"4c3e72ed-e9fb-4eca-994c-6732b28bfa02"@en . "CONTENTdm"@en . "2016-04-04"@en . "1906-01-27"@en . "https://open.library.ubc.ca/collections/wclarion/items/1.0318701/source.json"@en . "application/pdf"@en . " ^V^-surr.^\nHE\n_j\n^ 27 m* %\nC LA\ni\nPublished in the Interests of the Working Class Alone.\nlis 1\nustta\n; 357.\nasm\nVancouver, B. C, Saturday, January 27, 1906.\nHE PROVINCIAL PARLIAMENT\nlivity ol the Socialist Menbera in Considering art Discussing\nManors Broofkl Before too Route at Victoria.\nUiftt the two Socialist members of\nlocul ljegislature are not going\nlet lho days of the present mss-\n, pa-sb In idlonoss is shown by\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0\u00E2\u0080\u00A2ork that they have already\n.. on the opening day, Mr.\ni'w.hornthwa|te gavo notice that\ninieniied to introduce a Bill to\njuinl the franchise of women. Not\nLy has this since been done, but\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A01UH been followed by aw \"Act to\nmend the Provincial Elections\nIi.\" hy reducing the deposit of a\nlinJidate from *UOO to 150, and an\nct to Amend tho Coal Mines Itc-\nglations Act.\" Only the latter\nItter Hill has yet reached second\nii'ling-\n!'i'li.j full tost of this measure Is\n,\en as follows.\n0 Ad to Amend tho \"Coal Minos\nItogulation Act.\"\nIliii Majesty, by and with the ad-\nand con-tent ot the Legislative*\neiubly of tile Province of linUsli\ni.luiuliia, enacts as follows;\nfl. ibis act may be cited aa the\noul Mm.- Regulation Act Amcud-\nent act, 1U00. '\n\z Hub-section {il) ot section 30\n.lii-j-U-r t'M ot the He vised Sta-\nkite-, lHi'T, being. Uw \"Coal Mines\nL;nirttioii Act,\" as enacted by soc-\nivu *> of i hapter 10 ot Use StatuU-s\nneu A, is hereby amended by add-\nii: -h-re'o ibu following paragraph:\n(d.) A candidate for a certificate\nM,iiii.-tency as manager, overman, shift boss, nrebotis, or shot-\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0i.'i-i, i-hull produce a certificate\nf/i-iu a. duly qualified medical doc-\nbr nhuwing that bc has taken a\ntine in ambulance work fitting him\nsaid candidate, to give first aid\nmen injtjfitd in coal mining 0PB*>\nlion*.\"\n(a. SH1UOU Ha of said chapter I'M\n1...IVI-.-, anteitdt-d by inserting sdter\ni,l- :i.'t Uw following rule:\n\"Kule 83a, The 'owner' shall pro-\nda oat- good und sufficient 'auUiul-\naocs box' in every mlue for each\n\u- hundred men employed therein.\"\nIn moving the second reading, Mr.\niwthornthwaiio said: \"1 do not\ntimk there will bo any objection to\nha laissage ol this Dill. Its object\ni*. simply to protect as much as pos-\n^H.lo the Unas and limbs uf those\nlorkjnK in underground mines, Sim-\nJar legislation has already been en-\nki. tod in Groat llritain, so that the\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0u-asfure is nul nl together now. 'itui j\njbijury done to life and limb io the\nnines oi British Columbia is a dis-\nKiiice to this Province. We find.\nur, that from tho statistical re-\n|>ort* Uie number of those killed\nu.i injured in tbe mines ol British\n..iuiiibiu iu one year was 15 per\nent. of the whole. A fearfully high\nat*, as compared with two percent\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2d Ureal Britain, and l.OS percent\n|*\u00C2\u00BB- New Zealand, where the miners\nwoll protected. In view of\nIhet* iiihmiII ng facts I do hope that\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0 ome steps will bo taken to bring\nabout a change in this state of af-\nfniis.\nThe number of men who risk their\njiiv-s daily in the undergroiiud mines\nuf llrititm Columbia is very great.\n'n my own district of Nanaimo\nulnae the underground works run for\nmany miles, and should a man be\nJ uii'ii id m one of these places, be\nhi Kin have to wait for hours before\nbah) could arrive. As one instance\nuf this, l would mention the case of\nMr. McGregor, a mine manager who\n\u00C2\u00ABo\u00C2\u00BB most popular with the men.\nv>ho wiu injured iu aa acridenl ami\nwhosu lifo was lost through tfelcflj\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2ii tho artival of help. Had ho re-\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2fiTo.1 prompt attention he might\nhavo boon alive today. Thia Bill,\nthej-efore, is simply an instrument of\nhumanity, and has no political\n\u00C2\u00ABiK\u00C2\u00BB>ificanct\u00C2\u00BB, and 1 am satisfied that\nthis Hoiinu will endorse it. (A|i-\npl aline.)\nPremier McBriilo moved the ad-\nioiirtwnwit of the debate, as he said\nl\u00C2\u00AB- had not yet had time to look\nover ths: Hill, from what the mover had said ho did not anticipate\n'hat the Council'would object to it.\nbut ho wished to inform himself\nthoroughly before going further.\nlh\u00C2\u00AB debate was accordingly ad-\nJournod.\ninat the activity of the Socialists\n\" hy no means to be confined to\nu\u00C2\u00BBJf j own constructive legislation,\nwus shown by tho attitude of Mr.\nHawthornthwaite on \"Thc Timber\nManufacture Act.\" This Bill provides that all timber cut on Crown\nu!Ml',i.muBt ** manufactured within\n'he I rovinco, thereby previenting any,\n\u00C2\u00ABlwrtntion of logs whatever. Tho\nman whether he was exploited under\nthe Union Jack or under the Stars\nand Stripes, but at the same time\nIt Is painful to htm to have to\njlareak. up bis homo and sever the connections of a lifetime. This Bill\nwould practically moan the extirpation of the hand loggers in British\nColumbia, and therefore he intended\nto move in commit too for the insertion of an amendment exempting\nhand loggers from its provisions. In\ntho meantime it would bo as well to\nlot the Hill pass the present stage.\nPremier McBrido said the Bill was\nsimply intended to correct abuses in\nthc case of a l.ig logger like Mr.\nRmeraon who seemed 'o bo operate\ning entirely under hand loggers' li-\nccnat-N. If an amendment could be\nintroiliiccd to protect the actual\nhand logger that would not load to\nabuse and that would be fair to all\nparlies, it might |*o considered.\nMr. John Oliver thought that piles\nand fi*h trap timber at least should\nU- freely exported.\nMr. J. A. Mu.-doii.dd. ami Mr. T.\n\\. Patterson, were both of tho opinion that the Government should establish soine system of Inspection\nawl grading whereby the inferior\ntimber now going to waste on the\nclaims or being burnt by settlors\nmight find a market.\nThc Bill passed second reading\nwithout a division.\nMr. Hawthornthwaite was the recipient of a rare compliment from\nAttorney-General Wilson Ihe other\nday when that gentleman was speaking of the merits of thc former member for Alberni, Mr. W. W. B. Mcln-\nDOS. Mr. Wilson said that Mr. Mcinnes was approu- had by no one in\nthe House in the art of oratory unless it wus the member for Nanaimo.\nTho-w who have hoard Mr. Haw.\nihomthwaiie's forceful addresses\nwill agree that the compliment was\nwoll deserved.\nMill\nwas introduced by tho Chief\nCommissioner of Lands' and Works,\n(Hon. Mr. aroon), who frankly stated that it was a result of tho recent doaislon in tho Emerson case allowing tho exportation of logs cut\nunder hand loggers' licenses, and\nt-hat the object of the Bill vas to\ncorrect the abuse and insisted that\nal' tirrther Should too manufactured\nwi'hin tho Province.\nMr. Hawthornthwaite said hc did\n\"ot object to tho general principle\n\u00C2\u00B0f the Bill, but thought some exemption should be mud,' for hand\n'Ok-gers, as It affected tho labor in-\n'iixiHts of Uia country. They had\nheard what tho member for Newcastle had told them In his speech on\non the nddresa in reply to the\nN|*veh from the t sa much l-orhaps fa the working-\nOne of thc liest and most interesting spot-ches hoard In the House during the present li-ginlatjve session,\nwas ur-dotshtodly that of Mr. Parker\nWilliams, tha Socialist member for\nNewcastle, when on Wednesday last,\nho addr-roM-d the House in the debate on the address in ruply to the\nBpeech from the Throne.\nMr. Williams said: \"It appears\niiistomarv to open with complimentary references Lo the mover and\n-axotldi-r of the address, but I think\nthat this has boon a little overdone,\nthough I can at least congratulate\nthe newly elected member for Alberni that there was no Socialist running in his district. (.Laiughter.) It\nis no doubt gratifying to the Gov-\nernment to be able to show that the\nevil i onaeiiuonces, which according\nto the guntlemen on this side of the\nHouse were to result from the legislation of the past two sessions have\nnot yet put in an appearance. The\ncondition of business\u00E2\u0080\u0094 the only measurement of the quality of Government by either tho Ui-eral or Conservative party, appears to be in a\nreasonably satisfactory state I am\naware that tho Liberals state that\nthis ockot.s of\none taction of tho population and\nputs It into tho pockets of another.\nIt is on a par with Simple Simon\ntrying to make himself rich by shifting his fifteen rents from one pocket\nto another. (laughter). We Socialists are accused by a lot,of well-\nmeaning people of wishing to divide-\nup. if there is anything half as\nnear dlviding-up in Socialism as\nthoro is in this scheme of Liberal\nPolitical Kr-onomy. 1 know very little about Socialism. Tho day will\ncome whon men will look back In\namusement nt such simplicity in an\nage of scientific accomplishment and\npossibility.\nAll that this or any other Government can do is to remove artificial barriers that stand in thc way\nof trade. If coppor should drop to\nnine cents a pound In New York tomorrow, bankruptcy, strikes, lockouts, shutdowns and gonoral stagnation would result in thc mining\ncamps of 'he province, and this In\nturn would react on overy other Industry, nnd commercial activity. It\nis not a product of local nor yet of\nnational conditions.