Utopia. &■:&£ 1 ■J*.-', -nt-.l^.g *., NO. 610. Vancouver, British Columbia, Saturday, Dec. 17, 1910. •ubscripiion Price rniui SI.08 TECHNICAL EDUCATION Its Advantages all to the Capitalist Class . Technical Education seems to be the ' the workers productive, and to instil (question of questions in discussion into them the idea that there was lots ust at present, so, although I realize I of room at the top for those who worked hard enough and were "good." Thus each worker was "educated" to become a highly specialized cog in the productive machine. His education consisted in knowing how to draught, make or run a certain machine or part of that machine. So solicitous did the masters finally become over the welfare of the slaves that "night schools for the benefit (?) of those who had not the advantage of a school "education" in their youth The workers being ignorant of the cause of this solicitude in their behalf were very grateful and each fellow figured that he, by industry and sobriety, would eventually become director of 30 or more corporations and a pillar of society. Domestic Science and Manual Training departments were instituted in the public schools. The masters need good productive slaves and 'tis cheaper to "educate" those slaves when they are young and so unproductive than to do so after they become productive. The master pays for the "education" out of the surplus that he appropriates from the product of the labor of the slaves. These are the facts, even though a lot of you fellows think you are "paying the taxes," when you dig down for that $3 poll-tax. To return —the master is interested in turning out as many highly specialized "educated" slaves as possible at a minimum of cost. Finally in the last few decades of- that very little if anything new can |be said by me upon the question, yet may as well add my quota to what fias been said. First, then, let us look little into the past. A couple of [housand years ago ln old Roman k.nd Greek society all the "education" K"*t existed was held by a few men. ffhe masses were in ignorance of all ■\hose things which did not directly iiertain to the particular jobs at which piey were born to toil. A few men, however, were "educated," mostly slaves, and these "educated" ones were usually the property of rtobles who took the same pride In his possession of a philosophically inclined slave as do men to-day in their farge libraries. Shortly after this the church became powerful and proceeded to enlighten (?) the people— phlefly on their duties relative to Kithes—the support of the clergy, etc. iHumility, Industry, sobrietv were the ^saving virtues. Mother church taught j-ontentment with one's lot, obedience io one's "natural superiors," and generosity, In support of the Lord's work. [When Galileo, Bruno, Copernicus and Others attempted to go further, .Mother bhurch quickly put the kibosh on their teachings and ushered them into the perdition of which the masses were Jai.ght fearful things. Education of the masses merely vent far enough to make the workers very useful slaves, and as such valuable to the masters. Things went on fn this way for many centuries. Oc- 'the last century we begin to hear about ■asionully a holder man than usual!trade schools for the dissemination of iiraved the anger of the church and special technical knowledge. So in- I.'tale hy publishing his thoughts, hut :terested are the masters that a Royal |ie was usually quickly squelched and | Commission consisting of a "Labor the S. P. of C. are not particularly in- and yours, and we intend to win." The terested in the question. At any rate 'fight is well worth while since it will we should not be as it is merely five to us a world instead of slavery, another herring of the proverbial hue. 80 here's to the fight. whenever possible his works destroyed. The workers remained in ignorance of all those things that were toot essential to their productivity as p.laves. But a gradual change was taking Slace in the economic structure of rociety. The methods of producing flood, clothing and shelter were changing. Ruling classes were going down lu ruin and disorder as the mode of kroduction upon which their superiority was based, gave1 way to modern {nd still more modern methods, lother Church heretofore the seat of ill (mis) education gradually lost her I lower through the dissemination of pew ideas themselves the product of he changing system of the past. Fin- Illy in the latter part of ine 18th fentury a period of inventions set in. Machinery and mach.ne manufac- lure began to rapidly displace hand methods and, as was Inevitable, the |lass which owned the machinery, the naster artisans and merchants, the Imbryonic capitalist class, gradually through their enormous wealth, gained py their power of exploiting the increasing productiveness of labor in conjunction with the new machinery, pecame the ruling class. Still the felaves—now wage slaves—were kept in ignorance of all but the things essential to capitalist development, and lhe part they were to play therein. ■The advent of machinery and the increased markets, entailing the demand for a very large product, made the need for a large number of "educated" workers—workers possessing a Special knowledge along certain lines. Klerks- bookkeepers, accountants, skilled machinists and draughtsmen were needed in ever increasing numbers. Schools for the instruction of these IworkerB were organized. Improved |methods of teaching them were inaugurated and presently we lind agi- Itation for free (?) public school systems. When the master class felt the need [for those schools they were immediately instituted and not before. The philanthropically Inclined agitators night have howled until hades had become a cold storage plant and then ■continued their stunt on the ice If ■capitalism had not developed to the ■point where universal education, so- Icalled, was necessary to its further ■development. As before this "educa- Ition" simply went far enough to make leader" or two and a bunch of Jobless professors and politicians Is appointed by the government to enquire into the matter and report as to whether the new scheme will be cheaper than the old' "education" methods of turning out human cogs for the capitalist ma chine. To-day as in the past the worker whose education includes more than just the very essentials (those bits of knowledge necessary to run the machine he Is chained to by his stomach) Is an "undesirable citizen." judged by capitalist standards, education consists in a knowledge of those things which will aid in producing surplus for capital. 'Tis a waste of time and also dangerous to capitalist morality to allow the slaves to learn anything that is unnecessary and unproductive of profit. Capitalist schools never yet taught the slave how to truly enjoy life, lt is always work, work, and then work. Our whole "education" Is for tho profit and glory of our king and tyrant—capital. To his glory are histories written and taught in the schools which we and those of our class must attend. To his glory and profit the whole system of Instruction to which we must submit is falsified— a very mass of lies and misleading conceptions of life and morality. Capitalism Is developing—the machine is becoming more intricate, and more highly specialized brains must evolve in order to build it and keep it in repair. The technical school takes the pick of the workers and makes them specialized cogs. More of these must be educated than are really necessary in order that a surplus of brain—workers may have the natural dragging tendency in bringing down the price of their labor-power. The masses—those whose duties are merely manual—do not need the highly technical training—they are weeded out in the course of development and instruction and stay at the foot of the ladder. Machinery is gradually eliminating them. And in the further development of the system, less and less common swine will be needed. The highly specialized workers will run the industries to the glory and profit of capital and we—well, we may starve and be damned. Technical education is merely an incident in capitalist development. It ls helping to develop and so speedily break down the system. But we of We would be just as consistent in aiding in the introduction of the ditch- digging machine or the steam-plow. As Socialists we have absolutely nothing in common with capitalism or capitalists. Nothing