"4c3e72ed-e9fb-4eca-994c-6732b28bfa02"@en . "CONTENTdm"@en . "2016-04-04"@en . "1906-01-20"@en . "https://open.library.ubc.ca/collections/wclarion/items/1.0318691/source.json"@en . "application/pdf"@en . " X\nHE WESTERN CLAJUON\ni\nt\nPublished in the Interests of the Working Class Alone.\nr.t'ts\nU\n\ MMm\nTHW I\"\nNUSBIS\n366.\nVancouver, B. C, Saturday, January 20, 1906.\nMOST SIGNIFICANT EDITORIAL\n[be Light ot Reason aod Truth Slowly Breaking Through the\nThick Cruit of Ignorance to long Characteristic of\nthe Capitalist Press\nWhat ls brewing in the caldron of\nlus-nan mutiny, massacre and insur-\nution? What does it all mean?\nthat w\"ill be the result to Russia\nUie world?\nJn the first place, it is probable\nmit events in Hussia will do more\nchange the course of history than\nny thing that bas happened since\nFrench Revolution of 1789. lie\nfrho has the slightest knowledge of\ne period which began at the (all\nthe bast lie and ended at Waterloo\nit, Feel iu respect to it nothing but\nhuge iima/emeiit and wonder. The\ntrepch ltevolution was a social\nirthijiiuke, a politicul tornado,\nfhflch tore men's idea* and institutions loose from all ancient moor-\njgS, unit, in reshaping them, pro-\ntuced the moilern world.\nFix this in your mind, and then\nisk unother question about Hussia.\ngk this question:\nAm the prene.it events in Hussia\nbut a prehide to other events as ter-\nfi 1 n- and significant, which will in\nlhe next, quurter of a century agitin\nfhunge the aspect <>i hujiion aflairs'.'\nIteincnibcr, in the first place thot\nIlie American Huvoluliou was a\nbast of tho French lb-volution and\nlhat the ideas In our Declaration ol\n|n.|.-|eiHU-iire arc ideas which Jefler-\nii got in the works of Housseau,\nlirul-cttu and other French philosopher* of tho 18th century, who pav-\nthe way for their revolution and\nour own.\n1'...\u00E2\u0080\u00A2\u00E2\u0096\u00A0i-.seu'i was the father of modem\nNTiiocrucy. 'Ibis nation wus its first\n\ning the rll-.'t jtAllloU of Weal Hi, of\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 ither crude und half-formed ideas of\neconomic change\u00E2\u0080\u0094in a word, t-'ocial-\nlsm.\nTolstoi says that Hussia is in better position than any country in the\nworld to attempt common ownership\nof land.\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0\u00E2\u0080\u00A2h hud been the bulwark of Buro-\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2-iiii despotism.\nToday look at the map of the\n,rld. America, France and Swit-\nerlsnd are republic*: F.ngland and\nItaly, of tin* Other great powSrS, are\n|< actual l.v free, though under mot>-\nchial forms, while Germuny, Auk-\nirla and Hussia have up to this time\nli-a'le less pi-ogre** toward Is-mo\npacy.\nThe revolutionary UldWMIHSlt in\nRussia hat) iM-en going on for neni ly\nyear, and n* conservative an au-\nliortty as the loinl.ui Spectator\nhredlcts that it mav last five years\nIonic'' \"'\"\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 it further suggests thnt\n|nome yOahg Itussian lieutenant of nr-\nlillerv may today be studying the\nIrurwr of WapOlSOfl llonainrte, ami\nll\u00C2\u00BB- i^ialilii it to art at the end nf\n[that time.\nwhatever course it may psirsue,\nkowever often it toby apparently is-\nfwi I-pressed, there is no reason to\n\"H-pos* that the Russian revolution\n[will stop or go backward. Indeed.\njit will continue and it will grow,\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0it>il us importance to Hussia and to\nIthe world cannot be exaggerated.\nShould Hussia, in course ti ci pies\nof a revolutionary manifesto, and on\n.Ian 81 they will plan to hold 260\npublic dejnonstrations, 'ihe kaisar'a\nadvisers are urging liii.i to eini.lo.v\ntr\" commission of new crimes, lt\nmobilises the Cos-sacks, lt organized its \"Black Rands.\" It eggs on\n'h\u00C2\u00AB unhappily unwary against tho\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2lews,and tho Armenians, the \"Intel-\ntortuals\" against all those whoso opinions, whose nationality or whose\nrace renders tham presumable eiuun-\nlos of Rurcaurrncy and Absolutism.\nAgainst such infamous manoeuvres\ntho revolutionary proletariat has\nboon opposing for the last year the\nmost admirable effort that has ever\nlieen made by tt people to corkpicr\nHs freedom.\nThroughout tho extent of the Empire the ltevolution is now in per-\niiiaucnce. Strike succeeds strike.\nNot a month passes without now ef-\nV.irts wrenching from Nicholas II.\nconcessions that prepare and render\nInevitable his ultimate downfall.\n'Iui morrow \u00E2\u0080\u009Ef that 22nd of January'\nI'oland distinguishes herself with a\nstriks of 600,000 woi-Vuingmon which\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2paodily spreads over all Hussia to\nthe rallying cry of: \"Death or Mb-\n'\u00E2\u0080\u00A2\u00E2\u0096\u00A0\"'.vf\" Kalalcff executes ths Grand\nPuke Serirlus. The working class\ntrue the prediction made at the International Congress at Paris, held\nin 18811: \"The Hevolutionary movement of Russia will triumph as a\nworkingrlass movement, or it will\nnot triumph 'at all.\" Today,\nthanks to the abnegation, to\ntho spirit of self-sacrifice, and to the\nheroism of tho proletariat, the revolution is certain to triumph. Already, throughout Europe, the inevitable collapse of Tsarism is cracking to their very foundation all tlie\npowers of Keaction.\nRut thc work in not yet done.\nThough the Revolution is accomplished in the heads, it has only begun to crystallise into facts. Before\nRussian Socialism can celebrate a\ndecisive victory, the proletariat will\nhave to continue to struggle for\nmany a month, for many a year,\nperhaps.\nIn this struggle which is the struggle of us all, Russian So lulismxnusl\nIs.- able to count upon the moral\nsupport, and also the material assistance of the whole International.\nIt. is with this thought in mind\nthat comrades of the United States,\nwhose thrilling appeal you will find\nattached hereto demanded that the\nInternational Rurcau invite Uie parties affiliated with it solemnly to\ncommemorate the historic date of\nJanuary 22. in order to make manifest that. the workiiigim-n of the\nworld are ut one with the Russian\nproletariat.\nWe feel convinced, that, wherever\nSociulist consciousness has lawn\nawukened, our proposition will meet\nwilh favorable reception. Now,\nTherefore:\nLET ALL THE GROUPS OF ALL\nTHE AFFILIATED SOCIALIST\nPARTIES ORGANIZE1 A PUBLIC\nMEETING, AND WHEREVER POSSIBLE, A PARADE, TO RE HELD\nON MONDAY, JAN. 22, 1906, OR,\nAT ANY EVENT ON SUNDAY,\nTHE DAY PRECEDING. LET THE\nSPEAKERS RECALL THE HEROIC EFFORT OF OUR RUSSIAN\nBROTHERS; AND LET A COLLEC\nTION BE MADE TO AID IN ALL\nMANNER THOSE WHO STRUG-\nOLE AGAINST TSARISM FOR\nTHE HOLY CAUSE OF LIBERTY.\nLET THE FUNDS COLLECTED\nHE SENT EITHER TO THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF TrfE AFFILIATED PARTIES OR TO THE\nINTERNATIONAL SOCIALIST\nBUREAU.\nDown with Autocracy!\nLong live international Socialism!\nTHE LNTERANTIONAL SOCIALIST BUREAU:\nArgentine\u00E2\u0080\u0094A Cambier, M. Ugarte.\nAustria\u00E2\u0080\u0094Dr. V. Adler, F. Skarct.\nAustralia\u00E2\u0080\u0094H. Dierk*.\nBohemia\u00E2\u0080\u0094A. Nemee, F. Soncup.\nBulgaria\u00E2\u0080\u0094G. Kirkow, T. Sakarow.\nDenmark\u00E2\u0080\u0094 P. Knudsen, C. M. Oi-\nsen.\nFranco\u00E2\u0080\u0094E. Vailiant, J. Jaures.\nGermany\u00E2\u0080\u0094A. Rebel, P. Singer.\nGreat Britain\u00E2\u0080\u0094II. Hyndman, J.\nKier Hardie.\nHolland\u00E2\u0080\u0094P. Troelstra, H. Van\nKol.\nHungary\u00E2\u0080\u0094J. Welt ner, E. Garaini.\nItaly\u00E2\u0080\u0094E. Ferri, F. Turati.\nJapan\u00E2\u0080\u0094Sen Katayama.\nLuxemburg\u00E2\u0080\u0094Dr. Weltner.\nNorway\u00E2\u0080\u0094I'lav Kringen, A. Erik-\nsen.\nPortugal\u00E2\u0080\u0094A. Guecco.\nSpain\u00E2\u0080\u0094I*. Eglesios, F. Mora.\nSerVia\u00E2\u0080\u0094V. Stoyanovitch.\nSweden\u00E2\u0080\u0094H. Rranting, C. Wickinan\nSwitzerland\u00E2\u0080\u0094P. Rapin.\nUnited Stares\u00E2\u0080\u0094M. Hilquit, I). De\nLeon.\nExecutive Committee, (Belgium)\u00E2\u0080\u0094\nEdward Anseele, E. Vandervelde.\nCamiilc Huysmans, Secretary.\nThe valuation of capitalist property is determined by the number of\nworkers whose services it is able to\ncommand in the production of\nwealth.\n o\nA lone bandit held up 18 men in a\nsaloon in the wry heart of Butte,\nMontana, nnd got away with the\nplunder. 'lhe making of a successful capitalist in that chap.\n\"Tainted money\" has now become\nnn ancient myth. 1-awson's \"story\nof the amalgamated,\" und the Insurance scandals, ore well-nigh forgotten: the rapacity of the \"Beef\nTrust'' is a worn out legend, and\n.apital still reigns. l>et us return\nthanks.\n O\t\nIn\nthe\nAnd now Senator Clark, of Montana, is being prosecuted for fraudulent land entries. Thus is dear old\n\")'\u00E2\u0096\u00A0 \"\u00E2\u0096\u00A0ntive\" subjected to another ruth\nlet assault, well calculated to\ncause civilization to turn a back\nsomersault into barb\u00C2\u00ABriis\u00C2\u00BB..\n 0\t\nThe peasants of the Tsarsfco-ielo\ndistrict, nre looting the estates and\nburning the buildings of dukes,\nprinces, and other aristocratic pirates, almost within sight of the\nCzar's -palace. Such impudence on\nthe part of the \"lower classes\" is\ndeplorable.\nspurns the temporising endeavors of\nthe ChiMowsky Committee and ol\nthe Minister of Finance Kokowszew.\nAgrarian disturbances break out and\ntho peasants take possession of Uie\nseigniorial estates whose owners are\nk.vping in hiding in the cities. The\nsailors of the Potemkin make common cause with thc people, and raise\non the Tsar's ships the standard of\ntbe Internalionul. Soldiers in ever\nlarger numbers, refuse to fire upon\ntheir brothers, 'lho de|-artmcnt of\nwar i owardly gives the army of\nManchuria over to atrocious misery,\nnot daring to recall those force* in\nRussia. For the first time political\nparties tukv -.hupe in the open. Promises art made to them: concessions\nnre announce-1. Tho Tsar proclaims\nhis \"unalterable will\" to convoke an\nassembly, but only a consulting assembly, elected by the nobles and\nthc rich, to the total exclusion of\ntho working class, as well as of thc\n\"educated canaille.