\nIt is interesting to noto that while\ntho document under discussion pays\nso much attention to tho stato of\ncommerce, thoro is no Intimation even of tho existence of a working-\ncjass. It seems as if itusinoss is\nconsidered as a kind of social prcs-\nsuie gauge. If business is good all\nta itrpposed to bo well. It matters\nnot what may be the condition of\nthe workdng-clusH, so long as Dunn\nBnbsenstlea rrte* aiaa\nrtivus \u00E2\u0080\u00A2I.W\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2MaaHMMMi\nand Bradstreets report business normal, all is well. But, when the water gets low In the boiler it often\nfalls to reflect the pressure of the\ngauge, and sometimes there is an explosion before you know It.\nWith the'consolidation of the industries of the province into fewer\nand fewer hands, the worker finds\nhimself compelled to submit to the\nwhim of a few men, or get out. The\nman who was born, and who has\nlived a useful life in this province,\nfinds he has to break -up his home\nand tho associations of a lifetime at\nthe bidding of an alien because he\nhas dared to express an idea not in\nline with the interests of the industrial pirates that exploit this province, because ho questions the wisdom of a fellow-b<-ing like himself.\nor because ho has reached tho age.\nwhen the joints grow stiff and the)\nI lowers commence to fall. The citizen of this province has rights which\nconflict with the theoretical rights\nof property, -and the capitalist interests are hastening the day when this\nHouse will have to re-deflne the\nrights of protierty, unless the members soon get a streak of common\nsense Into their compos tion of\nwhich there is no sign at present,\n(laughter.)\nThere is another matter which this\nHouse will have to take up In the\nnear future. The process of ctvll\nlaw Is altogether too slow, too cumbersome and too costly. The senseless processes and otherwise needless delays which produce no results\nother than Increasing lawyers' fees,\nshould be stopped. More indefensible still Is the matter of expenses.\nRecently I saw a document which a\nNanaimo lawyer had drawn up for\na farmer. The same document I\ncould draw up myself in two minutes and a half, yet that worthy\nlawyer charged two dollars and a\nhalf for the job, and as near as I\ncould determine he could compel payment for the same. I know another\ncase of a lawyer undertaking to collect $20 from a client, and falliac\nto get more than 910, he obligingly\nkept that 810 to repay him for his\ntrouble. (Laughter.) Rather than\ngo to another shark of the same\nspecies to collect the rest the creditor allowed the Imposition. Personally, I say frankly, that I cannot\ndetect any difference between such\ncases and downright theft, and unfortunately such instances could bo\nmultlplied indefinitely.\nIn the ease of employing a solicitor to plead a case in Court the man)\nof small means finds that two lawyers and a judge can eat up the\nearnings of a year in two days.\n(Ijaughter.) I am aware that it\nwill be asserted that these geatie-\n(Continued on Page Three.)\nOh, Whetefore Wait?\nOh, wherefore wait? The World is faint and dying;\nStay not thy hand; oh, strenuous soul and pure.\nOh, hear its voices calling and replying;\nThey bid you hope and work and long endure.\nOh, wherefor wait? The World is wrung with anguish.\nFrom Russian snows our Martyr comrades call.\nHaste to the succor of tbe souls that languish.\nBind up tbe wound and break the captives thrall.\nWhy idle stand? Tbe harvest beads are bending,\nBeneath the sun the fields are golden hued.\nThrust in the sickle and fulfill tbe ending,\nOf Earth's long travail for ber famished brood.\nThis day the toil lhe harvest homeward bringing;\nThe com and wine and fatness in the store:\nAnd trooping in with laughter and with singing,\nShall come the heirs of Earth for evermore.\nOh, wherefore wait as one whose eyes are holden?\nCan'st thou not see the portents of the dawn ?\nJoy comes a bride, and sorrow worn and olden,\nTraileth her mourning garments and is gone.\nHark! From the watch towers hailing and replying,\nGlad words are on the lips that l.ng were dumb;\nAnd prophet voices in the desert crying,\n\"Make straight her paths the reign of Right has come.\"\nLo! In men's hearts a new Sbekinah bunieth,\nThat lights the mercy seat of Humankind;\nAnd as the petal to the sunlight turneth,\nSo turns to it the homage of the mind.\nLight in the East! As once in Hellas beaming,\nBut brighter far does Reason's lamp return;\nAnd grander than Aurora's light outstreaming,\nNorthward at last doth Freedoms' censer burn.\nWhbster Rogers.\nPOVERTY AND WRETCHEDNESS\nThe Insufficiency of Salvation Am? \u00E2\u0096\u00A0eftotft of Itelltt Pointed\nOut by Spartacti lo Wioaipef Voice.\nA MARTYR OF THE REVOLUTION\nLieetenant et \u00E2\u0096\u00A0a-inet Center of Inprottivo Dememtraireftattlte\nBtrW o: Murdered Worknieir In Sebattopol.\nThore took place on tho 20th of\nOctober in the city of Sebastopol sn\nextraordinary funeral attended by almost tho entire population. It was\ntho occasion of the burial of those\npeaceful citizens who on thc night of\nthe publication of the Imperial Manifesto of liberation to prisoner*\nsought peaceably to carry this news\nof freedom to the prisoners and were\nshot down by the troops. In spite\nof tho tons of thousands who had\nassembled the order at the grave waa\nromarkettble. Tne energetic objections of tho municipal representatives had succeeded in keeping away\nthe military and police.\nAfter tho dead had been given over\nto thc earth and tho speeches of the\nMayor and other prominent ottieens\nwore finished, Lieutenant ot Marines\nSchmidt, stopped forward to the\ngrave. His appearance aroused the\ngreatest interest in tho thick mass\nwho had peopled the neighboring hillocks with thousands of uncovered\nheads. During the last fow days,\nSchmidt had become well known as\na political agitator and worker for\nfreedom. Although not a member\nof the City Council, ho had been in*\nvlted by the Mayor to take part in\ntho sessions and the advice which he\nhad given thoro had brought him\ngroat popularity among the workers.\nAs tho silence of tho grave extended throughout thc people this speak,\nor, exhausted by the continued tireless agitation, begun to speak with\na low but deeply impressive voice:\n\"Only prayers are thought to be\nfitting at the grave, but the words\nof love and the sacred consecration\nwhich I wish to lay upon you hero,\nhave much in common with a prayer. When the joy at the rising sun\nof freedom lllTed the souls of those\nsleeping ones around wlu so grave\nwo stand their first impulse was to\nhasten with all rapidity to those\nwho lay tn prison, because of their\nefforts for freedom and who therefore in this hour of universal rejoicing found themselves robbed of\nthis greatest good. Taking with\nthem this messaga of joy they hastened to the prisoners. They sought\nto set them free, suid tor this were\nmurdered. They wished to share that\nhighest good of life\u00E2\u0080\u0094freedom\u00E2\u0080\u0094and,\ntherefore, were themselves robbed of\nlife. What a hideous crime. What\nan immeasurable and useless sorrow!\nNow their souls look down upon us\nand dumbly question, \"What will you\ndo with this good of which we have\nbeen forever deprived? H\u00C2\u00ABw will\nyou use your freedom? Can you promise us that we shall be the last sacrifice of despotism; and if we would\ngive peace to these rest loss souls we\nmust swear that we will do this. I\nswear to them,\" rang out his voice,\n'.'that wo will never yield a hand's\nbreadth ot the human rights that wo\nhave alroady conquered. I swear to\nthis,',\"- said the speaker with upralsf\ned hand. \"I swear to this,\" rang\nback dhe many thousand Voices. \"Wo\nswear before them that we will de-\nWe have been told many a time\nand oft that the poverty existing in\nthe shim districts of >ne gr* at cil es\nof the civilized world i=) \u00C2\u00AB*i.nd \u00C2\u00AB .nor e*tra-\nvaaianires of \"the poor.\" It is m>t\nexplained how \"the iiinlist\napologist, The miswry and sgoelor\nof the homes in IM *lam arive\nmany of tho inmates to the trin\npalace where, when f.irtuuatc enough\nto have the price, leiojmrary fcrget-\nfulness may be obtain .il i.ns. some\nsort of substitute tit th* social en\njoyment open to those with the\nmeans at their command. Drink,\nin some individual caaas, drives the\ndrinker to poverty, bat I'ovtrty\ndrives more to drink ihan ever di ink\ndrove to poverty. I'.-e Khrimt of tlie\nawful misery and ik-stauiion to be\nfound wherever man s \u00E2\u0080\u00A2!\u00E2\u0096\u00A0\u00E2\u0080\u00A2\u00E2\u0080\u00A2\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 /ed ' is\nfar moro deeply seated thai in the\nhabit of drinking not w *.-iy t*\u00C2\u00ABared among the people. That\nsame evening'he was arrested on the\norder of the commanding general,\nTschurhin, and placed upon the battleship Tri Swatitietia as a prisoner. Six days later the red banner\nof the revolution waved above that\nbattleship.\u00E2\u0080\u0094From the International\nSocialist Review, translated by A.\nM. Simons from the German.\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0 0 .ii\n\"'A cold winter without much\nsnow is what wo have learned to\nfear,\" says Mr. Lane, of the Montreal charity organization. The reason for .this foar is because such a\nlarge number of tho city's population depend upon snow shovelling\nfor their living through the winter.\nWhen there is no snow to be removed, they starve, hence prosperity can\ncome to them only through such action of tho elements as would appear to tho balance of tho community as a sort1 of calamity. Luckily,\nthis winter so far, there has bean a\nconsiderable snowfall. By thus affording an opportunity for the poverty stricken to work off their surplus energy in the gladsome task of\nsnow-shovelling, Providence has mercifully \"tempered the wind to the\nshorn lamb\" of capitalism.\nlater\u00E2\u0080\u0094.Vcopious rainfall on Jan.\nIS, removed thu snow without the\nexpense of hiring snow-shovellers.\nBy this change of program. Providence tempered tho wind to the tender hide of lhe tax-payer Instead.