ever emanated from the masters that could be of any benefit to me of the slave class. Capitalist governments merely do the bidding of the lords of the earth—our mortal enemies. The S. P. of C. has so far steered clear of any and all red herring and spur tracks. In this respect we stand alone, for even the S. P. G. B. is more or less an annex of the Secular Society. Our work is clearly cut out and lies before us. We must arouse the slaves—not by side-tracking our movement on technical education or any other brand of capitalist mis-education, but by telling them of their slavery; its cause—class ownership of the means of life; the remedy—Socialism. It is our duty not because of any philanthropic motive, but simply because we, ourselves, hate slavery and its gyves. Capitalist morality Is greatly shocked and outraged by the brand of education handed out by the S. P. of C. For, strange as it may seem to obedient slaves, we do not teach the slave virtues, honesty, sobriety. Instead of teaching slaves to be obedient, we teach revolt—intelligent revolt. Instead of telling slaves to be profitable to their masters, we teach that they should help us eliminate the master and his profit, and enjoy the good things of life themselves. An audacious system of instruction, surely yet one that will ere long win a world of things for us right here. In the meantime we must go on educating the toilers to revolt. There are more of us to-day than tnere were yesterday. There will be more yet to-morrow, and our challenge is flung to the masters— "Do your worst, we will not be sidetracked. Use all your opportunities to mis-inform and mis-educate those of us who are still in ignorance. Openly and above board we challenge you ROSCOE A. FILLMORE. DESTROYING PROPERTY. ALBERTA LEGISLATURE O'Brien Has Something to Say on Wages Senior Clifford Pullan, an English mill operative, becoming disgusted with a never ending prospect of hard work at 14 shillings a week, gently removed himself from his more or less beloved factory recently by the laudanum method. He left a statement, the most interesting part of which is not given because: "The Coroner said the remainder of the statement was of a most blasphemous character; and in summing up said it was a clear case of most deliberate suicide, and the writing in the note-book, the whole of which he could not bring himself to read to the jury, proved to his mind that Pullan was a very wicked man indeed, and totally devoid of any religion or right feeling." Take warning slaves! For, verily if I" Detore the Hou8e you do not live in constant fear of j This bill, Mr. Speaker, is in the in- 472 brands of hells and in hope of the j terests of the peddlers of the all-im- latest improved, duly adopted in con- 'portant commodity, labor-power. When vention assembled heaven; and die |the worker goes into the labor market by explosions, collisions, consumption, jhe sells what we call labor-power and electrocution, hanging, syphilis or receives in return what is known to The fortnightly pay bill which Comrade O'Brien has Introduced may, at flrst glance, seem of very litte concern to the slaves; but those who have had experience in construction and mining camps and also those working for the farmers, know that should a bill be allowed to become law it would save them a good deal of worry to which they are now subjected. In rising to introduce the bill Comrade O'Brien spoke as follows: Mr. Speaker, the bill now under consideration was to have been introduced last BesBion but owing to the excitement prevailing over the Alberta and Great Waterways deal, the session was ended before I had an opportunity to get other civilized methods approved by the medical and legal professions, but decide upon the manner of your own the average person as wages. Labor- power thus having a commodity nature is subject to the laws that govern corn- going, you shall have a most learned moditles. In political economy there coroner with a solemn jury sit upon ' i8 what is known as the law of ex- your case and by your carcase, who change value, that is, that commodities shall impressively convict you of most shall exchange one with another on heinous deliberation and dreadful 'lhe basis of the socially necessary wickedness. 1 labor Incorporated in each. Another Suicide is a crime. Why? Because !law is that the prices of commodities it is a destruction of wealth produc- |&re regulated by supply and demand. 'ng property, Suppose the lathes, the 11 would have you note. Mr. Speaker, looms, the engines and motors in fac tories were to start smashing themselves on the pavement or sinking This is the age of trustification. Be- for the invention of refrigerators no such thing as a beef or fruit trust was possible, but now that these inventions have been perfected they are able to do with fruit and beef what they were previously able to do with oil, i. e., regulate the supply. But we cannot trustify labor-power, and therefore cannot regulate Its supply. It is a perishable commodity which we must perforce continue to generate. We cannot put it in cold-storage. This labor-power Is our mental and physical energy, therefore we must be right on the job when it is to be delivered. I mentioned in the flrst part of my speech that the socially necessary labor determined the value of a commodity. Now, sir, a certain Mr. Powell, who, I might mention, is a r.ilne manager, issued statistics to show that the average wage received by miners around their mines was two dollars and a half a day. To the lay mind that would seem fairly good wages but you know that it is necessary for the wife of the miner to cook his mulligan and mend his clothes, etc., working from early morning till late at night. And, when Mr. Powell is taking averages I would advise him to take Into account all those who are taking part in the production of coal around the mines, aud especially would I remind him of those who do not receive wages directly through his pay clerk. Another factor that is generally neglect- that commodities on the average exchange at their value and it is around jed ls the amount of goods that can be „this exchange value that priceB oscil- 1 bought with that two dollars and a themselves in rivers, etc., what would/! late, being sometimes below and some- |nalf a'*°und the mines, for it is not the be the resulting effect upon owners jtime above, the one compensating the money but the amount of goodB pur- of property? Disastrous indeed. Thus |other and the result over a whole jcnasable with the money which con- the effort to intimidate the human j cycle of production being that the j stitute the miner's real wages. So that machine Into staying alive and endur- exchange of commodities is effected |wnen the wives of these miners come ing slavery. Punishment of the sue-'at their value. it0 that very Important point In mod ern housewifery, the spending of that cessful criminal is something of a problem and, up-to-date, bas been confined to anathematizing the cold and silent corpse.. THE MEN BEHIND THE GUNS The ship's companies of two Brazil!- Suppose they had merely asked for it, an battleships mutinied lately. They 11*'91 fallen in the upper deck, ro- were the two most powerful ships in ! quested to see the commanding officer, the Navy of Brazil, fast—so able to 1 stated their case. They would have choose their own distance in case of 'been just stating their opinion, merely a fight with slower ships of the same ' votin6 for what they wanted, and If navy, with guns outranging those same they left It at that, and the authorities slower ships—bo being able to play knew they were prepared to leave it We slaves, Mr. Speaker, are acquainted with this law of supply and i demand, for as capitalism develops the means of production are more and more concentrated and labor-saving devices further and further perfected. Hence, an ever increasing number of workers are thrown into the ranks of unemployed and there ensues an ever keener competition for jobs, that is to say, competition for the sale of labor-power. Consequent upon this excessive supply over demand, .the tendency is for wages to hover around the cost of physical subsistence. two dollars and a half, they flnd it necessary to send one of the children to work in the mine, and those who are not yet old enough to work, add to the family exchequer by stealing coal and wood. So you see, Sir, this wage question is not so simple a matter as Mr. Powell would have us believe. I do not look upon this bill as a measure that will in any appreciable degree alleviate the miseries of my for refusing to work." It made mo goose flesh all over and I replied, "Well, that's shocking, sir." He Bald, class, but In Introducing it it is necessary to explain the difference between what is known as the commodity strug- glo and the class struggle, hence I was compelled to touch upon the laws of value. Now, sir, you may ask me If I want l"l think so, too, but the man must be 1th'8 ,)"1 '" "l,l||v ,0 railroad compan- long-ball with them If necessary.'at that, those same authorities would a f°°''" MinS. "however, I'm going |«" """ £ "J^ "V«*«' ' «** « Their armament, offensive and de* suit themselves If they acquiesced In I* ** l° f* «■ «*" "hioH he did, |£*g * 8» »•*«*«■ £ Albert, tensive, was of about the Meet pat-It hat same expression of oplnlon-that E, *» «"* * 8''v succeeded. BUT |JJJ« l *<• o",l, for me to THR MAN WORKED, nnd. aa he told I0™* "' " ■"" "' "I'l'ly ln 'he .