"208a63af-aefe-4669-9af1-0aff93935dc6"@en . "CONTENTdm"@en . "BC Historical Newspapers"@en . "2015-11-26"@en . "1919-09-06"@en . "https://open.library.ubc.ca/collections/redflag/items/1.0083524/source.json"@en . "application/pdf"@en . " PAQE EIGHT\nTOE RED FLAG\nWHAT OF THI WEtt*\n-\nThe Tnrth About the StrikM: Capitel'i Oa* Canny:\nThe Only Remedy\nBy JOHN JACKS \u00E2\u0080\u00A2 |Sifa\n(From the \"Labor Leader,'' August 14^ 1919.)\nISNT it really time that someone told the truth\nabout strikes? Lota of people think it is. But\n' what is the truth t\nHere is Sir Bobert Hadfield, the great Sheffield\nateel magnate, tailing the readers of the Km,\nNews his idea. It is that direct action ia\na deliberate effort to challenge the Government.\nStrikes are damaging to industry; they restrict\noutput; they make the necessaries of life searee,\nand therefore dear; they shake the stability of\nindustry and they handicap employers in competing for big contracts, and therefore rob the\nworkers of work. The strike is usually an ad-\nmission that negotiation has failed.\nNow all that is true, and if nothing remained to\nbe said, I, for one, should not advocate a strike\neven as the last desperate hope.\nBut more does remain. The Hadfields don't hint\nat the ease for the have-nots. Sir Bobert Hadfield\ncarefully ignores tite fact, that there is another aide\nto the strike shield. He does not point out to the\nEmpire News that at the present moment there is\nmore damage being done to industry, more suffer-\ning, and more scarcity of necessaries due to the\nStrike ot Capitalists than there is due to the strikes\nof the workere.\nIf you total up the numbers of men who were on\nstrike last week in the coalfields, on the Liverpool\ntrams, the police force* and aU the other industries,\nthe result will be found to be less than one hundred\nthousand. And at the same time there were a mil.\nBoa or more worken out of work owing to the\nstrike of Capital.\nFor every man who is out of work is so because\nCapitalism is refusing to perform that duty the performance of whieh is ite sole justification. For\nevery man who for one reason or another refused\nto work there were at least ten for whom Capitalism refused to \"find work.'' \u00E2\u0080\u00A2\nAnd if H is the duty of the wage-earner to work,\nno matter how little he may be inclined to do so, no\nmstter how many grievances he may have, it must\nbe the equal duty of Capital to find him wotck' no\nmatter how Capitalism may distrust ita ability to\nearn a profit or a satisfactory profit\nThe master, eT*i|i can't have it both ways. They\nean't say logically or justly. \"The workers moat\nproduce more and more,\" and at the same time reserve to themselves the right not to produce at all\nunless they can be sure of a profit.\nYet that is exactly what they do say or they act\nupon the assumpion.\nThey expect the workers to go on working with-,\nout any guarantee that the more they produce the\nsnore they will enjoy. They expect the workers to\ngo on working to enable the Nation to pay off its\n4eats. They expect the workers to perform their\nfraction, which, they say, is to work Without question; but they deny, in deed if not in word, the\nright of the nation to insist that they perform their\naelf-professed function of finding work unless their\nremuneration shall be to their satisfaction.\nThe consequence is that at a time when we are\non the verge of national bankruptey, and when the\nlords t s. d. are lament\nof the workers who are actually at work, the same\nlords are holding up their capital and declining to\nrkers to apply themselves to it for\nwhieh, we are told, tim nation witt perfarh.\naming the Capitalists. I am blaming\nthe Government.. Why .should a Capitalist risk\nhis money kt industry when he can invest it in Victory Loan or. Funding Loan at a high rate of sure\nAnd why should the Government not compete\nwith starving industries for capital? It must compete while it continues to maintain an army on the\nRhine, an army in Ireland, and two or three armies\nin Bussia, The Government ia spending over four\nmillions a day on these enterprises. Ths means the\ndiversion of capital from production; 4t means the\nwithholding of thi'- tabor of several millions of\nworkers from production; it means the employment\nof ships on the transport of munitions of war. instead of upon the transport'of food and raw material.\nIt, therefore, means such a eondit.on of society\nthat Capital refuses to operate.\nSo Capitalism is on strike, and will remain on\nstrike until, things are more settled. But things\nwill never be more .settled until Capitalism consents\nto perform its sole [unction of \"finding work.\"\nThis it will not do while it can earn a sure five per\ncent, by lending to U\u00C2\u00ABe Government, even though\nthe Government wastes. the money on trying to\ndestroy Lenin and Trotsky and keeping Ireland in\nve*Uo'\nHow to get Capitalism to perform its function of\nfinding work for the million or more out of work.\nThat is the question upon the successful solution\nof which the future of the country depends.' There\nis no answer except this: Either Capitalism (tilt\nprivate control and ownership of capital) or the\npresent Government must cease tq exist. But as the\npresent Government has no intention of destroying\nCapitalism by making capital a communal or national possession, both must cease to crist 'r***\npresent Government\u00E2\u0080\u0094the\" Government '. ott Lloyd\nGeorge and Bonar Law\u00E2\u0080\u0094must he wiped' out and\nroom made for a Government which will not faWf\nate to make capital productive, even if it cannot\nbe made profitable.\n\"Pie needs of the people sre more urgent than the\nneed of profit. Capital, under those who at present control it, will not do its duty. It must be\ntaken out qf their hands and put in the possession\nof the democracy, and under the control of those\nwho can use it. The tools to the man who can use\ntiiem!\nRemember those boys in Stony Mountain. Word}\ncomes through that they are taking it easy. Baft\nhas definitely been refused. An appeal haa. been\nsent out from Winnipeg for demonstrations in their-\nbehalf Butt whatever is done do not forget tha\nDefence Fund. No effort should be spared to put\nthe stiffest of fights up at the Assises. This on?\ngeneral principles aa well as for tim sskemf those\non trial.\nTake up collections at your union meetings, picnics and at tim\nSend all money and make all cheques payable to\nA. S. Wells, B. C. Federstionist, Labor Temple, Van-\nconvey *B.\nfuture will be made by mail.\nTOO FILTHY\nk We were asked to publish some extract* from \u00C2\u00BB\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0book on the insideMiistory of Canadian Politics, but\nwe refused. This is a family journal.\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2: \u00E2\u0096\u00A0\u00E2\u0096\u00A0\u00E2\u0096\u00A0\u00E2\u0080\u00A2' '.' .\"\u00E2\u0096\u00A0 ,\u00E2\u0096\u00A0<\u00E2\u0080\u0094\u00E2\u0080\u0094\nURGES TRADE WITH, 80VTET RUSSIA\nVi,\nThe Capitalists,aw,pot using capital. They are\nabusing it by lending it for enterprises in Whieh\nthe democracy doea1 pqt believe. Thst capital was\nproduced by the workers. It ia necessary to thelr\nexistence. It is necessary to the solvency of the\ncountry. It is necessary to prevent us from degeneration into anarchy, chaos and bloody revqlution.\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0The Government mu** break the strike ofCapitalists. It can do so only by taking over capital\u00E2\u0080\u0094\nthe machinery of produetion and exchange\u00E2\u0080\u0094snd\nusing it for the purpose of cresting a better State\nin Great Britain\u00E2\u0080\u0094and leaving Bussia 'to Lenin.\nThis, of course, the present Government will\nnever do, since it is a Government of men more concerned for the maintenance of the privileges of\npropertythan for the propagation of tiw happiness\nof tite people. , .. '^--'\"':\nBut how can thk Government he wiped out 1. It\nwill not Obey the mandate of the by-electiona, and\nget out. It recognises that when it does go, a Government will take its place that will .attempt to nee\nthe capital of the* country for tiw good of the people of tiie country. That wfll inevitably entail th*}\ntransference of espitsl to publie ownership, and the\nend of luxurious idleness on the one hand, \u00E2\u0096\u00A0 and\nstarvation on the other hand#\nSo the GnVenfient will ding to offiee as long aa\nit can. and then it will attempt to get hack to\npower for anothe lease of life on some scare stunt.\nl are being told for tin purpose\nof makir uddy-ramded believe that We are\nruction\nhand of t <;d George clique that is making.des-\nGsear T. Crosby, President of the Ini\nCouncil on War Purchases and Finance a\nand Assistant Secretary of the United States Treasury during the war, fat quoted in an interview is\nthe New York ''World,'' August 3, aa follows:\n\"What we need concerning Bussia is the troth\nonly. Sending two or a dosen men to investigsto\nRussia is a grotesque proceeding. Thousands should\ngo\u00E2\u0080\u0094thst is, sll who want to go........ Bussia wilt\nwork out her own destiny, and we should permit\nprivate business to be resumed. Others will trade\nwith Bussia, and we will have to, or lose our fair\nshare.''\nMn.WAUKEE, Wis., Sept 3.