\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2I\nif\nM\nIB\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0 \u00E2\u0099\u00A6wo\n,-,-;-\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 -rrmr, .\ntots WJB*EEI* d\u00C2\u00A3A*IO!f, VAKOOOVUfi, fifeiirt^H flbtttttfltA.\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0 -11.-M\nSaturday .. .January 21,1906.\ni\n;\nIhe ta Clarion\nPublisshed every Saturday In tne\nInterests of ths working class alone\nat the Office of the Western Clarion,\nfines: Block basement. 165 Hastings\nStreet, Vancouver, B. C.\nS008CRIPTION: 01.00 PER ANNUM\nStriotly in Advance.\nYearly subscription cards In lots\nof fiva or more, 75 cents each.\nAdvertising rates on application.\nIi yon receive this paper, it is paid\nfor.\nAddress all communications to\nThe WESTERN CLARION\nBox 836,\nVancouver, B. C.\n358\nWatch this label on your paper. If this number is on it,\nyour subscription expires the\nnext issue.\nSaturday .. .January 27, 1906.\nRED SUNDAY.\nThe first anniversary ot (ho cowardly massacre of unarmed and defenseless workingmen by tho It-.i-.sian\nauthorities in the streets of St. Petersburg, has been observed by the\nproletarians of all countries. In addition to parades, meetings, and oth-'.\ner ceremonies suitable to the occas-,\nion, this anniversary has been used\nfor the purpose of raising funds to\nbo forwarded to the Russian, workingmen to aid them in their heroic\nstruggle against the forces of tyranny and oppression that have for centuries held them in thrall* While the\namount raised will no doubt jeach a\nconsiderable sum, it will still (all\nfar short of that required to enable\nthe Russian workmen to eojuip themselves for a speedy and victorious\nsmding of their gallant struggle for\nfreedom. Like themselves, their fellows of other countries, victims of\nthe age-long brutalities and robberies of their rulers, are in too impoverished a condition to be able to\ngive in full measure that which every\nproletarian knows and feels to be\nnecessary and ought to be forthcoming.\nThis\u00E2\u0096\u00A0 world-wide observance of the\nanniversary of \"Bloody Sunday\" by\nthe proletariat, furnishes indisputable evidence that events are moving\nrapidly in these days of unbridled\ncapitalist production, and merciless\nand unscrupulous capitalist rule. It\naffords a happy augury that the timd\nis fast approaching when the workers can no longer be kept asunder\nthrough race prejudice, differences of\nreligion and such subterfuges, but\nbound together by the ties of class-\ninstinct and solidarity they will\nmake simultaneous assault upon their,\nrespective ruling classes and bring\nspeedily to an end the long drawn,\nout agony, the miserieu and the horrors that have been their, portion\nsince human slavery first reared its\nhideous bulk upon the stage of history. Just as the proletarians of\nthe world are compelled to work together in the industrial field, owing\nto the character of the modern implements of industry, so are they\nbeing compelled to think together\nand act together in defense of their\ncommon interests, irrespective of nationality, race or creed.' As common\nvictims of a common exploiter, international capital, they are rapidly\ncoming to recognize thoir own international ity, and that wherever\nthey may be, under whatever nag\nthey may happen to abide, they are\noutraged by the one common enemy,\nthe capitalist class. Realizing this,\nthough perhaps unconsciously, they\nbegin to feel that Jhe brutalities\npracticed upon the workers of any\ngiven country, are the concern of the\nworkers of all other countries; that\nany effort put forth by the workers\nof one country to gain a greater freo-J\ndom is an effort put forth upon behalf of the entire working-class, and\na victory gained is a victory for labor aa a whole. In obedience to\nthis developing of class-instinct or\nclass solidarity, large numbers of\nthe world's workers observed ..the anniversary of \"Bloody Sunday.\" As\nthe years roll by this spirit will\nstrengthen and grow, impelled forward by the ever increasing economic pressure brought to bear upon\nthe workers by the rule of capital\nas it becomes more highly developed\nand conrnwAiently more powerful. With\neach recurring year an increased\nnumber of workers will observe the\nanniversaries of those days upon\nwhich Labor's martyrdom has been\nparticularly emphasized, all of which\nportends the approach of the tiine\nwhen. through the triumph of an\nawakened working class that martyrdom shall cease. All hail to the\nRevolutionary Russian proletariat.\nThe veritable vanguard of freedom's\nbattling host. May they speedily\ncarry their cause to victory, and may,.\nthe workers of all lands, \"go and do\nlikewise.\"\n .\u00E2\u0080\u0094o\nSLAVERY IN MONTREAL.\nr ' \u00E2\u0096\u00A0\n\"Ten thousand people in Montreal\nin the grip of the usurer!\nThat is the conservative estimate\nmade by the Star's investigators\nfrom tbe evidence,, already in their\nhands.\nTen thousand homes under tho\nwhip lash of this modern slavery.\n'Ten thousand people who are\nafraid of being \"sold up\" next week\nif they are fortunate enough to have\nanything to \"sell up.\"\nTen thousand wage-earners who\ncannot be sure that they will get\nthe wages for which thoy are desperately working.\n'''Ten thousand hopeless toilers at\nthe stone of Sisyphus.\n\"It is worth while for the House\nof Commons to come to the rescue\nof this ten thousand?\n\"If there aro ten thousand In Montreal alone, how many are there\nthroughout Canada? Hardly a day\npasses that a case of usury does not\ncome before the Toronto Police\nCourt and excite the righteous wrath\nof Col. l>enison, the Police Magistrate.\"\nThe above from its columns,' indicates that the Montreal Star \"has\ndiscovered that slavery actually exists in that city, and estimates the\nnumber of slaves to be fully ten\nthousand. The slave master in this\ncase is the usurer, and woeful indeed, is the howl the \"'Star\" raises\nto high heaven 'because of the merciless manner in which he lays the lash\nupon the backs of his victims. The\n\"Star\" has thrown a needless fit.\nIt is like the mariner in a fog who\nhas lost his reckoning. That which\nit has in mind is but one of the evidences of the slavery that exists r.ot\nonly, in Montreal, but in every part\nof the civilized world. It is one of\nthe results of slavery, an extreme to\nwhich the slave is driven when tho\nration accorded him by his master\nis insufficient to meet the requirements of himself and those dependent upon him. It is the slave who\nis compelled to resort to the money\nloaner and place as security in his\nhands such belongings as he may\nhave been able to acquire in spite\nof his condition of slavery.\nThe wealth producers of Montreal\nand elsewhere are slaves, by virtue\nof the fact that they are compelled\nto produce wealth for others. That\nwhich they bring forth by their labor becomes the property of those\nwho employ them, or command their\nservices. That is all there ever was\nor can be to human slavery, cither\nunder thc chattel, feudal or wage-\nform. Under any form of slavery,\nthe slave is only entitled to such\nmaterial comforts, as the master sees\nfit to allow him. As a slave he has\nno means of guaranteeing to himself\nanything above this. The slave is\nlegitimate prey not only for the) master direct, but for all of his retainers and hangers-on, from the usurer\nwho loans him trifling sums and\nseizes uppn his poor belongings as\nsecurity, down to the sky-pilot who\ntakes his last copper in return for\nteaching him to obey his master and\nbe content with the station in which\nit has pleased Providence to place\nhim, and for greasing his soul so\nthat he may be able to easily slip\nthrough the pearly gates into the\nheavenly beatitudes beyond.\nThe slave master is the capitalist.\nThe slave is he who surrenders his\npower to labor at the factory, shop,\nmine, railway, etc., in return for\nwages, or in the case of the working\nfarmer, crystallizes his labor power\ninto wheat, corn, cotton, etc., and\nis forced to surrender these things\ninto the hands of capitalist property. The present is essentially a slave\ncivilization, for its entire superstructure is reared upon the plunder of\nthe producers of wealth. Out of\nthis process comes all of its power,\nits poverty and weakness. Out of\nthis process is bred the coarse, vulgar and arrogant brutality of the\nmasters, and thc equally coarse and\nvulgar servility and toadyism of\ntheir henchmen, hangers-on and apologists.\nThat workingmen find themselves\ncompelled to go to the money loaner for assistance, im proof enough of\neither the inadequacy pf their wages,\nor their Inability to obtain steady\nemployment. This in an age of the\nrasst prolific production tho world\nover saw, and in a country that\nboasts of resources sufficient to sustain many times its present pcpula.\ntion, is sufficient to condsmn the\npresent system in the eyes ot any\nthinking person.\nThe \"Star\" should pursue Its investigations a little farther. Possibly it might uncover the fact that\nthe '.'usurer\" is but an incident of\nthe present system of property, and\nby no means the cause of the poverty and distress that even the1 \"Star\"\nis forced, to acknowledge is widespread among the working class.\nFrom what ls generally known of\nPolice Magistrates in this end of the\nDominion, the \"righteous wrath of\nCol. Denlson\" would be,-worth going\nthousands of-miles to see. lt certainly would be a phenomenon capable of exciting superstitions reverence.\n ,\u00E2\u0080\u0094o\t\nPOLITICAL ACTION.\nness upon tho field of Labor, which\nis even now breaking. Let every\nono who has the cause of labor at\nheart bend every energy in spreading\ntho gospel of the Revolution among\nthe workers. By 1.0 doing they will\nbe merely interpreting the mandate\nof the machine at this stage of Its\ndevelopment.