\" He causes tho\nimprisonment of the nover-to-bo-for-\ngotten hcroe* of the revolution\u00E2\u0080\u0094\nWassilicw, Oorshkowltch, Gasprzak,\nKrnuse. Khinelnitsky, Nikofarow, together with their friends. Ho eausos\nPet row, TitolT, Adamonko, Tehorny,\nMoteheslovor, together with thoir\ncomrades of tho revolted fleet to lie\nshot. But (he blood of tho nuirtvr\nis a fruitful dew. Evor \u00E2\u0096\u00A0Dreading,\ntho Socinlist movement either gathers together for a common effort\nOr'draws in its wake tho proletarian\nmasses of the cities, the people of\ntho fields, and tho liberal elements\nof thc bourgeois*. In all the largo\ncities the general strike breaks out.\nCommunication is suspended. Russia is cut. off from tho rest of tho\nworld. Duo to the strike on tho\nrailroads; tho government is struck\nat It* vitals: after a few davs of\nresistance, Nicholas IT. solemnly\nproclaims his defeat by lho manifesto of October SO, announcing now\nconcessions.\nThe history of the year HHte has\nrevealed to the world the valor of\nRussian Socialism. It has proved\nThe gross earnings of thc railways\nof the United States last year are\ngiven as a 1 Uie over *3,000,0M),-\nthe course of a quarrel between I DtH). This gives some idea of the\nHarriman and Hill railways over I enormous amount of work performed\na crossing near Portland, Ore., Har- I by Harriman, Gould, Vanderbilt, Jim\nriman's men tore up the track and; Hill and the rest of the railway\nburned a bridge belonging to the \ magnates. Only for the likes of\nHill roadway. Did somebody say them the working people would have\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2'l.ovv and Order?\" : to do the work themselves.\nMASS MEETING\nIN COMMEMORATION OF THE\nMartyrs of\nBloody Sunday\nhi ST. PETERSBURG\nptiea Fries\nYSAS\nSI.00\nTHE POVERTY OF PROSPERITY\nWinnipeg Scribe Pointi Out Why \"Canada Will Never be Immune From Destitution/' While Capitalist\nProsperity Lasts.\n\"The year now at on end has been\nmarked by the highest degree of material prosperity in the history of\nthc country.\" \u00E2\u0080\u0094 Winnipeg Tribune,\nDec. 30.\nIn an editorial found in the Telegram of thc same date, a sample of\nmaterial prosperity\" in shown. To\nquote: \"A dispatch from Montreal\nsays that hundreds of poor people,\nwho have depended to a large extent\nfor their livelihood during: the winter\non cleaning snow for the city, sent\na deputation to the city hall clamoring for work of some kind to enable them to live.\" Further on:\n\"There are thousands . . . honest,\ncapdble, and thoroughly reliable men\nwho have no prospect of livelihood\nfrom day to day. To them the\nmild winter spells disaster. . . 'lhe\nwhole subject is pathetic but the\ncold fa-t is that Canada will never,\nany more than other countries, be\nimmune from destitution.\" The\nother columns of the Telegram teem\nwith the same lie so brazenly promulgated by the Tribune for, though\nit is true the robber class has enjoyed \"the highest l<*gree of material prosperity\" during tho pitt year\nthe inference meant to te drawn by\nthe reader is that the whole nation\nhas enjoyed the same degree of prosperity, and that is not the fact as\nwitness the Telegram.\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2'\u00E2\u0096\u00A0*'' *\nThousands of \"honest, capable and\nthoroughly reliable men\" anxious to\nwork and denied thc opportunity:\n\"Canada will never, any more than\nother countries be immune from\ndestitution.\" What a commentary\non our boasted civilization! What\na contradiction to the oft made\nstatement that no one need lack\nwork in this country. We may forgive the capitalist press much for it\ncontinually furnishes facts and makes\nstatements with which the Socialist\nmay point a moral and adorn a\nUie.\nSo long as capitalist conditions\nhold sway no country may be immune from destitution. The ownership of the means ot production by\nan idle class, grant-rng access to\nXhose means of production only when\nprofit can be made is the cause of\nthe poverty and misery in which the\ngreater number of the working class\nlive nnd move and have their being.\nBy virtue of this ownership the capitalist class possess the whole of the\nproduct of the working class. The\ncapitalist, however, cannot exist,\nas such, without workers. He must\nallow those that work for him enough to live upon in order .that they\nmay continue to work for him. The\ncapitalist cannot give less than the\nnecessary subsistence, but the worker is ever desirous to obtain more\nand yet on the average fails to do\nso. Why? Recause there are \"thousands of honest, capable and thoroughly reliable men\" looking for\nwork, and the competition between\nthem .ensures the capitalist his laborers at the cheapest price obtainable\u00E2\u0080\u0094viz.: the cost of their subsistence. This is the iron law of wages,\nthis is the law that the aforesaid\n\"honest, capable and thoroughly reliable men\" are ignorantly, but none\nthe less efficiently, engaged in supporting at every eleetiton and between whiles.\nmam\nTo ensure the competition between\nthe workers being keen enough to\nbring wages down to the subsistence\npoint there must, all the time, be a\nnumber of the working class with\nout work and this \"reserve army\"\nof capitalism is kept well supplied\nby the continual displacement of\nworkers by labor saving machinery.\nIn times of \"prosperity\" when\nwealth production is at its height\nsuch large drafts are made upon rhisj\nreserve army that it ceases to aU\ntract muih notice, wages rise, times\nare '-'good,\" but when the inevitable\nslackening of production takes place\nthe number of unemployed becomes\nso large as to be a menace to the\npeace and privileges of the capitalists, the wages of those employed\nfall, discontent reigns and something\nmust be done.\n* * *\nIn Groat llritain the unemployed\nproblem is not confined to bad tajmes\nbut has become chronic. The distress at present is so great that during the last parliamentary session\nwa* born legislation supposed to giv-i\nop|tortunities to the unemployed to\nobtain work, but so far the act has\nremained inoperative having been\npassed with that end in view. There\nis, however, another reniedy\u00E2\u0080\u0094-ein\u00C2\u00BBjj^-a->\ntion. Gwing to the fact that they\nhave prc-duced too much wealth, the\nworkers of Great Uritein are unable\nto live in their own country, therefore, they must \"move on.\" Any\nhonest investigator must think it a\npeculiar system where the creators\nof wealth starve in the midst of superabundance. Xo other animal but\nthe genus homo would submit to\nsuch an insane state of affairs, but\nhe is docile, patient and long suffering, requiring much education and\nmany hard experiences before luiding\na way out of his troubles.\n* * #\nThe Socialist points the .vay out.\nHistory shows us that each system\nof society contained within tltelt the\ngerms oi its own lecay. i-'cuiialism\nruled for many centuries, ihe land\nowners constituted the ruling class,\nbut within the feudal system was the\nrising middle class, the traders and\nmanufacturers. As the division of\nlabor grew and consequently the amount ot wealth produced increased,\nthis class ' became more and more\nwealthy, but needed to free itself\nfrom the shackles of feudalism before it could obtain its full development. To do this it found it neces.\nsary to obtain the political power\nand after a long struggle was successful in Kngland more S*J than in\nother countries. The capitalist]\nclass now rules, and below it, and\nexploited by it is the working class\nwho, to save itself from utter destitution and misery must follow the\nexample of the capitalist class and\nobtain the political power with\nwhich to concjuer and overthrow feudalism. The number of unemployed\ngrows ever greater and greater with\na consequent increase of misery and\ndestitution, to which it is not to be\nsupposed any great number of human beings will willingly subntit.\nSomething must bo done, but it\nmust be done by the working class\nitself. The Socialist points the\nway. Socialism is inevitable, even\nas capitalism was inevitable. Tbe\ndistribution of wealth must be\nbrought into harmony with its production. The means of production\nare now collectively used, but owned\nby a class. They must be collectively owned in order that production\nmay be collectively owned and eqsii-\ntable distributed. Then, and not\ntill then, shall we be \"immune from\ndestitution.\"\nSPARTACUS.\nCITY HALL\nSUNDAY.\nJANUARY 21st, 8 p. m.\nAmong the Speakers will be\nN. L. JOHANSON. late Lieu-\ntenent in the Russian Army\nand prisoner of war in Japan\npBJJB-lieSPSJ****\"\nA collection will be taken. The entire\nproceeds to be sent to the Russian Workers* to aid them in their Struggle for\nFreedom\nPROVINCIAL LEGISLATIVE MILL\nAgain Running Full Blast In Grinding Out its Annual Grist tf\nLegislation.\nThe Western Clarion goes to press\non Thursday P.M. The following\ndispatch was received last week too\nlate for insertion, as it reached the\noftice at 9 p.m. The issue was off\nthe press prior to that time:\nVictoria, H.C., Jan. 11, 1906\nProvincial parliament assembled\ntoday with much tinsel and blare of\ntrumpets. Fashionable attendance\non floor of House. Proletarians conspicuous by their absence. Prayers,\nblessings, etc., King's speech read,\nvarious matters mentioned and promises given, but labor matters carefully avoided. No bonuses for corporations this year either, so Socialists cannot have lost their grip.\nHawthornthwaite started proletarian!\nprogram by introducing Woman's\nSuffrage Ri\"- Speaker solar-plexus-\ned him by demanding two days' no-\ntitice. Gave it promptly, also notice of intention to introduce Monday next, Act to Amend the Provincial Education Act, and Coal Mines\nRegulation Act. Williams follow id\nup with notice to introduce Master\nand Servants' Act (weekly wages),\nand Amendment to Workmen's Compensation Act, to increase indemnity.