\u00E2\u0080\u0094Cudshy Brothers\nCompany, packers, today pleaded guilty in District\nCourt to twenty-three violations of the cold storage.\nlaw and Wan fined the maximum amount of each '\ncharge, totalling $2800.\n' 0wm^Mmmm****mwmmmmm*a*fm*^^ \u00C2\u00A3\n-mm*m**-**--~m*-mt'i'm.ii>iMm9m\u00C2\u00ABmmtIHmmmimim Kill Illt^a^^^lliWty^H^in^ll\u00E2\u0080\u0094\ntruction of the present state of society not only '.\ncertain but desirable.\nYes, the putting out of the* Scotland YJerd alleged \u00E2\u0080\u00A2\u00E2\u0080\u00A2discoveries\" as. to \"Bed Gold\"-by tha\nway, I've not seen any* and don't I deserve somef\n\u00E2\u0080\u0094and the simultaneous ''determination\" te tackle\nprofiteering (which ean't be defined) are probably\nthe preliminaries to an appeal to toe country in the\nhope thst once sgsin the people can be bamboozled\ninto believing that you can make parsdisal purses\nout of guinea-pigs' ears.\nBut nothing 2s to be hoped from a'General Election unless tite party which goes into power mean*\nto make capital \"find work,\" for Capitalism wiB\ncontinue ita partial strike until it can see a certain\nsix per cent or more aa a result of ita activity.\nAnd don't forget that when Capitalism downs\ntools, the Government gives it employment at fife\nper cent interest. When Labor downs tools the\nGovernment gives it\u00E2\u0080\u0094what?\nft is not the spasmodic strikes of Labor that are\ncausing the unrest They are mere \u00E2\u0096\u00A0jmptoma ef\nthe social disease due to the fact thst Cs\nby going on strike hss induced a f e\nof the present unrest ia not Bolshevism hut Bee-\nselfishness. :\nHOW BOLSHEVISM IS HADE A BOGEY.\n(Continual From Page Six.)\n******> \u00E2\u0080\u00A2 \u00E2\u0096\u00A0 \u00E2\u0080\u00A2\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 *^-\"\"\"B \u00E2\u0080\u00A2\u00E2\u0080\u0094 \u00E2\u0080\u00A2^\u00E2\u0096\u00A0\"\u00E2\u0096\u00A0*^^^\"\"\"\"\"\"\"ff\"\"\"S\"\"m ?ma^**qP***mm9 w\nMr. Haywood, like Mr. Keeling, is s strangely\nendowed writer of history, for after a pious declaration that his book is no attack ott the theory\nof Bolshevism, he writes a 12-page Appendix on\n\"The Theory of Bolshevism\" (which he does not\nat all understand) as a root fallacy, a failure in\neconomic structure and a despising of civil liberty.\nFurther, Mr. Haywood tells us that in all his\ntalks wttfa Mr.-Keeling, he never detected \"the\nsligh.fsl variation in Lis story.\" This is curious,\nas ih.re are seversi in the book. Mr. Keeling ssy.i\nhe was srrested \"at least six times\" (p. 123.) later\nthat he waa arrested twice (p. 175); apparently\nalways for s very short time. More serious is the\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2\"variation\" between his savins that the Bolsheviks:\n-suppressed the Co-operative Societies (n. 137.) a\nnotorious inaccuracy, and his references to Cooperation.\nAgain, he says that the blockade has nothing to\ndo with the famine (p. 130.) while ten pages later\nthat \"the opening up of trade wtth Western Europe\nwill esse the (food) situation!\" Then there are\nother statements wildly inaccurate, e.g., that there\nla no lack of fuel in Bussia (pp 166 and 196.) In\nfact the parentage of the book seems to be a slipshod and ill-tempered mind supplying material and\nan inaccurate, prejudiced pen writing the material\nup.\nHis Charges Against tite Soviets.\nThe aeridus eharges made against the Soviets in\nthese pages can be, faced wtth equanimity. Keeling\nmaintains (what is hard to prove and herd to disprove) that under Bolshevism there is Jess liberty\nthan avtr, and indeed such denial of liberty that\nBritons would not tolerate it a day. Bolshevism\nmeans conscription. Which Britons also-have still to\nendure, although their country is net invaded nor\nin any danger of invasion. Bolshevism means suppression of newspapers. That. also. Englishmen\nhave known. Have not printing plants been smashed and works, closed, snd poor men been ruined by\n\u00C2\u00A3100 fines In this land tor printing what the government did not like f\nBolshevism means spying on suspects. But is not\nthe British Government at this moment setting up\na new and permanent spying department (flpecial\nService) in the Home Office f\nBolshevism means that all sorts of permits are\nneeded to travel or trade. It is just the same here;\n'only it appears that passports are got with less delay snd less often refused in Russia than in this\nWtth Wilson playing, an amiable Alexander I\nto Clemenceau's Metternieh, tim first act of the\ndrama Of counter-revolution has ended in s brilliant triumph for the Holy Alliance. The history\nof the pacification of Hungary, now, accomplished,\nis neither very long nor very difficult to understand; and it illustrates very admirably the manner in which* bread and bullets may influence the\nself-determination of a free people. In a speech\ndelivered in Paris towards the end of July, Herbert\nC. Hoover, Food Dictator tor the Allies, remarked\nthat officials of the Relief Commission were maintaining and managing some eighteen separate governments\u00E2\u0080\u0094eighteen well nourished centers of anti-\nBolshevism. A lew days later (July 26,) the Allies offered to give Hungary a place in Mr. Hoover's\nbread line on condition that the Soviet government\nbe overthrown. Unfortunately toe attention of tite\ncommunist officials wss centered for the time being upon military operations against the most\nhonest of their enemies\u00E2\u0080\u0094the Roumanians. Meanwhile Captain Gregory, an American now functioning as chief Allied bread baiter for central Europe,\ndangled before Budapest a most generous offer of\nfood\u00E2\u0080\u0094to be had at a price. The combined attack\nof Roumanian arms and Allied intrigue, was too\nmuch for Bela Kun: on August 31, his government\nwss overthrown. The Associated Press dispatch\nthat announced tiie debacle at Budapest proudly\npointed out Gut Captain Gregory should be ''credited with a large share in the hastening of Bels\nKunY retirement*'' In the face of a feeble and\nobviously insincere\"protest from the Supreme\nCouncil at Paris, the Roumanian army now overran Hungary, occupied the capital, and created\nconditions that made easy tiie strangulation of the\nthe return pf\nig out of tiie\ncounter-revolution. With the Supreme Council\nstill uttering stage thunders against Roumania.\nArchduke Joseph, \"the\nthe Hapsburg family,''\nwuvuaivuo aaa*,- *m.mmf*. mmmjj aaaa. ouaagui\nnew bourgeois-Socialist government, tli\nthe femigres, and the complete 'worfcrnji\nDo you believe that MnUnd would be permitted\n\u00C2\u00BB make peace wtth the -Bassfan\nRepublieT\"\n\"I am no politician and I esn not give you any\ndefinite answer about that Nevertheless. I believe, thai the Entente powers would not approve\nof sueh . peaee st this time. In regaid to the food\nwhich is the only question within my\nI believe it would not be aa easy to\nfor food relief in case you would start\nh the present Bussian Government\"\nI understand that this a very delicate point. . .\nThe problem is by no mesns of a purely human-\ntarian character\u00E2\u0080\u0094the delivery of the Finnish people from starvation. Bather the object ia to make\nFinland's policies completely dependent on the\npoliey of the western imperialists, and to eompel\nthe Finnish people to remain in a state of war with\nthe Russisn Soviet Republic. ,\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 \u00E2\u0080\u00A2 .-\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 \u00E2\u0080\u00A2\nThe war went too far\u00E2\u0080\u0094millions of men and billions of dollars too. far. The Supreme Council acV\nmite it when it goes about rebuilding what the war\npulled down at such a heavy east in Mood and\ntreasure. A monopoly of ruling-class privileges\nwas the reward expected fay tiw victors; actually\nthey have fallen heir toe revolution that threatens\ntfae destruction of the very system of privilege. It\nis the fear of this universal cataclysm that seta tfae\nSupreme Council seeking allies among its bitterest\nenemies of e year ago. Wttfa the defeat of Germany, tfae fears and animosities tfaat so recently\ndivided Europe into two rival political systems lost\nmost of their significance, since tfaat time the fear\nof the social revolution has tended more and more\nto replace the old national and dynastic rivalries.\nThe Treaty is the product of the nationalistic system thst gave the conqueror the right to grind\n.\nhis defeated rival into the dust. But tfae counter-\nmost popular member of revolutionary' activities of tiie Allied powers are-\ndumped the ad interim of a different order: they belong net to thc war of\ncabinet into the discard and became Regent of Hungary. The sincerity of the Allied'promises to the\nfirst anti-communist government may be judged\nfrom the fact that on the day of the Hapsburg coup\nd'etat the members of Entente mission conferred\nwtth the Archduke, reached \"a full, agreement\"\n,\iifa him on vaiioin, matters, and ended by dele-\ngaving governmental authority to this nev* Die-\nr*tor.\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 \u00E2\u0080\u00A2 \u00E2\u0080\u00A2 \u00E2\u0080\u00A2\nland. Bolshevism means many'decrees issued, not gathered together Information relative to i\nby Parliament, but by order and bureaucrats. Is ,*JMwlo1ioliary' options in Finland an*?