■ntlre tern, and It would have been a hope- same vote. Also If, as I said before, less case for the ruling class of Brazil 'they had simply taken the negative to pit other ships which had not Stand of refusing to work the shirt, mutinied, against them, even If the the authorities would have sent "loyal" ships companies could be trusted. The [seamen aboard, put the mutineers men had grievances—corporal punish-1under arrest, and treated them to f„, ,.,„,,.,,,,„..,., demanded j"what-cheer with the chill off." But ever letting the thing go bo far as to >r"> ">•"*"'' '•*" never, probably, having heard of the ment, among others—and their abolition. Some officers tried to bring them to submission and got corporal punishment in the shape of "losing the number of their mess"—naval term for getting their lights put out. After this, "heir demand's not being promptly enough conceded, the mutineers had the audacity to Are upon government me afterwards, was glad of the chance iwork,"8 '''"sh I would have done so. after escaping the flogging. As to T,IWtJ hs* been a deputation from the MERELY voting, It ls about as er-,TradeB "■•"' l-HU"** Oounell asking you fectuul us a puppy barking at lhe i1** I"",H a Weekly pay bill to which you moon, and In case of the ruling class ,have Pledged yourselves to give care- While I nm here let the workers vote themselves Into advantages of I. W W.isio, all these offlce' they wou,d slmply ct,Bt tnc poor, ignorant sailors knew was to workers' verdict contemptuously out open the magazines, pass up the am of court unless they knew the work- munition, load and train the guns, ierB were ready and ab,e to back u» clear decks for action, and say (as | their demand by actual, force If neccs- Comrade Filmore puts it): "Fork over, or we'll knock your heads off." If they had not been flt and ready forts and arBenal, which made no to do this "hell-consigning" stunt, no reply, probably not having good artillery to compete, and perhaps the men In these forts were also "disloyal." Anyrate, the mutineers had the Power and forced the "authorities" to lose their authority, briefly at least, to climb down with the best grace possible and concede their demands to the letter, and unconditionally. Yes, they had the power and notice, my I. W. W. comrades, it wasn't what you call economic power either. These navy boys didn't simply sit down In their messes and refuse to work the ship, they didn't refuse to do one thing until somebody else did something else, their untutored minds could not see that the best way of doing one thing was to decline to do another thing, all that they knew was to go straight for the thing they wanted, and having the power, they got it. "Cork over" would have taken place, no matter how unanimous their demand (vote). As to their simply declining to work, I remember a shipmate of my own a number of yearB ago who used his "economic power" In this way. He was put in irons right away and the next morning was sentenced to fourteen days cells. Completing his time in the cells (on a very restricted diet), he still refused to work. The prison-hulk for him this trip, and still he persisted in using his "economic power," and was sentenced to four dozen with the cat. I well remember the Sunday morning that the doctor came fore'ard on his regular dally visit to the sick boy and previous to seeing the flrst case, said to me: "You know that-;—who was sent to the the other day, they're going to give him four dozen isary. Moral: Get behind the gnns- your own guns—most of you can afford to purchase one, with an effort— and get at the men who are already behind the :;uns in the army and navy. Pass them Socialist literature at every chance, talk to them whenever possible, stir up "disloyalty" among them all you can, and when the end comes, if enough of this has been done, they wlll be with us Instead of against us, and the capitalists, realizing that thelr(?) forces are not to be depended on and that the most of us have a first-class modern rifle hanging on the wall and a few hundred rounds of ammunition handy, will back down gracefully. There you are, Comrade Editor. I said this before, or something like it. It will bear repeating. I am alone responsible for it. It may be "treason," but 111 take the risk of that, If you think this screed worthy of insertion. WILFRID GRIBBLE it will be my business to bring to your attention any oversight In these matters. I could have appealed to this Assembly on sentiment In behalf of the wage slaves on the grounds of the hardships they have to endure through receiving their wages as soon as they have earned them. Also I might have appealed to the small business man on pecuniary considerations but such positions I am not going to adopt while In this house. This bill merely askB that the slave shall receive his wages at the end of every two weeks. Whether It shall be so or not you have the power to say. RUFUS. OKANAGAN ATTENTION. Com. Desmond will be on organization work in this district for the next couple of months. ComradoB wishing to assist in tho work of organization or have meetings held In their vicinity should correspond with District Secretary (Jlldermeester, of Mara, who will acknowledge all donations, arrange meetings, etc. Wake np and get busy. THE WESTERN CLARION. VANCOUvkK. BRITISh COLUMBIA 8ATURDAY, DECEMBER 17th, 1910. WESMN CLARION Published e Socialist Putty at the West' Basement, 16& ma,, B. C. otti n ■ii. riatunlny by the ii r Ciinuila, at the Oillce ■ Clarion, FisoK llioik uaatlnn 3tr«»i. Viincou- 4* i.r.. ... aox itmo. JliBBCBIPTIOH'. p.00 Per 1 «i r, St Mntl let "Ji". Mouths, as ' »*• (or Three Months, M I'.tl, to • miuoe. 6 or iiii■ ru OOplMi for ■ i il in (In •••■ i Hi >, HI 1 'l |i T OOpy per Isiiu*. ii.iiiit mi iippiii ution e Uili paper, it is i>«i'i Wo can, therefore, take up a position more Hcieutlllcully correct than that of tho H. I'. or Q. I), .lust ub the Soolallat Party Ih noilher moral nor Immoral, but only iiiiiiioinl, no should It bo neither refill mint nor unll-re- inriniHt, bul uorofomlstj neither Obrlstlau nor antl-ObrlitlaUi but un- Ohrlftlan, and hh forth, Thai ths h. I', nr (' llllii III'' bill, »i' dO nnl BSItfti but It Ih iiiiivIiiu In that direction. Ah ii does team in luive i•«*"*«■ mora or ii'i.H iiiuii) selves of a troublesome surplus of y The value of a commodity would, labor. Before commenting further, let, therefore, remain constant, if the us quote Mr. King's closing remarks: I labor-time required for its production "Tho duy of the traction engine has also remained constant. But the lat- but begun. The machine or power i tor changes with every variation in fin in Is with us. In the future we shall the production of labor. I tin" ' i Rrl-m I in • ml- ol Adv. i ■ ii If y. ii ' • "traction" the soil and tho horse wlll blOOme more of u friend und companion and less ol' u Slave, The young man Who di'llKhts In handling machln- M nnd MglnSB will llud Ills delights lit boms on tbe farm and not In the dark, piroaivad tbat lbs aatl-ldlrty, orowded city, on the machine raformlsl position la as futlls as lbs farm he wlll Snd the oppoitunity to reformist, and possibly mora reraoti I do tha great tilings or which be dreams from tln> actual ObJSOtlVe, l''i»' while nuil his labor problcniH will huve been i tin, rafartDlsl is iightiiig Hie sffaots Ifoivtd, Ha will become aa Important j Of riiplliillHiu, tin' imtl 'raformlsl l« I factor In ths great tusk of feeding the fighting au iffwi "r oapitoUMni world, Mnii'inei, iih the H. P, Of 0, I* I Willi a large roomy house, the farm. ciilllH IIh ranks, nut from niniiUK So- er of the future can huve ull tbe mod 11. ma! ing ramltUnpt Uy uliioiun, ex- *t IRP .IIUSl til' IH|il|"l Adlll'OHH Ull .ii ,. .r..nuil' mill make mi mousy • rtl' '4 |,.l\ :ililn til T. vVHSTBBn CT.AKION. Tenoonrer, a. 0, txt S I ' " ' "¥*!