"de20aeea-1e44-4227-bf7f-8a77f66d852a"@en . "CONTENTdm"@en . "2016-04-04"@en . "1912-01-27"@en . "https://open.library.ubc.ca/collections/wclarion/items/1.0318818/source.json"@en . "application/pdf"@en . " WESTERN\nOWNED AND CONTROLLED BY THE SOCIALIST PARTY Of CANADA\n-\nPUBLISHED IN THE INTERESTS OP THE WORKING CLASS ALONE\nf NUMBER 6S2\nVANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA, SATURDAY, JANUARY 27, 1912\nSubscription Price ai an\nPUR YBAR VlsVU\nI THE COLOSSAL POWER OF\nA RICHTEOUS CAUSE\nThe Thing That Is Right Wins Standing Out Squarely and Alone.\nThe power of accumulated capital\nJs a very great force in the world.\nConservation ls a great force\u00E2\u0080\u0094the disposition of many men to oppose progress, the contror of the world's press\nby which every day millions of people are misinformed and misled ls a\ngreat force. The two great political\nparties are a great force, dividing t he\ngovernment between them, and diverting attention from feal issues by\nmeans of fake contests and shows.\nMilitarism is a great force.\nThe control of the courts Ib a great\nforce\u00E2\u0080\u0094the power to interpret laws\nand to evade them.\nThe control of employment is a\ngreat force\u00E2\u0080\u0094influencing the votes of\nmillions of men by the threat of dls-\nemployment.\nThe united railroads are a great\nforce, exerciBing their influence upon\ntheir employees and upon the public.\nThe power of the united banks Is a\ngreat force, compelling Iretall merchants to take such political action as\nwill pleaBe the men that control the\nbanks.\nThe universities and colleges are a\ngreat force, discouraging new ideas\nand educating young men to serve the\nmasters with gladness.\nThe Associated Press is a great\nforce, poisoning the news and directing the unconscious beliefs of the\nworld.\nSocial' prestige is a great force,\nostracising all persons that do not\nhold conventional views and sedulously upholding the established order.\nThe Church is a great force, condemning the workingman to patience\nwith his lot and working Industriously\nas tbe handmaid qf capital.\nChauvinism ls a great force, constantly teaching that whatever ls\ndone in our country represents the\nbest possible achievement and blinding all eyes to the progress made\nabroad.\nPrejudice ls a great force, closing\nthe ears against the arguments of any\nmovement that may have been misrepresented or lied about.\nThe power to create panics at will\nis a great force, terrorizing small\nbusiness and workingmen with a constant threat of ruin unless affairs are\nmanaged to the satisfaction of the\npersons that hold the strings.\nThe control of the nation's money\nsupply Is a great force, insidiously\nand secretly influencing the actions of\nmen.\nThe control of political preferment\nis a great force, showing young men\nthat only by doing the bidding of the\n' masters can ambition be realized or\ndistinction attained.\nThe process of business consolidation and combination is a great force,\nalways reducing more men to the condition of servants subject to the whim\nand caprice of the masters.\nAll these are great forces in the\nworld.\nBut there ls one that ls far greater\nthan any of these and greater than\nall of them combined.\nIt Is the power of a moral Idea.\nThe phrase Is misused so much and\nbandied about by canting orators that\none hesitates to lay hold of it; and\nyet lt ls perfectly good and represents\na tremendous truth.\nWhat 1 mean Is that the greatest\npower in the world, Incomparably the\ngreatest, bo much the greatest that\nall the rest are but pigmies, is the\npower of a protest against a fundamental wrong. 1 mean that but one\nman, standing by himself and steadily\nprotesting, even if he protest unheard,\nls a greater force In the world than\nmoney and armies, I mean that nothing can stand before such power. I\nmean that it ls like the microscopic\njet of water, no bigger than the finest\nneedle, that works its way unseen\nunder the embankment and presently\nneither great stoneB nor masonry mot\nIron can withstand it, and the whole\nstructure goes out\nThe Irrepressible Protest.\nAbout seventy-five years ago two\nor three obscure men ln this country\nbegan to say that chattel slavery was\nwrong.\nThe very few that heard them\nlaughed aloud. Chattel slavery was\nthe established institution, rock-rooted\nand eternally based. If anything\ncould be regarded as fixed and deter\nmined forever lt was that chattel slav\nery was an inseparable part of the\nAmerican republic.\n'The foundation of the republic is\nslavery,\" said the ablest Southern\ncommentators, and no one, except the\ntwo or three obscure mad men, ever\nthought of disputing the doctrine.\nAll classes of men accepted slavery\nas Inevitable and unchangeable even\nwhen they did not think that it was\ndivinely ordained and anybody that\ncriticized it waB an impious and pro-\nfance wretch.\nAH the forces that I have enumerated diligently supported slavery and\nserved lt on the bended knee. Politicians, clergymen, educators, editors,\nstatesmen, professional men, students,\nlawyers, judges, public officers, lead\ners of society, eminent persons in all\nwalks of life, engaged in contests to\nsee which could crawl the farthest\nbefore slavery, the supreme. A man's\nsocial rank and prestige was gauged\nby the extent of his service and devotion to slavery's great cause. To\nkeep human beings in bondage was\nregarded as the most laudable aim of\nlife, and any person not avid in Its\npursuit was looked upon as an undesirable citizen.\nAgainst all this overwhelming tide,\ntwo or three obscure men stood and\nuttered protest. When they were not\nto be silenced by scornful laughter,\nthe angered Blave power began to\nshoot them, tar and feather them, and\ndrag them through the streets of Boston and other places, with ropes\naround their necks.\nThey never ceased to protest.\nMen called them pestilent agitators,\ndenounced them as vile disturbers of\nthe social order, broke up their meetings, chased them from one hiding\nplace to another, called upon all patriots to assist in ridding the country\nof these public enemies. All the power of all the forces I have mentioned\nwas exerted against them year after\nyear. No respectable person would\nso much as listen to them. In the\neyes of all right-thinking men they\nwere a blot upon the country and a\ndisgrace to its flag. But they never\nceased to protest.\nThey had no money, they had no\nstanding, they had no influence. They\ndid not belong to the dominant parties, nor stand well ln church. In the\ngreat world of business they were\nscoffed at and hated. A million men\nof greater strength drowned their\nfeeble voices. And yet these few obscure ones steadily drove the entire\nnation before them. With nothing\nbut their protests they forced the\ncountry to think. Year after year\nthey went on, never accepting compromise, never yielding a point, always insisting that as slavery was\nmorally wrong thero could be with It\nno terms of peace, always protesting.