\nIt not exactly the same here? Has Mr. .Keeling ^ ^ w ^ obtainable,' an interview\nCounted up the regulations of KJ. G. R. A., or can\nhe say how many hundreds were issued by the Food\nMinistry alone f Really, the argument, here and\nelsewhere stated, thst the liberty of Bussia and the\nsouls of her people can only be saved by sweeping\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2way the Bolsheviks is overdone. Alter s few\nnames snd dates slid transpose a few forms and the\non liberty of which the Bolsheviks are\nrilty. can be shown to have been achieved also\nhe British Government; by the French! by the\nans! by the U. S. A. Government! Are they all\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0\nconclusion, let it be fairly stated that Mr.\nKeeling does not advise military intervention hi\nthough he does not denounce it: he never\nis Kolchak; he never praises tile Cadets; he\nto have'heard of Gorki or Mart o v. the\nfart ons anti-Bolsheviks now worki\nThe nature of American activities in Hungary is\nessily understood when published fsets are once\nwan?\nBus-\npublished in the Soumen SostaHdemokrastti, a Finnish\nnewspaper, may therefore be regarded as \" a piece\nof preciosity.\"The speakers sre. first, s Finnish\nnewspaper reporter; second, Magnus Swenson,\nsometime of Madison, Wisconsin, wore recently\nInter-Allied Food Dictator for Scandinavia and\nFinland. To quote:\n\"Is it true,\" I (the reporter) asked, \"that our\ngetting foodstuffs depends to some extent on the\npolitical system of our country.\"\n\"Yes\nnations hut to tim class straggle tfaat divides Europe horizontally and gives the lie to nstionslism\nat the very moment when tite war haa brought tt to\nthe height of its development. Mannerheim ef Finland. Kolehsk of Rns\u00C2\u00ABa. and Joseph of Austria,\nhave profited in turn fay tiie new diplomacy that\njoins dollars and dvnasties in tiie defense of privilege. With these alliances of desperation threatened by tite rising tide of revolt how long will it be\nbefore the Supreme Council is compelled to se-\nknowledge tfaat from the point of view of the ruling clsss, the war tiwt started the revolution\na mistake?\nWe sincerely hope that J it is not yet too late for\nleaders of the Jewish eorsmunity hi America to\nbreak off their negotiations wtth the Kolchak representatives here, concerning whieh reports have\neome to us from reliable sources. It ia, or tt ought\nto be. well known to those distinguished Jews tfaat\nthe Kolchak regfanc ia tfaorougfaly imprQgne.od wttfa\nanttSemrtism This is tim chief stock-in-trade ef\ntfae Kolehsk officers Even tim Halimtfa press\ntains Jew-batting statements worthy of\ntimes. Tfae knout has -returned and tfae\nis rarely silent tseerals, redfamla em\nYou know, of course, the wish of America' tionaries even of the mildest type are systematically'\ninst the invaders of Russia and would-be\nlorn; he advocates the sending of\nto Russia to show R\nork! This is a moderate and sensible pro-\nme, and may come when war is over and peace\nBut it is a sign of the futile helplessness\nr. Keeling and his Editor tfaat he can leave so\njportant an issue practically untouched.\nthat your country should have a democratic system\nslid that the composition of the government should\nanswer the party divisions in the newly elected\nDiet I kttow thst conditions here are net quite\nsatisfactory as yet, but I am sure that everything\nwill be all right very soon. I feel sure that the\npeople of Finland under sll circumstances are able\nto take \u00E2\u0096\u00A0 themselves. Bui we have another\ndanger before us. America and the\nregard tfae Bolsheviki of Russia\nkind. The position of your\nvery difficult, end your relations to tfae Entente\ncountries would perhaps become impossible, if the\nBolsheviki should get into power here.\"\nhunted down, kidnapped, and killed fay aid Caariat\nofficers. The American troops under General\nGraves are reported to be completely diagnatcd\nwttfa Kolchak and km pretensions. How can it help\nthe Jews of Russia f ot American Jews to be currying favor wttfa such a regime? We do not wfa*\nfor a moment to question tim motives of tim Jewish\nleaders here. :- Bet Is tfarir hatred of tfae Soviet\nGovernment\u00E2\u0080\u0094under which no pogroms have been\nreported to have taken pisee\u00E2\u0080\u0094so blinding that'\ntheir only hope is to help tim Black Hundreds into\npower? What other explanation esn there fae ef\ntim recent misting ef four Jewish leaders with tike;\nwell-known \"posyomefaik.*' Metropolitan *f*TfalMif . . .\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0\n%.T>'\nTHE RED FLAG\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0 - . \u00E2\u0096\u00A0\nBy M. Phillips Price\n==\ne Truth About Soviet Russia\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0,.\n(From the \"Soviet Russia.\" Aug. 2.)\nAll through the summer of 1911,\nMoscow workmen tried to better their\nthrough their own elected factory or ahoj\ncommittees. But every step timy took to\ntfae actions of the employers was met by w\u00C2\u00ABw\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0 of sabotage and often of open iBsistsarr\nfay \"white gusrds,\" hired by the employers-to defend tfae ''sacred rights of property.\" Heads of tim\nshop stewards' committees were arrested snd sent\noff to the army, raw materials hidden and the men\nlocked out on the plea of no work to be done. Tfae\nworkers replied by organizing Red Guards, seizing\nthe factories and trying to run themselves without\ne staff and without technical knowledge. Chaos increased. One group of workmen often struggled\nwith another group to the attempt to get hold of\ndie much-needed raw materials. Meanwhile, fsminc\nbecame worse and worse and the Woikers' Soviets\nwere in danger of turning in'o eonmitteesfor grabbing whatever they cou'd get for their own member, when they came into power\njrlato, gare the latter political as well si\npower, aa aa organized proletarian mass.\nAnd so With the peasants. During tim summer of\n1M7, the landlords and their agents among tfae\nwsr-profiteer parvenus orgsnized a resistance to\ntim peasant land committees. Peasant elders were\narrested and thrown into prison, some were even\nshot The peasants replied by sseking the landlords'mansions. Anarchy was raging in the provinces long before toe Bolsheviks came into power\nin October. The latter, restraining the righteous\nindignation of the peasants, declared thrir informal\ncommittees, the first fruits in the villages of the\nwaa the time when the ABiee, if they had\nthc day of their visitation, if they had\nunderstood what waa the driving force ef tfae true\nRussia, would have declared their peaee program\nand. sustaining Trotsky, would have exposed to the\nworld tfae cynical intrigoes of the Prussian mtti-\ntsrieta. The Allied governments did not do this\ntimy eould not They did not dare\npeople and tell them that they had plana\nTfae moment for uniting tfae moral front\nof the Allies with that of revolutionary\nIt never came again. LnTaaMftS\nwas thus left alone fai\nwar-lords. Two\nto it. It could either play, the idealist *\nanal decline to aeeept any peace whieh did not embody its principles in toto; or it eould pursue Beal-\nPolitik and, estimating all tfae forces whieh Were\nmaking for tim internal breakup of their enemies,\nret agreement with them as a temporary\nIn tim daya proceeding thc signingof\nthe Brest-Utovak peaee, two very fundamental human impulses Were struggling together inside' thc\n\"The Prussian warlords, not beeause they wanted\nto, but beeause they had to, gave a breathing space\nto the Russian Revolution. For they were engaged\nin playing their last card in a terrific onslaught on\nFrance. Revolutionary Bussia ia accused of being\nresponsible for, tfam onslaught, but I submit tfaat ite\ndid more than anything else to hreak tks>\nof Prnrnfoa mflHsiissn Tfae very foot that\nthe politically imn-consetous elements af the German people got a taste of peaee on tfae Bast front,\nbroke their will to .war. \"If we can have\nwttfa Russia,\" their\n\"why can we not faave it also wttfa tim Alike.\" Bet\nmonth went by and timy began to see\nthe German srmy must either\nworid or atea make s aatamiimiiai peace. They\nthey eould not do the former, beeause of America-,\ntheir own warlords would not let them do the latter. But the example of the peaee with Russia wm\nbefore them, and seeing tt, their spirit af rebellion,\nagainst the war rose ever stronger. Tfae German,\ntowns began to fill wttfa deserters, workers struck,\ndiscipline collapsed, and with it the army. And the\n. \u00E2\u0080\u0094 Revolution. Thc one was altruistic, ready ,;pr ?wrT1f?\u00C2\u00BB.^\u00C2\u00BB^T^, m\n* \u00E2\u0084\u00A2!l T *\"* t-t-ftcaerffiee, Brunnhilda-like, upon the flsming Russian revolutionaries knew how to make mm of\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2\u00C2\u00B0* pyre of an idea. The other was wise snd eslculst- this new psychology in tfae German people 'a mind,\ning. prepared to save whst could fae sired no .v in\norder to gain the surer in tfae end. The struggle\nbetween these two impulses, old ss the human mme\nitself, wee reflected in the controversy between\nthose smong thc Russian revolutionaries, who would\nsign tim Brest-Litovsk peace and those wfao would\nnot Tfae left soeialist-revolutionsries and tfae ansr-\nin Russia, like srtists, lived only for their\nThe peace on the East front wax made use of to\nflood the Ukraine wtth .iJoishevik agenU vfao\nspread revolutionary litcature btoadeeet end w bo,\nwithin a few month?, had turned the JCefamt's glorious \"Heer fan Osica\" into a tittle better than a\nhybrid between a rabble and e revolutionary committee. 