\nSession will be as short as the\nteres ts of capitalism will allow.\nm-\nOn Jan. 15, Hawthornthwaite introduced his bill extending the franchise to women, also one reducing\nthe candidates' deposit in Provincial\nelections from $200 to $50.\nUpon the same date the following\nbills wore introduced by tbe Attorney-General:\n\"An Act to declare tho Law with\nrespect to Ancient Lien'.*.\"\n\"An Act respecting the County\nCcurt of Atlin.\"\n\"Au Ait to Amend the Rur-ah al\nMines Act.\"\n\"An Act to Amend the Gen.trnl\nTrusts Corporation Act, 1905.\"\ndust what bearing theso bills of\nthe Attorney-General hnve, cither\nbeneficial or otherwise, upon the interests of thu working people iimv\nbe seen at a glance.\nGOOD MUSIC\nDoors open 7t*30.\nEverybody welcome\nAt a Rerlin pastrycook's a lady\nhad come in with her little girl for\na cup of chocolate and cakes. Presently she was observed to rise in\nhaughty indignation, and gather her\nskirts preparatory to leaving. She\nhad been deeply insulted. Her ser\nvant having a tree hour, had D-jrought,\na sister for an hour's cfuiet talk,\nand this being tho nearest place, she\ncame there when hor mistress was\nthere. Fancy the latter being forced to drink chocolate In the t.unm\nroom with her servant!\u00E2\u0080\u0094 Ex. -\nfl\nNl\n|\ni j\nj. r\n1\nTHE WESTMtH ftr At>tAu trAvnmmra ftftfflflil OOLUMBU\nSaturday . ...Tami.i\nl&H)j\nPublished every Saturday to ths\ninterests of the working crass alone\nat ths Office of the Western Clarion,\nFtaak Kock basement, 165 Hastings\nStreet, Vancouver, B. C.\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2\u00E2\u0096\u00A0HOIIPTIBI: Sl.00 PER AHUUM\nBtristly ia Advance.\nYsarly subscription cards In lots\nof frre or more, 75 cents each.\njlstvsrtlstag rates on application.\nIf jrou receive this paper, it is paid\nfor.\nall communications to\nThe WESTERN CLARION\nBox 836,\nVancouver, B. 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JaRuary 20,1906.\ntion of human socttety, the product\nof centuries of development can be\nput to its proper use of lightening\nthe burden of toil upon the shoulders\nof the individual man.\nIndividual zealots who are carried off their feet by sudden waves\nof enthusiasm brought on by Utopian visions of glorious prospects opened to their admiring gaze by the\nmagic wand of their own conceit ami\nself-importance, and who would jbbild\nwhat they term \"economic organizations\" in which the workers are to\nbe \"drilled\" for the task of \"taking\nover and successfully operating\" the\nindustries when capitalism shall, by\nsome mysterious process bo overthrown, overlook the fact that tbe\neconomic organization already exists, and the workers have grown\nup with it- have been drilled into\nits operation and today are operating it with all the measure of success possible under its present form\nof ownership and consequent control. That these workers have little or no participation in the accruing rjeneflts does not arias from their\nlack of ability to operate, but in tha\ncapitalists' power to apply the benefits to other purposes. The action\nnecessary to deprive the capitalists\nof this power has already been mentioned and needs no further elaboration. It is so palpably self-evident\nthat it could not well escape the notice of anyone with his eyes open.\no\n=\nECONOMIC ORGANIZATION.\nthese workers of the ages have\nbrought forth those splendid achievements in thc Industrial arts that are\nmaking of this era one so prolific in\nwealth production that its power is\nbeyond computation. It would be\nfar easier for the workers to again\nequip themselves with everything required for the carrying on of industry than to carry upon their backs\nthe present burden of capitalist exploitation. And besides all of this,\nthe capitalists could not remove\nthese things from any country without the assistance of the workers.\nBystander need not be m the least\nalarmed. No such good fortune\nwill come to the workers ot this continent as the getting rid ot the rule\nof capital in any such easy manner.\nHut if such a thing should happen\nthe lot of the \"Western artisan\"\nwould be a most happy one. happy\nby virtue of the fact that he would\nno longer be compelled to support\nan extremely expensive bunch of\nleeches called capitalists.\n o\t\nDESTROYINO SUPERSTITION\ncause capitalist agencies nullify their\nfancied possessions in (his line.\nDecisions liko the one referred to,\nshould, nnd undoubtedly will, accomplish much good in one way.\nThey will render invaluable assistance In destroying the prevalent\nUNNECESSARY ALARM.\nThe reading ot the history of mankind from the materialistic standpoint shows the trend of industrial\nevolution to have continually been\nin the direction of a more perfect,\ncomplete and powerful organization\nof the powers of wealth production,\ni.e., more efficient economic organisation. The purpose lying behind\nthis development, and in obedience\nto the irresistible force of which it\nhas been pushed forward is, that of\nenabling mankind to supply itself\nwith the material resy-uisities for its\ncomfort and well-being with ths\nleast possible expenditure ot human\nenergy. Men, either as individuals\nor aggregations of individuals, have\nbeen but instruments in the hands oi\nthe underlying forces that have pushed humanity along the pathway of\nmaterial progress. That they have\nturned things to their own advantage, and away from the really legitimate and benencient purpose oi\nthe general well-being, is undoubtedly true, but that the ultimate outcome of all of the turmoil and agony, and travail of, past and present\ntimes will be the uplift of tbe race\nto a greater degree of comfort, of\nhappiness and of general well-being;\nwould seem to be equally beyond\nquestion.\nThe organization of the powers of\nwealth production, i.e., the economic organization of human society,\nis rapidly approaching that degree,\nof perfection where it can no longer\nbe held in subjection, and made subservient to the whim or caprice of\nanything less than the whole people\nacting together in the common interest. In fact it can no longer\nbe kept from performing its legitimate function of providing tinman\nsociety, even down to its humblest\nunit, with the material requisities\nto a full, tree and bealthrui civiliz-\nad existence, ia return for services\nrendered in the interest of the commonweal. Thero is evidence upon\nevary hand to show the near approach of the collapse of the present or capitalist control of the economic organization aad its assumption by human society for ths common good. That this '\"Tr^'rg\nchange will be effected by the action of ths working class does not\nia Use least altar the facts in the\n'case. The victory of the working\nclass ia the impending conflict merely signifies the application of the\nbenefits arising from powerful and\nhighly developed economic organiza-\ntiob, to all the members of society,\ninstead of to a favored few as at\npresent,\nTo effect this change imperatively\ndemanded by ths needs of the hour\nnecessitates ths conquest by the\nworking class of that sole point at\nvantage from which the.ownership\u00E2\u0080\u0094\nand therefore mastery\u00E2\u0080\u0094of economic\norganization and power can he dictated and enforced. This point of\nvantage is government, the organized power of the State. It is this\npower alone which today withholds\nfrom all except the favored few any\nparticipation in thc benefits arising\nfrom the powerful modern economic\norganization. It is the power that\nholds intact the present or capitalist form of property in the means of\nproduction, and thus preserves to the\ncapitalists the control of economic\npower and the absorption of the\nwealth arising from iu exercise. It\nia ths power that holds the working\nclaaa In its present condition of economic bondage or wage-servitude. It\nis the power that must be broken before the present economic orgaaiza-\nsuperetition\nrights.\"\nabout \"constitutional\nIt is to be hoped that those who\nregulate tbe policy of the artisans\nand give the signal for industrial\nwar do not leave out of sight the\npossibility of being brought into\ncompetition with the cheap labor of\nfour hundred millions of industrious\nChinese, If, scared by incessant\nstrikes, capital were to take flight\nto China, what would be the lot of\n,the Western artisan?\u00E2\u0080\u0094A Bystander\nin Weekly Sun.\nBystander evidently labors under\nthe delusion that somehow or other\ncapital provides for the necessities ot\nwhat he terms the \"Western artisan,\" or is at least indispensible to\nhis existence, and if capital should\ntake wings and fly to some more\ncongenial clime, Mr. \"Artisan\"\nwould be in a hard fix. Quite the\ncontrary is the case, however. The\nworkers, whether skilled or unskilled, live, not from capita], but from\ntheir own labor. Capital expresses\nmerely the relationship existing between them and their present economic masters. lt in no way aids\nthem in providing for their necessities, but on the contrary erects a\nbarrier in the way of so doing, because it seizes upon tbe product of\ntheir labor and retains unto itself\nas much thereof as it possibly can\nthereby,, depriving them of the privilege of utilizing it for their own\nsustenance and well being. Every\ndollar of wealth accruing to capital\nthrough the operation of a country's\nindustries, represents that amount\ntaken from the workers without anything given in return. Out of this\ncapitalists and their hangers-on live,\noftentimes in riotous luxury, aad\nwhat is left over is converted into\nadditional capital with which to enlarge.the process by the exploitation\nof aa additional number of workers.\nThe power of capital rests in its\ncontrol of the labor of the working\npeople. This control is' held by capitalists by virtue of their ownership\nof the means of wealth production\nupon which the workers, perforce,\ndepend for their existence, i.e., the\nownership of the resources of the\nearth and the implements of industry whereby the workers transform\nsuch resources into usable things,\nsuch as food, clot Wag, shelter, etc.