\nThe time came when one of them\ncheerfully laid down his life on the\ngallows for the sake of his faith.\nThen the world began to see that\nhere was something vital, eternal, Indomitable, basic, not to be escaped;\nthat it must be settled and it could be\nsettled but ln one way, and that was\non the ground of the moral Usue lt\nraised. For fifty years foolish persons have said foolish things to the\neffect that tho guns of an army Bitot\nslavery to death. Others have loaded\nwith praises tho memory of this military hero or that. These had nothing to do with lt. The power that\nended chattel slavery in America was\nthe power of the protest made by the\nfew obscure men that continued always to say without ceasing that\nslavery was morally a great and hideous wrong.\nBetween eternal right and eternal\nwrong there can be no truce. When\nthe Abolitionists had carried their\nagitation to the point where in spite\nof all the powers of darkness they\nwere being heard, doughfaced persons\nwanted to compromise. \"Let ub get\ntogether for something that we can\nwin now,\" said these worldly-wise\nones. \"Let ub stand for a law limiting the extension of slavery, because\nwe can win with that.\" And the Abolitionists replied that they recognized\nnothing as a victory short of the total\nextinction of the thing on which they\ndeclared war. And never ceasing to\nprotest they went their way until at\n(Continued on Page Four)\nTHE ONE-EYED IS KING.\nBy B. R.\nIn the rich folk-lore of Andalusia\nthere ls a quaint saying that \"ln the\nland of the blind the one-eyed Ib\nKing.\" It ls to say that he who understands the clearest ls best fitted.\nThe Socialist's comprehension of\npublic affairs ls his armor and child.\nHe despises rainbows of promise and\nthe delusions of hope. He knows the\npublic press Is a journalistic bawd\nwhose abominations would shame the:\napocalyptic whore of Babylon. He\nholds at naught the miserable moralities of the piety-peddlers and Is not\nconcerned about \"a happy land far\naway.\"\nHe Interprets disturbances ln the\nsocial order most accurately, because,\nback of his philosophy Is the profound\nlearning and logic of all the exact sciences.\nHe analyses the doings of men in\nthe light of the doctrine that we follow that thing which we conceive to\npromise us most substantial good.\nUnder a principle which he has discovered in the capitalist system of\nproduction, known In the Socialist\nbooks as the law or surplus values, he\ncan tell you why ever so often the\nwheels of Industry must stop, the factories shut down when men do want\nfor the very means of comfort and\nlife, and why when the bosom of\nbounteous mother earth is swollen\nand taut with plenty, yet must the little bellies of children be pinched and\nshrunken, and wolfish hunger stalk\nthe lives and smite with wretchedness\nabject the laughing eyes of the innocents who dwell in the places of the\nevil smells.\nHis notion of the. struggle for existence Is a true accounting for the\nfact that the beauteous daughters of\ntoiling sires must be fed like the Maid\nAndromeda into the Insatiable maw\nof the world's chief monster, and the\nscarlet door mark the beginning of\ntheir joyless pourney down a tortuous and miasmatic path to the potter's\nfield.\nThe Socialist is an Incessant reader\nof books.\nOpen at least one eye!\nTHREE TIMES WIDOWED\nBY HORRORS OF MINE8\nThis Woman Also Lost Father, Stepfather and Two Brothers in\nAccidents.\nTRINIDAD, Colo., Jan. 24.\u00E2\u0080\u0094Three\nhusbands, father, stepfather and two\nbrothers killed in Las Animas county\ncoal mines has been the terrible record of grief heaped upon Mrs. Julia\nOliver of Starkville, who was made a\nwidow for the fourth time when J.\nW. Oliver was crushed to death by a\nfall of rock ln the Rugby mine of the\nRapson Fuel Company, 30 miles north\nof here.\nWith the exception of her flrst husband and a brother, both of whom\ndied of pneumonia contracted ln the\nmines, all met violent deaths.\nThe long list of mine disasters ln\nthis county has already claimed its\ntoll of other families in this section,\nbut the tragic report of death that\nhas followed the Sipple family has\nnever been equalled in the history ot\nwestern mines.'\n| FREE SPEECH |\nA big demonstration is to be held\nSUNDAY, the 28th, on Powell Street\nfootball grounds, at 2 o'clock, to protest against the city authorities for\nputting a stop to speaking on the\nstreets. Come in your thousands, all\nof you that uphold FREE SPEECH.\nThe Trades and Labor Council are\ntaking a hand In this also.\nTHE CAPITALIST PRESS ADMIT IT.\nBERLIN, Jan. 23.\u00E2\u0080\u0094A call for the\nReichstag to convene Feb. 7 was Issued today, and from all indications\nthe Socialists will be ln control,.with\nat least 110 members. The exact per-\nsonnelaof the body cannot be determined until next Thursday, when there\nwill be re-balloting in 33 districts, in\nwhich none of the contestants at the\ngeneral election of Jan. 12 received a\nplurality of the votes cast.\nThe Conservatives today admit that\nthey fear that the Socialists, Liberals\nand Leftists will combine in an effort\nto control all legislation.\nIn the general election the Socialists\nwere within seven votes of capturing\nEmperor William's home district.\nSHOW US THE GOODS\nTHEN WE'LL UNITE\n\"A united Socialist Party in Canada\nis what we want.\" The aforementioned exclamation was uttered with\nthat direct finality which took for\ngranted that everybody was unanimous on Buch a course. \"Well!\" 1\nremarked, \"1 wasn't aware that there\nwere any Socialists in Canada that\nneeded uniting. Of course I was aware\nthat five men and a half hail met at\nPort Arthur with the intention of\nbringing together the Socialist Federation and the Socialist Democratic\nParty, and furthermore was not surprised that they had succeeded, for\nthe simple reason that their action\nand Its results were as much foreordained as the fit, style and general\ndesign of Eve's wedding costume, to\nsay nothing of Adam's dress suit.\nThere are a great many well-intentioned but mistaken persons within\nSocialist circles who have visions of\na great big solid numerical Socialist\nParty that will be able to strike terror In the hearts of all of the working\nclass's oppressors. This ideal, or\nvision, is on a par with other Utopian\npipe dreams and deserves as much\nconsideration as Bellamy's lovely\nworkshop.\nUnity along certain lines is essential, especially when certain factionb\nhave been brought together and need\ntime for their proper organization,\nbut for one to say that all organizations are more efficient when brought\nInto concentrated or compact bodies\nmight be correct theoretically, but is\nat variance with facts.