\nLEGISLATIVE REPORTS. \"\"\"\nEven the most careless student of\nthe growth and development of the\ncapitalist system of production could\nscarce avoid reaching the conclusion\nthat eventually tho wage-working\nclass would beoome revolutionary in\nits action. That so intense would\nbecome the economic pressure as the\nsystem reached its most complete\nstage of development, that these proletarians would, in sheer self-preservation be forced to make for its over\nthrov , and thc surtetitiition of something which would givo greater promise of conserving their welfare. To\nthousands of persons it has even) mow)\nbecome plain that thc present system can no longer satisfy the needs\nof humankind, and that some sort\nof change is threatening, although\ntho nature of that change is perhaps\nnot clear.\nIf a change or upheaval is to occur,\nit must have a material or economic\nreason, otherwise there' ts nothing to\nprompt it. That economic circumstances now exist that not only portend but render an upheaval certain,\nin beyond reasonable dispute. The\npower of production is so highly developed that it is possible for much\nless than the entire working class to\nkeep the world's market filled to overflowing with the material things\nnecessary to man's sustenance and\nwell-being. But as the extent to\nwhich the wording man may enjoy\nthe fruits of his toil and that of his\nfellows is measured by the size of\nhis wage, and this is always kept\nclose to the actual living point because of the intense competition arising among thc workers, growing\nout of the fact that the labor of less\nthan all of them is roduired to keep\nup the supply of goods, he finds himself cut off from any participation in\nthc increased wealth made possible\nthrough the highly developed system\nof production. Yet he cannot break\naway from it. It holds him in its\nembrace as with veritable bonds of\nsteel. Each dafc- hc must be on'hand\nwhen the whistle blows or the hour\nstrikes to take his place in his own\nparticular niche In the complicated\nmechanism of organized economic\npower. Whatever other associations\nhe may indulge in or other organizations he may affiliate with, the economic organization of present-day\ncivilization is tho only one which\ncan command his allegiance and loyalty through thick and thin.\nThe economic organization of capitalist civilization that hold*, tho\nworkman in its fetters while *et denying him participation-in thc benefits arising from tho organization,\nnot only points out to him the necessary line of action to follow in order to realize his share of the benefits but makes it absolutely imperative that such line bc followed.\nThe machinery and consequent method of capitalist production must\nof necessity force the workers eventually to revolutionary action. Than\nis to such action as will break the\nrule of capital and the consequent\npower of the capitalists to seize thc\nproduct of labor and give to tho\nworkers themselves the mastery of\neconomic power, and control of production and the products.\nCan the rule of capital be broken\nby fighting in the \"economic field\"\nas it ia commonly termed? Manifestly not, for the reason that the\nstrike, boycott and such irseosjures,\ndo not and cannot destroy control\nof the economic power by capitalists, as this control is maintained j-y\nthe organized powers of thc State,\nand ls expressed in their titles of\nownership In land, factories, railways, etc. If the workers are to\nbreak the rule of capital and its con-\nwi-iient absorption of the benefits of\nmodern industry they must by some\nmeans destroy the title of ownership which is now vested in the capitalists. As the State is tho means\nwhereby such ownership is affirmed,\naad the owner protected In the enjoyment of his property rights, it\nstands to reason that here lies tho\npoint to be attacked by the workers if they would effect the desired\nchange. They must obtain control\nof the powers of the State, i.e., government, in order to strike down the\nobjectionafble control ot economic\npower by the capitalists, and substitute their own instead.\nThe economic groundwork or basis\nfor the proletarian revolution is already prepared in the capitalist system of production. The economic\norganization to hack up and render\nWfcctive the seizure of the political\npowers by the proletariat for the\npurpose of breaking the economic\nrule of capital, Is already at hand.\nThe hour for human freedom only\nawaits the dawn of class-coascious-\nArrangements havo been made to\nobtain a weekly roport of tho pro-\nM-eding* of the House at Victoria,\nmore especially relating to tho part\nplayed by the Socialist members.\nAll speeches made b.v Hawthornthwaite nnd Williams, will be reported as nearly as possible in full.\n.To the workingmen of tho Province\nand elsewhere these reports should\nprove invaluable as showing tho attitude taken by Socialist members\nupon the questions that may be\nbrought before parliamentary bodies\nat this stagw of proletarian iH-veiop-\nniont. later on when the workers\nare thoroughly awakened have sent\ninto lhe various legislative bodies\nstrong delegations representing the\nrevolutionary asjiHrations of the\nworking class, it is needless to say\nthat the i-m-stions forced upon such\nbodies for consideration will taWo on\na different character than is possible\nat tho present time. It will then bo\npossible to push forward direct measures looking to thc \"expropriation\nof tho expropriators\" by converting\nthe huge modern industrial e*ta|\u00C2\u00BBlisli-\nments of capital into the collective\nproperty of the working class., Pending such time thc legislative activity\nof Socialist representatives will of\nnecessity lie \"cribbed, cabined and\nconfined,\" to questions of far\nimportance to the workers,\nIjnestions thut must be attended\nss leading up to tho ultimate\nbetween the exploiters and tho\nploited.\nThe first of these reports, which\nwill be found in this issue, is recommended to tho careful consideration\nof the reailers. 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If it. is not,\nthe time is near at hand whon \"incentive\" will be destroyed, thrift, Industry and enterprise no longer be\nable to reap its reward, and humanity lis- plunged into the awful darkness of barbarism. Life would not\nlie worth living were it not for the\npleasure that comcth from selling\nt-a.h other rotten, shoddy, adulterated and poisonous eatables, drinkables wearables and other stuff. Out\nupon these impostors who would\nturn the offervescing gaiety of our\nglorious commercialism, Into thc\nmelancholy Scotch PreMiytej-ion\ngloom of a Utopian and impractical\ndecency.\n o-\t\nLet tlie Clarion print your\nprinting. Tel. 824. Box 836.\ni EDwaan Bnn. a. C. BarnoN-jarx\nUSO. K. MCCHOMAH.\nIIR0, MYOORMBK A \u00E2\u0096\u00A0cCROSMN\nBARRIBTKRH, iWUCITOM, KTC.\n114\nTel. S\u00C2\u00BB. P.O. Box ML\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 fwciwir. I. 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The present economic system is based upon capitalist ownership of the means ot wealth production; therefore all tho products of\nlabor 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 of 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.\nThe capitalist system given to the\ncapitalist an ever-swelllne stream of\nprofits, and to the worker an ever-\nincreasing measure of misery and\ndegradation.\nTbe interest of the working class\nlies in the direction of setting Itself\nfree from capitalist exploitation by\nthc nfr-olition of the wage system. To\naccomplish this necessitates the\ntransformation of capitalist property in the moans of wealth production into collective or workings'I ass\nproperty.\nThe irrepressible conflict of interests between the capitalist and the\nworker is rapidly culminating In a\nstruggle for possession nf the power\nof government\u00E2\u0080\u0094the capitalist to hold\nthe worker to secure It by political\naction. This ts the class struggle.\nTherefore, we call upon all workers to organize under the banner of\nthe Socialist Party of Canada with\nthe object of conquering the public\n(towers for the purpose of setting up\nand enforcing the economic program\nof the working class, as follows:\n1. The transformation as rapidlv\nas possible, of capitalist property hi\nthe means of wealth production (natural resources, factories, mills, railways, etc.,) into the collective property of the working class.\n3. Thorough and democratic organization nnd management of industry by tho workers.\n3. 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Let him henceforth wander\nuiul Bounder no more, but with this\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0 -.Mil in his possession as a sacred\ntalisman to dissipate the surrounding i\"K. und conjure away the cobweb from his noddle, go boldly forth\nronfideat In tlve faith, that prior to\nilie aitoiiiplishuiont of its purpose a\nrevolutionary movement can only be\n..pportunistic. Afterwards it can be\na\u00C2\u00BB revolutionary as\u00E2\u0080\u0094well, say Hair-\nertv's wheel tor instance.\nn i i i m \u00E2\u0096\u00A0 \u00E2\u0096\u00A0 s\nTO ALL CONCERNED:\nAll Communications to the Pro-\n..i.muI Executive Committee simuid\nh.-ii..forth be uddrcnawl lo W. H.\n1 lowers, Sec\"., Room !1, 222 Prior\nhireetX Vancouver, H.C.\nloiifmiinlcatloni to the Dominion\nl.iciulvo CoiuiiillU-u should be sent\nto .1. 0. Morgan, See., 501 I in maid\n>invi, Vancouver, B.C.\nIf correspondents will tie particular in sending thoir communication*\nto the proper address, it will avoid\nconfusion and delaj.\nTin- \ ancouver \"World\" is alter\nth.- qitaeit medicine ads. just now\nhotfoot. No doubt they ere frauds\nand swindle! of a very tours.- and\n1'jlgar type and ought to be donouue-\n.-.I a* wnh. Dul Uu-re aro certain\nm ranger* hereabout*. who wniuiv\nth.- opinion that tho \"World's\" ad-\ni.-rtitsing of itself in equally coarse,\nn.lgttr and devoid of truth, in fail\n'hut it I* about the most shaui.T.-ss\nexhibition of moral iiiikd-din-s thai\nhas occurred iu \am.oiiv\u00C2\u00ABj aince the\npm id. ai ion of iiupout Sl.