51. Joffe. while playing at diplomacy wttfa\nthe Kaiser's'Ministers, waa distributing pamphkto\nMarch Bevolution, to be the legal authority, pea-\nsearing the right to take the landloida land and **** \u00E2\u0080\u00A2\"T*^1^*1-7T2? ^'*? * \u00C2\u00BB\u00E2\u0084\u00A2nal\nworfatt in the interesta of the whole community. 'TT ^\h\u00C2\u00B0*2*f *rikfal* ^^ ^^\"^\nideals, wfatefa they would have realized at * ut appanallj fay Mr. E. H.\n. weed, wfao wr>Tr* tim rVafeee and AnntmtHx.\ni iplsfm, faeer tito faeem/sasgm fpu HL),;\n(Continued On Page Seven.)\nWe*.\nand THE RED FLAG\nPAGE FIVE\nbus and Big OH Fklds--~Who Is Hoover':\nBy J. T. Walton Newbold and G. HL Martin\n(\"Labor Leader,\" London.)\nTHE threatened attack upon the Hungarian\nSoviet Republic has been successfully made,\nend, from ell accounts, the Roumanian Army is io\noccupation of Budapest, more than willing to act\nea \"hum bailiff\" for the idealistic financiers whose\nexecutive site snd plans in Paris.\nHew far tim Al bed Governments favor the retention of Budapest by their Roumanian mercenaries it would Jm difficult to estimate. However,\nof one thing we can be certain, viz., that the Rou-\nmanians are preferred to Bela' Kun, Who put himself hopelessly out of court by sorislizing the petroleum industry of Hungary.\nWhen Smillie and Smith sre seeking to drive\nHarwood Banner, the Coalition coalowner, out of\nthe Lancashire snd Yorkshire mineral industry it\nwould have been too much to expect that Harwood\nBanner, the Coalition oil magnate, would acquiesce\nin Kun's dastardly behavior on tim very edge of\nhis Roumanian properties. There would have been\none less refuge for that capital which he and his\nfelleW coal-owning, oil-sucking exploiters of the\nFederation of British Industries mean to send\nabroad when socialization overtakes them.\nThe assault on Hungary, like the support given\nfay the Allies to the tottering government of Bou-\nmania and their decision to transfer Galicia from\nthe Ukraine is part of a combined political offensive conducted over a long period by the petroleum\nsyndicates of Britain, France, Holland, .Belgium and\nthe United States.\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0 This astounding conspiracy is so staggering in tts\ncynicism that, since they tell the tale so prettily\nand so naiVely, we Will let the petroleum newspapers for the most part tell it for themselves.\nTom nal du Petrole, February, 1919, in an\narticle by J. Crinan on \"The Petrol Age,*\" toils us:\nTins importance Of petroliferous deposits thst\nhas guided toe armies of the belligerents in certain of their efforts towards Galicia, Roumania\nand Persis, wfll sppear tomorrow ss remarkable\nwhen we come face to face wtth that lad: of coal\nand labor which threatens us.\nIf it be true, aa a mineral prospector told me,\nthat, upon the accession to power of the Toung\nTurks, these lax adherents of the Moslem faith\ndisclosed the secret archives of tfae Ottoman Empire, archives kept private, rinee their capture from\ntiie Byzantine regime, to Western prospectors and\nconeesrion-huntei-s, the Mesopotamia, Dardanelles\nend Salonika tragedies have a sinister explanation.\nWe know, because the Mesopotamia Report tells us\nso, how thst Expedition waa sent to guard the pipelines.\nMr. Herbert Allen, addressing the Bibi Eital\nCompany's shareholders, spoke of Roumania \u00E2\u0080\u00A2 as\n\"rich in priceless petrol.\" and tfae Petroleum\nWorld for Mareh lamented:\nThe news of the Roumanian revolution fa deplorable from the point of view Of those Interested in the oil industry, even should some of the\n, messages prove to he exaggerated.\nIts April issue tells us that \" Bourn s n*a\" wants\ntile Hungarian state-owned oilfields ef Petroefaaaf\nand the whole of the Siebenhurgen natural gesfiekl\nIn Transylvania. *\nThe June issue, recording tim Soviet Republic 'a\ndecree of socialization, states that the Vacuum Oil\nCompany, a subsidiary of the Standard Oil' Com-'\nas lattge interests la Hung\nRomano-American\ntfae Prtluteum Times. (S6-7-19) reporte-\nstmwato fat petroleum as amounting\ns desirona of shouldering for\n'fnt-\nAmerieas, the organ ef \"Standard CUV* Katisuai\nCtty Bsnk of New Tarit puWiahes a glowing ar\nticle, replete with pirtures and a amp of tim\nket possibilities of tite\nAn American\nworked up to give tim United States the\nalso, tfae Armenia, and tim meat cursory glanee at\nthe map of Asia Minor ahows tfaat region to abut\nupon the Caue\noilfields.\n\" '*'',.\nrm bedded deep down m s\nthese officers having been sent fay the Interallied Commission in order to investigate tiie ptt-\nroleum question and especially tfae manner in\nwhich the Ukrainian Government has dealt wttfa?\nit-Petroleum Times, April 26, 1919.\nwe find this\nmineral periodical, em begin to\ntions\nkad keen asked, Mr. Francis\n\"Just one word, gentlemen, before\nI should like to propose a\n*\"hf rm^Mm.mmA \u00E2\u0096\u00A0BaSSSSUL\nnv*jTT naiu\n''-. we separeti\nvote of thanks to our. ahaiimou (Leslie Urquhart.) . .'\u00E2\u0080\u00A2* I sfaould Hike to add that cam\nfriends. Mr. Hoover and Mr. Leslie Urquhart, ae\nlong ago aa Sept., 1914, began work in connection wtth the scheme wldefa tfae Government is\nnow putting jfotwaid fat its Nam-Ferrous Metals\nBill. They themselves represented to the Government the serious position in which tfae spelter\nindustry in general was at tfaat time, and* they\nhave been working on toe scheme ever since.\nI myself introduced Mr. Hoover to tfae Government and it has token three years fop the\nGovernment to bring forward their proposals and\nto grasp tim idea nnderiying the scheme of Mr.\nHoover and , Mr. Urquhart. We congratulate\nboth Mr. Urquhart and Mr. Hoover on what they\nhave accomplished in tins direction. Mr. Hoover.\nas you all know, is now the Food Controller of\nthe U. S. A\u00E2\u0080\u0094Mining Magazine January, 1918.\nMr. Leslie Irquhart speaks of Admiral Kolchak\nae '\nA good friend of mine . . . a patriot, who\nthinks only of tfae good of his eountry.\u00E2\u0080\u0094Mining\nu^TmssMhavuea^a ^TeswaensensuV' \u00E2\u0096\u00A0^BarOn\nTheir relations are notorious. Now we know\nthat Mr. Hoover, wfao fai blockading Lenin's Government and tfae Russian Republi \u00E2\u0080\u00A2. and was bloek-\nsding Huiursry. is another \"good friend\" of Me.\nLeslie Urquhart\nTurning to page 1635 of \"Who's Wfao in America\" (1918-19.) we read tfaat Herbert Clark Hoover,\nnow Food Administrator in tim U. S. A., was \"representative of bondholders in construction of\nChihg Wang TOW Harbor. .1900. and between 1906\nand 1914 was director of y\nZinc Corporation. Ltd.; Kysfatim Corporation,\nLtd.; Tsnslyk Corporation Ltd.: Oroya Exploration Co. Ltd.; Russo-Asisti/ Corporation Ltd.\nHis clubs in New York include \"Lawyers' \"and\n\"Bsnkers.'\" So far so bad.\nPetroleum (Berlin-Vienna) 13th April. 1915 Records:\nThe news is very interesting tfaat at Paris.\nthrough the St. Petersburg Tnterutional Bank\nof Commerce, tim negotiations which tim American petroleum trust (Standard Oil Co.) had already started during the wstfftr i^bming wtth\ntim four formerly Russian tnaptfae concerns (Russian-General Oil Corporation, Nobel. Shell. NeftV\nhave been, renewed.\n'. So'the plot thickens the further down we bore.\nTfae Boyal Dutch Petroleum Co. controls tfae\nShell \"Transport and Trading Co\u00E2\u0080\u009E and tfae Astra\nRomans Co., as well m tim Mexican Eagle Oil Co.-\nLtd., mad the Angl^Bayptiatt QsTfieM* Ltd. Last\nyear it paid 40 per cent, ami fai ltTT, 48 per cent.\nNow it has sold a bag block of shares to Standard\nOS's bankers. Messrs. Kufan. Leefa and Co;, of New\nNext for the diplomacy of Paris and tite pre-\ncral assault upon Hungarian\nperseverance and energy\nwfatefa Mr- Perkins has shown as chairman of the\nInternational Committee stands out weli, for fab\nhas been a steady, uphill work on behalf of the\nAllied oil interests in Galicia and those of the\nBritish shareholders in particular.\nAt one time\u00E2\u0080\u0094and net many months ago\u00E2\u0080\u0094it\nlooked ss if the Ruthenians might hsve hsd some\nchance of obtaining their objeet. but as we then\npointed out, if timy succeeded, a bridge would\nimmediately be created between the Bolsheviks\nof Russia and Hungary. Fortunately, tim Government realized this in time and have now prevented aR possible source of trouble by creating\na United Poland, thus sweeping aside what, without doubt would faave soon been a serious menace to European affaire\u00E2\u0080\u0094Petroleum Times, July\nThis was the policy whieh this paper had\nstantly sdvocsted\" snd it elsims:\nWhen we recollect thst there is more\n\u00C2\u00A310,000,000 of British capttal invested fat Gslicis's\noil industry, we feel that we have been more thsn\njustified in taking up the attitude that we did\n-IWd.\nThis Mr. Perkins, the indomitable chairman of\nthe Internstionsl Committee, is a Mr Chsries Perkins. We are not certain, but we suspect that he fa>\nMr. Charles Perkins, of J- P. Morgan and Co. Wc\ndo know that J. P. Morgan and Co. are at tfae faced,\nof tfae International Committee looking after Allied\ninterests in Mexico- snd thst the British, French\nand American Governments are acting fat Mexico\n\"on behalf of their respective oil companies.