\nBiologists are agreed that unicellar\nbodies maintain their existence by division, i. e., that each cell splits, or,\nrather, after it has attained a certain\ndevelopment, its growth depends on\na part separating Itself and forming\nan existence of its own. The same\nthing applies to a certain degree to\nanimal groups, of which the human\nls one. Animal bodies or groups outside of the human instinctively per-\nfrom the division of the troop, colony,\nherd, etc., to conform with a new environment. Generally speaking, the\nfood supply, its scarcity or abundance,\nls the reason for herds to come togeth\ner or separate again. In some cases\nit means protection to divide Instead\nof unite.\nHuman groups are no more immune\nfrom the operation of universal law\nthan are mosquitos, although we can\nto a certain degree foretell In advance\ntheir direction. Why it is at certain\ntimes that the human family finds it\nmore advantageous to live In Isolated\ngroups and at other s to amalgamate\nis a matter that I cannot go into fully\nat present. Aristotle recognized the\nvarious divisions of classes and governments, and accounted for them ln\nhis \"Politics.\" He remarked that\ndemocracies, oligarchies and tyrannies, etc., were necessary in Greece,\nand lt depended on the division of\nclasses which was most desirable.\nThe question ls, \"Is unity always\nand everywhere desirable?'' I say decidedly, No! It depends on the organization, Its virility, and the results.\nThe Socialist Party of Canada Is delivering certain education to the\n\"working class\" along lines which lt\ndeems correct. It refuses to dabble\nwith reforms so far as Its propaganda\nls concerned, consequently how can lt\nmerge, compromise, or mix with a few\n(half-educated in proletarian economics) so-called parties that never make\nan appearance except at the usual\nfour-year voting competition.\nThis braggadocia talk about sixteen\nand eighteen hundred members Ib simply a con game to catch success. It's\non a part with Cotton's 12,000 circulation.\nIf the Socialist Federation Is no\nlarger than the Social Democratic\nParty it certainly was a shame to\nspend the money on such a glorious\nmanifesto. The Social Democratic\nParty has no existence outside of\nWinnipeg, and you can judge of Its\nSocialist propensities when it needs\na Liberal Slngle-Taxer by the name of\nTrueman to deliver an address. \"Why\nthe Roblin Government should resign?'' Why? Because they had not\nlived up to their telephone policy.\nNow, ,sn't that a fine subject for an\naddress under the auspices of the So-\nContinued on page three\nTHE WORKINC CLASS\nAND MASTER CLASS\nMastership Consists of the Power to Make and Keep\nOthers in Slavery.\nOne often sees the term, \"the working classes\" used by capitalist speakers and in the capitalist press.\nThere are no working classes.\nThere Is a Working CLASS.\nWhy ls there a Working Class?\nThere is a Working Class because\nthere ls a Class which doesn't work,\nfor the most part, with which the\nWorking Class Is compared.\nWhy does not this Class work?\nBecause they have no need of working, because they are ln a position to\nmake the other class work for them.\nThey are in the position of owners\nof the means of production, the means\nof life.\nThiE gives them the power of forcing\nthose who DO NOT own the means of\nproduction to beg the owners for the\nopportunity to produce, and to get the\nopportunity when it suits the owners\nto let them have lt.\nIt suits the owners to employ those\nwho do not own when they can receive\nprofit from their labour.\nThe Class line can only be clearly\ndrawn between those who own and\nthose who do not. It can only be\ndrawn on property lines.\nIt can not be drawn on organic lines,\nfor all members of the human species\nare organically the same.\nIt can not be drawn on lines of colour or -race as we have Anglo-Saxon\ncapitalists, German capitalists, Chinese\ncapitalists, and negro 'capitalists; we\nhave Anglo-Saxon workers, German\nworkers, Chinese workers and negro\nworkers.\nThere are capitalists of all races, and\nworkers of all races.\nThe Class line cannot even (though\nwe use the term \"the working class'\npopularly) between the Idle class and\nthe working class because there are a\nnumber of the capitalist class who take\npart In industry and there are always\na number of the non-owning class who\nare forced to be Idle because the Jobs\nwill not go round.\nTruly there are a number of those,\nwhom we may term petty capitalists,\nln society, little business man and the\nlike, those whom Kautsky speaks of\nas \"unclasslflable hybrids, belonging\nwholly to neither class, and partly to\nboth,\" those whose lives are a continual worry, who are despalrably but\nfruitlessly striving to maintain their\nposition, \"hanging on by the hair of\ntheir eyebrows,\" but as they aro bound\nto be shook off Into the working claBs\nbefore long, they are a negligable factor.\nHaving endeavored briefly to make\nthe matter clear, I shall now on use\nthe terms \"working class\" and \"capitalist class,\" or \"ruling class\" for reasons of brevity and popular usage.\nThe owning class has always been\nthe ruling class, the dispossessed class\nhas always been the Blave class.\nThe owning class Ib the master class\nnow.\nOur class ls tho slave class now.\nOwing to the Improvement In the\ntools and method of production, the\nfashions In mastership and slavery\nhave changed from time to time, but\nthough the FASHIONS have changed\nthe THING has always remained the\nsame.\nMastership consists of the POWER\nto make and keep others In slavery.\nSlavery Is the condition of being\nforced by any means, to work for others.\nThe first class of slaves were forced\nto work by means of armed guards,\nthey were chattel slaves, who could be\nbought and sold just the same as horses and cattle are now.\nSometimes they revolted (rend \"The\nAncient Lowly,\" by Osborne Ward),\nbut were always put down In the end.\nWhen this system of slavery passed\nout of date, out of fashion, the slaves\nwere forced to work for their feudal\nlords because these lords owned the\nland; this was a modified form of ancient slavery; sometlmeB the slaves revolted under THIS syBtem, but were\nalways put down in the end, armed\nforce being used by the masters when\nnecessary, as It is now. (Read \"Six\nCenturies of Work and Wages\" and\n\"The Economic Interpretation of History,\" by ThoraW Rogers, and \"The\nIndustrial History of England,\" by\nDeGlbbens).\nBut, of course, we are free men now\nunder capitalist regime, especially we\nwho live under tbe sway of the glorious British Vampire, we are not\nbought and sold at the block, they cannot treat us to a whipping now. (How\nabout the savage sentences of Magistrate Shaw, ln Vancouver, of ten and\nfifteen years and twenty and thirty\nlashes, awarded to wage slaves driven\nby unemployment' to robbery at the\npoint of the pistol; did you ever see a\nflogging and hear the screams? The\nwriter has).\nOf course, all that our masters can\ndo now ls to force us to work by \"economic pressure,\" that ls, they have the\ngoods and we have not.