-■. jLUCTEJBiSJ""*) ■HiSiiiSs.eJi^' cliillHtH, but lion'SOOlallStS, It Ih In- evltabls thai » graater or loss percentage or iih membership Huouid bo 'not quite ruiiy de* loped n» Boolaltats, Hut what WOUliI you have'.' BpolaliStS do not drop from heaven; Ihey grow, und they seldom grow to advantage until alter they havo Joined tho Socialist Directory V.' I jh the label on your pa- ti I , If this number is on it, •j J I jo' r subscription expires the n» it issue. «* "UWDAY, DECEMBER 17th, 1910. ein convenlsnoss or tbe city home with the IiIohhIiik or pure air, room and apace, delightful scenery and privacy without seclusion, which are known to lhe city dweller only on rure holidays. Me wlll have modern plumbing und beating systems. If he does not care to make bis gas engine do double party, as Ihe most or us van testify. |HbiftH In the fields he can hitch it in If they cannot Join the party Ull they jthe evening to a private dynamo and are "real reds" and cannot be that it wj-] nght his home and bar US'and until tbey have joined the party, where while he sleeps wlll charge a storage are you? .lialiery with which to operate feed As for the party's past, we cheer-1 grlr.ders, jpumps, washing machines fully admit that it mny not have been and other things during the day. With 10 ■{ESOLUTIONISM. Iiuoal 'Loronto's latest resolution is -Kit i.'itimely, as lt affords us the op- j-Ttunity or i 'viewing the situation. « Is th'-refore published for the edl- He tiin of the readers, but can hardly »■- sunmitted as a referendum, as Jj. il Toronto is not at present in good standing its solicitude for the -jarty't welfare apparently not run- extreme of paying Us per all that might be desired, though not quite as bad as represented in some respects and possibly worse in others. But we are not inclined to tear our hair about It. We are not even Inclined to tear Com. Baritz's hair about It. We expect to live It down and keep plugging along. Indeed, it is a subject for congratulation that we are no worse. We mi?ht have been sidetracked into the seductive tenderloin of shameless opportunism, or into that circumscribed sectarian rectangle which has endowed the S. L. P. with an ling to 'h -tpi'.a. With tho suggestion that we^,, the comp!a|snnt rectitude of Juive a Domi lion convention, we are Engllsn evangelical chapel of sanctimonious razor-backs. For it should iii complete iceord, and have been racking our Wits for ways and means to ib:' end for a "very considerable not be forgotten that It is possible to deviate to the Left as well as to the jteriod.' Nothing so simple as a rosc-lR,ght> Am] |f ore deviates sufficiently to the Left he will presently find himself in the pleasant company of the Right, both going back. However, circumstances dictated we should take our present road. Circumstances have prodded us along it at as good a gait as we had, and here we are. If we went to the old country we should find we did not fit, different conditions having created different atmospheres, manners and customs. Thi Si D. P. would be Im- .nt .ir hail occurred to us. as the solu ajnti of a problem involving the ex- pu 'lire of several thousand dollars, to i mall sum to raise when even such i pa,.i • n of a local as Toronto confesses s inability to liquidate its indebtedness to the Clarion. For the rest, we, have no excuses to oh^r for our part ar .vould not offer the'i •■■ hid -iy one else onncerne.i ib ... ..uju l offer a few, there is nothing to stop theu.. Also This productiveness is determined by various circumstances, amongst others, by the average amount of skill of the workmen, the state of science, and the degree of its practical application, the social organization of production, the extent and capabilities of the means of production, and by physical conditions. For example, the same amount of laoor in favorable seasons ls embodied in 8 bushels of corn, und In unfavorable, omy In four. The same labor extracts from rich niliieB more metal than from poor mines. Diamonds are of very rare Occurrence on the earth's surface, and hence their discovery costs, on an average, a great deal of labor-time. Consequently much labor Is represented lu a small compass. Jacob doubts whether gold haB ever been paid for at its full value. This applies still more to diamonds. According to Esch- wege, the total produce of the Brazilian diamond mines for the eighty years, ending in 1823, had not realized the price of one-and-a-half years.' average produce of the sugar and coffee plantations of the same country, although the diamonds cost much more labor, and therefore represented Every locnl of the Socialist Party fcOOAXi VANCOUVEB, B. C, NO. 4B—- of Canada should run a. card under this J'J.'L'U?1'^,. Me,ets every second and head. }1.00 please note. per month. fourth Thursdays In the month at 2237 'WtsitniiisL.r Avenue. Secretary, Wm. Myntti. DOMINION EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE LOCAI, VERNON B. C, No. 38, B. P. Socialist Party of Cunadu. Meets of O. Meeta every Tuesday, 8 p. every alternate Monday. D. G. Mc-. sharp, at L. O. L. Hall, Tronson St. Kenzie, ver, B. Secretary, C. Bux 16S8, Vuncou-I Chas. Cliuney, Secretary. COLUMBIA PBOVINCIAL Executive Committee, Socialist Party of Canada. Meets every alternate Monday. D. G. McKenzie, Secretary, Box 1688 Vancouver, B. C. ALBERTA PBOVINCIAL EXECUTIVE, Committee, Socialist Party of Canada. Meets every alternate Monday ln[ Labor Hall, Eighth Ave. Ea-it, op-1 po.-dte postofflce. Secretary will be pleased to answer any communications regarding the movement in the province. V. Danby, Sec, Box 647 Calgary, Alta. LOCAL VICTORIA, NO. 3, .8. P. OF C. Headquarters and Reading Room, 5:'3 Johnston St. Opposite Queens Hotel. Business meeting every Tuesday evening, 8 p.m. Propaganda meetings every Sunday at Grand Tlieatre. T. Gray. Secretary. LOOAX Tan, B. C, No. 31, 8. P. of a . —Meets every third Saturday in month, at 7:30 p. in. E. Anderson, ! Secretary; W. B. Mclsaae, Treasurer. Unattached Comrades in the district are earnestly requested to get in touch with Secretary, who will answer all enquiries. the traction engine, the automobile, modern home equipment with sewers [more value. With ricuer mines, the same quantity of labor would embody itself in. more diamonds and their value would fall. If we could succeed at a small expenditure of labor, in converting carbon into diamonds, their value might fall below that of bricks. In general, the greater the productiveness of labor, the less is the labor- time required for the production of an and electricity, the telephone and the daily mail at his disposal tbe farmer will be the aristocrat of the future." What a vision to brighten the lonely hours of the humble homesteader as pensively he stuffs the Macklin Mourn into a hole through which-the blizzard loves to blow. Hut alas! We fear such things are not for hint. He who would reach the Touch-the-button farm [ article, the less is the amount of must woo the land with something labor crystallized in that article MANITOBA PBOVINCIAL EXECUTIVE Committee: Notice—This card is inserted for the purpose of getting "YOU" Interested in the Socialist movement. SOCIALISTS are always members of the Party; so if you are desirous of becoming a member, or wisli to get any Information, write the secretary, W. H. Stebblngs. Address, 316 Good street, Winnipeg. UABITIME PBOVINCIAL EXECU- tlve Committee, Socialist Party of Canada. Meets every second and fourth Sunday at Comrade McKinnon's, Cottage Lane. Dan Cochrane, Secretary, Box 491, Glace Bay, N. S. LOOAL FEBNIE, 8. P. of 0. HOLES educational meetings ln the Miners' Union Hall, Victoria Ave., Fernle, every Sunday evening at 7:46. Business meeting Hrst Sunday in each month, same place at 2:30 p. m. David Paton, Secy., Box 101. ■LOCAL CALGARY, ALTA., No. 4, 8. V. , of C. Meetings every Sunday at 8 p.m. in the Labor Hall, Barber Block, Eighth Ave. E. (near postolllce). Club I and Reading Room. Labor Hah, T, ,f Machln, Secretary. Box 047, A. Maedonald, Organizer, Box 647. LOOAL COLEMAN, ALTA., NO 9. Miner's Hall and Opera House. Propaganda Meetings at 8 p.m. on the 1st j and 3rd Sundays of the month. Bust-1 ness meetings on Thursday evenings! following propaganda meetings at 8/1 Organizer—T. Steele, Coleman, Alta.! Secretary, D. H. Hyslop, Box 63, Cole-1 man Alta. Visitors may receive infor-l mation any day at Miner's Hall from! Com. W. Graham, Secretary of U. M.f W. of A. LOCAL LADYSMITH NO. 10, 8. P. ol C. Business meetings every Saturdaj 7 p.m. in headquarters oil First Ave J. H. Burrough, Box 31, Ladysmlth. B. C. more seductive than three cases of household effects and a team of animated spavins. and the less Is its value; and vice- versa, the less the productiveness of labor, the greater is the labor-time The tanner "aristocrat of the future" required Tor the production of an must have capital, and lots of it. Which I article, and the greater is its value. tie have a few other remarks to make posslb-ei the g p 0* q. b. unconi- jnd do not wish to monopolize the en- tortabie. tire, paper. 