and of free speech have been attacked in America! England practically establishes military law ln India! Dick military bill passes ln U. S. A., giving President power to enroll troops to be used against the people! American officers and Russian spies unite in attempt to deport refugees and destroy right of asylum for political offenders! Absolutely shameless and open stealing of votes! Courts of Europe unite to fight Socialism! Taft, notorious enemy of workers, elected President ln U. S. A.! American military engineers map Industrial districts! Capitalist ministry In France prosecutes Socialist school teachers. Comrades, what does it mean? It means that the capitalist class and the tyrants of each and every race are united to uphold the system. It means that they are preparing to fight for their ill-gotten gains to the last ditch. It means they will stop at nothing! It means that capitalism will not abdicate, but must be deposed. It means Revolution, with the master class taking the offensive. It means this and nothing else. Comrades, are you ready? GERALD O'CONEL DESMOND. COMPULSORY MILITIA FOR A JOB. SERVICE TO CORRESPONDENTS. Owing to pressure of other work in this office, It. has been found necessary to publish the Clarion In future one day earlier In the week. Correspondence of Immediate interest should be sent ln as early ln the week as possible. ••••••o«oa«e«ft«99e«*«3w<»e«*e*.>« Editor Western Clarion.— Fellow workers, efforts are being made by Col. Hall and Col. Prior and the Victoria board of trade to employ only militia men, or those willing to become such ln al! Industries, also using their Influence on the mayor and council of Victoria to compel city employes to join the militia to get or hold a job. These men of the boards of trade of Victoria and Vancouver have got bad memories or shameless faces of brass, in ignoring their part In bringing into British Columbia 40,000 Asiatics and setting them to work all over the Province, instead of white men, because they were CHEAP and throwing our white men Idle on the streets. These board of trade men during 190G and 1907 were uttering lying pleas of "shortage of labor," while we were walking the streets In idleness, while Hindoos by the shipload were landed and dumped on the streets without food, clothing or shelter or work, In the cold and rain, many wearing "British army medalB" on their breasts, brought here by these covetous snobs that are called capitalists, acting like thieving slave raiders and brutal highwaymen and brigands, who even then took upon themselves to hold a labor Inquiry, when they recommended the government to take off the bead tax from the Chinese and admit all Asiatics Into the country, the wives of these traders and professional classes petitioning for the same. These people (the better' (?) class) carefully put their "patriotism" and the moral, social and industrial and political safety of our people in the pigeon holes of their offices or threw it away by bringing (hose 40,000 Asiatics nnd employing them, instead of our own people, because the Asiatics were cheap, so that large numbers of while men had to leave British Columbia, others being hindered from coming into British Columbia by reason of Ihe Asiatics. Others were thrown on our streets in poverty and beggary, and as vagrants were and are driven from place to place and Into jail; our white women into prostitution, some into filthy Chinese deus of infamy; our people into race suicide and our children taken from school and sent with newspapers and messenger jobs on Ihe streets, into infamous liquor dens and filthy red light districts. Then these gentlemen (?) lift up their hands in amazement like hypocrites at the appalling juvenile degradation ln British Columbia. The Victoria papers of Monday, April 12th, 1909, told us that 700 children had been helped in the children's home in Vancouver, and that there were 219 now in that home. Mr. Bowser, on the floor of the legislature, said that there were 100 children in the industrial institution, this largely through these "patriotic" people bringing these 40,000 Asiatics into British Columbia, and the present thievish capitalistic system. The children should be kept at school and have a chance to become honorable citizens, which is impossible under the present industrial system and the enormously brutal competition and craze for cheap labor, and the tremendous productive power of machinery, which is all owned by boards of trade, professional men and politicians, who are traitors to God, men and country, and "these are the men we idiot fool workers have voted to represent us In Parliaments;" these are the men that caused the riots in Vancouver; and then they demanded the "militia" to be called out to put down the rioters. Several years ago these men put Asiatics to work on the Fraser river fisheries, in place of the white men, when they called out the militia, who guarded the Asiatics against the white men and stood ready to bayonet or shoot the white fishermen, their own friends, showing that capitalism regards no human tie or feeling when profit is threatened. Militiamen are sworn to obey orders; they are drilled Into unquestioned obedience; they may not exercise reason, intelligence or sense of right or humanity; they are told the first duty of a soldier is to