\nSo down we go Into the mines and\ndig coal, iron, silver, lead, copper, etc.,\nwe go to the forests and cut logs, we\nslave in the saw mills and turn the\nlogs into planks, boards and scantlings,\nwe work the land, we work on the sea\nas seamen aud fishermen, we build the\nhouses, we cook the food, we take care\nof the houses, we make the beds ot\nour lords, we wait on them hand and\nfoot.\nLet us take a typical capitalist, one\nwho spends all his life ln pleasure,\none who does nothing In production.\nHe gets up in the morning (or afternoon probably), after his breakfast has\nbeen brought to him In bed; he has\nhis bath, which has been tilled by hla\nvalet; very likely his valet helps to\nwipe him after he has had his bath.\nHis clothes, from hat to boots, have\nbeen already laid out by the valet, who\nassists to put them on.\nHe goes to his club, and ls waited\non hand and foot.\nHe has but to say the word and a\nmotor-car, produced by the working\nclass, driven by a member of the working clasB, is at h'is disposal Instantly.\nEvery place he goes is built by the\nworking class, every vehicle he rides\nIn ls driven by the working class, every\npreasure be enjoys ls provided by the\nworking class.\nHe Is driven home ln the evening to\ndinner (probably filled with champagne, also produced by the working\nclass), he Bits down to a mahogany\ndining table, covered with snowy linen,\nsparkling cut glass and silver, choice\nfood and flowers, all produced, from\nsource to table, by the working class.\nA chair, produced by the working\nclass, is pushed under him, when he\ngets into position, by a member of the\nworking class, he ls waited on by a\nmember of the working class, the table\nis cleared, when he has finished his\nmeal by a member of the working\nclass.\nEventually, he retires to rest, to a\nluxurious apartment, to a bed made by\na slave-girl\u00E2\u0080\u0094a member of the working\nclass.\nCan you deny this? You know you\ncan't.\nBriefly, the capitalist class ls the\nclass that Ib waited upon, hand and\nfoot.\nThe Working Class waits on the\nCapitalist Class, hand and foot.\nThe function of the Capitalist Class\nIs to receive presents.\nThe function of the Working Class is\nto give presents.\nThe Capitalist ClaBS have their\nstocking hung up all the time.\nThat good, kind Santa Claus, the\nWorking Class, is filling that stocking\nall the time.\nAt times the stocking gets too full,\nhence \"tho unemployed problem,\"\nwhich will never be solved while capitalism lasts, but will, on the contrary,\nbecome intensified.\nEnough said: the only hope of the\nworking class Is to turn clasB property\nInto collective property, by seizing\nwhat stands in the way\u00E2\u0080\u0094the powers of .\ngovernment\u00E2\u0080\u0094and uBlng them on its\nonly behalf as long as necessary, and\nthen discarding them.\nWILFRED GRIBBLE.\nLOCAL VANCOUVER\nPropaganda\nMEETING\nEvery Sunday Evening\nEmpress Tlieatre PAGE TWO\nTHE WESTERN CLARION VANCOUVER. BRITISH COLUMBIA.\nSATURDAY, JANUARY 27TH, 1912\nTHE- WESIERN CLARION\nPublished every Saturday by tbe So-\nclaltst Party of Canada, at the Office of\ntbe Western Clarion, Flack Block Basement, 165 Hastings Street, Vancouver, B.C\nPOST OFFICE ADDRESS, 679 HOUGH,\nRICHARDS LANE.\nSUBSCRIPTION.\n11.00 Per Year, ED oents for Six Months,\n25 oents (or Three Months.\nStrictly In Advance.\nBundles of 5 or mors copies for a period\nat not less than three months, at the rate\nef one cent per copy per issue.\nAdvertising- rates on application.\nIf you receive this paper, it Is paid for.\nIn making: remittance by cheque, exchange must be added. Address all communications and make alt money orders\npayable to\nTHE WESTERN CLARION.\n879 Homer, Richards Lane, Vancouver, B.C.\nbounties and abundance made possible\nby the industrial development of the\nages.\nThe army of unemployed ia but an\nevidence of the demand by our self-\nappointed rulers of the workers' right\nto live. Without employment, which\nin the last analysis means without\naccess to the means of life, the worker\ncannot live. He must perish from\nwant. And lt is upon this denial of\nthe right to live, except by permission\nof our capitalist masters, that the entire structure of modern civilization\nrests. ThlB is the rule of capital.\nTHE PROMISED LAND.\nCEO\u00E2\u0080\u0094Wai'a ri n U* ft f* r-ht n 111111 !r , \u00E2\u0080\u00A2-.-.!.\nbut the working class can beat them\nTry and get a capitalist to give up nisi uuuswi u\u00C2\u00BBi mo '\u00E2\u0096\u00A0\u00E2\u0096\u00A0\u00C2\u00AB=\u00E2\u0096\u00A0> \u00E2\u0080\u00A2\u00C2\u00BB.\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 -\u00E2\u0080\u0094 \"i[ \u00E2\u0080\u00A2'--\" mmmmw \u00C2\u00BB- - \u00C2\u00BB\u00E2\u0080\u00A2\u00E2\u0096\u00A0 \u00E2\u0080\u0094\nI millions and go digging In a ditch and classes were only on half-rations and ! ahly as another catch at the unwary\nseo what he'll Bay. ] suffering Indescribable hardships dur-1 Socialist. But neither Mr. Lloyd. George\nI From now on, summer and winter,' Ing this so-called \"Overproduction,\" nor his Churches will be prepared to\nan iron hand; they may stop street | lsed their labouring classeB for work- wnat Mr. George Is up to now. He may\nonly Is old Botoh's power obtaining\nbusiness under false pretenses, but\nindulging ln most reprehensible blasphemy, aB well.\nBe that as it may, howexer, the unemployed are with us, and as a permanent asset of capitalist rule. The\nend ls not yet. This Army of unemployed working people must grow ever\nlarger as the machinery of production Is still further perfected and Improved. Human progress Is measured\nby the development of the means and\nmethods by which the material needs\nof the race are satisfied, I. e. by the\ndevelopment of wealth production.\nThe Journey from primitive savagery\nwhen individual man depended principally upon his teeth and claws for\nhis scanty BUBtenance, up to modern\ncivilization where collective man,\narmed with gigantic and powerful\ntools, brings forth untold volumes of\nneedful things, with but comparatively\nslight expenditure of human energy,\nhas been a long and arduous one. But\nwe have arrived and our class is even\nnow thundering at the gates of priv-\nThe capitalist claBs and their pimps\ncan go so far but no farther. . Once\nthey goad the millions that aim at\nchanging the present system In a\npeaceful manner by use of the ballot;\nonce they force them, 1 say, to use\nother methods, look out, bullets, clubs\nor bayonets will not stop them from\ngetting what they want. Ten years\nago you could taunt the workers, but\ntoday they number millions and at a\nmoment's notice from all quarters the\nworkers will rally round the red flag\nIn spite of the cowardly millions who\nstill uphold the present system. Yes,\nand we shall have In our ranks the\nsoldier, the policeman, and the fireman. Beware!\nWM. WATTS.\nA man who Is proud that he has\nnever been without employment, and\nwho sees nothing for labor to complain of, reminds one of the fellow\nwho had a place upon a life raft and\nwho watched with amused eyes the\nstruggles of others, drowning men,\nliege and demanding entrance to the' who sought to reach It.