1 As for the S. P. of C, we confess me have never ueen quite satisiled ■with lt, are not now, and don't ever expect to be Nevertheless, we are sot withoi . a suspicion that it is as far along Ue ri^ht ro:id as any other Socialist Party we l.uow of, not even -Hceptin, the Impeccable S. P. ol O. B. Thta, of course, will sound like high treason to S. P. ol G. B. admirers, so let ub elucidate. As far is we c&u make out, it is hardly an exaggera ion to say that the 8. P. of G. B. ipea.T to have lost sight ot capitalis'u and is now fii?ht- ing reform. c tainly far more pronouncedly r< 'ormist than anti- capitalist. Not ' : i 'hat is any discredit to it. It con 11 not, in the circumstances, very 'I be anything else. To be a 3ci„ -it, Tarty it has hut to expose tho ipiti .t system, bnt to be the S >£ b " it must expose the S. 1 '. and the 1. L. P. Similarly, C01'.. Bar!'/, comes here from the S. P. jf i. B. and finds he dees not fit. So, blessed with an impulsive temperament and a degree of self-esteem not quite justified by his attainments but amply sufficient to dull his perception of the ridiculous, he cheerfully sets about to make over the S. P. of C. to fit him. Local Toronto, having, not so long ago, been in a position similar to that of the S. P. of G. B. and "sair hadden doon" by a preponderating reformist element, falls easily Into Com. Baritz's vein, t*3nce these tears. That's all. Is another way of saying that Instead of the farmer of today becoming an aristocrat, the industrial aristocrat of today will spread his aristocracy over the rural districts. Proletarians who "get back to the land" will go as wage- slaves. As for the farmer who works a comparatively small patch of ground with such tools as he can "scrape together," his lot will be to grow humped of back and anxious of mind, openly The value of a commodity, therefore, varies directly as the quantity, and inversely as the productiveness, ot the labor incorporated in it. O thing can be a use-value without having value. This is the case whenever its utility to man is not due to labor. Such as air, virgin soil, natural meadows, etc. A thing can be usetul, and the product of human labor, without being bragging of his independence, secretly |a commodity. Whoever directly satis- envying his more fortunate brother , ties his wants with the produce of who runs the engine or tends the!his own labor, creates, indeed, use- plows on the estate of the "squire" of .values, but not commodities. In order automobiles and electric light. |to produce the latter, he must not only One pleasing feature is the freeing produce use-values, but use-values for of the horse. Too long he has been others, social use-values, a slave. And when horses can get J Lastly, nothing can have value with- emanctpated, there begins to be some out being an object of utility. If tbe hope for wage-slaves. Let the good thing is useless, so is the labor con- work go on. The inevitable result of itained in it; the labor does not count SAViNG FARM LABOR. And it is a matt. 1 concern to It I as the S. P. of aa time goes or, lay more and difference 10 the tho more Intimate stlfy its existence j. U. Consequently, tt Is constrained lo ..ore stress upon Its F.U. P. and I. L. P. Hencr its aut.-ieform propaganda throwt its anil apilfliat propaganda rather ln the In, II exists as lt is lecause the o';. ira are vhat thoy are. Were they tii-ix tut, it would in- cvitably be tltogothei' different. As tt Is, howev, r, H compelled to be whatever th are not. Because Ihey are reformist, it must be antl-reform- fat, Just as it has to be anti-Christian because they cater to Christianity. As exposing their records is Its long suit, it is perforce compelled to keep Its •wn record spotless and be most ■elect in the matter of its membership, which it can also afford to do, as its recruiting ground is not among non-Socialists but Socialists, of sorts. In Canada no such situation exists. "We have no S. D. P. or I. L. P. to distract the attention of the workers. At any rate, not to any ' j.reclable antent. Consequently w' cannot be what the S. P. of G. B. Is. For which praises be. Such of tho S. O. P. as is struggling for exi stem.'i in Canada is compelled to take up Uei ' a position naalogous to lhat of the S. P. of O. B. tn England. It has 10 be am!-3. P. ot NSW WESTMINSTER LAND DI8TBICT. District of New Woitmlmter. TAKE notice that David Stewart Ryan at Vancouver, occupation minor, intends fes> stpply for permission to lease the fol- lowiiw; described land:— Commencing at a post planted near am unnamed Island about two miles from the south end of Texada Island on the aa»t side, thence west 40 chains, tbence ■until SO chains, tln-nce east 40 chnlns mo** or less to the foreshore, thence in as mirthweitnrly direction to point of C-Mnmflncnmont, containing 240 acres men, or less. DAVID STEWART UYAN. Dated November 2nd, 1910. As illustrating the unceasing Herd toward economy in wealth production which characterizes this, the machine era, an article in the December "Tech. nlcal World" by James A. King, on "Making the farm a factory," ls illuminating. Comparing modern methods of farming with those of fifty years ago, Mr. King says In part: "One may see a moderate sized engine hauling five or six large self-binders, bach one cutting a strip eight teet wide, binding the grain into neat, uniform bundles and dropping them In buncbea of live or six, handy for the shockers. Or In some sections one may see a large engine hauling a combined harvester and thresher. This machine, with five or six men to operate It, will walk right down through a field of grain and cut it, thresh it, throw the straw into the ground und sack the grain ready for hauling to market. In this way one engine and five or six men will cut and thresh from one hundred to one hundred and twenty acres of grain In ten hours. To do this same work In the old way would require thirty-five to forty men to cut the grain, fifty to sixty to bind it and If it were wheat, that went twenty-five bushels to the acre it would require three hundred and seventy-five men to thresh it with flails; one engine and six men operate a machine that does the work of four hundred and fifty men of fifty years ago." Here, of course, as In all other departments of production, the predomln. ating tendency is to reduce cost by means of the conservation of human energy. With such a movement we have no quarrel, for the desire to save labor Ib Inherent in the race and is the basis of Its progress—puritan deification of Work notwithstanding. What of tho labor-power that Ib thus conserved? We need only note the tremendous flow of population that has been taking place toward Industrial centres during the past century. An Influx that has caused those centres to raise the cry "Back to the Land," as a moans of ridding them- economic evolution is political revolution, which latter as we see lt now, would be much to our advantage, and is therefore greatly to be desired. VANCOUVER ECONOMIC CLASS. CAPITAL—(Continued). Some people might think that If the value of the commodity is determined by the quantity of labor spent on it, the more idle and unskillful the laborer,, the more valuable would his commodity be, because more time would be required ln Its production. The