\nIf the capitalists of this Western\ncontinent were to take alarm and\ntransfer their capital to the Orient\nor elsewhere, it would merely mean\nthat they had transferred their privilege of exploitation of labor from\nthis country to another. They would\nof necessity leave the land and all of\nits resources behind them, and, as a\nmatter of tact, and of still further\nimportance, they would also leave\nbehind them.that portion of the people of this continent who have in\nthe past made sad are now making\nit habitable by civilized man, b.v\nconverting its resources into the\nthings necessary for his sustenance.\nThey would leave the workers behind unless the latter were so devoid of sense as to follow after their\nlevanting masters for tlie purpose of\ncontinuing to wear the yoke of servitude to which they have so long\nbeen accustomed. It might be argued that tbe capitalists would takta\ntheir shops, factories, etc., out of\nthe country and leave the inhabitants destitute of these indispensable\nthings. The workers have created\nthese things unaided and alone.\nThrough the long and bitter experience of thousands of years, in spite\nof all obstacles that could be erect,\ned in their pathway by crafty, cunning and unscrupulous rulers both\ntemporal and spiritual, who have\npreyed upon their superstition sod\ntaken advantage of their ignorance,\nAs another proof that the judiciary is recognized by the capitalist\nas \"the bulwark of American liberty,\" we produce the following from\nthe Associated Press dispatches:\n\"New York, Jan. 3.\u00E2\u0080\u0094In the appelate division of the Supreme Court\nyesterday a decision was rendered in\nthe case of Harry Marcus, convicted\non a charge of coercing Hyman\nSheinbaunt to enter into a written\nagreement with the H. Marcus Shirt\nCompany not to become a member\nof any labor organization as a condition of securing employment with\nthat concern. The judgment of conviction is reversed and the defendant\ndischarged.\n\"The court holds that the section\nof the penal code which forbids the\nmaking of contracts of thc kind described, declaring such act as misdemeanor, is unconctitutional. 'It is\nthe duty of the state and nation,'\nsays the opinion, 'to protect every\ncitizen in the exercise of his constitutional rights, and so long as the\nstate and nation last, inability or\nunwillingness to perform that duty\nmay not be assigned as a justification for a law making the exercise\nof one's constitutional rights crime\"\nThe above decision from a Court\nof Appeals, is about as brazen as\never disgraced a judicial tribunal.\nAccording to the above decision, an\nemployer of labor can use his economic power to force an employee to\nforfeit his \"constitutional rights\" to\nbecome a member of a labor organization. The economic power of the\nmaster, is his \"constitutional\nrights,\" and those \"constitutional\nrights\" are the means by which the\nemployer murders the \"constitutional rights\" of an employee according\nto the verdict of the Appelate Court.\nIf this decision is founded on the\nconstitution, then the law againet\nprostitution is a farce.\nMen and women can enter into\ncontracts end though the contracts\nare against the \"penal code.\" Yet\nthere are \"constitutional rights\" to\nbe considered.\nThe court failed Ur make a statement as to what, were the \"constitutional rights\" of Sheinbaum. who\nas a wage slave, was denied the\nright to enter a labor organization.\nThis decision leaves the wage slave\nwithout any \"constitutional rights.\"\n\u00E2\u0080\u0094Miners' Magazine.\nThe last sentence in the above explains why \"the court failed to make\na statement as to what were the con-,\nstitutionnl rights of Sheinbaum.\"\nThe wage-slave has no constitutional rights, hence no statement relating thereto could be forthcoming.\nThe only right that either the slave\nor bis master ever had, or ever can\nhave, is that which (hey may have\nthe power to enforce. The superstition about constitutional rights is\none of the most ridiculous that ever\nheld baneful sway over the minds of\nmen. Nothing could be more supremely ridiculous than the faith that\nabides with tbe majority of men that\ncertain rights are secured to them\nbecause an allegation of such rights\nIs recorded upon pieces of parchment.\nThe waster class today enjoys the\nright to exploit, brow-beat and maltreat thc working class to a degree\nwithout limit. That power is enjoyed for the simple reason that the\nmaster class possesses the power to\nenforce that right. It has all of\nthe powers of government under Its\nhand and at its disposal, with which1\nto effect its purpose. It holds these\npowers by the consent of the enslaved class, and although their exercise may work hardships upon some\nmembers of the working class who\nhave sense enough in their heads to\nwithdraw their consent, the ruling\nclass is justified in using these powers In any manner It chooses, so\nlong as tho majority of the members\nof human society give sanction. The\nworkers of Russia possess only such\nrights as they are enabled to take\nby sheer force from the ruling clsss\nof that country in utter defiance of\nall rules, regulations or laws, previously promulgated by their rulers,\nIn spite of all the sham, hypocrlcy,\npretense aad superstitution of constitutionalism in the United States,\nthe workers thore are In the same\nfix, and the sooner they go about\nthe conquering of the righto they desire to possess, the better. It is\nworse than useless to complain be-\nIn another column will be found\ncertain resolutions touching upon labor matters, adopted by Glad-don*\nI>Ocal Union of the United Mine\nWorkers of America.\nIt is evident that the Fernie minors are obtaining a clear conception\nof the steps necessary to secure any\npermanent relief to the workers from\nthe merciless exploitation at the\nhands of capitalist property, under\nwhich they suffer. Having advanced\nthus fur it is reasonably certain\nthese miners'will soon reiich the conclusion that it is imperative thnt\nthey henceforth elect their own men\nto parliament. charged solely with\nthe\" mandate of tho men of labor.\nWhen the workers nil along 'he line\ndo this, it will bo tho capitalists'\nturn to |ietition and pass resolutions,\nThe sooner all union men take intelligent Interest in politics from thc\nlabor standpoint the better for\nthenim-lves and all concerned. All\nhail to the Pernio miners. They are\non Ihe right line, and may the.v keep\neverlastingly at it.\nPLATFORM\nami or nt Wonts Hum*\nlUnion Director\nWhe* They Meet, Whert They y \"\ngejT-Hvrry Ubor Union tn ^7\u00E2\u0084\u00A2\u00E2\u0084\u00A2/^\nxjltett lo place \u00E2\u0080\u00A2 card ar-drr thi, iL,, \"J* \u00C2\u00BB \u00C2\u00AB\nmouth. Secrctarie* Die*** u, \u00E2\u0080\u00A2' * i\nSecretaries plraae \u00E2\u0080\u00A2,\u00E2\u0080\u009E\u00E2\u0096\u00A0,\n:* ^r\nPhc-erris Trades snd Ubor Co**.\nMeet* every alternate U^*-\nPresident. M. J. ami-,. VleeT\"\ndent, S. Lenleux, St-re-.*. !\u00E2\u0096\u00A0*\nArms, T. B. Cosgrove a\u00C2\u00A3%*\nTreasurer, Webster Ko-rers \"\nHox, 108, Phoenix. H t\nt-i\nUpon the ro-clcction of John Ilurns\nthe apostate, which occurred at Hat-\ntersea. London, on Jan. 16, he was\ncarried shoulder high through (he\ns(reets by thousands of workingmen.\nIt is within the memory of residents\nof Nanaimo, when Ilnlhh Smith, the\nVancouver Island cheap edition of\nthe same type, was drawn through\nthat city's streets by his admiring\ndupes. But they do so no more,\nand the time is not distant when\nHums, like Smith, will find none so\npoor in spirit or lacking in mankind as to do him reverence. Stealing the livery of Labor to serve tho\ndevil of capital in may bring lucre\nor emolument, but these will be followed by ihe bitter curses of a be*\ntrayed cause. The \"thirty pieces of\nsilver\" no doubt looked good to\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2Indus, but the betrayal of his master has been execrated by every decent person since.\n o \u00E2\u0080\u00A2\nWhen thc fortunes of politicul\nwarfare gave to the capitalists of\nthe North control of the federal\n(lower, which had hitherto lieen held\nby tho slave owners of the South,\n2,700.OOO men from the North took\nup arms and fought through one of\nthe most bloody wnrs of history to\nsecure to the Northern capitalists\ntho full fruits of the victory'- This\nhappened before \"Father Hagerty\"\ngot wheels in his head, or (he I. W,\nW. wns born.\n o\t\nTo convert a workingman to Socialism it is necessary tha( his creator shall have first endowed him\nwith a few grains of common sense.\nThat's all.\nWe the Socialist Party of Canada\nin convention assembled, affirm our\nallegiance to and support of the principles and program of the intema-\n(ional revolutionary working class.\nLabor produces all wealth, and to\nlabor Jt should Justly belong. To\nthe owners of the means of wealth\nproduction belongs the product of\nlabor. The present economic system is based upon capitalist ownership of tho means of wealth production: therefore all the products of\nIttlwr belong to the capitalist class.\nThe capitalist is master, the worker\nis slave.\nSo long as the capitalists remain\nin possession of the reins of government all the powers ot the state will\nbe used to protect and defend their\nproperty rights in the means of\nwealth production and their control\nof the product of labor.\nTho capitalist system gives to the\ncapitalist on ever-swollintr stream of\nprofits, and to tho worker an sver-\nIncrenslng measure of misery and\ndegradation.\nThe interest of thc working class\nlies in the direction of setting Itaclt\nfree from capitalist exploitation by\nthe abolition of the wage system. To\naccomplish thi* nsesssitatss tho\ntransformation of capitalist property in the means of wealth production Into collective or working-class\nproperty. ^\nThe irrepressible conflict of interests between the capitalist snd the\nworker is rapidly culminating in a\nstruggle for possession nf the power\nof government\u00E2\u0080\u0094the capitalist to hold\ntho worker to secure It by political\naction. This is the class stru-ggle.