\ning too hard and put a premium on\nidleness. Such a pass as we are come\nto ln a governed country is a blot on\nnature. It is not logical\u00E2\u0080\u0094for can lt\nbe logical that the greater the waste\nthe better for the community? And\nbe feeling his way for another impost\non the workers, say insuring against\nPoverty by another poll tax of 4d a\nweek, or at securing a greater modicum of house room with lesB of In-\nsanitatlon by putting another 3d. or 6d.\nyet lt there were greater waste would 'a week on the rent. What these Social\nthere not also be greater demand for\nlabour? It Ib not right\u00E2\u0080\u0094lt cannot be\nright that an Idle class who tie up the\nland for private parks, game, and such\nlike, should live In ease, while those\nwho create all the wealth, those who\nare the bulwark, the sinews, nay the\nvery life of the nation, should be reduced to live ln such a state that death la\noften hailed as a welcome releaBe.\nIn the face of all this, political economists calmly say that lt ls a necessary evil consequent upon the \"law of\nsupply and demand.\" But why? The\nsupply Ib there\u00E2\u0080\u0094even to overproduction\u00E2\u0080\u0094and Heaven knows there is sut-\nficent demand. If this is the result\nof what they call the law of supply\nand demand, Is it not high time that\nthis law were thrown overboard and\nanother tried in its stead?\nBut enough of \"overproduction.\" Let\nus leave some ambiguous terms and\ncome to the truth at once. Substitute\nReformers appear to be anxious to do\nIs to make Poverty and Its Slums appear respectable. Poverty Is a horrible, -body-and-soul killing monster, and\nhowsoever she be clothed her teeth\nand talons tear just the same; her\ngreedy lips drain the red blood from\nman, woman and child. When we Socialists war on Poverty we aim at her\nannihilation.\u00E2\u0080\u0094Justice.\nPRICE LI8T OF SUPPLIES.\n(To Locals.)\nCharter (with necessary tup-\nplies to Start Local) $5-00\nMembership Cards, each 01\nDues Stamps, each 10\nPlatform and application blank\nper 100 25\nDitto In Finnish, per 100 50\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2Itto In Ukranian, per 100 50\nConstitutions, each 20\nDitto, Finnish, per dozen 50\nPLATFORM\nSocialist Party of Canada\nWe, the Socialist Party of Canada, in convention assembled, affirm\nour allegience to and support of the principles and program of the re-\n\"clutionary working class.\nLabor produces all wealth, and to the producers it should belong.\nThe present economic system is based upon capitalist ownership of the\nmeans of production, consequently all the products of labor belong to\nthe capitalist class. The capitalist is therefore master; the worker a\nslave.\nSo long aa the capitalist class remains in possession of the reins of\ngovernment all the powers of the State will be used to protect and\ndefend their property rights in the means of wealth production and\ntheir control of the product of labor.\nThe capitalist system gives to the capitalist an ever-swelling stream\nof profits, and to the worker an ever-increasing measure of misery and\ndegr.'idation.\nThe interest of the working class lies in the direction of setting\nitself free from capitalist exploitation by the abolition of the wage\nsystem, under which is cloaked the robbery of the working class at the\npoint of production. To accomplish this necessitates the transformation\nof capitalist property in the means of wealth production into collective\nor working-class property.\nThe irrepressible conflict of interests between the capitalist snd\nthe worker is rapidly culminating ins struggle for possession ef the\nreins of government\u00E2\u0080\u0094the capitalist to hold, the worker to secure it by\npolitical action. This is the class struggle.\nTherefore, we call upon all workers to organize under the banner\nof the Socialist Party of Canada with the object of conquering the\npublic powers for the purpose of setting up snd enforcing the economic\nprogram of the working class, as follows:\n1. The trsnsformstion, ss rapidly ss possible, of capitalist property\nin the means of wealth production (natural resources, factories, mills,\nrailroads, etc.) into the collective property of the working class.\n2. The democratic organization and management of Industry by\nthe workera.\nS. The establishment, as speedily as possible, of production for\nuse instead of production for profit.\nThe Socialist Party when in office shall always and everywhere\nuntil the present system is abolished, make the answer to this question\nits guiding rule of conduct: Will this legislation advance the interests\nof the working class and aid the workers in their class struggle against\ncapitalism? If it will, the Socialist Party is for it; if it will not, the\nSocialist Part yis absolutely opposed to it.\nIn accordance with this principle the Socialist Party pledges itself\nto conduct all the public affairs plsced in its hsnds in such s manner\nas to promote the interests of the working class slone.\nSUBSCRIPTION\nCARDS\n5 Yearlies - - - $3.75\n,10 1-2 Yearlies - - 4.00\n20 Quarterlies - - 4.00 SATURDAY, JANUARY 27TH, 1912\nTHE WESTERN CLARION VANCOUVER. BRITISH COLUMBIA.\nPAGE THREE\nLOCAL OTTAWA, NO. 8.\nJan. 16th, 1912.\nDear Comrade,\u00E2\u0080\u0094 '\nKindly send me at once 200 due\nstamps. Our Local ls going ahead fine\nnow; decreased our debts $30, and our\nranks are increased by four class-conscious workers. We can also boast of\na paid-up membership of 30 members.\nOn the first of January we moved into\nour new headquarters, 36% Rideau\nstreet, where we are furnishing a\nsmall Socialist library, and where\neverybody is welcome.\nYours for the Revolution,\nS. HORWITH,\nSecretary-TreaBurer.\nMOOSE JAW, SASK.\n[ Comrade Editor,\u00E2\u0080\u0094\nSome more plugs want enllghten-\n[ ment. Send them The Clarion for one\n[year. I get a Cotton's Weekly once ln\nla while, but I find nothing of value In\nlit. There Is a bunch ln this town that\n{subscribe for it, but they never help\nus in our meetings. All they do Is\n[look at the sub. list. Well, we don't\n|want them, as our time ls fully occupied making Socialists and we don't\nIwant our heads filled with spicy articles from Cotton's. We want to change\nthis damned system, not monkey with\nIt. I am just home from the slave pen\nat 5 a. m. and It's about 40 below zero.\n3ee, It's something to be patriotic\nabout. The Bame conditions exist here\nas everywhere.- Seventeen girls applied for one job; some of them will\nsoon be forced on to the streets to\nget a living. Ye gods and little fishes!\nyhen will the workers know enough\nJto stop patching up the system. It ls\nlup to us to make Socialists and to\nstrive only for the revolution and to\npush the Clarion for all we know how,\nfror where the Clarion goes there you\nKill flnd revolutionary Socialists.\nYours In Revolt,\nA. STEWART.