\nMr. Churchill fans been talking of s cordon across\nEurope to interpose a military snd political barrier between Bolshevism and the West. It is a\nbarrier of Paris chosen Poles and Paris supported\nRoumanians. It is to interpose* a barrier between\ntfae Soviets and Smillie, between the socialisation\nof petroleum wells and the nationalisation of collieries.\nThe Whole cackle about small nationalities is a\ndevice to secure the establishment of smell States\nunder \"League of Nations'' auspices and by military mesns. small States that, like Aserimjan, in\nthe Caucasus, exist only to counter-sign tim decrees\nOf tfae international exploiters, Tfae Balkans faave\nbeen cleared of the Ottoman Empire to make room\nfor the Oil Trust. Simultaneously, we imagine, wc\nshall hear that tfae \"cross\" has triumphed over the,\n\"crescent\" and tim combined choirs wfll render\nthose touching lines from Mrs. Ward Beeeker \"s\n\"Bsttle Hymn of the BepuMie;\"\nWc are trampling out the vintage in the Garden\nof Urn Lord.\nAs .our God goes marching on!\nTORONTO 8TA11MMG BY\na / 'm.\u00E2\u0096\u00A0 \u00C2\u00BB\u00C2\u00BB. fl**L -\nn. leiegram irom o\nFreneh mission, eonmating of C\nLieutenant Simon, has arrived\nrtobostand\n\u00E2\u0096\u00BArofao Cyer,\nTORONTO. Ontario\u00E2\u0080\u0094Contemplating trouble in\ntfae future, the executive of the. Trades and Lsbor\nCouncil here haa formed a committee for political\ndefense,'tts aim being to resist all aoreiiimeiit action in tfae way of making arrests and to oaBeet\nfunds from Labor orgsnlsstionn throughout Cen-\nada so that plenty of money would be on hand to\ndefend any Labor man wfao urigfat be arreated. It\nis tfae intention of tfae conmtittee to call a mesa\nmeeting on Aug. 29. to protest agslnst tfae^deten-\ntion of Winnipeg strike leaders in Stony Mountain\nPvsmm. owfaBe awaitine trial and also to send s protest to tfae United States authorities sgsinst tfae\nHfe sentence pronounced upon Thomas Mooney. for\nalleged complicity in a bomb outrage in Sen Fran-\nin!9P THE RED FLAG\nTHE RED FLAG\ni \u00E2\u0096\u00A0 . 'I. ***\u00E2\u0096\u00A0\n-** \"\u00E2\u0096\u00A0 '\u00C2\u00A5y^**wV\"E\nA Journal of Newa snd Views Devoted to .the\nWoi*king Clsss.\nPublished When Circumstances ami Finances Permit\nBy The Socislist Party of Canada,\n*01 Pender Street East. Vsneonver, B. C.\nEditor '\"1 \u00E2\u0080\u00A2\u00C2\u00A3 \u00E2\u0080\u0094 a fltipliwilB\nSubseriptjons to \"Red Flag\" . . . 90 issues $1.00\nSATURDAY\u00E2\u0080\u0094\nSEPTKMBKR, 6. 1919\nThe Socialist Movement and\nMr. Cohan\nOCR attention has been called to an article on\n..*, revolutionsry conspiracies in Canada in Mean's Msgsriim through reading a leader in the\nVancouver \"Provinee\" of Sept. 4^The \"Prorinee\"\narticle is headed Mr. Cahan's Version, and version\nis right Mr. Cahan's version, as rehashed in the\n\"Province,\" originally appeared in McLeans\nMagazine. Mr.,e*hans version in McLean's Msga- *\nsine is a rehash of series of hysterical articles he\nwrote for the Christian Science Monitor during the\nwar, when he wea Director of Public Safety in Canada. By tim way, is this the McLean's Magarine\nwhich, during one of the most critical stages of tim\nwar attacked virulently the British War Office,\nsaid in fact that tt and its policies were dominated\nfay skirt and that the English officers and the clsss i\nthey were drawn from were degenerates. We remember : Yellow, neurotic, sensational dope tt wee\ntoo. Suen* as it pays our \"magazine editors to publish snd upon which they fatten their circulation,\nfay flirting with the obscene in pothics or in human \\nrelationships in such fashion as is more obscene\nthan starkanaked lechery iteelf.\nTo return to Mr. Cafaan and faia assertions tfaat\nhundreds of tooussnds of dollars in German money\nentered Canada during the war and that Bolshevik money was now coming into tim country. Where\nia itf He makes general charges, aanting certain\nworking class organizations, yet fae fails to produce\none specific instance although a single ease in it\nself would not support bis sweeping charges. To\nus tt appears strange, that tor over fire years awhile\nthe country waa flooded wttfa police spies, with\nposters calling for amateurs to take up the same\nservice and in spite of what he says sbout tim press-\nthat organ strained tfae facta to absurdity to arouse\nhostility and suspicion against all radical organizations\u00E2\u0080\u0094in spite of all tins, net asm case, so far aa we\nknow, can be shown as proof that anyone in Canada\nwas being suborned either in behalf of tfae Germans\nor the Bolsheviki Not among tfae working class\nanyway. Why was every working class organization, labor or Socialist, instantly suspect? Was tt .\na esse of bad conscience on tim part, of ear rulers,\nin view of the manifold injustices tiw worken.\nendure.and tfaat they eould not in troth conceive of\nthem ss being loyal\nIt wfll be useless to deny that the \u00C2\u00BBahnet Party\nef Canada or tts members received any of tfae alleged funds, because our enemies would say tfaat\nwe might be expected to deny it fai any ease, We\nwill point out however, tfaat wo faave been under\nsurviellanee by tfae secret service, net to speak of\n-enthusiastic amateur slueths, for ..five years-. Our\nmeetings have been under observation. Our mail.\n\"both of tim party and of individual members, has .\nbeen aerotinixed. For more than three months at\nof the Party and of its Locals and tim homes ef its\nmembers have several times been ranted snd corres-\npondeeee and account books attached. Yet it has\nevidently not been found possible to put us without\nthe Jaw. We are a highly unpopular organisation,\neven hi the labor muTaUnena, becsuse Ttfco diffeteuee\nin principles between us\nwttfa us runs too deep snd sheer to adssit of\ning or of compiosshm. This last five years\nly. feeling has run high, hate and\njudiee have run riot. We faave been, as a fame\nbarque on tumultous seas, buffeted from every side.\nWe understand, none better, thst tfae people ate\nnet wttfa us. 'We understand the State, tt ia on*\nespecial study, and we reslize more than amy one\nits rnthlessness and power, b it reasmnahla to\nthink that we sfaould put ourselves in tts\ninsignificant minority of tfaeorista. fay\nconspiracies to QMi.Je.ua fay violence tide\nand this order of society whiefa is supported by s\nhuge majority ef tim people.\nversstion and scrag ends of i\ninterested persona for ulterior matins, we\nare no criterion of our settled petiema as a party.\nThese policies are educational and above board. If\nour theories are wrong let\non public platform or in the columns of the\nFor twenty years, while we faave seen the\nclass movement struggle snd develop,\nlenge has been open. Our opponents faave wesltfa\nsnd can buy brains in their defence. If they faave\nany case st sll they win resort to that method- If\nthey resort to force and lies instead, then they have\nno ease but possession, and timy are already \nThey charge us wttfa desiring the downfall of the\npresent socisl order snd the establishment of a new\none. Is tfaat a crime? Do timy conceive thst the\nhellish thing, which is thrusting\ninto the void- will last for evert\n\"which is the eritigue of the present order, cam timy,\nby suppressing a few individuals or sn organization, suppress it? Tfam t'pmmiiiifcm, which is the\nideal of a new social order, can timy by any manner of means kill tt. May! timy must fin* loll tfae\nhuman spirit for wfafle tt lives, m lis lima mad eoss-\nmunism issue out of capitalism as a child from its\nmother's womb, follow eapttafasss as daylight follows the night\nIn tiie Christian Science Monitor of August 30.\nthere is an editorial on \"Ideas and Tanks,\" and\nwhoever esn, should read it It quotes Lord Bobert\nCecil as raying, in tfae British House of\nin his protest sgainst intervention in\ncan not stop, the course of sn ides wttfa a\ngun.\" Says the \"Monitor.\" whiefa by tfae way m\nno friend of the Bolsheviks, in comment: \"The religious world- indeed has spent centuries endeavoring to convert aerifies to orthodoxy wttfa tim help\nof Rons and atones, fires-and racks,\nnMmmmmmmS' -*-'-1- *m \u00E2\u0096\u00A0\u00E2\u0096\u00A0******\u00E2\u0096\u00A0 *s-***iTa** \u00E2\u0096\u00A0-l Ia*f\u00E2\u0080\u0094,\u00C2\u00BB t \u00E2\u0080\u00A2.. .\" *\u00C2\u00BB\u00E2\u0096\u00A0\ntmns and amamnties . . . Nor, jsnera tt\nto politics has the effort been so immmmlj\nsimilsr.\n\" . . It is possible, indeed, it m\nenough, to drive Bolsfaerism under surface in Bua-\nsia, ami communism in Bpdspest ;'bot is tt going to\neffect the idea? Hero gave tim Christian to tfae\nlions, the Inqnisifion sent tim Protestant to tite\n. a , W\mm mm ' . . ., ,m . a . : m*W a -a a.\nstaxc. uu wero exnrpase imranmnny.\nBorne destroy Protestantism? .\n\"There is Bela Kun, Lenin's other self A\nor ao ego fae was threstening ta maim tim pfaysfcmt\nfl|^^^^^Jk#.^^^^^ m-^a ^-mm^mm.' *ffgfia^^^^^^K^^^ mmjm WL ' mmmmmmmmm\ ^^mmmmmm^mmmmm ^^n5a*\"kl dHk^M^MBl\nironuers oi tne jmsptre ex uenm mason won nose\nof Switzerland.. Today he is an euliaat, fas am Amv\ntrian prison, and wfayf Not faaeamm tim communal idea has been dfeesfded fay tim. people .aa?