\nProvincial Parliament\nabsolute necessity, and wo got it\nfrom Ottawa. Someone raised the\nquestion of how they were to roftch\nthe wliarf, to whiih the Government\ncandidate replied that he had interviewed the President of the Colliery\nCompany and found that gentleman\nvery accommodating, aud the joat-\nter was all fixed; but the trouble\nwus it wouldn't may fixed. I Laughter.) Last summer when tho road\nworKmen had graded tt road to within u few feet of the tuwiic street,\nthe Wellington Colliery Co. came\nalong, and by a skilful\" feat of engineering, made it impossible to obtain a crossing at that point. The\nremarkable ion urn tlons of the Colliery Oompany 1 will not deal with\nat this point. They are better fit-\nled for the consideration of this\nHouse In the form of a resolution.\nLater on tho C. P. R., having acquired th\u00C2\u00AB E. & N. Railway canie\ninto the matter with the ridiculous\nclaim that they wore charged with\nu fatherly care over tho adjoining\nprojivrty, and rather I han go back\non the Colliery Company, they will\napjieal to the Railway Co i-misaion\nat Uttuwa to compel a ' rolling to\ntie made under thc-ir track through a\nslight depression that iho Colliery\nCompany has lieen industriously filling in ever since the -lifllcully hus\naiiw-ii. ilaughter.j My 0\u00C2\u00AB-'n impression is that il this Oovunment\nhod energetically asserted its own\npower in the case, the uiaU-.'r could\nhave been fixed with the C. P. R.\nCompany without any appeal to\nOttawa. But as matters Maud today the question ha* to go to the\nRailway Commission. A wing of\ntho Ottawa Government will determine whether Ihe cost of that crossing will be two or three dollars to\nseveral thousand dollars, and the\nmoney must come from the Provincial Treasury. This appears to me\nto lie a condition of affairs which\ncun never work out satisfactorily,\nand furthermore I believe Chat this\nor any olher Province could safely\nmake n test case of the i-u.-siion as\nUj whether the Hominion Government\nhas the power to limit or define the\njiowers of Provincial legislation under the H.N.A. Act. We in this\nHouse frequently exceed our powers,\nand as far as 1 am able to fudge\nfrom a comparatively close acduain-\ntaii<\u00C2\u00AB- with several members of the\nDominion Parliament, that institution is fully as liable lo error us\nwe are.\nThere is another matter to which\nI wish to call tho attention of the\ntfoienum-nt. In Ladysmith a small\nsmelter is located, which, small as\nit is, has Durceedcd in solving some\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2lillltiilt problems in connection with\nthe reduction of ores, and has, 1 bu-\nlieve succeeded in treating certain\ngrades of ores 0t lees cost than any\nother smelter on the Coast. Notwithstanding this, oiling to thc fact\nthat there are more smelters on the\ncoast than the business will juslifv.\nIt has been found impossible to procure sufficient ore to ko*p the mm-l-\n(er continuous!-, running. The metalliferous ureas which run through\nthe centre of the Island reach down\npractically lo the shore at Indy-\nsmith At various. |M>inis\u00E2\u0080\u0094from an\nhour's walk from IjulssiiiiUi to 20\nmiles buck promising locations have\nI been made, and many thousand dol-\n| lurs s|\u00C2\u00AB*nt upon development work.\nIf the Government would, during the\ncoming summer send the provincial\ngiJnarBlogist out there, it would no\ndoubt Ik? of material benefit to those\nwho are .sinking every spare lU.llnr\nthey bate in those hill*, and might\niiliiiiia'i-li help to solve tho only\nproblem whiih the I,ad,\smith smelter has In-.n una-hlc to solve\u00E2\u0080\u0094lhat of\nTEBEC.\n(Continued Vrtrtn Page One.\u00C2\u00BB\nmen. sit up ull night looking up an\nthurities, precision Is and so on. in\ni.|\u00C2\u00BBl\ pr.-imt mo io suy that if a\nJudfte, drawing & salary from |.\"iiKS\u00C2\u00BB\nin * lo,i>imi ,*. j.-a, cannot tle> itK a\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0 use without listening to authorities*\nuhat feuture of his activity ia it\nthat entitles him to the mugiali. ent\nfiwsj to ten thousand salary which he\nll paid?\nlho . i.ns.'<*-i.-(i.\u00C2\u00AB- of the present un-\nLhads and conl uf legal proceedings ore supply.\"\nis ihat iwrsona of small means aro Mr. Williams then turned his at-\ndalfj submitting to the injustice*, of tenltou for a time to the iiucution of\nthe most galling kind ruth, r than railway*, ne stud they liu I mme\niinpovs-riah itsemaelveeiby attempt nag snore or so of railway companies in\nto a\u00C2\u00BBM-ri their rights. JusUce\u00E2\u0080\u0094 law .\"the Province which bad Ihv bowm\nr.i-, U-touie the inMrumetit of tbe\nstrung to crush ths weak. 1 could\nut Uu* moment cite cases to this\nHouse where Individuals are wrong-\nid and defrauded, viewed from a Le-\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0fiil or any other standpoint, but\nthey sutler Huh rather than face certain ruin by appealing to the Court.\nLaw itself has become a synonym\nfor poverty, destitution and injus-\nHie. Tho Henchvr* Aauociatioa (Uu\nLawyer*' Trade Union) is controlled\nhy this House, and therefore upon\no\u00C2\u00BBnt, but failed to make any im-\nI'l'cssion. During the following suin-\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2\u00E2\u0096\u00A0\u00E2\u0096\u00A0\u00C2\u00ABr a Dominion election hove in\nN'ght, and whon the campaign got\nworm tho good people of ladysmith\nwith an eye to business, grasped tho\nf>H\u00C2\u00BBortunity to got tho Dominion\n\"dverntnont to supply this public re-\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0nrlremunt, as work of this kind\nlanio in very handy during an elec-\n'^on campaign anyway. (Laughter).\nto go ahead ami construct railways\nif they wished, but they all aienicd\nU> to waiting for the Government to\nhelp them out. The proper railway\npOIlcy according to the definition ot\nthat (the Opposition) side of the\nHouse was that grants of money or\nlund should In- given; but there was\nan Impression abroad that money obr\ntained that way wiiit into the (mcto-\nt'ts of the promoters, as the road\nwos always bonded for a sufficient\nsum to pay for its construction, lt\nwas said that 11,500,000 was saved\nto the Province at tho last session\nby the refusal of tho Government to\ngrant subsidies to railways. If bo,\nlt was certainly to Uie credit of the\nGo-el nment who had resisted the\nOpvosJMon. who had whined, wheedled, coaxed and stumpei .xl for aid to\nbe givvn. They had complained of\nthe scarcity of railways, und talked\nabout the vast undeveloped areas\nof country, and yet it was a fact\nthat there was a greater mileage of\nrailway |ier head in this Province\nthan in any other. To him it seemed that tho benefits that the work*-\ninginan derived from the railways\nwere of a very questionable order.\nThey were purely capitalisti\u00C2\u00BB- institutions, and tho invariable result and\nobject of railway construction was\nto keep tho workingmen down. It\nwas snki that it would help the\nworking class by tho labor it provided, but It Invariably operated to\nkeep thorn down by bringing in thousands of men that spread themselves\nover thc industrial Hold and crowded]\nout those who were already there. It\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2babied the capitalist to crush the\nworkingmen by tho competition of\ncheap labor brought in from tho\nEast. There was no sense in opening up areas of country that were\nnot ready for development for ten\nyears to come. It only helped out\na bunch of si\"-' -n In tors, and injected\na little bit of artificial activity into\nthe commercial world. It was like\nmortgaging the future to open up\ntracts of country that thoy nover\nmade use of. If the Government\nwished to havo anything to do with\nrailways tho proper course was to\nconstruct thorn themselves.\nIne fourth member for Vancouver,\n(Mr. Mucgownn), had suggested that\nthey should acqiiiro and open up the\nIndian Reserves. \"I don't think,\"\nsakl Mr. Williams, \"that the time\nto cast covetous eyes on the hit of\nland held try the Indians. Thero is\nabundance of unoccupied land in tbe\ncountry, without want! tg to claim\nthat. But because these poor Indians are not Imbued with the speculative spirit, it seems that they are\nto bo trespassed on and put off the\nland they occupy, while all the time\nthere are thousands of acres in the\nFraser Valley and other places in\nthe Province which, if taken out of\nthe hands of the speculators who\nhave tied them up, would put us in\nsuch a position that we would not\nneed to bother tht: Indians for many\nn year to come.\"\nvTbe member for Rossland has\nspokirm of the eight-hour smelter bill\nwhich my comrade fram Nanaimo introduced at. the last session, and\nwhich was defeated by the House\nThc member for Rossland took some\ncredit to himself for what he had\ndone to settle that question since\nthen without the intervention of the\nHouse. I don't wish to trespass\nupon that gentleman's pride in his\nown work at all, but it does seem\nto me that thc part played by the\nmember for Rossland in that affair\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0vas about the same as that of little Jack Horner, who sat in the corner eating his Christmas pie, when\nhe put in his thumb and pulled out\na plum, and said: 'What a good boy\nam I.' (Iiaughter.) Little Jack\nHorner's aha re of that pie was about\ntho same as that of the member for\nKossland in settling the eight-hour\ndifficulty in smelters.\n\"The member for Chilliwack in his\nspeech said that he was not a Socialist. Now, there is no one in\nthis House for whom 3 have greater\nrespect than that gentleman, or of\nwhose sincerity in the course he\ntakes I have greater faith. There is\nno one whose word I would take\nquicker because he never goes out ot'\nhis way to make party capital, and\nwhen he saiil he was not a Socialist, I thoroughly hetinved liim. That\nhe was not a Socialist was shown\nin speaking of the timber industry,\nwhen he praised the Dominion Gov\narnment which was filling up the\nNorthwest by its immigration policy and so supplying a market for\nlumber. I have taken some trouble\nto go into tho effects of that policy\nome or twi-e, but it will stand a\nlittle more discussion. Thore is on*\nlittle phase that is overlooked in\ntalking of the Domaiiion imrmgration\npolicy. They talk about the Douk-\nhobors and Oalirians, but seem to\nforget their effect on the labor market, when the fact is that the Douk-\nhohor will go into Winnipeg and cut\nwood for 25c a load, a price at\nwhich no decent, respectable Chinaman would work.