\nJ. Klein, City; D-. G. McKenzie, City;\nN. Von, \u00E2\u0096\u00A0 City; J. Sidaway, City; J.\nFawcett, City.\nBUNDLES\u00E2\u0080\u0094Tottenham Branch,. S.\nP. G. B., 20; H. Salting, Naramaba, B.\nC, IS; John Mclnnis, S. Fort George,\n10; Silverton Miners' Union, 10; J. C.\nTurner, Fernle, 5 yearly cards.\nBrandon boys get one over Edmonton this week. Cumberland, B. C,\njumps in. Montreal takes another\nleap. Ottawa climbs up. Fernie jumps\nIn, and Brantford takes a place.\nVancouver, B, C 1\nVictoria, B. C 2\nCalgary, Alta 3\nBrandon, Man 4\nEdmonton, Alta B\nWinnipeg, Man 6\nToronto, Ont 7\nMontreal, Que 8\nMoose Jaw, Sask 9\nSilverton, B. C 10\nNelson, B. C 11\nOttawa, Ont 12\nN. Battleford, Sask 13\nS. Fort George, B. C 14\nFernie, B. C 16\nReglna, Sask 16\nCumberland, B. C 17\nSTEWART VALLEY, SASK.\nJan. 15, 1912.\n|The Western Clarion, ,\nVancouver, B. C:\n3ear Comrades,\u00E2\u0080\u0094\nThe Appeal to Reason recommends\nLadysmith, B. C\t\nBrantford, Ont\t\nBritannia Mines, B. C,.\nHERE AND THERE.\n(By Watts.)\nComrade J. A. Austin of Nelson, B.\nC, has been elected alderman at top\nof polls in West Ward.\nA committee has been formed in the\nHouse at Ottawa to look into the advisability of giving old age pensions.\nMore political jobs.\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 \u00E2\u0080\u00A2 *\nOne hundred and fifty thousand men\nare out of work In Chicago.\nThere are six* Turkish Socialists in\nthe Ottoman legislature.\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 \u00E2\u0080\u00A2 \u00C2\u00BB\nCalgary is having lots of trouble getting efficient police and judges these\ndays. It the workers were wise they\nwould not be necessary.\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 \u00E2\u0080\u00A2 \u00E2\u0080\u00A2\nEarl Grey ln a speech in the city of\nLondon, said: \"Canada, some day, ls\ndestined to be the controlling portion\nof this great empire.\" We Bay some\ncarrying the brand of goods I -*T this great empire will be controlled\nseed to help carry on the agitation.\nIl'lease send me sample copies and\nclub rates, and I will try to help you\n[wake up the movement in Canada.\nYours for Socialism,\nCARL C. HUSSEY.\nSHOW US THE GOODS,\nWE'LL UNITE.\nTHEN\nContinued from page one\ncialist Democratic Party of Winnipeg,\n|ind this vote-catching bunch of rum-\nnle8 had the nerve to ask the working\nclass for its vote on the occasion of\nlhe last election.\nI am of the opinion that a certain\ntype of animal requires a reform organization through whicli It can voice\n|ts midget demands, and I will even\nfeo so far as to admit that some persons need a slow process of working\nWas education of the usual sloppy\nVariety, but to suggest, much less act,\nJipon the Idea of all forms of opinion\ncoming together under one organization or party is certainly confusion\nyorse confounded.\nWe of the Socialist Party of Canada\nhave heard enough of uniting when\nLou have nothing to unite to. The\nheld for good sound education is open\nto all. The Socialist Party of Canada\nIs the only SoclaliBt Party in that particular Held at present, although there\nire grazers In other pastures, and until\ntuch times us other organizations can\ndemonstrate their ability to deliver the\ngoods to the slaves lor tho slavea'\nemancipation, I guoaa we can manage\n|to trot along alone.\nYours ln Revolt,\nW. H. STEBBINGS.\nHOW THEY COME\nYou're doing fine, boys! If this Is\nI continued we shall make the plutes\n[sit up at the next Dominion elections\niThe following are using the pick and\n1 shovel alright, alright:\ntw. Atkinson, Victoria\t\nIP. J. Hunt, Mllden, Sask 6\nIS. Horwlth, Ottawa, Ont 5\nIT. E. Mason, Montreal, Que 4\n1W. Davenport, Brantford 3\n[ J. Pllklngton, Enderby,' B. C 3\n|wm. McQuold, Edmonton, Alta\u00E2\u0080\u0094 3\n[A Stewart, Moose Jaw, Sask 2\n[ W. K. Bryce, Demaine, Sask 2\n[H. G. HUIb, Victoria, B. C 2\n| G. Beagnc, Calgary, Alta 2\nIf. Teepie, Brandon, Man 2\n| H. Hoet, Cardstone, Alta 2\nIf. Cobb, Youngstown, Alta\u00E2\u0080\u0094\u00E2\u0080\u0094 2\nnA. C. Tipper, city 2\nSINGLES\u00E2\u0080\u0094E. Simpson, Victoria; G.\n[Manke, Hamilton Lake, Alta.; H. A.\nYoung, Eng.; A. C. Mills, Eng.; John\nHough, Nanalmo; J. Rolls, New West-\ni minster; J. C. Turner, Fernle; D. A.\n.Maclean, Calgary; W. A. Dods, Otter\nf Point, B. O.-J A. Burke, Montreal; Maritime Ex.; Qeorge Rosslter, Toronto:\nTHIRTY THOUSAND MEN, WOMEN\nAND CHILDREN FACE TO FACE\nWITH GATLING GUN8.\nTHE JOBLESS MAN.\nby the workera ot the world.\n\u00C2\u00BB \u00E2\u0080\u00A2 \u00E2\u0080\u00A2\nThe Orangemen are protesting\nagainst home rule for Ireland. These\nsuperstitious slaves want to be ruled,\nbut not by Catholics. What a joke!\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 * '\u00E2\u0080\u00A2\nA Russian, charged ln the police\ncourt with swearing, said that in Russia he heard that Canada was a free\ncountry, but found lt worse than Russia.\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 \u00E2\u0080\u00A2 \u00E2\u0080\u00A2\nThe miners in England by a vote\nof 445,801 against 115,921, decided to\nstrike iu March unless the operators\nconsent to their demands ot a minimum wage scale.\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 \u00E2\u0080\u00A2 \u00E2\u0080\u00A2\nScarcely has Rev. C. Rlckeson confessed to the betraying and killing of\nhis sweetheart than another minister\nIb charged with killing a young girl\nln the States.\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 * *\nThe Calgary Boy Scouts turned out\nfive strong ln a recent church parade,\nbut they turn out strong to the drill\nhallB. What about the Boy Scout\nleaflets?\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 * *\nFive or more yearly sub. cards at\nc each; 10 or more 6-month cards\nat 40c each; 20 or more 3-month cards\nat 20c each.\n. . .\nIt Is reported that hundreds of thousands of people in the eastern provinces of RusBla have died through typhus and scurvy, while the lives of\n20,000,000 are threatened by starvation through the failure of crops. The\n\"little father\" ls not afflicted with the\nills of the common people, and such\nbeing the cale, there is no necessity\nfor any cablegrams of condolence from\nWashington to the royal parasite of\nRussia.\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 \u00E2\u0080\u00A2 \u00E2\u0080\u00A2\nIt Is reported that there are now\n6,000,000 people ln the United States\nwithout employment. Prosperity for\n1912 will look somewhat cloudy to\nthese people, who are anxious and\nwilling to work, but who are unable to\nfind a master. Some of the sages and\nphiloBophers who are continually yelling that \"Socialism would destroy the\nhome,\" should propose a remedy for\nthe unemployed problem. It ls to be\nhoped that they wlll not all speak at\nonce.