\nTherefore, we call upon aH workers to organ!'*' und.-r the banner of\nthe Socialist Party of Canada with\nthe objert of conquering the public\n(lowers for the purf-oiw ot setting up\nand enforcing the economic program\not the working class, as /ollows:\n1. The transformation us rapid! v\naa possible, of capitalist |*ropt*rty in\nthe means of wealth production I natural resources, factories, mills, railways, etc.,) into the collective property of the working ila-s.\n2. Thorough and democratic organization mid iiianagerm-nt of industry by the workers.\n3. The establishment, as speedily\nas possible, of production for use\nInstead of production for profit.\nThe Socialist Party, when in oAVe\nshall always and everywhere until\nIhe present system Is abolished,\nmake the answer to this question Its\nguiding rule of conduct. Will this\nlegislation advance the Interests of\nPhoenix Miners' Union No\nW. F. M. Meets every s.,wotr.sr 11. C.\nIXM.'AL TORONTO - Meet* 2ul \u00C2\u00AB\nand 4 th Tuesdays, Temj.ran.Ua4\nHa-hurst Bt. F. Dais, H\u00C2\u00ABr*t\u00C2\u00ABr/.\n41 Henry street, W. Q OrtbaW,\norgsnlrcr, 130 Hogarth Ave,\nWANTED by Chicago \u00C2\u00BBb\u00C2\u00BBle*jM\nhouse, special reprsa-en'.euni fa-\neach province ia Canada. a*.\u00C2\u00BB.>\n920,00 aad expense* paid **as;-.\nExpeass money aii-ea > : business successful; poailioi. t-triiiaa**-.\nNo ia vestment rsquirwj I'rrwes\nexperience not eaorauai to ttpt\nlag. Address\nGeneral Manager, U9 tak* St\nChicago, 111 , ISA-\nThe result of the English elections\nso far indicate a writable IJberal-\nLabor landslide. The sturdy British\nworkingman is lo lie commended for\nhis political sagacity, foresight, and\nadvancement.\nFive yearly sub. cards\u00E2\u0080\u0094$3.75.\nI r.DWsan Bisk. a. C. Bstdo-s-jacs.\ngbo. B. McCaonas.\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2IRO, tHYOIN-MSK A wkCRISSM\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0ABftlsTMH, HOUt fTOBS, ITC.\nTel. MB.\n114 torus*. Strait\nP.O. Boa M3.\nI. C.\nASA WORKING TOOL\nfor the student and the writer,\nas an authoritative reference book\nfor schools, teachers, families,\nbusiness and professional men,\nthere is one book which offers\nsuperior advantages in the solid\nvalue of its information, and the\nease with which it is obtained.\"\nOne's admiration for Webster's\nInteiTiational Dictionary increases\ndaily as it comes to be better\nknown. It never refuses the inf or\nmotion sought and it never overwhelms one with a mass of misinformation illogically arranged.\nThe St. James Gazette of London,\nEngland, says: For the teacher, the pu\npil, tbe student and the litterateur, there\nk nothing better; It covers eveiything.\nTee Ksw snd BsJarvei BdlMon recently a>\nsued has \u00C2\u00ABS00O new word* and phraao*. a one.\nplStelf revised Blovrastucal Dictionary Md\nOasstteer of the World, am mem aad MM\nillustrations.\nOur name is on the title-pages of all tbe\nauthentic Sloticnarie* of ths Wtbiter aeries\nLET US 8ENO YOU FREE\n\"A Test la rrotnuseiaUon\" which afford* \u00C2\u00AB\npleasant and iastrueUv* evening'* entertain\nn-oiit. Illustrated pamphlet also free, r*\n0.0 C. M KUK1 AM CO., Pub*., BprlngiUld,\nLKAKX TEI-KOHArilV ar,U H H\nACCOC.VTINO. S&O io \u00C2\u00BB1*\u00C2\u00BB|\u00C2\u00AB\ninoath salary assurtd our pains\nte* under bond. You dun i ja- a\nuntil you have a poeHioo Urpst\nayitrin of telegraph \u00C2\u00BB heoui \u00E2\u0080\u00A2* Ac-\nfries. Indorsed by all r\u00C2\u00ABrl\u00C2\u00ABajr*\u00C2\u00AB-\nfklals. OPEIIATOKS Al.WAiS\nIN I.1KXANI). Ladies. alM adsut*\nted. Writs for tatalug sa Mors\narkool of Telegraphy. I .nlamtB.\nO.: Huflalo. N. V; A-I^i*, 0*-.\nLa Crosse. Wis.; Teiari.au*. IsaVi\nSaa Iran*.\u00C2\u00BBwo. Cal\nthe working claa* and aid the work-j hchscHIHKHS TAKE NOTICE.\nera in their class struggle against\ncapitalism? If it will, the Socialist\nParty is for It. if It will not, the\nThis losiM- ia No. SM !; th\" :*\n,.,,.\u00E2\u0080\u009E., . , , |lae number upon your *dir\u00C2\u00BB*s alp-\nSocialist Party is absolutely orspa*- youp au^HrKlos, espire* wttn is*\n\"\" to ,t' number. If further ropie* are mat-\nIn accordance with this principle \u00C2\u00ABd, renewal should be Bad* at est*\nths Socialist Par'y pledges Itself to]If cars Is taken to ran** before uw\nconduct all ths public affairs placed >xplr\u00C2\u00ABuoa of the old subscriptiona it\nin Its hands In such a manner as to\npromote the Interests of the working class alone.\nAPPLICATION FOB MKN*\nllEItfiHIP IN TIIK SOCIAL.\nIKT PAIITV OF CANADA.\nhereby apply for membership\nI, THE UNDKIIHIONBD.\nin u>cal\n Socialist Party of\nCanada.\nI recosjnlxe the claast -struggle\nbetween Hi*, capitalist class and\nthe working class to be a\nstruggle for political supremacy, I. \u00C2\u00AB\u00E2\u0080\u00A2., poaseaaion of the\nrelna of government, and which\nnecessitates the organisation of\nthe worker* Into a political\nparty distinct from and opposed to all parties nf the capitalist class.\nIf admitted to membership,\nt hereby agree to maintain or\nenter Into no relations with\nany other political party, nnd\npledge myself to support by\nvoice, vote and all other legitimate means the ticket and the\nprogram of the Koclallat Party\nof Canada only.\nApplicant\t\nAddress\t\nOccupation\t\nAge\t\nCitizen :,,,\nAdmitted to l,oca! l|a-(,\n Chairman.\n Ilec.-Hec.\nwill greatly simplify matters In Ul\noffice as well as avoid any tree* st\nreceipt of papers.\nKSTARI.ISHI'.Ii i\".i\nThe VOICE\ntit StSMl Later r\u00C2\u00BBl-tf Is Ciusi\nAlways s fear!\na* r*\*>\"\" '\nof labor.\ntbe\nFor one dollar the paprr will be\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2ent to any addreaa (or one j ear.\nU'orkisgmen of all countnc will\ntoon recognize Ihe fact ttint the*\nmn-4 support sad read theh :\u00E2\u0080\u00A2\u00E2\u0096\u00A0\u00E2\u0096\u00A0\"\u00C2\u00BB\npapers.\nIssued every Friday\nTit VllCt ftUskhii C... LISlls*\nWINNIPR'm man\n-TllrV-\nFive yearly sub. cards\u00E2\u0080\u0094$3.70.\nMiners 'Magazine\nPublished Wsskly try the\nWtrttrt rsjjtratrss II W\"\u00C2\u00AB\u00C2\u00BB .\nA Vlsroroes Advocate of Ubor*\nCause.\nClear Cut and Aggressive.\nPer Year $i.00. 81a Month*, tat\nAddress:\nstTVBRS' MAGAZINE.\nDenver, Colorado.\n.^waridothsji* who reall/e <\u00E2\u0096\u00A0\u00C2\u00BB' 'i'^-teJ\nty of having lheir Witrnt N*'\"?\"'<\u00C2\u00BB.\u00C2\u00A3 L,\n . \"\u00E2\u0080\u00A2... \u00E2\u0080\u0094Jssaryadvlee free, i''\"'PJ\n_.J.. aavlsrr \u00E2\u0080\u00A2\u00E2\u0096\u00A0\u00E2\u0080\u00A2\"''.'1,7\nby Bsperta. .Prelim\nssoderai*. Otar\nreqneat Marlon\u00C2\u00AB. , .\nMoutreal; awl Washlii .-tun. \u00E2\u0080\u00A2>\u00E2\u0080\u00A2'-- l ''\n-*nmisiarjra\u00C2\u00ABvK\u00C2\u00BB \u00E2\u0080\u00A2\u00E2\u0096\u00A0*\u00E2\u0080\u00A2\u00E2\u0096\u00A0;. uW-\n.0**-\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0L\u\u00C2\u00ABU*.^RHfiHlllOSSOI\u00C2\u00BBS\nBl-sr m h c: < ic.rv* -\ntaMpBN\n'\u00E2\u0096\u00A0...-\u00E2\u0080\u00A2K:-/,-*;,,^,-,:-,;-..-,;-,..* Ratnrday ... Janttary 20, J906.\ntgg WESTERN OLaUtlOH, TAW60tTVERt &BITI8H COLUMBIA.\n.* \u00E2\u0096\u00A0*\u00E2\u0096\u00A0 e-'a ass*\n f\nI\nSocialist Party of Canada\nDOMINION EXECUTIVE HEADQUARTERS.\nJ. G. MORGAN, Secretary,\nVancouver, B. C.\nDOMINION\nEXECUTIVE\nMITTEE.\nCOM-\nVanrouver, B. C, Jan. 15.\u00E2\u0080\u0094Pres-\n,.\u00E2\u0080\u009Et-Comrades Wilkinson, chairman;\nHtooWngs, Parr, Flowers, Organizer\nKingsley and the Secretary.\nThe minutes of the previous meeting were road and adopted.\nThe following correspondence was\ndealt with:\nFrom Fredericton, N. B. .xjcal en-\ndosing $3.30 for stamps and monthly report. Received and complied\nwith.\nFrom 8. W. Welch, Red I .nice, Algeria, asking information pm to form\ning a local in that district. H.itiv.\ned and complied with.\nFrom Toronto, int., '.oral wlc*-\ning tH.OO for due stamps and tri.bth-\nly report. Received nnl nl\"[.itd\nwith.\nFrom Claiwmolm, Aim., i/ocal enclosing $3.00 for stamps ni.d n onth-\nly i-i-i-ort. Received and :.implied\nMl til.\nFrom Dawson, Y. '\u00E2\u0080\u00A2*, Ij*>h\u00C2\u00BB;. . n-\n< L.sing monthly report. Iluei-.-td\nand filed.\nFrom Montreal I/oral, enclosing\n$1.75 for supplies, uotttjatv] with.\nFrom Winnipeg Local, enclosing\n$2 (Ml for stamps. Received and\ncomplied with.\nA warrant was ordered drawn for\n118.00 to Weatern Clarion for printing.\nReceipts.\nrii-rt-sholm Local, stamps f 3.00\nMontreal 1/ucnl, supplies 1.75\nToronto IxKal. stamp* B.00\n\Wrini|\u00C2\u00BB*g Loral, stamps 2 ( paving a license therefore would\nbe seriously unjust;\nWHKHKFOHK. ws ask Mr. Ross\nto oppose any legislation which may\nforMd the workingman from so\nshooting and hunting, or which if he\nbe privileged to do so would he tnib-\nktct to a license having to be paid\ntherefore\nAI /SO UK IT RESOLVED that a\ncopy of this resolution be sent to\neach member of the Legislative Assembly of tho I'rovdsce.\ne \u00E2\u0080\u00A2 \u00E2\u0080\u00A2\nWIIERBAH the eight-hour law as\nnow interpreted by Statute has for\na long time past been observed and\nis now In operation In the extensive\nmines of the Crow's Nest Pass Coal\nCompany;\nAND WHEUEAS, as we believe,\n'he operation ef the said law has.\nat all times, necn agreeable to all\nparties affected by it;\nAND Wilt.It HAS the present relationship between our employers and\nourselves is harmonious and wo Invite a continuanco thereof;\nAND WHEREAS A disruption of\nindustrial peace will follow any abrogation of the laws, especially that\nof tho eight-hour law, now in favor\nof the workingmaa;\nTHKKKVOUK BK IT RESOLVED:\nthat we respectfully instruct our\nrepresentative ia the Legislature,\nMr. W. R. Ross. M.P.P., to oppose\nall legislation which may limit or\nabrogate tho operation or application of what is commonly known as\nthe \"Blght.hour law;\"\nALSO to oppose any limitation of\nthe benefits enacted hi favor of thu\nworkman hy tho \"Workmen's Compensation Act, 1002;\"\nAND BE IT FURTHER RESOLV-\nFROM ACROSS THE LINE.