\" (laughter.)\nMr. Williams gave a few instances\nof how this policy was working out\nin the Northwest. An Italian laborer on a remote branch of the C.\nV. It., finding himself wrongwl by\nthe local railway officials, sent to\nthe Italian consul at Winnipeg and\nasl-id him to tnk\u00C2\u00BB- Ok* matter up\nwith the C.P.R, authorities tliere.\nTh\" consul went accordingly, but tbe\nOfficials simply told hrm that it was\nof no use, as they did not require\nanv more Italians anyhow, as they\nhad plenty of Poukhifhors now. lt\nwas said thnt the immigration policy was justified |,y the demand for\nfarm labor. What were the facts?\nThe farmer would send down to the\nDominion Government Agency in\nWinnipeg asking for help. The agent would send along a man who\nwould be hired at S12 or $14 a\nmonth. Coming from Europe where\nthe scale of wages were J v, he considered it a princelv ...- sends down to Winnipeg for\nanother green man at a low wage,\nand the first man finds himself out\nof a job. The average farmer got\ntwo men a year, and as this process\nwas going on continually the result\nwas to Hood the labor market and\nkeep the wages down.\nIt was said of coutae that many\nof these people came out to take up\nland nnd farm themselves, but the\nfigures given by thc United States\nlinmigraUon Department showed\nthat the average capital of Uie im-\nmisjrniits landing there for one year,\nwas $42 |ier ln-ad. It could not lie\n(exfiectcd that it was any more in\nCanada, nnd the result was that\nthey went to swell the ranks of the\nindustrial una\u00E2\u0080\u00A2\u00E2\u0080\u00A2\u00E2\u0080\u00A2' lyed.\n\"While I lni' io objection to any\nman coming in tn this country of\nhis own free wi ':,\" snid Mr. Williams, \"I do object to schemes tor\nbringing men out here wholesale.\nThe workingman who comes out hero\ninstead of being in the position to\nproduce something to sell to his fellow- man, finds himself obliirod to\nsell that with which something is\nproduced, namely, his own lubor. ln\nthis respect we hold the same position towards tho body politic as\nthe ordinary farmer to the Massey-\nHarris Company for instance, and 1\nask that tho Dominion Government\nquit this work of going through everybody else's pockets for Uie sake\nof bringing in people to compete\nwith those who are already here.\nThis system of continually overstocking tho labor market in this\nmanner, should be stopped.\"\nMr. Williams continued that they\nheard a groat, deal of what his immigration policy of tho Dominion\nGovernment was doing to increase\ntho population of tho country, but\nit was doubtful if it oven did tbat.\nHo had gone into tho matter carefully, and tho figures used by Mr.\nFielding in his budget speech in the\nyear li>04 as compared with Uie estimated population and immigration\nsince 1896, seemed to show a decrease if anything. Tho figures he\nhad gathered road as follows:\nPopulation, 1896 6,107,118\nImmigration between 1896\nand 1004 518,548\nIn other words there' were e8,470\npeople less than the increase for immigration in the country in 1.J04.\nThis left out of count altogether the\nnatural increase in tho meantime\nwhich was estimated at about 15\nper cent., which should mean In a\npopulation of 5,000,000, an increase\nof 650,000, so that it would look as\nif about 700,000 people had been\nlost in tho Dominion during that\nperiod, it meant that if these immigrants had stayed in the country\nthey had reduced wages and crowded\nout more than their own number of\npeople bred and reared here. In\nother words Canadian citizens born\nin thc country and adapted toit,\nhad gone out and their places had\nbeen taken by Doukhobors and Ga-\nlicians and people of that stamp,\nwho had no more sense than to take\noff their clothes, and go to Winnipeg in the middle of winter hunting\nfor Christ, daughter.)\nWorse than that the Dominion\nGovernment had now hitched itself\non to the Salvation Army, and encouraged them to collect all the Ii infers and scoundrels who were i naole\nto make an honest living in the old\ncountry with a fine tooth comb end\na mud rake, and after gathering all\nthe social garbage they could, v mild\ndump it down in Canada where they\nwere overcrowded with enough of lho\nkind already. If they took the re-\n[Kirts of the Immigration Officers\nfrom year to year and looked into\nthe accounts they would find a trail\nleft by theso immigrants all the way\nfrom Halifax to the Northwest. It\nwas \"Bread for immigrant in one\nplace,\" \"Clothes for immigrant\" in\nuiiother plune, \"Medicine for sick immigrant\" bene, and \"coffin for dead\nimmigrant there.\" (Laughter.) This\nalone was sufficient to Show th*; class-\nof men the Government were bringing out to drive the Canadian workmen away from their homes.\nHe did not know how the Salvation Army system would work out,\nbut he considered it a disgrace that\nthc Dominion Government should\ngive to steamship agents, the most\nconscienceless class of men on earth,\n$5 n head for every immigrant they\ncould induce to break up his home\nm the old country and come out\nhere. It was simply putting a premium \u00E2\u0080\u00A2 on misrepresentation, awl\nsome of the stories told by those\nmen should be sufficient to bring\nthem under the Criminal Code. He\nkaiew how it had been in his own\ncase, anil hc was sure that it was so\nwith others. The worst feature of it\nall was that the Government of Canada connived in these delusions. In\nGreat Britain the |*.-ople had always\nlearned to trust their Government\nand the stamp of the Government of\nfln-nt Britain on a piece of metal\nwas considered as good as tho word\nof the whole Empire. Consckjhjsntly,\nwhen literature was sent out from\nOttawa bearing the impress of the\nDominion Government, it was believed in nnd trusted, but when the\nimmigrant arrived in Canada, and\nfound these documents about as wiile\nof the mark as Jules Verne's works\non scientific matters, no wonder that,\nhe was heart-broken often, but he\nfound himself there and had to stay\neven if he displaced someone l\u00C2\u00BBred\nami horn in the country.\nThe Government at Ottawa was a\nclass institution, and its immigration -policy was for the purpose of\nfurthering the interests of its capitalist supporters, but the fact thtt\nthe Dominion Parliament allowed I\nthis policy to lie carried on without\nprotest was a lasting reproach and\ndisgrace to the members of that\nHouse. Thc Government had spent\n$746,000 on immigration last year,\nand he could not himself see any results for it. This money had been\ntaken out of the pockets of the industrial classes of the country for\nthe purpose of bringing in other lc-\nboring men to compete with thcin,\nand hc thought it high time that\nthis practice was stopped.\n\"Many references have been made\"\nconcluded Mr. Williams, \"to the late\nmember for Allterni, Mr. Mcinnes.\nWell, all I can say is that his career shows that politics pays under\ncertain conditions. However, that\nmay bo, we shall lie pleased to see\nhim back, moro especially if he\ncomes back nnd joins the Socialist\nParty.\" daughter and applause.)\nBig REDUCTION Sale\nINMERCHANT TAILORING\nWe Have Removed from Victoria\n ALL OUR\t\nFall And Winter\nStock. Must be Sold\nBefore Spring Goods\nArrive\nCheapest Bargains in the City\nGive Us a Trial. Fit Guaranteed.\nCharlie Dunn.\n100 Hastings Street -e> & Vancouver, B. C.\n* Out {Victoria Advertisers ~\nPatronize Them and Tell Them Why.\nFALL SUITING\nFrom $25.00 Up.\nE. SHAPER,\n12 Broad Street, Victoria, B. C.\nColonial Bakery\n29 Johnson St., Victoria. B.C.\nUNION-MAOE BRIM MID CMC!\nDelivered to amy part of th* city. Aak\nDriver to call. Thon* 849.\nDo you know we sell from 10 to 25\ncents cheaper than our competitors.\nthy\nHASHES' FAIR\nIt towramat Stmt, Vkliria. I. C.\n60 YEARS'\nEXPERIENCE\nTrade Marks\nDesigns\nCoPYRKH-rra Ac.\nAn\u00C2\u00BBone sending * skelrh end deeerlpilon msr\n-.\u00E2\u0080\u00A2IcklT -NKertAin oar opinion free whether su\ninvention Is probably pstentablejComniunlm,\nFive Clarion sub. cards\u00E2\u0080\u0094$3.75.\nlions strictly conlldmtial. HUMBOOIl on Patent*\nsent free. Oldest -u-ene-r for secnrtpcMlants.\nPatent* taken thr.mtih Mann A Co. receive\niv-fcw-l untie*, wit boat charge, tn th*\nScientific American.\nA handsomely lllnslrated weekly, largest circulation of any scientinc Journal. Terms. (3*\nyew: I onr month*. 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Secretary, Il W averly Pla*\u00C2\u00BB\n*?\u00C2\u00AB->*;\nSOTTING MACHINE.\ntOUEB BBAR1NO.\nHIGH GIADS.\nMATCHLESS LIGHT\nThere is no home too small to use Electric Light. Every dwelling should uso It\u00E2\u0080\u0094everybody should use it.\nThe children\u00E2\u0080\u0094bless them!\u00E2\u0080\u0094they cannot upset the Electric Light\nand bum the house down. They can do no harm whatever wilh\nElectric Light.\nIt can be lighted or extinguished hy a touch of the button. No\nlamps to clean, no smell of Coal Oil, no disfigurement of walls.\nWhen a small amount of light is needed, 6 or 10 candle power lamps may be installed, thus reducing the total expense of lighting bv this method.\nCall and see us in reference to Installing Electric Light to take\nthe place of your Coal Oil Lamps.\nB.C. ELECTRIC RAILWAY CO.\nTotal , 5,626,461\nActual population to 1904 5.557.&91\nS c\V(\nHe%\ ft--. Jt.inny, the*'wharf was nnl \u00E2\u0080\u00A2\"\u00C2\u00BB\u00E2\u0080\u00A2\u00C2\u00BB W \u00E2\u0096\u00A0\u00C2\u00BBrr,v\u00C2\u00AB1 (hat wo shou,d navo\nLoss\n68,170\nby buying this\nreliable, honest,\nhigh grade i\ning machine.