labor, however, that forms the substance of value, Is homogeneous human labor, expenditure of one uniform labor power. The labor-power of Bociety which is embodied in the sum total of the values of the commodities produced by that Bociety, counts here as one homogeneous mass of human labor- power, composed though it be of In- umerable individual units. Kurh of these units Is the same as any other, so far as it has the character of the uverage labor-;iower of society, nnd takes effect as Biich; that is, so far as it requires for producing a commodity, no more time than Is needed on an average, no more thnn is socially necessary. The labor time socially necessary is that required to produce an article under the normal conditions of production, and with the average degree of skill and intensity prevalent at the time. The Introduction of power looms into England probably reduced by one- half, the labor required to weave a given quantity of yarn into cloth. The hand-loom weavers, as a matter of fact, continued to require the same as before; but for all that, the product of one hour of their labor represented after the change only half-an-hour's social labor, and consequently fell to one-half its former value. We see then that that which determines the magnitude of the value of any article is the amount of labor socially necessary for Its production. Each individual commodity, in this connection, is to be considered as an average Bample of its class. Commodities, therefore, in which equal quantities of labor are embodied, or which can be produced in the Bame lime, have the same value. The value of one commodity is to the value of any other, as the labor—time necessary for the production of the one Is to that of other. "As values, all commodities! are only definite masses of congealed labor-time." / as labor, and, therefore creates no value. (To be Continued). * * * DISCUSSION ON EXTRACT FROM "CAPITAL," OF DEC. 10th. LOCAL MICHEL, B. C, NO. IB, 8. P. OF C, meets every Sunday in Graham's Hall at 10:30 a. m. Socialist speakers are invited to call. V. Krodsham, Secretary. LOCAL MABA, B. C, NO. 34, 8. P. Of O., Meets first Sunday in every month in Socialist Hall, Mara 2:30 p.m. Cyril Roscman. Recording Secretary. LOCAL MOYIE, B. 0., NO. 30 MEET8 second Sunday 7:30 p.m. ln McGregoi Hall (Miners' Hall), Thos. Roberts, Secretary. LOCAL NANAIMO, NO. 8, 8. P. of O. meets every alternate Sunday evening in Foresters Hall. Business meeting at 7:00 o'clock sharp. ' Propaganda meeting commences at 8:00 o'clock. Jack Place, Rec. Secy., Box 826. LOOAL NELSON, 8. P. of C, MEETS every Friday evening at 8 p. 111., in Miners' Hall, Nelson. B. C. I. A. Austin, Secy. LOOAL PBINOE BUPEBT, B. C, No. 63, S. P. of C.—Meets every Sunday in hall In Empress Theater Block at 2:00 p. in. L. H. Qorham, Secretary. LOCAL EDMONTON, ALTA., NO. 1, Si P. of C. Hearquarters 022 First St.,1 Business and propaganda meetingsl every Thursday at 7:30 p.m. sharp.r . Our Reading Room ls open to the pub-1 lie free, from 10 a.m. to 11 p.m. dally.I F. Blake, 649 Athabasca Ave., Secre I tary. Treasurer, T. Bisaett, 322 Fourttl St., Organizer. ,f LOOAL LETBBBIDGB,, ALTA., NO. IS I S. P. of C.—Meets 1st and 3rd Sun.T day in the month, at 4 p.m. Inl Miners' Hall. Secretary, Chas.I Peacock, Box 1983. LOOAL KEOINA NO. 6, SASKATCKE WAN.—.Meets every Sunday, 3 p.m.,J Trades Hall, Scarth St. Secretary, Alex. Watchman, General Delivery.] Socialist speakers will be greatly ap-' predated. LOCAL WINNIPEG), 8. P. Of O., quarters, Kerr's Hall, 120 1-2 Adelaide! Street, opposite Roblln Hotel. Business meeting every Monday evening atl Propaganda meeting Sunday! 3P m. evening s p.m. Secretary, J. W. Street. Everybody welcome.. Hilling, 270 Youngl LOCAL TORONTO, ONT., NO. 94, 8. P. OP C. Business meetings 2nd and I 4th Wednesdays in the month, at ] the Labor Temple, Church St. Out-1 door propaganda meetings, Saturday, 8 p.m., city Hall: Sunday afternoon/, 3 p.m., at University and Queen St.; , Sunday night, 8 p.m., at Shuter anal Yonge St. Speakers' Class every.! Thursday, 8 p.m., at Headquarters, J 79 Church St. Secretary, Arthur! Taylor, 201 George St. LOCAL BETEL8TOKE, B.C.B.P.C— Propaganda and business meetings at 8 p. m. every Sunday evening in the Edison Parlor Theater. Speakers passing through Revelstoke are Invited to attend. B. F. Gayman, Secretary. In considering commodities, we have already found that the proportions In which they exchange are not decided by their qualities, or uses, but by some other property, irrespective of these uses or qualities. Therefore, we must set aside use- value, ln our consideration of commodities In exchange. The word "abstraction" is used in this connection, and it means "to draw away from." As use-values, simply, articles of one kind are not as good as those of another, but, abstracting from nse- value, as we do when considering the exchange ot commodities, " 'an hundred pounds' worth of lead or iron, Is of as greut value as one hundred pounds' worth of silver or gold.'" Apart from their natural properties or characteristics then, commodities have embodied in them human labor, and no longer In the exchange of commodities do we see shoes, hats, tables, clothes, etc.; these have different uses, but they exchange as equals, or on a parity, each as the embodiment of a common property—human labor. And wo do not now regard labor as being that of the carpenter, shoemaker, hatter, tailor, or any particular or Bpeclflc kind of labor, nor does it concern us that the carpenter ls employed in making a table, or the hatter a hat, the shoemaker a pair of shoes, or the tailor a suit of clothes, for, however different may be their occupations, and no matter how much their methods oNexpendin energy may vary, they are each expending that which is common to them all—human labor-power, or energy, and their products, consequently present themselves to us, each as an embodiment of human- labor, and possessing value, because they are exchanged for each other. Hence, the exchange value of a commodity must be an expression of the quantity of simple, or common, abstract human labor it containB. This quantity we would measure by time, and by its continuance in weeks, days, and hours. Por the Press Committee, EWEN MacLEOD, Seoy. » • * (Class meets each Sunday at 2237 Westminster Avenue, at 3:30 p.m. Mathematics claBs at 2 p.m.) LOCAL BOSBLAND, NO. 35, 8. P. Of C, meets In Miners' Hall every Sunday al 7:30 p.m. E. Campbell, Secy., P. O Box 674. Rossland Finnish Branch meets In Finlanders' Hall, Sundays at 7:30 p.m. A. Sebble, Secy., P. O. Bon 54 Rossland. LOCAL VANCOUVEB, B. O., NO. 1.— ' Canada. Business meetings every Tuesday evening at headquarters, 2237 Westminster Ave. !•'. Perry, Secretary, Box 1688. LOOAL BBANTFOBD, No. 16, B. P. Of C. Meets at headquarters, 13 George St.AI every Thursday and Sunday nights.'I Business and Speakers' Class on Thurs-T days: Economic Class on Sundays.',] Wage workers invited. A. W. Baker,[j Secretary, 9 George St. W. Haven-, port. Organizer, 141 Nelson St. LOOAL U'fTAWA, NO. 8, 8. P. of O.I Business meeting 1st Sunday in J month, and propaganda meetings fol- lowing Sundays at 8 p.m. in Robert^ Allan hall, 78 Rldeau St. John Lyons*! hecretary, 43 Centre St. LOOAL OLACE BAT NO. I, Or N. ».—'I Business and Propaganda meeting!! every Thursday at 8 p.m. ln Macdon-fl aid's hall, Union Street. All are wel-)T come. Alfred Nash, Corresponding Se-J cretary, Glace Bay: Wm. Sutherland,' Organizer, New Aberdeen; H. G. Ross,' Financial Secretary, offlce In D. N.' Brodie Printing Co. building. Union) Street. To Canadian Socialists On account of Increased postal rates we are obliged to make the subscription price of the International Socialist Review in Canada $1.20 a year instead of 11.00. We can, however, make the following special offers: For H3.00 we will mall three copies of the Review to one Canadian address for one year. For 70 cents we wlll mall ten copies of any one issue. For (3.00 we will mall the Review one year and the Chicago Daily Socialist for one year. CHABLEB H. XEBB fc COMPANY 134 West Klnzle St., Chicago. Price List of Literature Issued by the Dominion Executive Committee "Slave of The Farm," or "Proletarian in Politics," to locals subscribing to the publishing fund, $1.00 per 100, to others 26c per doz. "Socialism and Unionism" to be published. "Value, Price and Profit," to aubribers to publishing fund $2 per 100, to others 30c per doz. "Socialism, Revolution and Internationalism" to subscribers to publishing fund $6 per 100, to others 75c per doz. PRICE LIST OF SUPPLIES (To Locala.) Charter (with neceaaary supplies to start Local) $5.00 Membership Cards, each .01 Duea Stamps, eaoh 10 Platform and application blank per 100 26 Ditto In Finnish, per 100 50 Ditto In Ukranlan, per 100 50 Constitutions, per dozen, 50c. Ditto, Finnish, per dozen TO GREAT BOOKS BY GREAT MEN Riddle of the Universe, by Haeckel 25c The Rights of Man, Paine... 