\nrd: that we nxfuest Mr. Ross to\nsupport Mich legislative amendments\nas may be introduced by way of extending the benefits of the lastly\ninejiu-jtii-il act, and the extension of\nits provisions to Dependents as defined by the imperial Statute;\nANU BK IT FURTHER RESOLV-\ned: that a copy ot these resolutions\nbo forwarded to each member ot the\nlegislative Assembly of the Province of British Columbia.\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 * a\nINSOMUCH as the monthly payment of wages in the coal mines of\nBritish Columbia work* an injustice\nby compelling workmen, working for\nday's wages, to wait not less than\na month and a half, from the beginning of their work, until payment; '\nAND INSOMUCH as tbe wages,\nwhen so paid are less than the amount actually earned up to the date\nof payment;\nAND INSOMUCH as the interpretation sought to be put upoi the\nlaw by sonic employers, excludes the\nwage-earner, worsting for day's\nwages, from recovering his wages\nuntil the regular pay-day of his employer (the day being fixed by the\nemployer) so that where a man\nquits or is discharged, he is compel 1-\nsd to wait (often without means) un*i\ntil the i\u00C2\u00BBy-day of his employer to\ncollect his wages;\nAND INSOMUCH as wages ought\nla any event, to be paid moro fre-\nuuentiy than once a month to men\nworking by tho day, and in the opinion of this Ixx-al payment should\nbe mode once n week.\nTHEREFORE HE IT RESOLVED\nby Gladstone local, No. 2314, U.\nM. W. A , that we draw tho atten\ntion of Mr. Ross, M.P.P. to those\nmatters and solicit his influence in\nthe legislature towards remedying\nthe said grievance and providing for\na weekly pay-day;\nAND BE IT FURTHER RESOLV-\ned that wc urge upon Mr. Ross and\nupon the Legislative Assembly of\nthe Province tho justice of providing\na law whereby mon discharged or\nquitumg work, may ho able to recover their wages, where thoy have\nbeen working by Iho dny, without\nbeing compelled to wait tho convenience or arbitrary arrangement of\ntho employer;\nAND BK IT FURTHER RES0LV-\ned that a copy of these resolutions\nbe sent to each member of tho Legislature and bo published in the\nPress.\nThe vote upon the municipal ownership plebiscite in Vancouver on\ndan. 11, resulted In 1808 for, to\n287 agalnit. This would indicate\nthat municipal ownership is becoming locally fashionable. In fact\nanything in apt to become fashionable that in no manner threatens to\nfavorably affect the status of the\nw*ge-earnlng class In present-day\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2\u00C2\u00BBett*y.\nToronto, Jan. 12.\u00E2\u0080\u0094Twonty members of the Builders' Laborers' Union who were at worte on the new\nTraders' Bank building, are on\nstrike because the employers refused\nto discharge 20 non-union laborers.\n\u00E2\u0080\u0094News Item.\nThat is tho way the \"class struggle\" works out in tho \"economic\nfield.\"\no\nFive Clarion sub. cards\u00E2\u0080\u0094$3.75.\nBy H. Siegfried.\nLaborers are often advised to be\nsaving and industrious and they\nsurely will get rich. They are\ntaught that those who are not, are\nln some, way inferior. In conse-\n-ttuence, most laborers have, early in\nlife, great hope in the future; but,\nafter many years of wage slavery, at\nstarvation wages, they come to the\nconclusion that they lire one of the\ninferiors, or that their luck had\nbeen poor. We are told in capitalist papers, lectures and sermons that\nwe have a great country; that we all\nhave the same opportunity; that the\ncapitalist in only the better paid laborer and that the laborer of today is (he capitalist of to-morrow;\nthat there is really no basis for\nclass distinction. Hut if the workers would only study this matter\nclosely, they will see that there are\ndistinct classes in this as well as in\nall other capitalist countries\u00E2\u0080\u0094a propertyless class\u00E2\u0080\u0094with nothing to lose\nin the changes that must come by\nthe evolution of industry and a capitalist class, well satisfied with conditions as they exist today.\nThe latter have their money profitably invested, and to their class\nthe present system ,is a perfect paradise. All the change they desire is\nmore markets in which to dispose of\nthe surplus they steal from the\nworkers. Ttiey are the Drones in society; the leeches sucking the very\nI iff\u00C2\u00AB-blood out of nations. The\nworld over they never have and never will do i useful day's labor. But\nthey (the capitalists) do take four-\nAfths of what the workers produce,\nand have a royal good time.\nAs all wealth ls produced , by the\nworking class, therefore it is the onh-\nt-lass necessary in a well ordered society. We know that we arc the\nstrongest in numbers and nmst continually grow stronger as the middle-class is eliminated and that as\nsoon as we have learned to fight our\nown battles, we shall be the ruling\nilass. When this time comes, the\nworking-class will assume control of\nthe induutri<*s, (by what method and\nmeans we may leave safely in the\nhands of those who will have to perform this task) and every' one will\nbe provided with work and will receive their socially due share. All\nunproductive labor will be eliminated and economic classes will dissap-\npenr.\nThc downfall of the middle-class is\nonly a <*icstion of a short time.\nThis will open thc eyes of a great\nmany workingmen to the true relations existing between himself and\nhis capitalist master. The present\nclass war must end In complete\nemancipation or total subjugation\nof the working-class. (I do not fear\nthe later condition.)\nA great cry is raised at present\nhere, as well as in (hat great country ot the free on the other side,\nfor government ownership of railroads and other transportation facilities, but I cannot see that that\nwould have any effect on wages. So\nfar as I can sec, it is a wholly middle-class demand. The small ship-\nI\u00C2\u00ABrs of every description, who cannot compete with the big capitalist\nin a fair field, are badly handicap-\nl\u00C2\u00BB-d if discriminated against by railroads and other transportation companies.\nBut do you think the former would\npay more for lal*or-power and be\nwilling that the railroad man should\nbe paid more if his freight rates\nwere reduced? If you think that the\nsmall and independent operator\nwould pay more than the monopolist or the trust, just go next summer to the Northwest and work for\nany small farmer, and I tell you he\nwill work you 16 hours a day. and\npay you as small a wage as you get\nany place. I am not in favor of\ncapitalist-owned combinations or\ntrusts, but I would like to have\nworkingmen understand that their\nlabor-power is a commodity under\nour present system\u00E2\u0080\u0094bought and sold\nat its market price.\nSome of the most despotic monarchies own railroads and other imbr\nlie utilities; but the working class\nns a whole receive very little, or\nhardly any benefit from it. Their\nproduct goes to support snobbery,\nand militarism, while the workers\nlive In poverty and ignorance with\npolitical rights -urtail-.il, or none\nat all. Hero the working class has\nhad full political rights as long as\nthero has been a working class,\nwhich, if used right, would have\nbeen of great benefit to thorn: but\nthey did not understand it, or used\nit for what was still worse\u00E2\u0080\u0094to fight\ntho battles of their masters.\nHow diiierent, when compared with\ntho class-conscious workers of Russia, who have no political rights at\nall, when wo see them demanding not;\nalone u voice in thc government ot\nthat country, but a government by\nand for tho people, and before another yoor has rolled around they\nwill have full political control.\nAnd now, as wc may soon have\nanother political campaign, and the\nspeakers of one of the old parties\nwill tell you what nice things they\narc going to do for you if elected j\nhow proud they aro to shake the\nhorny-hands of tho toilers; while the\nother old party gladiators will tell\nyou that it is all bosh and lake\u00E2\u0080\u0094\nthat they arc only after your vote,\nso that they'll be able to pocket tho\nwholo country\u00E2\u0080\u0094but that his psrty\nis tho real Messiah for tho working-\nmen.\nBut if either of them should attempt to publish a record of what\nthey havo done for the working-class\nthey could easily dispense with all\nprinters. All they'd need would be\na rubber stamp with seven tetters\n\"N-o-t-h-i-n-g.\"\nAre you not sick of these \"Issues\"\nof the capitalists and their hirelSiigs?\nAro you yet matured to a full-\nfledged man, able to take the future\nin your own hands?\nIf so, thon join the International\nArmy of Emancipation, \"the Socialist Party of Canada.\"\no-\n521 Temple Street,\nLos Angeles, Cal.\nDear Comrade,\u00E2\u0080\u0094Tho streets of Los\nAngeles, after being closed to Socialist meetings for over a year, are\nnow open again. It is supposed that)\nthe authorities, learning that a desperate \"fight to a finish\" was about\nto begin, decided to save themselves\na world of trouble, by gracefully\nbacking down.\nThey were undoubtedly well informed, for we had three stalwarts\nin the city, whose fearlessness and\nexperience in fighting for free speech\nare well known to the police of the\nPacific Coast. Arthur Morrow L.-w-\nis, whose struggles with the po-.*-t-\nof Portland, Seattle and Vancouver,\nB.C., dsiring the .summer were an un-\nbroU-n string of victories. Lena\nMorrow Lewis, who took a band in\nthe Portland struggle and fought\nsingle-handed thc police of North\nYakima, Wash., and who sampled a\nSan Francisco jail when that fight\nwas on, and was never connected\nwith a defeat. And .). B. Osborne,\nfresh from Uie struggle in Oakland,\nwhere the victory was ours. With\nthis combination of fighters, and a\nlocal tired of being discriminated\nagainst in favor of the Salvation\nArmy and the \"holy jumpers,\" the\nsudden collapse of police opposition\nhas robibed the citizens of Los Angeles of a colli-i ion of trouble and\nexcitement, such as has rarely been\nseen in any one city in thia country\nsince the civil war. For the next\nfew months, Arthur Morrow Ijewis\nwill hold street meetings every Saturday night on the corner of Market and Spring, from 7 to 9 o'clock,\nand every Sunday afternoon on the\nsouth side of the Plaza, from 2:30\nto 5 o'clock.