\neven fay tfae mob. but beeaose tite Bsrasnian esjsv\nslry rode into tfae ssjfanrfas of tim capital, and he-\ntmM%m^ Immm' w^Mm-mmfil mW TP^ffe'S^S^ta f#\ntfaat e Communist Government h\nno recognition- no trade, above em no food. Bet\ndees .any sane person angpasu, for .a single instant.\ntfaat -.tim senses] frontiers of Ditlifai i issi faave faeen\npushed back a single yard- by soefa taeties-\nAt tim same time, would \u00E2\u0096\u00A0iijuno Bfae to gmuantet\ntfae ojisuseptifalltty of tim Rumanian troops to tim.\ncommunist idea, and to undertake tfaat rsresentiv s\n\u00E2\u0080\u0094 \u00E2\u0096\u00A0\u00E2\u0096\u00A0 I II \u00E2\u0096\u00A0 \u00E2\u0096\u00A0- m\mmymwmmmj . . ..- -*^ -a -a- \u00E2\u0096\u00A0 ^^^\u00E2\u0080\u0094 a.\u00C2\u00AB -a. m m ^B \u00E2\u0096\u00A0 mm+. . m \u00C2\u00BB^^VV . Ww^m.WMWWmmmmmmmmm^m- mm*\nBela Hun will mat Hit Ufa head in Bucharest. Yon\ncan net fight wttfa Romanian cavalry and\nParis rescripts. . . ntil sueh time as tim\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2eeeW frarlrea wsfmaajbiii if ft ever <\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 hi imah i tt,\nit will not get tt: wfaer\nwill prevent tt getting if\nI\nTfae official organ of tim Russian Soviet Bureau,\n\"Sevmt Bussia.'' in tbe Aug. 16 issue, announces\nthat:\nA eonuaunieation just received direct from the\nSoviet Go-rernmenf in Moscow, authorize* the Russian Soviet Government Bureau in New York to\noffer upon the American market a greet quantity\nof raw material* now ready for immediate\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0sent from Rnsris. Our eommnnieatioe\n\"We have here ready for shipment 432,000000\nof flax, 21S.000.000 pounds of hemp and a\nammnt of furs, bristles, hides, platinum snd\nunlimited amounts of lumber.\"\nWe have just received a cable from tfae representative of tfae Itossian Soviet Bepublic inStoek-\nholm advizing us to ship merchandise immediately:\nMr. Strem, tfae Soviet Bepresentative in Stockholm,\nin tfam cable that he is authorized by the Mos-\nent to guarantee payment for sucfa\nfae Petrograd ami to issue the proper\npermits for importation into Russia Mr. Strem.\nalso states tfaat fae is making arrangements for\ncstafaiiesdnf credits in Stockholm for the Bureau to\nInitial orders faave been received fay tint Bureau t\nweow for purchases amounting to $150,000.-\n000 for railway material end equipment; $30,000,-\n090 for agrieultural implements end tractors; $10,-\nnOOOOO for machinery and machine tools: $5,000,-\n000 for hardware and metals; $30,000,000 for boots\nsnd shoes: $20,000,000 for textiles; drygoods, etc.;\n$5,000,000 for paper, rubber, \"etc.; $25,000,000 for\nand $25,000,000 for foodstuffs.\nMTJJTARIBM OH THE INCREASE\nUoyd George's statement that England is facing\nnan is doubtless but little exaggerated. But who\nis responsible fop* this terrible situation f Why,\nprimarily those who made the secret treaties and\nindulged in tfae secret diplomacy with Russians and\nFrench, and tfaen Uoyd George himself, who carried on the war long after it eould have been wisely\nsettled to tfae satisfaction of all friends of France\nsnd of Belgium. But these are vain regrets now.\nThe truth is that Europe is on thc verge of ruin\nand tfaat England herself fears financial collapse\u00E2\u0080\u0094\nsiid the peace treaty not only does not give as-\nsuranees of peaee and good will, but has sowed the\nseeds of bitter hatred and future wars, and involves\ntfae nmntt\u00C2\u00ABnaime of large armed forces. But the\nsmugly satisfied Lloyd George sees nothing of this.\nHe preaches harder work ami greater savings, lest\nAmerica carry off England's foreign trade. Tho\nbest thing about ius speech is tim flat assertion that\nif the great nations sfaould increase their arma-\nnmnta, \"tim League ef Nations would be a mere\nahem and a scrap of paper.\" What nation is fa>\nereasmg their armament today? Why, tiie United\nStates. .Our navy, so Washington dispatches report tide week, tt pressing England's Jard for first\nplace. Mr. Newton D. Baker, formerly a charter\nmember ef tfae League to Iamtt Armaments, is urging Osagreas to give him twice as many regular\n* thc United States ever had before and\nmilitary service for our* youth. And tim\n|a tim White Blouse remains discreetly\nmmnt ready to\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0!.,\u00E2\u0080\u009E ; -\u00E2\u0080\u0094a.\nTo hear our reactionaries bewailing snd threatening, erne would thank tfaat Canada stood atone ia\nfaaving a.1isia,.ea of a new social order, Aaa matter of fact, not Germany or her Allies, not Great\nAllies, nor way neutral country, nor\n' tim wurkl of men began have escaped from tim age-long struggle between, pro-\n*m ^****m^*^^aPm^j + saimay mmm miv ^eaw*me>*fifffffp ^^ta>\ntt is to be Imped tfaat timy never\nwill until the end of time Only stagnating peoples\neesdd fcsve uniformity of ideas.\nwith congested\nwho can not see thst so We must\nWW\ncarry ' -\n. .*>\u00E2\u0096\u00A0\u00E2\u0096\u00A0\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0'\u00E2\u0080\u00A2''>;'\u00E2\u0080\u00A2\u00E2\u0096\u00A0 \"\u00E2\u0080\u00A2\"';;'; V'\"J- i .'.\u00E2\u0096\u00A0'\u00C2\u00BB..\",*..\u00E2\u0096\u00A0 \u00E2\u0080\u009E'\" !';' . .\"\"-\u00E2\u0096\u00A0'\"*\ni\n=\n(From the \"Glasgow Socialist.\n1MPORTAHCE OF THE WAGES\nTEVER may be your\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0\nith the Workers\nyour wages were, say,\nthat-your real standard of living haa been maintained, even if you hate four pounds today, while\nyou have to put Up wttfa putrid margarine, bully\nism, general polities, religion, or\ndefinite\n'MW. upon sll of timet tidnga there la one subject\nwfatefa you can not afford to ignore, and tfaat la tim\nTry as you msy to dodge it\nturn with tim fasjgfacer ef fiii\nflight of imagination,, allow your tht\nout to suburbia, and foe a\nself in s nice house smidst\nswsy from the evil smell of tite city, you are\nbrought back to earth with the bitter reflection\nthat you can't do it. Or tt may be a case of neees-\n**wM wrwmim Mmfm mmm m^wmmw era\"\"\"* your hubbub w\nsome of the children to the country to brace them\nup for the struggle of life, again the answer is \"tt\n*Mt*e?a^i A^k'Si.\nIt may be, aa fa) tfae ease wttfa most seen of character, tfaat tfae wanderlust crosses your mind. Ton\nhave faeen reading tfae adventurous stories ef\nBobinson Crusoe, Jack London or some favorite\nauthor, snd you would like to \"go away.\" Ton de-\nt-*msTw fp'*\"' o*e\u00C2\u00BB\">v un atw \u00E2\u0080\u00A2naansanaa'^B enanes* fuv *4raa Saas*o jj\"'***e\u00C2\u00BB w*\nrealising your ambition when you get the \"saek\"\naad you are \"done\" again. Thus your whole life\nis colored and shaped by the eternal quest for\nThe fallacy\ndo well to\nwould\nfoiling to distinguish between\nthe different forms tfaat wages take. Here, perhaps, the truth of our observation upon things\nfamiliar ia best flha^atooV *>* know that what\nyou gut on . Saturday in the form of * a. c% fanya **.\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 -*\u00C2\u00BB***' *******\nmore or less of particular articles at different in- The Trick of\nAnother point connected with the\nnominal wages is the matter of\nSirsisw^jsxstrr\nn? \j\nhundred per cent.\ntervals, according to whether prices are high\nlow. In other words, tfae money form of your wages\nand what they esn buy are two totally different\nthings. Tfans, before the Wsr, you could get a .half.\ndecent suit of clothes for sbout three pounds. To- \"55T*\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0&.sMk*mfm > mmwms. , \u00E2\u0096\u00A0.- **^ w?: T. pounds a\nday you have to pay five pounds, ten or six pounds\nfor an inferior cloth. There is. nothing original fai\nthis to you because you are familiar with the circumstances. But in the language of political\neconomy we are working out a particular, form of\nwages. That form Is called the nominal form of\nwages. From the foregoing you msy now guess\nwhat in economics is meant by talking about nomi-\ni wages is the\nThatisto\nsay the actual \u00C2\u00A3. s. d. or coins tfaat you receive in\nor-fan\negg\n*\nquestion of\nOn\nt you,would do well to stick a pin. If, for\nyour Wages have risen from two to four\npounds a week, your nominal wage hss risen on-\nReverse the process and\nAs is the ease with sll things common and familiar, their very fsmiliarity obscures their import-\nanee, and since we are born ef wage-working parents the tendency b to ignore the significance of\ntim wages issue and look for tfae explanation of\nour various grievances elsewhere. In tins direction you are encouraged, of course, by the politicians, professors in economies and other **kept\"\nrepresentatives of tfae employing clsss, since it is\nto their interest to have you chasing all kinds of\nwifl-o'-toe-wisps.\nIf, for instance, you ssk for a rise of wages, you\nate. immediately told it is bad policy, since tfae\n\"boss*' wifl only tack tt on to prices. If you complain that your wages are too low and that you are\nunable to get ends to meet you are at once told\nthatyour difficulty is due to high prices. In all\ncases you are advised to do anything but interfere\nwttfa wages.