\nSTRONGEST GUARANTEE.\nNational Sewing Machine Co..\nSAN FRANCISCO. CAL.\nFACTORY ATBBLVIOBaa ILL.\nHudson's Bay Oompsay, Agents\nOUR\nCascade Beer sells all\nQueen Beer Over the\nAle and StOUt Country\nSpecially Recommended.\nThe Vancouver Breweries, Ltd.\nTelephone 429\nf from\ny\nII\n'\"\u00E2\u0096\u00A0-\n1\nI\nlit\nI\nii)\nisawiM.\ni i-VTsTTfi a..\nggg jgggrgjjb cUiiQN, VAKcotrfrER, britis* 66lijisia.\nSaturday .. Janti&r'y 2?, 1900,\ni\u00C2\u00AE\u00C2\u00A9E\nNEWS AND VIEWS\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0 - \u00E2\u0096\u00A0 \u00E2\u0096\u00A0 \u00E2\u0096\u00A0 i seas \u00E2\u0096\u00A0 \u00E2\u0096\u00A0 - Stag '.*i.-.------.----r;-^-*.-s*-:--L-ji \u00E2\u0096\u00A0 -. : \u00E2\u0096\u00A0>.\u00E2\u0096\u00A0.\u00E2\u0096\u00A0\u00E2\u0096\u00A0\u00E2\u0096\u00A0 \u00E2\u0096\u00A0\u00E2\u0080\u0094\u00E2\u0096\u00A0\u00E2\u0096\u00A0\u00E2\u0096\u00A0\u00E2\u0080\u00A2\u00E2\u0096\u00A0....\u00E2\u0096\u00A0\u00E2\u0096\u00A0\u00E2\u0096\u00A0\u00E2\u0096\u00A0\u00E2\u0096\u00A0\u00E2\u0080\u0094 \u00E2\u0096\u00A0 ., ., . .\u00E2\u0080\u0094\u00E2\u0080\u009E\n\u00C2\u00AB\n9\n9\n9\n9\n9\nAS GIVEN OR EXPRESSED BY SOCIALISTS THROUGHOUT THE DOMINION $\n* Edited by R. P. PETTIPIECE, to whom all correspondence for this department should be addressed. 9\nSECRETARIES PLEASE NOTE \" \u00E2\u0080\u0094*\"****\u00E2\u0080\u0094 \u00E2\u0096\u00A0\nWhile it is possible for the editor\nof \"News and Views\" to secure access to the Party correspondence of\nboth the B. C. Provincial Secretary\n(Com. Flowers), and the Dominion\nExecutive Secretary, (Com. Morgan), much better results could be\nattained were the Secretaries of all\nLocals to send their Party news direct. Address: 'Ml. P. Pettipiece,\nVancouver, B. C.\"\nBLOODY SUNDAY\" COMMEMORATION\nAnd now they speak of \"Governor-\nGeneral\" Smith, in Democratic United\nStates. Governed ? Perish the very\nthought of It!\nmm*\n\"The present century belongs to\nthe'man in overalls.\"\u00E2\u0080\u0094E. T. Kingsley, in \"Bloody Sunday\" commemoration speech, City Hall.\n* * *\nA real live Prince is to visit Vancouver shortly. What a lovely time the\nnnobrocacy and militia will have kowtowing to one who probably never did\na useiu, day's work in his life.\n* * *\nParty matters in B.C., should be\naddressed to the 1906 Secretary, W.\nH. Flowers, Vancouver; while J. G.\nMorgan is secretary of the Dominion\nExecutive Committee,\u00E2\u0080\u0094having jurisdiction throughout Canada \u00E2\u0080\u0094 until\nsuch time as other Provincial organizations are inaugurated.\n* * *\nAnother life, this time a brakesman\not Revelstoke, has been sacrificed on\nthe altar of \"profit.\" More mileage,\nmore \"wages.\" And the victims to be\ncontinue to vote for Its perpetuation.\nSocialism would remove the \"incen-i\ntlve\"\u00E2\u0080\u0094more \"wages\" and \"profit\"\u00E2\u0080\u0094\nby operating the railways for the use\nand pleasure of those who do the\nworld's work.\n* * *\nThe recent municipal ramp*.!*-**** of\nthe Socialist Party in Vancouver has\naroused much attention from quarters heretofore unexpected. New Issues were permanently taU'oduced,\nand hereafter school trustees will\nhave to deal with Socialist demands\nor face defeat. Free kindergarten,\ntext-books, etc., will be the next\nitem on the program, owing largely\nto Socialist Party agitation.\n* * *\nln connection with the human victims of profit-taking, as expressed in\nthe more recent Valencia tragedy of\nthe sea, the local Daily World,\n(which poses as a \"friend of labor\")\nannounces in poster display, \"No\nProminent Vancouverites Aboard.\"\nWhat odds about any other class in\nsociety? One would think that even\nthe thick-headed workingmen would\nget tired some day of having such\ncoarse insults hurled into their faces\nevery day by the press exponents of\ncapitalism.\n* * *\n'Hue Walla Walla, the Islander, the\nClallam, and now the Valencia, with\nprobably the moat distressing loss\nof lives, have been paid as living sacrifices on the Altar of Profit. The\nCity of Puebla broke down; an old\ntub\u00E2\u0080\u0094the Valencia\u00E2\u0080\u0094was commissioned in her stead. Ihe result is only\ntoo well known to readers of the\ndaily press this week. And yet,\nthere are those who fail to see that\nboat-owners, like other capitalists,\nmust have PROFIT. IU costs money to build boats fitted for Cape\nFlattery seas. Oh, yes, this profit\nsystem is a glorious thing, but oh!\nwhat a price tbe people pay for their\nfoUy.\n* * *\nIf you do not see all tne results\nyou desire at once, do not get discouraged. Remember the world was\nnot made in a day. Safe progress\ndoes not fully materialise in an instant. It cannot be unduly forced,\nbut it will come gradually as ideas\ngerminate, and hy natural growth in\ndun time, enlarge and finally reach\nths full compass of their strength.\nThus the world moves. Ideas take\nroot, grow and culminate. The people! become interested, organization\nsucceeds, action is apparent, the roll\nof revolution and progress ts heard\nin the land and we at last are con\nducted to tbe completion of our\ngreatest desires.\n* * *\nWe Socialists contend that tbe mo-\ndarn masters of industries\u00E2\u0080\u0094not idle\nparasitic capitalist*---*!* as much\nthe creatures of and slaves to capital as the wage-slaves. But tba\nlatter, being the more numerous and\noppressed class, must rise and free\nthemselves from Job-hunting and\nwage-slavery. As an illustration,\ns-ead the following excerpt from the\ndaily press; \"I have seen many forms\nof human wrath, many men transformed to terrible things by anger\nbut I have never seen any that were\nother than jumping-jack imitations\nof tbe Jungle tiger compared with\nHenry H. Rogers, (oil trust magnate) wheq he 'lets 'er go'\u00E2\u0080\u0094when the\ninstant comes that he realizes 'some\none is balking the accomplishment of\nhis will. Yet away from the intoxicating spell of dollar-making thin remarkable man is one of the most\ncharming and lovable beings I have\never encountered. Once he passes\nunder the baneful influence of the ma-\nchinu, however, he becomes a relentless, ravenous creature, pitiless as a\nshark, knowing no law of God or\nmen in the execution of bis pur-,\nThe commemoration mass meeting\nof \"Bloody Sunday,\" was well attended considering the down-pour of\nrain so prevalent at this time of\nthe year.\nR. P. Pettipiece presided as chairman.\nAbe Cariue, a Finnish CouiriMie,\nrecited an \"Ode of Freedom\" in his\nown language.\nE. Burns made a short stirring\nspeech bearing upon events in Russia.\nW. J. Wilkinson gave an interesting reading relative to the situation\nin Russia; its effect upon tho workers of the world; and the inevitable\noutcome of the pending social revolution.\nE. T. Kingsley made an able substitute for the Russian ex-Lieutenant\nwho was billed to speak, but had\nbeen telegraphed the day before to\nhurry to Seattle to meet other Russian lex-soldiers on -their way to New\nYork City.\nMiss Polly Parr provided piano\nmusic.\nThe collection, nearly $40, will be\nforwarded to the International Socialist Bureau, which in turn will be\nsent to the Russian revolutionaries\nto be used in equipping themselves\nwith such articles as will accomplish the most for the worker's freedom from a despotic and brutal ruling class. It may be Socialist manifestos, or, when occasion demands,\na few bombs. , The Russian revolutionaries will receive thousands of\ndollars as a result of Sunday's international anniversary of \"Bloody\nSunday.\"\nA detailed report is withheld because of so much space being given\nto legislative reports this week,\nVANCOUVER, B. C.\ncomes to a show-down at the polls.\nNearly all the old members of Victoria IjOcal are now ln Vancouver,\nand some of them as far East as\nToronto. But such is the lot of\nwage-slaves. Hopscotching after a\njob, mates strange bed-fellows as\nthe politician would say. It also\nmakes the task of organization a\ndifficult one.\nVancouver Local is doing some\nflood propaganda this Winter\u00E2\u0080\u0094if win*,\nter it can be called, especially by residents east of the Rockies. Though\nthe membership is gradually increasing, it must be borne in mind that\nthe great mass of the workers have\nno \"homes\" to be destroyed\u00E2\u0080\u0094capitalism having already- accomplished\nthat much. But wherever the comrades go, they spread the message\nof economic freedom\u00E2\u0080\u0094the social revolution.\nCommencing their meetings four\nyears ago, in a small room over a\nsecond-hand, store, the Party soon\nafter secured the smaller Sullivan\nHall, then a large store on Hastings street; later a Cordova street\ntheatre; the larger Sullivan Hall,\nand now the City Hall is necessary\nto accommodate its audiences.\nLooks like the Opera House would\nbe the next move.\nAnd so mote it be.'\nIu that brief period the Local has\nhad ita upn and downs\u00E2\u0080\u0094responsibilities and liabilities\u00E2\u0080\u0094and it will still\nhave them.\nBut for all that, thc movement\nowes us nothing; and we owe it everything.\nThere's been satisfaction and results here, and now in the doing. It\nhas been the fulfilment of a duty,\nand no sacrifice\u00E2\u0080\u0094there is no such\nword as the latter in the Socialists'\nvocabulary.\nRecent events throughout the world]\nare hastening the revolution. Work-\nera in B.C., are paying heed and pro*\nfiling by the lessons learned from\nother portions of the capitalist\nworld.\nThe mission of the Socialist Party has merely begun.\nWe are living in the most interest-\nIner epoch of the world's history.\nWe are making history faster than\nwe realize,\nBut, we in Vancouver feel ourselves a part of tho great world-wide\nniovcntent \u00E2\u0096\u00A0' for the workers freedom\nfrom capital, and c/uickened by this\nthought and the inspiration of last\nSunday evening, new life and renewed activity among Pacific Coast Socialists, is sure to follow.