15c The Story of Creation, Clodd Ue Lifeof Jesus, Ronan ISc Age of Reason, Paine 25c Merrie England 20c IngersolPs Lectures, 1st, 2nd and 3rd series each 25c Postage prepaid on books The People's Book Store 152 Cordova St. W. DENTIST W. J. CURRY Room 501 Dominion Trust Bldg. tet-a, THE CAFETERIA 305 Cambie Street The best of everything properly cooked. Chas. Molcahey, Prop. Ja F. PERRY TAILOR 834 PENDER *®®®®®®®®®®®®®®®®®®®®®®®®®®®®®mt HP *B**ime*a*mmm,\ a1 mini I II 111 L m mm ■ I I^H I I si I nim-m. SATURDAY, DECEMBER 17th, 1910. THE WESTERN CLARION, VANCOUVER. BRITISH COLUMBIA. Three THE SOCIALIST PARTY OF CANADA i ^___ i Tb'" Page Is Devoted to Reports of Executive Committees, Locals and General Party Matters—Address All Communications to D. G. McKenzie, Sec., Box 1688, Vancouver, B. C. DOMINION EXECUTIVE. Meeting held Dec. 11th, 1910. Present Comrades Matthews (chairman), Cook, Mengel, Morgan, Peterson and the Secretary. Minutes ot previous meeting approved. Correspondence dealt with from Locals Toronto, Ont.; North Battleford and Menzles, Sask.; Organizers Fillmore, Gribble and O'Brien and from Comrades .1. H. Robinson and H. Elmer, Clinton, 111., and P. S. F. Faulkner, Great Falls, Mont. Toromo manifesto ordered published in the Clarion. Receipts. Local Selwood, Ont $7.00 Literature:—Brandon, $2.50; J. H. Robinson, 25c 2.75 Publishing Fund: Local Vancouver Finnish 5.00 Members at Large Dues 4.75 Total $19.50 Warrants authorized for Rent, $12; Fuel, $2; Light, $1.65. B. C. EXECUTIVE. Meeting held Dec. 11th, 1910. Minutes of previous meeting approved. Correspondence dealt with from Locals Vancouver, Port Moody, Victoria, Gibsons Landing and Comrade Johnson, Silver Creek. Receipts. Local Vancouver (Finnish) $6.00 Local Victoria 10.00 Local Gibsons Landing 5.00 M. Halliday, Dues 1.00 Total $31.90 TORONTO RESOLUTION. Comrade Editor:— The enclosed manifesto, adopted after discussion at two regular meet ings of the local, is sent for immediate publication in the Western Clarion. The following resolution was passed in addition: "This local refuses to put the party paper on Bale to the public on account of the Utter confusion of the editor on the religious question and hereby stops its bundle of 100 copies weekly, and "Resolved we double the order for "Socialist Standards." We request puiilicatlo'i; ut Headquarters Report enclosed. Yours frat 'rnallv. ARTHUR TAYLOR, per M.B. • * * Comrades:— (1) Local 24 Toronto deem it necessary to place this view before the party membership and ask those locals who agree with the sentiments to communicate tlie same to the Editor of the Western Clarion, and Comrade Taylor, 20 George St., Toronto, Ont. We desire to call attention to the unsatisfactory state of affairs in the Dominion of Canada. The Socialist Party of Canada, after its six years existence as a party contains Locals and members who are unfit for membership in the party, this is due to their lack of knowledge and also to almost criminal anxiety of the organizers wno have been permitted to tour the Dominion under the auspices ot the Dominion Executive Committee. Another aggravation has been that (free lance) speakers have been tolerated to circulate Jhelr reform nostrums with the sanction of Locals of the Party. (2) A matter that has caused and Is still causing much confusion Is the circulation of literature owned by schemers and designers who publish the most vile stuff and label It SOCIALISM. The sanction of the existence of a privately owned paper by a member of the Party ls causing the members of the working class to confuse their minds as to what is Socialism and what is radicalism. If there is to be discipline In the Party, the Party member owning a paper should be made to surrender possession and remain a member, or else be expelled for acting contrary to the interest of the working class. The private ownership of the Socialist press has been one ot the greatest stumbling blocks to the real education of the working class. To take as examples, we see what the TJ. S. A., and Great Britain have suffered In this direction. In both countries lt ls Invariably the case that the paperB and periodicals are run for the personal profit and political aggrandisement of the owners and editors. We therefore, desire to impress upon the membership the necessity of Immediate steps to settle this question. Socialism is to be advocated by the working clasB and full control should be obtained by the Socialist Party of Canada of the press and literature supposed to be voicing the Interests of the working class. ■ (3) In the case of the touring of organizers, great harm has been caused by the formation of mushroom Locals who have a very slight conception of Socialism. In the past, no sooner had an organizer entered the town, than a Local was formed; Comrades from this Local, now scattered over the Dominion, have been complaining of the refuse that are in the Party under the guise of Socialists. The Alberta, Manitoba and Maritime Provinces, in the main, are full of reformers, and in Alberta and Manitoba, we have it on good authority that the so-called "Socialists" are worse than the bunch of reformers that were expelled from Toronto last year. Knowing the correct frame of mind of our informants, we are justified in saying that a clearing up process should be started, such a condition of affairs must be a condemnation of the action of those organizers who have advised the granting of Charters to such locals. The methods adopted by such organizers appears to be more like that of religious revivalists than clear headed and sound logicians that organizers should be. They have been more con- Therefore, we condemn the action of REPORT FROM NORTH BATTLE- our Parliamentary representatives, as we deem them to be assisting in the fraud of deluding the working class by passing of reform measures, and assisting the capitalists in their dominance. The Socialist position is one of continual opposition to the capitalist class measures. Our function is to make Socialists; we cannot claim credit if Messrs. Jardine and Brewster support most of the measures that our so- called revolutionists bring ln. The fact that M. P.'s who are avowed anti- Socialists vote for and support measures Introduced by the Socialist Party M. P.'s should he sufficient to bring to mind that those measures favor the Capitalist class. (9) We denounce the actions and attitude of the B. C. M. P's. for their political trickery in pretending to stand for the international working class, whilst at the same time bringing in measures to stop Asiatic Immigration. We recognize the Chinese and Japanese just as worthy our support as those who pretend to stand for Socialism in Vancouver. The B. C. M. P's. have taken up this anti-Asiatic attitude in order to secure votes to be returned to Parliament. Their actions deserve severe condemnation as does the treacherous action of Mr. R. P. Pettipiece who, according to the New York "Call" of Nov. 18 last, appeared at St. Louis, Mo., and spoke FORD. cerned about making Locals than of the menace of Asiatic labor on the making Socialists, in this respect the 'Canadian Pacific Coast, amid the plau- D. E. C. should be severely censured dits of the Anti-Socialists of the A. for permitting such action. Ip, of L. (4) The Maritime Provinces In j We are desirous of seeing a re- particular have been constituted out | volutionary policy adopted instead of of people who fail to grasp the ele- that reform and lick spittal aUitude ments of the Socialist position. It has assumed by the B. C. M. P.'s. come to our knowledge that even sec- The attitude of both Vancouver Lo- retaries of locals oppose the revolutionary position and openly avow the reformist idea. Many prominent members in the East, have been assisting in the betrayal of the working class by assisting to increase the circulation of papers which