\nBasts of the Labor Movement\nNow it is just because of this wages issue that\nthere ia s Lsbor movement fat fact, the Wanes issue\nis the basis of the Labor movement, with varying\nopinions ss to how the question fat to be tackled.\nSome believing, as. for instance, the Conservative\nTrade Unionist that aU would be well if only we\neould get a fair day's wage for a fair day's work.\nOthers, called extrenusts, like tim S.L.P.-ers, believe thst there is no permanent remedy for the\nmany grievances arising out of the wages; system\nso long aa profit-taking is allowed to exist But,'\npending the time when a complete remedy is found,\ntfaat ia to aay, when our clsss controls all the instru-\nof wealth production and operates them for\nand social purposes, tfaere are one or two\nthings concerning wages yon would do well to get\nacquainted wttfa.\nYou can readily see at a glance how many Workers might very well be deceived in merely fixing\ntheir eyes on tite actual coin and not thinking about\nwhat these will purchase. A safe method fai reckoning your wages is rather to think always in terms\nof tim things you are accustomed to procure rather\nthan dwell on the names or number of coins you\nare getting. . \"|^^^^^; '\"'.:'\nIf, for instance, before the war you were accustomed to getting butter, beef, milk, eggs, etc., and\nual vi\neach case is two pounds. While such sn illustration\nmay appear simple enWfjlt in tie form given, when\nit\u00C2\u00BB not so easy to see through the trick, as many\npiece-workers knew to their cost. Again, y\u00C2\u00ABw\nwould notice all tfae bother at present ever the decision of Bonar Lgw to put six shillings on the ton\nof coal. This juggling with prices is intended to\nintimidate those who are inclined to be upset by\nany proposal to make it more difficult for tile\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2money-wages to go round.\nTon would do well, however, not to be alarmed\nat such threats, since the. ultimate decision ss to\nwhether coal can stand the extras proposed, is determined by forces much stronger than even a\nCabinet Minister can command. Such little tricks\nin conjunction Wttfa tfae various movements in\nprices go a long way to aggravate the life Of the\nwage'worker. That is why it is not worth pottering with the system, rather should we bend our\nenergies towards rooting it out for good. T. B.\nIn Sight of Bankruptcy\n(From-toe \"Common Sense,\" Aug. 9.)\nYon msy have heard some of the old people of\nour etesa Indeed it ia common argument af tfaeers\n\u00E2\u0080\u0094when dhsmaufaig wages and prices, to talk of\ntfaefr young days and how they used to live on very\nmuch less than you are getting at present.\nIf you are a tradesman and getting, say four\npounds a week, they take a delight in bragging\n- .s^ j^ aaaji their wages were tiiirty years ago\n1 you can depend upon them making it as low\naa tfaey can. But, dfatatnattiaej tfaatr somewhat\ncurious kink ef vsntty. end assuming timy got\nthirty sfaflHngs a week, tfaey eonelude and insist\ntfaat you are now better off than they were by at\nleast a hundred per cent\nAMONG \"the Immortal services\" whiefa Mr.\nJ. L. Garvin declares the Prime Minister to\nhave rendered the country must, of course, be included the economic and financial condition of\nGreat Britain. Mr. Asquith carried on the war for\nover two years on the principle of sacrificing \"the\nlast man and the lest farthing\" in Order to gain a\ncrushing victory over the Central Powers snd to\ncarry out the Secret Treaties with Bussia. France,\nand Italy. Mr. Llloyd George improved upon tins\nby proclaiming the doctrine of the \"Knock-out\nBlow\" and prolonged the war for two years mow\nat a greatly increased expenditure of British life\nand tressure. Not content With this, he continued\nwar expenditure on a prodigious scale after the\nArmistice, and his Government since April has\nbeen spending at the average rate of \u00C2\u00A34,442,000 a\nday and fat still employing conscription for the purpose of fighting in eoUntless wars ef the moat\ncostly snd indefensible kind. The results sre now\nvisible to the naked eye. No microscope la required\nto detect tfae mischiefs at home\u00E2\u0080\u0094no telescope to\ndiscover tfae ruin abroaaV All hia promises of an\nIiidnstrisl Paradise have faded aWay from the\nhorlson en wfatefa timy went painted In sucfa efow-\ntag enter* at tite last gcnsral election, 1-faoujfatfae\ntaxpayer's money matters not at afl to either Mr.\nUoyd George Of Mr. Chnrehill. and every kind of\nmflitsry and naval and rivil extravagance is in full\nswing, all our socisl troubles sre being aggravated.\nThanks to the inflation Of prices by war Iwrrewtag\nand trade embargoes, the gran* housing scheme is\na glaring fiasco, an* the only result so far has\nbeen to make tt impossible for the building trade\nto supply houses in the ordinary way.\nThe rise of prices and tiie exorbitant cost of tiv-\ning have caused continue) and increasing discontent\namong all elssses of wage-earners. The loss of a\ngreat part ef ear foreign trade foHewa naturally\non tfae following circumstances:\n1. Tbe loss of London's financial supremacy and\nof the gold standard.\n2. The ruin of many of our foreign customers.\n3. The loss of shipping1 during the war and the\ndiversion of merchant shipping to feed Mr. Churchill's Russian and Asiatic expeditions.\n4. The elaborate system of embargoes and restrictions by which the Board of Trade is strangling\nour foreign commerce.\n5. The reduction of the coal output\n6. The employment of hundreds of thousands of\n'able-bodied workers in military occupations who\nshould long sgo have returned to productive work.\n7. As a consequence of all these, tim higher* cost\nof production.\nLet us trace the results. The wealthier elssses,\nwho provide h . large amount of the capital required for trade and employment, are now taxed\nfrom six to ton shillings in the pound on their incomes during life, and from one-fifth to two-fifths\nof their capital at death. The plight of the middle\nclasses is deplorable, and the-Free Churches will\nsoon find that half their ministers can hardly keep\nbody and soul together. The working flames are\ntaxed to the hiK on their comforts and luxuries\u00E2\u0080\u0094\nsueh ss tea, sugar, beer and tobacco\u00E2\u0080\u0094and all tim\nthings tfaey need are doubled or trebled in price-\nboot* clothing and food Nevertheless, tfaere ia a\nyswning defiett between tfae pufatie sxpsndltute\nand tim public revenue.\nMeanwhile, the Government gets more and more\nunpopular, and is already driven to restoring\nD.O.B.A.*\nl-Ltmmro or thi socialist putt\nOF CANADA\nA statement of the theories and conclusions\nof Scientitte BoelaHsriv\ntaper 100 \ lOcperOopy\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0 ' id. \u00E2\u0096\u00A0\nM\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 , y.-Jt,. .' -\u00E2\u0096\u00A0 -J v, t\nPAGE TWO\nhi\nTHE RED FLAG\nm\nm\ns***|\HB Vancouver \"Province\"' ef Saturday. Aug.\nX 30. contained the first of a aeries of articles\nentppgm \"Unselvefj^JF^ of Social Justice.\"\nThe suthor of tfae series is Stephen Leacock, Professor of Beonomies in MeGill Univeratty.\nwiR appear,in eaefa Saturday s issue of\n+**\u00C2\u00BB-*?* until 'tiu\ne Unsolved Riddle\nfae does better when he touches on matters germane\nto hfa) own field of the science\ntheless anything of conseqm\nhas already teen said by Mai\nus nothing new, only restating it in his\nay. He concludes this first srtiele by saying thst\ncan not agree .wttfa the Socislist soli\nevils of the prerent^regfaie. This of\neoek's contribution to the cfeemnemi of tiTaoeuti ^\u00C2\u00B0^fr'_\"!['&&.*&\u00C2\u00A3'^B.ffeS!\nproblem will be well worth tfae attention Of every\nworker. To Socialists, the series will be Welcome\nes a new departure for the Canadian press w-uch\nfans hitherto suppressed any discussion which u mid\ntend to uncover the connection between: our\nstein of product\nfaave been abused for using\npretation\" because it leads to s questioning of tim\nsocisl validity of the very foundation ef tite present\nsocial order. Evidently those who sre responsible\nfor Professor Leacock's articles appearing in the\npress are realizing the futility of abuse- misrepresentation, and the appeal to ignorance and pre-\nfor combatting the scientific education ear-\non by the Socialists on tite political field, mid\nno they are bringing on their intellectual big guns\nto challenge our educational monopoly of that\nfield. We gladly welcome their change of policy,\ntardy though it be. We have persistantly pointed\nout that tim surest mesns to pesceful progress is\nfree and open discussion of mstters upon whieh men\nfind themselves in disagreement and tfaat if there\nare untruths and anti-social idesls being propagated, then the open forum is the surest place to\nkill them.\nTfae problem -today is not a question of suppressing a minority whose opinions may challenge the\npresent Order. As pointed out Ire Professor\ncock, It is the conditions of eapftalfatm* wMeh si\nout of tts own inherent contradictions, that constitute the real dsnger to society. A danger whose\nmagnitude grows more menseing as the days go by.\nOne of these contradictions is tfae poverty which,\nexists alongside a boundless rapacity to produce\nwealth. Curtailment of production, \"mines, factories, workshops closed down, human, labor power\nunemployed, wfafle social wants, even the very\nnecessities of multitudes go unsstisficd. The truth,\nwhich no militarist government can suppress, is.