\nThc now hall we have secured. New\nEngland Hall, 189 5th street, between Main and Spring, is twice the\nsin* of the one we had previously.\nFor the four weeks ending Sunday,\nEel*. 4th., we are sure to pack it\nsolidly, as the speaker for those\nfour Sunday evenings will be Arthur Morrow Lewis. The evenings\nhere are very cold, and few people\nwill stand at a street meeting. Last\nSaturday night Com. Lewis held his\nfirst street meeting. About eighty\npeople who happened to be well\nwrapped stood over an hour, and Ine-,\ncame so deeply interested that they\nbought $10.20 worth of literature.\nAt Com. Lewis' street meeting in\nSan I'odro, Sunday afternoon, literature sales were $11.25.\nOur Speakers' Committee is busy\narranging a meeting for Jan. 22nd,\nin commemoration of \"Bloody Sunday.\"\nComrade Mrs. Lewis is improving,\nand expects to speak for us shortly.\nThe Socialist party and movement\nis in a more flourishing condition\nnow than ever before.\n\"Common Sen9e\" is installing its\nown press this week, and is doing\nconsiderable work. In fact the entire movement in Southern California is looking up and we hope the\nComrades Lewis will remain with\nus as long as possible, and help to\nks\u00C2\u00ABp thc pot a-boiling.\nYours fraternally.\nG. P. BARTEL,\nChairman Speakers' Com.\nBig REDUCTION Sale\nIN MERCHANT TAILORING\nWc Have Removed from Victoria\n ALL OUR\t\nFall And Winter\nStock. Mast be Sold\nBefore Spring Goods\nArrive j& j& j&\nCheapest Bargains in the City\nGive Us a Trial. Fit Guarantee..\nCharlie Dunn,\n100 Hastings Street & j& Vancouver, 6. 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Every dwelling should use it\u00E2\u0080\u0094everybody should use lt.\nThe children\u00E2\u0080\u0094bless them!\u00E2\u0080\u0094they cannot upset the Electric Ugbt\nand bum tho house down. They can do no harm whatever with\nElectric Light. \u00E2\u0080\u009E\nlt can be lighted or extinguished by a touch of the button. No\nlamps to clean, no smell of Coal OH. no disfigurement of walls.\nWhen a small amount ot light is needed. 6 or 10 candle power lamps may be installed, thus reducing the total expense of llgBt-\ning b.v this method. _ , \u00E2\u0080\u009E -.. A . ,\nCall and see us in reference to installing Electric Light to take\nthe place of your Coal Oil. Lamps.\nB.C. ELECTRIC RAILWAY CO.\nStvVC\nMoney\nLet the Clarion print your\nprinting. Tel. 824, Box 836.\nby buying this\nreliable, honest,\nhigh grade sewing machine.\nSTRONGEST GUARANTEE.\nNational Sewing Machine Co.\nSAN FRANCISCO. CAL.\nFACTORY ATBBLWaaa ILU\nHudson's Bay Compaay. Ageato\nOUR\nCascade Beer\nQueen Beer\nAle and Stout\nSpecially' Recommended\nSells all\nOver the\nCountry\nThe Vancouver Breweries, Ltd.\nTelephone 429\n*\u00C2\u00BB****M**MMMIia\u00C2\u00ABlH.kVtf\nmsasajaaaaasm fotnt\nIS\nI\n.'\n\u00E2\u0080\u0094 m \u00E2\u0080\u00A2*j>'v*<'--\n\u00E2\u0080\u0094jW SI H'l \u00E2\u0096\u00A0\nTfflB WfcSTBRtf eiABlON. VANCOUVER, BB^tMtt COLUMBIA.\nSaturday ...January 30.\n\u00C2\u00AB*\u00C2\u00AB*\u00C2\u00AB\nre-\nFat-\nNEWS AND VIEWS\na\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0\u00E2\u0096\u00A0 t -\u00E2\u0096\u00A0\u00C2\u00AB:,\u00E2\u0096\u00A0\n^\nAS GIVEN OR EXPRESSED BY SOCIALISTS THROUGHOUT THE DOMINION\nEdited by It. P. PETTIPIECE. to whom all correspondence for this department should be addressed.\nPLEASE NOTICE.\nANENT\nTHE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE.\nContributors will please remember\nthat all \"copy\" for this department\nshould be in early to ensure publication the same week. Most of the\ncopy is prepared on Sunday night\u00E2\u0080\u0094\nthe editor having to work all night\nthe other six days of the week in order to earn a living and uphold the\ndignity of labor. Kindly make a\nmental note of this and send along\nyour \"News and Views.\"\nProtection spells P-R-O-F-I-T; not\nwages.\n* * *\n\"If the workers don't hang together, they must hang separately.\"\nPaste it in your hat.\nam*\nMunicipal ownership may reduce\ntaxes; but the wage-earners' wage ls\nstill determined by the condition of the\nlabor market\u00E2\u0080\u0094the number of men\nlooking for a job.\n* \u00E2\u0080\u00A2 \u00E2\u0099\u00A6\nIt's about time the workers of Winnipeg took a tumble, and introduced\na sane line of political action, in keeping with the problems confronting\nthem. And there are others, too, that\ncould be whispered of.\n* * *\nVancouver Local held no meeting\nlast Sunday evening* No hall available at present, except the City Hall\nand it comes high. Let's capture\nthe City Council next year, \"and\nlease it to ourselves free -rrdtis.\n* * *\nA big batch of splendid Party news\nwill appear in next issue. Throughout\nall Canada the movement seems to be\nquickening as never before. Watch\nfor next issue, and in the meantime\nsend along \"News and Views\" from\nyour own locality.\n* * *\nThe wage of labor is not payment\nfor what the worker does. It is payment for his labor-power as a commodity in the market. Its magnitude is determined by the condition\nof the market prevailing at the time\nof sale.\n* * *\nThe dividends or profits upon investments represents the result of\nthe exploitation of labor left in the\nhands of the exploiters after all the\nexpenses of exploitation have been\npaid. Plus the expenses of exploitation it represents the price the\nworkers pay for their own enslavement.\n* * *\nThe class struggle is between the\nclass of economic masters and the\nclasa of economic slaves; between\nthe capitalists and workingmen.\nThe former struggle to maintain\ntheir mastery, the latter to destroy\nit. The mastery of the former ls\nmaintained by the power of the\nState. No further comment is necessary.\n* * *\nThere's not enough contributors to\nthis department yet. Surely all\nCanada should warrint an enlnrsfe.\nment of the Clarion to eight paces\nif tha Socialists did iheir dirty. Tho\npress is a powerful agency for Socialism. Push it along. 'J ho publishers are doing thpir share- all in\ntheir power, with Srfiool troturs iu UH\nfield. The vote was as follows\n1 '.*41\nClllbb ];4l\nRamsay \t\nUouean '\nMcKechnio \t\nOdium \t\nBurns \t\nParr -\nUodin \t\nWilkinson \t\nTo Publishers\nOf Country Weeklies:\n1 would first add my commendation to the many you have received\nrespecting the merits of, and necessity for, your -new department,\u00E2\u0080\u0094\n\"News and Views.\" Whilst I have\nbeen reading the Western Clarion for\nsome time past with great satisfaction, your columns no sooner appear-*\ned than I saw the need of them for\nvarious reasons, chief of which is\nthe fact that lieing the only Socialist organ in the Dominion, which\nnow possess a national organization,,\nthc Clarion should reflect as far as\npossible, thc movement in Canada;\nnot only reflect, but stimulate it.\nAll this with such other features as\nyou seem inclined to include in your\ndepartment while making the paper\nof more domestic interest, and consolidating Canadian Socialism will\nnot detract from its value as a propagandist sheet dealing effectively\nwith fundamentals, and current topic-*\nwherever Knglish is spoken. As I\nhave good reason to know, it is a\nlong way from Cape Breton to Victoria, ami no easy task to weild a\nwell concerted movement in such a\nbig territory, but we must aim at It)\nnever forgetting that thc Dominion\nis the supreme political unit. We\nshould henceforth be in a position\nto \u00E2\u0080\u00A2 act in conscious co-operation\nshould a national rfuestion demand\nit.\nThat Winni|>eg is so late in reporting itself here is, of itself, enough\nto raise the suspicion that Social Ism\nin Winnipeg is not sharing on a pro\nrata basis in the boom that has so\ncheered the soul of capitalism during the last two or three years, and\nin truth there is ground fcr the suspicion.\nThe political enthusiasm of the\nworking class in Winnipeg which resulted in twice returning a lalior\nmember to the Commons a few years\nago, has fallen almost to zero; so\nlow, in fact, that a proposal was rci\nccntly made in the Trades Council,\nto jofn forces with one or other of\nthe old parties. This proposal was\nmade in good faith and is now under consideration.\nThat such a fate should befal a\nmovement based on compromise and\nlacking in fundamental ideas will\nnot surprise Socialists anywhere. Hut'\nit must be honestly confessed that\nmost of those now composing the\nSocialist party, the writer included,\naided the movement of six years\nago to the liest of their ability, believing that it .united the workers\non the highest possible plane, and\nthat things would evolute forward\ninstead of backward. Of a truth,\nthings have evoluted. Winnipeg is\nnow a safe capitalist seat; Ralph\nSmith is a safe capitalist politician\naad Winnipeg Socialists arc wiser\nfor their political experience and\nmay now ho safely trusted to be\ncontent with Socialism for a platform, unadulterated with any byproduct of capitalistic compromise.\nFor tho moment there is nothing\nto effectively withstand the combined onslaughts of a boom prosperity,\nand a political activity of the capitalist doss, whetted by victory over\nlabor; every elective position is in\ntheir hands, municipal, provincial\nand federal. But Socialism is by no\nmeans dead in Winnipeg, nor even\nsleeping. The nucleus of an efficient\norganization is maintained, and conditions will soon furnish the opportunity It awaits. \u00E2\u0080\u00A2>\nIn the meantime.Winnipeg affords\nabundant material for sociological\nstudy in every respect a confirmation of thc Socialist analysis of society; but to deal with this in any\nway adequate would furnish copy\nfor another short chapter. My opin-\nis that your correspondents\nI\nion\nshould write briefly and often\nwish for \"News and Views,\" and ow\nery department of the \"Clarion\"\nsuccess,\nSTONBHENOE,\nTHE MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS\nAt the Municipal elections held In\nVancouver on Jan. 11, 1\u00C2\u00BB06, tho Socialists ran four candidates for\nSchool Trustees\u00E2\u0080\u0094Burns, Wilkinson,\nParr and Oodin.' The campaign work\nconsisted entirely of the distribution\nof 6,000 manifestos, a copy 0f which\nwas published In No. 854, of tho\nWestern Clarion, and the holding of\ntwo or three meetings in the outly\n1257\n] (Wl\nV 84\nr.oo\n2HH\n981\n27 0\nWe hav* two catei (lOO pounds) of Brt.