confuse the minds of the working class. The unorganized locals, such as Montreal contain members who have never heard of the ".Western Clarion." The D. E. C. grant charters to locals who haven't the slightest notion of the real class struggle. (5) The D. E. C. have permitted members of reform parties to come over into Canada and lecture under the auspices of the Socialist Party of Canada. This to our mind is exceedingly lax and not consistent with the rigid discipline that ought to prevail in a real Socialist organization. In our opinion no one put Party members should speak from our platform except in opposition, (6) In the adoption of Parliamentary candidates the S. P. of C. has been as compromising as the Labor Party of Great Britain. Calls from locals to nominate Candidates have been issued to organizations outside the Socialist Party, this has been sanctioned by the D. E. C. who have violated the principles of Socialism by assenting to it. These candidates have therefore not been Socialist nominees, but a bastard brand of Labor-Socialist. I;; it any wonder then, that with such looseness in organization, and such freakish votes given for our candidates, that Messrs. Hawthornthwaite Williams and O'Brien have been voting for reforms in pailiament? (7) How far are they different from the Capitalist M.P.'s? Only in this direction. The Capitalist political hacks advocate reforms to be returned, and vote for Ihem along with our "revolutionaries" and our Socialist M. P's repudiated those reforms, saying that Socialism was the only hope and reforms did not reform, and then in the parliament voted for the very measures which they and the Party press had renounced. Here is the blight of the revisionist; Hawthornthwaite, Williams and O'Brien are worse than the capitalists, because they vote for measures which they know cannot assist the working claBs ln their fight for the emancipation from economic bondage. (8) Can you wonder'about this confusion when the party platform is so ambiguous? The working class seem to think that there are measures that can assist them ln their fight against Capitalism, the one but last paragraph of the Party platform needs Immediate elimination for it gives rise to false hopes in the minds of tbe workers. Understanding as we do the Marx- Ian position, we say that the misery and exploitation is bound to increase and no legislation can remedy and nullify and neutralize the working of economic laws. Because of that, palliation of the present system is impossible. cal and the D. E. C. (who are the same apparently) towards the actions of Mr. R. P. Pettipiece are on identical lines with that pursued by the S. D. P. of England with that trickster W. Thorne, M. P. We maintain that Pettipiece should Comrades,—The annual meeting of Local No. 3, North Battleford, Saskatchewan, was held Saturday, December 3rd. Officers elected for 1911: Organizer, Comrade P. Budden; financial secretary, Comrade F. S. Allen; librarian, Comrade A. Gildermeister. Resolution carried that the following members be suspended for nonpayment of dues, and if dues are not paid within two months the suspended members will be dropped from the rolls. Names of suspended members: Comrades A. R. Edgett, J. W. Haight, W. Rowland, James Reid, John Reld, W. W. Booth, H. Parsons, G. Chapman, A. H. Gregory, A. McDonald, Oscar Bild, J. G. Gavin. The following resolution was also carried: That any person making application for membership in this Local be asked the following questions: 1. What is the class struggle? 2. How are the workers robbed? 3. What is surplus value? 4. What do you understand by the materialist conception of history? 5. What is a commodity? 6. What are wages? Secretary was ordered to purchase a bundle of 25 Clarions each week and three members are to meet every Wednesday evening and distribute same round town. Resolution carried that we hold an economic class every two weeks, discussion to be on Marx's "Value, Price and Profit." Owing to little differences which did not amount to very much, having existed between one or two of our members and the farmer members being engaged most of their time during the •summer months to get sufficient to tide thorn over the winter, there has been practically |no activity shown here during the last six months, but we are pleased to report that there still exists a group of revolutionists who can see that the only hope for the And so tbe thing gees on day after ■day. These people have fine bouses to live in—the working class built and furnished them, and now keep them in repair. These people have good clothes to wear, and lots of them. They eat good food, and lots of It, and have lots of time to eat It in, No factory whistle for them. They have fine educations, read bookB, travel the world, improve themselves In various ways. Very nice, indeed. But how did they manage to get hold of such a good time? By 8 hours a day? (Or old-age pensions? Or compensation acts? No! By none of these, but by virtue of their ownership of the things by which wealth is produced. Because they own the mills, mines, factories and railroads; and from their ownership of these things comes the stream of wealth that they enjoy. Now, we, the working class, are after that same ownership, and we are going to get it by hook or by crook. First we must create a desire in a sufficient number of the working class for it, then we must seize on the thing that enables the ruling class to maintain their ownership, that is, the control of the political power. Taking it altogether, the talk and discussion cannot fail to be a factor ln the education of those of tbe workers who heard aad took part in it. W. D. aXere and Tfow By Spea. QUESTIONS FOR WORi.NGMEN. be outside the Socialist Party. He is movement lies in concerted action, associated in his public capacity with an organization, which repudiates Socialism and whose main object is petitioning the capitalist class for sops, to assist in the robbery of the workers. He heads deputations in a political capacity from an organization outside the Socialist Party. To add insult to injury, he has been appointed fraternal delegate from the Canadian Trades and Labor Congress to the American Federation of Labor, which organization is but a tool of the Civic Federation in New York and is the anti- Soclailst organization in America. Sufficient it is, that he will be seated side by side with Samuel Gompers, John Mitchell and other famous working class misleaders. His work aB secretary of a Labor Council should be justification for his expulsion. His obnoxious contributions to the (Labor) press regarding the movement abroad are contradictory to the policy adopted by the Party in their refusal to affiliate with the International Socialist Bureau. To sum him up, he is a menace to the working class and the Socialist Party should get rid of him. He has tried to discredit this Local by his support of Mr. Jas. Simpson who left the Socialist Party. His friendliness toward such anti- Socialists as Ihe editor of the Winnipeg Voice, show what caliber of man he is. (11) The action of the D. E. C. in permitting one of the Vancouver members, Bird, to run for political offlce on another ticket than that ot the Socialist Party, deserves censure too. (12) We have decided to appeal to the membership of the Party, for immediate straightening up of matters in our ranks. We deem It necessary to call this matter to the attention of the Locals with a view to an Immediate change. If the Comrades agree let us have a Dominion Convention, and Immediately, and so rectify the undoubted errors that exist within our Party now. If reorganization is assented to, we can stand side by side wHh the Socialist Party of Great Britain, and say we are worthy of working class support. We therefore, Resolve: That a Dominion Convention be held without delay, and further resolve: that a copy of this be sent to the "Western Clarion" and the "Socialist Standard" for Immediate publication. and the comrades can expect to hear that the North Battleford Local has increased its membership with none but revolutionists. Yours ln revolt, SECRETARY LOCAL NO. 3, BRANTFORD, ONT. ATENTS lOMPTLY SECURED! ..'FMBctb the'business'of Manufacturers, Engiveeru and others who realize the advisability of harint- their Patent business transacted by Expel ta. Preliminary advice free. 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