\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 e \u00E2\u0099\u00A6\nWithout free \"speech no search for\ntruth is possible; without free speech\nno discovery of truth Is usoful; without freo speech progress ls checked\nand the nations no longer march forward toward the nobler life which the\nfuture holda for man. Better a thousandfold abuse of free speech than denial of free speech. The abuse dies In\na day, but the denial slays the life of\nthe people and entombs the hope of\nthe race.\u00E2\u0080\u0094CharleB Bradlaugh,\nLawrence, Mass., Jan. 15.\u00E2\u0080\u0094The\nstriking textile workers in this city\nto-day were bayonetted and shot by\nmilitia hastily summoned by Mayor\nScanlon at the behest of the mill owners.\nThirty thousand men, women and\nchildren, ordinarily employed in the\nmills are Idle. Half of them are on\nstrike, and the other half are Idle by\nforce of circumstances.\nNot content with having brought\nall the local militia into action, Governor Foss waa appealed to during\nthe course of the day, and Immediately ordered out five more companies of\nmilitia, making eight in all in Lawrence, whose sole duty Is to shoot\nmen, women and children at the order of the officers under the name of\npreserving law and order.\nSoldiers Cause Fighting.\nThe fighting was precipitated to-day\nby the appearance at the struck mills\nof detachments from Companies F\nand L, M. V. M., under the command\nof Captains Donovan and Ranlest. The\nuse of the uniformed and armed men\nIn strike times always provokes disorder, and It accomplished its object\nagain to-day.\nThe police, the strikers declare, had\nendeavored to interfere with pickets\nat the Pacific Mills, and several unimportant scuffles had taken place.\nThe excitement caused by them, however, and the fact that they were In\nprogres attracted a large number of\nother strikers, and the mills were surrounded by men bent upon maintaining the right to picket, despite the\nfact that the city and the police are\nrun and owned by the mill owners.\nSince Friday last feeling has been\ngrowing in bitterness against the conduct of the police. The strikers are\nstriking, not merely against a reduction In their pay following a reduction\nof' the working hours in accordance\nwith an act passed by the MasBachus-\nsetts Legislature. They are fighting\nfor mere life.\nFight for Life.\nThe strike Is a hunger strike.\nPaid starvation wages at the best\nof times, overworked and exploited\nby greedy and unscrupulous mill owners, subjected to every indignity that\npoverty entails, and feeling that the\nentire city ls run In the Interests of\nthe bosses and that the workers' Interests are never considered, the people here have ben drlvn Into revolt.\nThey struck against a wage reduction, when wages were already too\nlow to enable them to secure the elementary decencies of life. They struck\nagainst a system that has broken up\nhome Hie, for all the family must\nwork if tho family Is to live. They\nstruck against a system that speeds\nwomen up until, exhausted, they are\nturned out upon the streets and driven\nto prostitution. They struck against a\nsystem that wrecks the lives of little\nchildren, leaving them old before their\ntime, stunted and twisted In body and\nmind.\nAgainst these things these people\nhave struck. They are fighting for\nlife, and they are fighting unscrupulous men whose sole Interest and con-\ncers ls the extraction of ever Increaa-\nIng profits.\nOrder Is Restored.\nBefore such desperate people appeared the armed forces of the State,\nready at a word to shoot, stab and\nbayonet. Immediately on arriving at\nthe mills, the word was given to clear\nthe streets. Ab the militia advanced\nat the word they were met by a shower of stones, and the flrst ranks were\nengaged in a hand to hand fight.\nThe officers then ordered the soldiers to fire, and several fell wounded.\nThe order to Are was followed by the\norder to charge, and with fixed bayonets hired assassins rushed upon defenceless men, women and children,\nbayoneting many of them.\nHow serious are the wounds Ib not\nyet known.\nIn the meantime pickets had taken\nrefuge in the mill yards, and as soon\nas the bloody work had been done outside, the order was given to clear out\nall pickets. Other strikers had taken\nrefuge ln the yards, and all were ejected by the military at the bayonet's\npoint.\nAs they came out at the various\ngates the police fell upon them with\nbatons, clubbing right and left without discrimination as to age or sex.\nOrder was reatored, and the troops\nand police rcBted upon their bloody\nlaurels.\nIn this maBsacre between fifty and\none hundred were wounded. Whether\nany are killed is not yet made public.\nQuick-firing guns were placed in\nQuick-firing guns were placed in\nposition at the street corners, where\nthey were able to mow down thou\nsands of the people at a moment's notice, and the city Is tonight under\nmartial law In all but name.\nMayor Is Responsible.\nIt waB by Mayor Scanlon's own order that the militia was called out today. Under Massachusetts law the\nGovernor's action Ib unnecessary,\nMayors having authority to act by\nprecept.\u00E2\u0080\u0094Chicago Socialist.\nThe jobless man. This ts one of the\nburning issues of the day. It Is more\nthan an issue; It Ib a problem. It Ib\na problem that refusea to lay down of\nIts own accord. It iB one that keeps'\nthe place of politicians ln constant\njeopardy. The jarring rattle and clatter of the empty dinner pall is proving a haunting nightmare to their political dreams. The problem is fundamental. Its solution will Incidentally\nsolves many others.\nThe discrepancy seems to be that\nthere are more jobless men than men-\nless jobs, and the end sought iB to\nstrike a balance. But the embarrassing fact, that one column gets longer\nand the other shorter, still brazenly\nstares us in the face. All this ln\nspite of our so-called unparalleled, unexampled, unprecedented . Canadian\nprosperity.\nBut the job continues to be an elusive thing. It Ib an uncertain thing;\nas uncertain as death and taxes are\ncerta|n. It is a hard thing to capture.\nMillions of men, women, boys, girls\nand children ln this and other countries are continually on the search\nfor Jobs\u00E2\u0080\u0094jobs which haven't persons\nattached to them\u00E2\u0080\u0094jobs that are not in\nuse. If perchance one of the searchers captures a job, someone else ia\nthereby put on the search for another,\nbecause there are not enough jobs to\ngo around. The increased use of the\nlabor-saving machinery and the division of labor assures that the problem\nwill get worse instead of better.\nA man throws out his chest and in\na spirit of pride says, \"I've got a good\njob.\" O, delusion of delusions! He\nthinks he has a job, but has he? ls\nhe sure that ha will have lt on the\nmorrow? Is his tenure of that job\nsubject to his own will or the will ot\nanother? Is it not a fact that he holds\nthat Job by suffrance of another? Is\nIt not a fact that another OWNS the\njob? Ib lt not a fact that a whim ot\nthe owner of the Job may put the user\nof the job ln the jobless column at\nany time? The answers are patent,'for yourself.