\nMONTREAL, QUEBEC.\n.The following advertisement recently appeared in the Montreal Star:\ni* Workingmen's Club \u00E2\u0080\u0094 There will\nbe a meeting of the 'German Working-men's Chili at 246 St. James St.\non Sunday morning, at 10 o'clock.\nThe question of forming a Socialist\nLocal will be discussed.\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 As a result. Sec. Morgan has received an application for a Charter,\nduly signed b.v thc requisite number\nof workers, and 91.75 enclosed for\nsame.\nOtto John is the Secretary, and\nwrites that tho Montreal comrades\nwill secure Eugene Debs as a speaker, if possible, while filling his engagements in Toronto and other\npoints in Ontario, ai mentioned by\nComrade Wrigley in his correspondence some weeks ago.\nCom. John is already distributing\nClarions and other Socialist propaganda and hopes to see the ' Local\nflourishing shortly.\nThe comrade also mentions the\nbitter opposition of the Church te\nMontreal, but feels confident the Socialist movement there, as elsewhere,\nmust soon triumph.\nPROVINCIAL EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE.\nVancouver, B.C., Jan. 23.\u00E2\u0080\u0094 Present, Comrades Leah, chairman, Morgan, Pr it chard, Stebbings, Organizer Kingsley and the Secretary.\nThe minutes of the previous meeting were read and approved.\nCommunications.\nFrom Vancouver Local, enclosing\n$2.50 for due stamps.\nFrom U. S. Italian National Organizer, re tour. Received and* filed.\nFrom Squamish, making application for charter. Complied with.\nThe following warrants were ordered drawn:\nFor Due Stamps $10.00\nFor Supplies 17.66\nReceipts.\nFrom Vancouver $2.60\nTORONTO, ONTARIO.\nBy F. Dale.\nTORONTO, Jan. 3.\u00E2\u0080\u0094\"\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 \u00E2\u0080\u00A2 Members in good standing, 35; admitted\nduring month, 3. \u00E2\u0080\u00A2 \u00E2\u0080\u00A2 We are making good progress. * * The Jews\nare forming a branch Local, and the\nFinlanders are likewise falling in\nline.\"\nHARCOURT, N. B.\nBy Henry Harvey Stuart.\nHARCOURT, N.W., Jan, 8.\u00E2\u0080\u0094From\nreports enclosed, you will notice wc\nhave wakened up a bit\u00E2\u0080\u0094got one\nmore new member in December; also\nfour subs for Clarion. Many here\nare anxious to study Socialism, and\nlisten to its advocates more readily\nthan formerly. * * Send more cop-\nhe of platform, etc.\"\nDAWSON, T. T.\nBy David Crocker.\nDAWSON, V. T., Dec. 19.\u00E2\u0080\u0094\"\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 \u00E2\u0080\u00A2\nWe have been busy in propaganda\nwork since opining our new quarters. Have taken in 17 new members; 40 members in good standing;\ntotal enrollment 90 members. Wc\ndo not know exactly our numerical\nstrength as some of the boys are in\nout-lying districts (sowing the seeds\nof revolution) and doubtless fquite a\nnumber have left the country since\nlast spring.\nAt a business meeting on the 17th\ninst., the following officers were elected for 1906:\nOrganizer\u00E2\u0080\u0094.Joseph Johnston.\nFin. Secretary\u00E2\u0080\u0094David Crocker.\nRec. Secretary\u00E2\u0080\u0094W. W. Scott.\nTreasurer\u00E2\u0080\u0094Charles Mulcahy.\nPropaganda Committee\u00E2\u0080\u0094,\nCards, etc.\t\nSeal\t\nPostage, Stationery, etc..\nRepayment of loan \t\nSalary of Secretary \t\n$ 49.nn\n80.00\n40O\nH.!\u00C2\u00BB0\n18.00\n10.00\nCHILLIWACK, B. C.\nDr. W. J. Curry, an active member of Chilliwack Local, 8. P. of C\u00E2\u0080\u009E\nwas in the City for the \"Bloody gun-\nday\" commemoration meeting last\nSunday evening. He speaks cheerlng-\nly of the growth and progress of the\nsocialist movement In that district,\nthinks the Party there will give Mr.\nMunro a run'for his seat in the Legislature next election.\nCLARESHOLM, ALBERTA.\nBy C. F. Lowrie.\nCLARESHOLM, Alta., Jan. 6.-\n* * Added six new members on\nJanuary 2nd, making 22 now. * *\nWe are badly in need of speakers. *\n* The Clarion's sub.-hustler should\ncome through thc Crow's Nest up\nthis far. \u00E2\u0080\u00A2 \u00E2\u0080\u00A2 We are locating Socialists throughout Alberta in the\nhope of furthering organization\nwork.\"\nTotal $68.85\nThe Demonstration Committee reported that the contributions were\nnot all in.\nThe campaign Committee reported\na surplus (not all collected). The report of the Program Committee was\nalso received and they were instructed to charge 10 cents admission to\nmeetings hereafter, whenever outside\nsn leakers are engaged. ^l\nComrades Parr and Norton wore \\nadded to the ways and means com-.\nmittee, which committee is likely to J\ninaugurate a social and dance in the\nMt. Pleasant district, in the near future. Watch for further notices and\nsave your surplus energies for a good)\ntime.\nThe financial report showed receipts for the two weeks ending Jan.\n22nd, as follows:\nCollected at City Hall meeting for l-enent of Russian\nworkers $38.40\nDonated by a worker in the\ni-aune, for Russian workers\nDonated by Chilliwack Local\nDonated by B. Goldberge ....\nDonated by Mr. Adams \t\nDonated by a Comrade \t\nTotal $175.30\nLeaving a balance of $28.85.\nAudited and certified torrent.\n(Signed) E. T. KINU8LEY.\nN. LAMBERT,\nW. McKEN/IE,\nAuditors.\nDOMINION EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE.\n10.00\n5.00\n1.00\n.50\n.10\nTotal amount for Russian\nworks-rs, forwarded to Dom\ninion Executive through\nDonated to the general hund\nto meet current expenses ijr\ncomrades whose names ap-\nl>ear on a list 10.00\nLiterature Hales 2.40\nDues account 2.78\nVICTORIA, B. C.\nCom. Harper, of Victoria, came\nover on Sunday last to meet the B.\nC. Executive, returning on Monday,\nafter having attended the \"Bloody\nSunday\" demonstration in the City\nHall. Com. Harper turned over the\nbooM, Charier, assets and liabilities\nto the Executive, until such times\nas the Committee pays the natalities\n\u00E2\u0080\u0094some $70\u00E2\u0080\u0094and sends an organizer\nover to give the comrades a fresh\nstart. Mean Mime, the Executive has\nauthorised Com. Burnett to store the\nParty's assets,\nLook*) as though the comrades had\ngot more interested In their \"ibual-\nness\" meetings than their, propaganda work. However, the Executive is\nassured by many workers in Victoria, that no trouble whatever will be\nexperienced by the organizer in reestablishing a stronger Local than\never before. Socialists may disagree\non minor point of tactics, but once\na Socislist always a Socialist. Positively no \u00E2\u0080\u00A2Ibackslldere'-' when it\nRED LODGE, ALBERTA.\nIl.\u00E2\u0080\u0094S \u00E2\u0096\u00A0\u00E2\u0096\u00A0\u00E2\u0096\u00A0!\u00E2\u0096\u00A0 \u00C2\u00AB\nBy S. W. Welrh.\nRED LODGE, Alta., Dec. 2.\u00E2\u0080\u0094 \"The\nRed Ijodge Socialist Political Club,\nJust organized here, with nine members, requests me to ask for further\ninformation relative to affiliation\nwith the S. P. of Canada. Wo are\nall 'hayseeds,' but want to \u00C2\u00ABct into\nship-shape for coming events,\"\nWINNIPEG, MANITOBA.\nCom. II. R. Siemon, In sending\nalong Winnipeg Loral's Dece.nber report, with an order for due stamps,\nsays very little public propaganda\nwork is being done at presint in the\nManitoba capital, but foresees a\nchange of tactics among the workers\nat no distant date.\nTotal rceeipU for last two\nweekr. $81.15 ,\n.After formally receiving tho flnan- j]\nrial report, the meeting adjourned\nD. P. MILLS, See\nVancouver, B.C., Jan. 23.\u00E2\u0080\u0094 Pres\nent. Comrades leah. Chairman, Steb\nbings, Pritchard, Flowers, Organiser\nKingsley and the Secretary.\nTho minutes of the previous meet-\nIns; were read and approved.\nThe sums of $85 from Vancouver,\nand $5 from Chilliwack I .oral* wire\nreceived to be forwarded to the International Socialist Bureau at\nBrussels, Belgium to lie applied to\nthe Russian Revolutionary Fund.\nReceipts.\nB.C. Prov. Exe., Stamps, and\nsupplies, (old account) ... $17.86\nB.C. Prov. Exe., stamps 10.00\nTotal $27.55\nAdjournment.\nJ. O, MOROAN, Sec.\n_ o\u00E2\u0080\u0094\u00E2\u0080\u0094\u00E2\u0080\u0094\u00E2\u0080\u0094\nThe difference between the capitalist who robs his victims by the thou-\nthis Ixical $40.00 \ sands, from the cradle to thc grave.\nand the footpad who holds up an oc-i\ncasional victim, is one of di-groe only\n, with the exterminating circumstances\n| most decidedly in the tatter's favor\nI \u00C2\u00B0\nMen's Winter Overcoats in plain\ntin-, oxfords; coats which have wild\nthis season at $15; this week \u00C2\u00BB\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 \".'\u00E2\u0080\u00A2\nMen's line Worsted and Tweed\nSuits, -.in-rli- and double I rvastexi,\nall wool cloths; regular $13.50 and\n$15, for $l'.50\nMen's Cravc-nett-i Raincoats, full\nlined, in neat dark greys and MeckM.\ncoats which are sold evwhwhere st\n$12.00. Our price for this steak\nonly $6.50\nKLLROY, MORGAN 00., Ltd.\nM\nTVWVeTewVTVVTTWWW\nj BURNS & CO.\n% HARDWARE arr.\n| Second Hand Outerj\nCook Stoves ami Tools a\nJ Specialty. [\nWe buy and sell all kinds of %\nscrap metal, old rr-achinery,\nJ rubber, sacks, bottles, etc.\nStores\u00E2\u0080\u0094I.'IH Cordova St.. E.. $\nhardware A junk. 101 Powell %\nSt.. new and Mer of persons killed in Russia since\nthe first great strike in January,\n1908, is 104,006. Of thia number.,\n81,000 have been killed by \"troop*\nand mobs.\" while 28,000 troops\nhave) been killed by \"rioters.\" Of\nr our He, everyone know* the \"rioters\" were the citv mnraram nasi the\npeasants struggling to break the brutal rule of the Autocrar.v - aod ac-\n\u00C2\u00ABjulro some political rights for them'\nselves. Considering that they fought)\nwith scant nnd Invmovlmwl wuat\u00C2\u00BB>ns,\nthey are to to .t'ongratu!--,!\u00C2\u00AB** onhav-\n,lag removed 3*1,000 trained butchers\nj from ine world's stock, of profession-\ni-i-iis* tiuu nymsv m J.sew\nWestern Clarion $ 55.80\nPurchaso of Stamps from\nDom. Ex. Committee 54.00\nExpenditures re Comrade\nO'Brien's Tour 118.40\nDeficit on Com. 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