obey orders, which the most ferocious butcher in command may give! This is what they are doing in Russia and Mexico. Just Imagine, my fellow workers, having a father, son or brother or friend in the militia standing ready with his gun and bayonet to shoot you down or run his bayonet through you! An account of this sort can be seen ln the April, 1909, Issue of "Fortnightly Review," In an article, entitled "Law of Force and Law of Love," by Tolstoi. The militia was called out lately in the Crow's Nest Pass in British Columbia (i.e., N. W. M. P.), to protect strikebreakers. See Victoria Times, April 13th, 1909. The Minister of Militia, on the floor of the Dominion House a few days ago, said the money spent on tbe militia had paid for itself ten times over by Preventing Strikes. •lust think of this, fellow workers! That is why these (better (?) claSB) men want us in the militia, that we may be the human butchers of our own relatives and friends, while they employ a horde of 40,000 Asiatics co do the work, and who live In tuberculosis breeding dens, scarcely fit for hogs, on a handful of rice and a drink of water. McBride and Bowser, Laur- ier and Dunsmulr turn their blind eyes to this kind of thing; then they want to force us into the militia. In the face of such brutality it is time for the whole of us to shut down on this militia work. Since the militia is only needed to make war on strikers who are struggling to get a living wage and to protect scabs who are contemptible | enough to cover up a loathsome sore on our industrial body, it behooves us to shut down everywhere on the militia. JOHN STAPLES. Victoria, B. C. PLATFORM Socialist Party of Canada We, the Socialist Party of Canada, In convention assembled, affirm our allegiance to, and support of the principles and programme of the revolutionary working class. Labor produces all wealth, and to the producers It should belong. The present economic system Is based upon capitalist ownership of the means of production, consequently all the products ot labor belong to the capitalist class. The capitalist is therefore master; the worker a slave. So long as the capitalist class remains ln possession of tha reins of government all the powerB of the State will be used to protect and defend their property rights ln the means of wealth production and their control of the product of labor. The capitalist system gives to the capitalist an ever-swelling stream of profits, and to the worker an ever Increasing measure ot misery and degradation. The Interest of the working class lies In the direction of setting Itself free from capitalist exploitation by the abolition of the wage system, under which Is cloaked the robbery of the working-class at the point of production. To accomplish this necessitates the transformation of capitalist property in the means of wealth production into collective or working-class property. The Irrepressible conflict of interests between the capitalist and the worker Is rapidly culminating in a struggle for possession of the power of government—the capitalist to hold, the worker to secure It by political action. This is the class struggle. Therefore, we call upon all workers to organize under the banner of the Socialist Party of Canada with the object of conquering the public powers for the purpose of setting up and enforcing the economic programme of the working class, as follows: 1. The transformation, as rapidly as possible, of capitalist property in the.means of wealth production (natural resources, factories, mills, railroads etc.,) Into the collective property of the working class. 2. The democratic organization and management of industry by the workers. 8. The establishment, as speedily as possible, of production for use instead of production for profit. The Socialist Party, when in office, shall always and everywhere until the present system is abolished, make the answer to this question its guiding rule of conduct: Will this legislation advance the Interests of the working class and aid the workers ia their class struggle against capitalism? If It will the Socialist Party Is for lt; If it will not, the Socialist Party is absolutely opposed to lt. In accordance with this principle the Socialist Party pledgee Itself to conduct all the public affairs placed in its hands in such a manner as to promote the Interests of the working class alone. 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Title | Western Clarion |
Publisher | Vancouver, B.C. : The Western Socialist Publishing Co., Limited |
Date Issued | 1909-06-06 |
Geographic Location | Vancouver (B.C.) |
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Language | English |
Notes | Titled The Western Clarion from June 18, 1904 to June 1, 1907; titled Western Clarion thereafter. |
Identifier | Western_Clarion_1909_06_06 |
Series | BC Historical Newspapers |
Source | Original Format: Royal British Columbia Museum. British Columbia Archives. |
Date Available | 2016-04-04 |
Provider | Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library |
Rights | Images provided for research and reference use only. Permission to publish, copy, or otherwise use these images must be obtained from the Digitization Centre: http://digitize.library.ubc.ca/ |
DOI | 10.14288/1.0318870 |
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