\nthat considering society ss a unit, the owners of\nthe mesns of production are sabotaging on the\nrest of society. It is estimated by some expcrtepujtt;\ntfae productive equipment fat only exercised to the\nextent of 25 per cent of its possibilities and others\naay it fat nearer 10 per cent Why is this! Because\nprofit is the aim of cspttalist production, and proftt entails a curtailment of production in view of\nthe market To flood the market is to send prices\ndown and extiiiguish profit. The capitalist, studies\ntfae purchasing capacity of tite market, not the consumption ranactty Of the community.\nTn this first of hit aeries, Professor Leacock\nmakes a sweeping survey of the prese^\u00C2\u00A3 state\naffairs end tfae conditions out of which they have\narisen, and traces tite development of the modern\nsocisl productive processes from the individual\nnandicraft stage, In tfais sweeping survey, cramped by lack of space, fae perforce, mimes mucfa thst\nfai necessary for a proper understanding of tfae problem, but he also, what fa) hardly excusable in a man\nof science, in one or two instances, sacrifices accuracy to picturesqueness of phraseology. Near\nthe beginning of his article he says, . . \"Strike\nfollows strike A world which Jias known five\nyears of fighting has lost its taste for tim honest\ndrudgery of work. Cineinsttns 'will not back to\nhis plow, or at best stands sullenly between his\nplow handles, arguing sullenly for higher wages.\"\nsubmit that tfaat is a dra\nthe cause for strikes or of unemployment. We also\ndeny thst^fah, otimr flamboyent statement regarding Soviet Russia'la in accord wtth facts. However,\nmore interesting, both as to how he will avoid their\nconclusions and as to his conception of what the\nSocialist solution really is In terms too vague for\ncriticism he says it is \" a beautiful dream, only fit\nfor sns^''-^ |^ar penple have defined it as one\nlong continued round of materialistic idleness and\nglrmony at the expence of the State. Both of these\ndefinitions look like straw socialisms erected to he\nknocked! down, i Persdventore the Socialist solution is described by neither. Professor Leacock,\nhowever, has' already made one fundamental concession to the Socialists, in that he is using the\n' 'eeenomie interpretation**i on his problem. \u00C2\u00AB Wc\nshall watch with interest when slid where he uses\nit and when and where he refrains from doing so.\nHere follows a few comments rn points raised in\nhis article\n\"the persons) employer\u00E2\u0080\u0094owner has virtually dis-\n''P^^'M^^-^^^ \u00E2\u0080\u00A2** $***M\now fille^^ e Ifaa of corperati|| securities snd\na staff of corporation officials and employees.*'\n. and \"the personal note is no longer to be\nhsd in the wage reJstioiv except tethose backward,\nobscure |H jBU^iiOdiary industries in which the\nmreharira. reorganisation of thc new order haa not\ntaken place.\" Ownership has no function in the\nprocesses of production of the machine industry\nsnd large scale Organisation. K is now sbsentee\nownership having only an interest in the earnings\nof the corporation. In short, tite coming of the\nAfter passing notice on rising prices and wages,\nand inferring a connection with that and a world\nflooded with depreciated paper money, fae ssys,\n'tander such circumstances national finance seems\nturned into a delirium. Billions are voted where\nmachine produced two separate and distinct\nThe thing of significance in which is, not that one\nis rich and the other poor, but that the members\nof the capalist class are toe owners of society's\nmeans of production, though taking no part in its\noperation and that the workers, while operating industry itre divorced from ownership snd control\nover it. Out of this condition arise conflicting interests between the two, classes. One, because of\nthe wage relation which exists between them and\nanother more fundamental one in their conflicting\ninterest to the means* of existence. To, the workers*\nproduction is a means of livelihood. To; the capitalists a means of proftt. In order to realise profits, production must He regulated, curtailed fat\nthe interest of price. The market, the purchasing\ncapacity of those in it. sets the pace in quality and\nquantity, not the social capacity in consumption.\nProfessor Leacock draws attention to a great\nparadox of the system, in that, though our ability\nonce a few poor millions were thought extravagant., t0 ^^ ^ j, meet ham8n ^ ^ mnlti\nThe war dents, not vet fullv-cornniited will \u00C2\u00ABm -is.'j .i^ \u00C2\u00AB... .. . ..\nThe war debts, not yet fully computed, will run\nfrom twenty-five to forty billions apiece. Bet the\ndebts of the governments appear on thc other side\nof the ledger as the assets of the citizens. What is\nthc meaning of it\",'** ** |\nSince August 1914,. the world has been expending thc products of lsbor in the wasteful, unproductive expenditure of war from which there are\nno returns in materials embodying values with\nwhich to cancel the debts oh the ledger. Labor products expended productively, as in a weaving loom,\nreappear -as values in the cloth. The values of\nlabor products, as in munitions of war, disappear\nfor ever. Nevertheless, as those values are on the\nledger in money of account as debts, they must be\nliquidated. They are a mortgage on future values\nknown as surplus values over and above Wages,\nwhich the capitalist class will realise from future\nproductive operations. In. reality, the capitalist\nclass owe the debt to themselves. This, however,\nis not to say that they will not try to impose the\npayment of some of that debt on tho workers by\nforeipg their standard of living down. Regarded\nsocially, of course, the war debts represent values\nwhich are a total loss.\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 \u00E2\u0080\u00A2 \u00E2\u0080\u00A2 \u00E2\u0080\u00A2 '\nHis description of the introduction of the machine-age, lacks at least one essential factor which\nsfaould have been noted..m a* effect of peculiar historical signif/cance to the student of sociology,\nThat is, that it was the mschine age which produced the modern propertylees. iiidustria) proletariat. Small handicraft production betokened that\nthe producer owned his own tools snd consequently\nthe product. But ss the mechanical production\nprocesses developed, the cost >of them became more\nexpensive, required great capitals and* so became\nvested in fewer* hands. The hand loom weaver\nfound it more and more impossible to compete as\ntime went on, until he finally disappeared. The factory hand took his place. It tt recorded that tim\ncotton machines Of Lsncsshire tore the means of\nexistance foam tfae hand loom weavers of India in\nthree short Ions of the Hindoos\nperfohed from sheen tion wfao had formerly\nmade a comfortable living. And to what effect?\nThat the factory workers of Lancashire might have\none so-cslled prosperous year in ten. So the process went on all over the world, until now, even\nplied thirty or forty \"times, we yet find the masses\nof the people suffering from a lack of these goods.\nThe roots of that paradox lay in production* for\nsale. \"Ifae cpnun^\nmeans of life is determined by the purchasing\ncapacity of their wages. To the extent of that\npurchasing capacity are the goods produced in in-\ndustry for them. Labop power is a commodity and\nits price is determined primarily by its cost of production in those things necessary for its reproduction, and secondly, by the effect of supply and demand on the labor market As there is always an\nover-supply of labor power, this operates effeetoal-\nly in preventing a rite in wages beyond that whiefa\nis necessary for tim bare support of the working\nclass as a whole. That is why if society's productive power wag ten thousand times greater, it\nwouid hot relieve the poverty of the working class\nNot so long as labor power is bought and sold. Our\nforefathers, in the low productive days, perforce\nreceived sufficient of the riecessaries of life to live\nsnd work, and propagate their kind to meet thc\nneeds of their masters industries. And so must we\nof the modern proletariat.\nITAXIAH PEASANTB\nThe agricultural populations ere the brake en\nthe forward movement to a new order. But ae-\ncording to reports trm Italy, in,that country at\nleast they are coming into line with tfae industrial\nproletariat. The Peasants' Congress at Bologna,\nrepresenting 400,000 members, has declared for' tim\nimmediate socisliration ol the land\u00E2\u0080\u0094not for the\npurpose of dividing tt up in the fashion beloved of\nthe peasant but for a system of social ownership\nand working. In particular esses \"t is said the peasants have begun the process of \"sodalirfng\" already. The Directing Council of the Italian Confederation of Labor and the Executive of the Socialist Party were present at the Bologna Congress,\nsnd a Joint manifesto hassbecn issued. \"Avsnti\"\nexpects a complete linking up in consetroence, and\nwhen that hsppens results msy be looked for.\nNewsagents handling \"Red Flag\" in Vane*nrver.\nW. hart- next to Royal Theatre. Columbia News\nAgency, cor. Columbia and Hastings. "Newspapers"@en . "Vancouver (B.C.)"@en . "Vancouver"@en . 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