\nvier Typo, 8 .point, almost now, cost 52\nc given the\nglad hand.\nUnder separate cover 1 send you\nthe holiday number of the Chilliwack\nProgress, containing an article b.v\nDr. Curry, who is an enthusiastic\nworker, and as a writer a man\nwhom any load might be proud of\nThere is also in it. a notice of the\nfact that (King)? McBride bas giv-\n\u00C2\u00AB*n his menials whs are in Chilliwack\na Xmas gift of a school-house. How\ncondescendingly benevolent of him'\nDr. Curry has lieen corresponding\nwith Com. Hawthornthwaite with u\nview of getting him here in a short\ntime to give us a lecture to shake\nup the dry bones. I hope he succeeds, for it is just what wc need.\nWishing you and the movement a\nprost-erous year I am yours for lhe\ncause.\nW. S. FOBSYTH.\nHartford, Conn,, Jan. lo.\u00E2\u0080\u0094A certificate\nof incorporation ol the Gaxsca & Pacific\nRailway Com pany of Hart ford, ha* been\nfiled with the secretary of state. Tbe\nauthorised capital stock of the company\nis 140,000000- The** figure* exceed\nthose of any other company which ha*\nfiled *uch a certificate with the aecrelary\nWRITE\nWestern Clarion,\nBox \u00C2\u00A936. VANCOUVER. B. C.\nKKVKLSTOKK, B. G.\nREVELSTOKE, fl. C, Jan. 12-\nWhen the work*.-\u00E2\u0084\u00A2 moke a move in\ntheir class interest, immediately n\nchange Is noticed In the political\nworld of capital. The timid bird of\nprey takes on a hue of civic virtue,\nor in some other way indicates a\nchange of heart. The ftevelstoto\nHerald and Railwayxiicn's .Journal,\nConservative, nnd the Kootenay\nMail. Liberal, have consolidated into\nthe Mail-Herald. Thc first issue announces that, thc community Is too\nsmall for two papers. These papers\nhad flourished, apparently, for years\nwhen the community was one-third\nits present si/jo. Another reason for\ntheir failure is, therefore, in order,\nand will be found In the lack of\nworking-class support, of the \"two\ngreat political parties.\" Capitalist\ninterests will see that the press Is\nsupported Just so long as it con assist the politicians in keeping the\nwage-workers in line, failing which,\nthe game is up. The new paper puts\nit thus: \"The newspaper is not tho\npolitical engine anyhow it. was In\ndays gone by.\" It will be politically fodepentjent, which moons that the\nsham political differences are out of\norder when a renl opponent comes\ninto the field.\nA working class parly has always\nand everywhere created om; capitalist opponent. We need not take the\nStatement seriously \"that it will lie\nthe mouth of neither side, but will\nendeavor to tak\u00C2\u00BB> as its guiding\nstar the best Interest of the public\nand thnt alone.\" .', paper representing commercial interests cannot also represent labor's Interests, lhe\ntwo are antagonistic.\nA concern in business secures the\nmachinery of production; but if it\nstops here it can produce nothing.\nThe essential thing remains to be\npurchased, nnd that is living labor-\npower, which is bought at its value\nin a competitive labor market. Thir.\nis always less than lho value labor\nproduces, hence it is tho only, source\nof profit.\nThe Mnil-Hernld's claim means\nonly the interest of capitalist proper\ntv-owncrs, or those who hire labor\nand when it goes into convulsions\nover tho fronzfod financiers back\nBast, we ran know of course that it\nis nil for the workingman's interests\nand should bo duly grateful.\nWith such a \"good\" journal, nnd\na $25,000 Y.M.C.A. building so that\nthe poor \"wtirriktn mon\" can keep\nont of the \u00C2\u00BBnloon, tho lion and tho\nlamb should Ho down together ln\npeace\u00E2\u0080\u0094nit, XX.\nStates comrade here, I drove 14\nmiles through tho snow, and about\nio aboVs aero, to go to the saappnrt\nof Com- Hill. Haiing beea selected\nto answer (-u--stlnns, 1 was much in-\nUTi-sU-il to note the intercut arouM.I\nand the number ..f questions a\u00C2\u00ABk\u00C2\u00ABd.\nIt augurs well for lhe Socialist fii\"-..*\ntnenl In this neck .- the woods.\nRight here, I want lo urg*.- every\nunattached Socialist w fill out the\napplication blank printed el-a-uh'-re\nin The Clarion and mail it at once\nto the Dominion Secretary (photo\naddress will also In- found in Th\u00C2\u00AB-\n( lafion.l\nThis will serve a doable purpose.\nKirst it will help BdUOM out to th*;\nextent of STOUT monthly du\u00C2\u00AB-s Sec-*\nond, your name with other*, will\nservo as a nucleus in forming new\nlocals in unorganized districts,\nNegligee Shirts\nNet Tm Early to leek\ntusclusive pattern* ara now\nstuns of the choice ones win t\u00C2\u00BB- mM\na-aily. and some uf the cita* at\ncannot duplicate. U yew ar-c-rw-tet-\nunumial styles It will tai*a*\u00C2\u00BBi ,\u00C2\u00AB\u00E2\u0096\u00A0*\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 le\nrow* promptly.\nFfatiron Hats\nTht Sstttttt Mt ill tl St Stun\nSOCIALISM IN ALBERTA.\nIiy Chas. F. I/owrlo.\nCLARESHOLM, Alta., .Ian. 12.\u00E2\u0080\u0094\nA Literary Society, holding meetings in a county school, nine miles\neast of here, decided recently to have\na debate on thc subject of Socialism. Some difficulty was experienced In locating anyone to defend tho\naffirmative side, but Com. Hill, of\nthat community was finally landed,\nand If I'm not mistaken, he will bo\nhoard from later, whon he more\nthoroughly grasps lhe full meaning\nand extent of the clasa struggle. At\ntbe urgent request of an old United\nIn support of his contention that\n\"liipi.ir is labor's wor*-t \u00E2\u0080\u00A2HMJUiy,\"\nJejmea Trethewsry, ariling to the\n\"World\" of this rit>, submits the\nfollowing\n\"If eight laboring n siatul |800\nfor furniture, hardware and clothing,\ncotton, Wonted ami woollen goods,\nand men's finrniahlng goods, they j\ncontribute $117.1.1 to labor, and at j\nthe saim.' time bring vuJuable tap*\n[Jii-s to their own families, thev j\nstemulate bueinees and add to the j\ndemand for labor. If Uie gMOO in |\nspout in Ihe saloon only til H-l goes\nfor lal-or, the families are made\nWretched, and the men ttuin.seIves\nare made nurso phyiucally, financially ami morally; their jobs urn un\nperiled, und they have \u00C2\u00ABn-U.eg mam* to tnotitni\nto whom or what is tho balance of\nthe 1800 contributed? A* it i* a\nwell known fact that nothing but\nlabor is involved in tho production\nof either liquor or the other articlea\nmentioned, it would seem that the\nsum of 97vo.l6 in the case of the\nformer or $052.57 in tbe case of the\nlatter are rather largo sums to bo\ncontributed without profar Justification*\n\u00E2\u0080\u0094 o \u00E2\u0096\u00A0\nFive Clarion Bub. cards\u00E2\u0080\u0094$3.75.\nThose Hats have been *i ti..\u00C2\u00ABia*u-\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0 ally received by young mm fron\nthe very first day *e brovigat Umb\nout. Neither trouble nor expee**\nhas bee\u00C2\u00AB saved la tbe produriiea of\nthewe good*, as you will I-oiwUn. ho\nsaid that Ri,s\u00C2\u00ABin was the Fn-nch Em-I\n!! !\"-L , .Pnm'nt ****** t\"** her\nipso would call rorth a now combination of tho European States,\nother^countries n decided blow which\nwould load to vast domestic changes'\nnreLn Ut \" m\"H, tap0\u00C2\u00BBt\u00C2\u00AB.E ho expressed \u00C2\u00BB doubt if Germany would\nventure to send troops to tho aid of\ntho Russian despotism; but, if .\u00C2\u00BBVv\nu^/.m80 .In\".ch the bot,,,r' \u00C2\u00AB \"\"it\nIZ h ,Jmp,y ,httt ,h0 revolution\nwould bo so much tho more thorough\nThis Is interesting, ns It Shows how\ncoolly Kngols regarded\n\u00C2\u00BB\u00C2\u00ABM>t\u00C2\u00BB\u00C2\u00BB\u00C2\u00BB\u00C2\u00BBM\u00C2\u00ABMM tttttM\nj BURNS & CO. 1\n* NAM*ARC and {\n1 Second Hand Oealer:\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 ook Stove*\nSp\u00C2\u00BB tally.\nWo buy and\n- top metal.\naid Tools \u00C2\u00BB\nrubber,\nsell all fc.ii- i- of\nOld u..i I. I-- \u00E2\u0096\u00A0;.\ns\u00C2\u00ABu-ka, bottles, etc.\nfttoreo- IM Cordova St., F..\nhardware A Jonb. 101 PowsH\nHt., now and noond-haad fur-\nnltur*\nfmaaa tITf VlMNYtr, \u00E2\u0080\u00A2 i.\n*********+****9f \u00E2\u0080\u00A2\u00E2\u0080\u00A2\u00E2\u0080\u00A2\u00E2\u0080\u00A2\u00E2\u0080\u00A2\u00E2\u0080\u00A2\n\u00E2\u0080\u0094s. w. tootm\nCA8H GROCERY STORE\nWe also carry a full line of Furniture, oa easy payment*, at pric**\nthat cannot be duplicated. Kindly\ninspect our stock.\nC* Wataiiattr Aft \u00E2\u0080\u00A2\u00E2\u0080\u00A2* larHi Stntt\nVANCOUVER. II. C.\nC. PETERS \u00C2\u00AB\u00E2\u0096\u00A0;\nPractical InI\nthat Raltr\nHand Matte \u00E2\u0080\u00A2**>-* aad Shurs tn urxUr I.\nall etylce. Mrpalnn* *.rea*-.>U- \u00C2\u00ABut the\nthoughts of one who think* that Socialism could be achle^-d at one\nblow.-J.n.A., in Justice.\nBRIOSON'S BAKERY\nTRY OUR BREAD, CAKES, ETC\n\u00E2\u0096\u00BA\u00E2\u0099\u00A6\u00E2\u0099\u00A6\u00E2\u0099\u00A61\nWAGE-LABOR\nAND CAPITAL\nnr KARI- MAItX.\nHIiisTle copies, f cents; \u00C2\u00AB\ncopies, 2S cents; IB copies, \u00C2\u00BB\u00C2\u00B0\ncents; <0 copies, 11.00; 100\ncopies and over, 2 cents per\ncopy.\nThese rtitea Include po*UsT\u00C2\u00AB'\nto any part of Canada ot the\nl'lilted Kingdom.\n\"The Weatorn Olarion\"\n?Mt\u00C2\u00BB MM M'H\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2\u00E2\u0080\u00A2mmmiitmtiiimiiiaanimn\n\u00C2\u00AB***.S\u00C2\u00BBi"@en . "Titled The Western Clarion from June 18, 1904 to June 1, 1907; titled Western Clarion thereafter."@en . "Newspapers"@en . "Vancouver (B.C.)"@en . "The_Western_Clarion_1906_01_20"@en . "10.14288/1.0318691"@en . "English"@en . "49.261111"@en . "-123.113889"@en . 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