\nyou ma** be able to combat it You\ncannot be a proponent nor an opponent of It If you are Ignorant of IL\nIn this'day of knowledge and enlightenment you cannot afford to remain\nIn darknes on so vital a question.\nSocialism proposes to Increase the\nnumber of Jobs, thus giving all a\nchance to have a Job. This lt will do\nby making the worker the only owner\n\u00E2\u0080\u0094the only employer, In other words,\nthe owner of all the means of production, distribution and communication\nand by operating all Industries at their\nfull capacity and giving to all the full\nproduct of their labor, leas lhe coat of\nmaintenance. To be more explicit, lt\nwill eliminate all profit now made on\nthe necessities of life occasioned by\nprivate ownership of public utilities.\nEverything used ln common wlll be\nowned ln common; democratically\nowned and democratically managed.\nFurther, it will-increase the number\nof jobs by shortening the hours of\nlabor, lt will likewise eliminate waste\nby putting the middleman, the parasite the non-producing worker, at productive labor. v\nIt will make a further saving by\ndispensing with competition, duplication, advertising and other modern\nmethods of extravagance. It maintains that the wealth of the world belongs to those who produce it. It\nfurther proposes that they shall have\nlt.\nWhat other political party proposes\nsuch a program? From what other\nsource can you expect relief? What\nother party can lay so just a claim\nto your support? Socialism demands\nthat you inform yourself aB to your\nself-interest. That you use your\nbrains and your ballot ln your own\nInterest. You have let the politicians\ndo your think long enough. They\nthink for you and you vote for them.\nWe ask you to think for yourself and\nvote for yourself. Ib there anything\nunfair, unreasonable, unpatriotic or\nanarchistic ln such demands? You\ngain nothing by voting for the other\nfellow. You lose nothing by voting\nYou have nothing to\nHUGGING THEIR CHAIN3.\nIt seems that no matter how badly\nthe workers are treated, there are always some of their number prepared\nto take sides with the masters against\nthem. As a case in point, a \"mass\nmeeting\" of Huntley and Palmer's em\nployees was held Inside the factory or.\nSaturday to \"protest against the un\nfounded statements relative to conditions of labour at the factory.\" Ol\ncourse, the meeting expressed its sym\npathy with, and confidence in, the di\nrectors of the company\u00E2\u0080\u0094that was what\nthe meeting waa called for. We have\nlittle doubt that theae aentiments wll\nbe reciprocated by the directors; bul\nother work-people will only feel contempt and disgust for wage-slaves whe\ncould thus hug their chains, and sc\nmake the struggle for better conditions so much more difficult.\u00E2\u0080\u0094Justice\nHOW THEY DO IT IN ST. JOHN.\nSt. John, New Brunswick, is the clt; ,\nof Loyalists, people who were loyal\nto the grand old flag of Britain, anc\nwho In pursuit of freedom to worshii\nthe British master-class, also an opportunity to escape the deadly bullets\nof American \"patriots,'1\u00E2\u0080\u0094who were\nlikewise worshippers of another master class,\u00E2\u0080\u0094fled from the scene of war\nIn 1776 and founded homes in the new\ncountry. These \"Loyalists,\" whatever\nmotives may have animated them,-\nThe man who uses the job ls abso-' -0se\u00E2\u0080\u0094but your chains\u00E2\u0080\u0094you have a\nlutely at the mercy of the man who wor*d t0 galn Th-nk! Act!\u00E2\u0080\u0094act In\nOWNS the job, and he Is usually a your own interest\u00E2\u0080\u0094O. M. J,\nman of little or no mercy. What\nworkingman is there who does not live\nIn that awful dread that the morrow\nwill flnd him added to the jobless column? What workingman Is there who\ndoes not know that it requires eevry\nounce of his energy and every atom\nof his effort to retain the possession of\nthe job he is using? What assurance\nhas he when he feels his energy,\nstrength and vitality slipping away,\nthat he wlll be protected and cared for\nIn sickness or old age? What are hla\nproapecta for a job when he la no\nlonger able to produce for the owner\nof the job the very maximum of\nprofit?\nThese observation only complicate\nthe problem. They offer no consolation or hope to the Jobless man, the\nman with a job or the man who tries,\nby ordinary methods, to solve the\nproblem.\nA solution would be to decrease the\nnumber of jobless men. This can be\ndone by war. That is one of the chief\nfunctions of war. It calls Into action\nmany of our surplus men and consumes them ln its every hungry maw.\nIt likewise detracts attention from local real Ills and directs lt to foreign\nimaginary ones. This affords, however, only temporary relief. But wars\nare not practical. Wars are expensive and impair the credit of nations.\nNations are loath to enter Into them.\nBesides it Is getting to be against\npublic sentiment. This was demonstrated in Germany recently. People\nare not as easily fooled by the affected cry of patriotism as they once\nwere. They have learned that wars\nare for commercial purposes and not\nfrom patriotic motives.\nA real solution, or rather THE real\nsolution, would be to increase! the number of jobs. Having done this, then\nmake the userB of tho Jobs OWNERS\nof them. Make lt so that a man can\nhave a job, suited to his qualifications,\nas long as he can fill it capably and\nefficiently.\nIf 'his a new idea to you, Air. Workingman? Is It news to you, Mr. Jobless-man? If it is it is clear that u\nvery important part of your education\nhas been aorely neglected. You aie\nignorant of that which is to your beBt\ninterest. The sins of ignorance are\nvery far-reaching Indeed. They will\nbe visited upon your children for generations and generations.\nIf this is a new idea to you, it Is\nclear that you have not studied the\nphilosophy of Socialism.\nNow, don't let that word frighten\nyou. Such a course will please only\nthe owner of your job. Socialism will\nnot harm you. It cannot harm you.\nIt Is not directed against any person;\nIt is directed against a system\u00E2\u0080\u0094a system that has proved your undoing and\nthat prevents you from owning a Job.\nWhen once you have learned Social-\nlam it will be the sweetest word In\nyour vocabulary. It Is to your present and future Interest and to the Interest of generations as yet unborn,\nthat you should atudy lt. Whether it\nls good or bad you should study lt.\nIf lt ls good you should study it that\nyou may know how to work for it\nIf it is bad you should study it that\nwhether the love of oppression or the\nhatred of bullets,\u00E2\u0080\u0094have left an armor\not descendants to overrun the country\nto the North. Wherever, you meet ss.\ndescendant of a \"Loyalist,\" you ine***:\na snob, allee samee as the descendants*\nof the Puritans, who have made Ham-\nton a by-word.\nAll of which Is merely preliminary.\nA few weeks ago there was a by-etac*-\ntlon ln St. John (and all elections nm*\n\"buy-electlons\" ln N. B. as ln Mains*}-..-\nHonorable J. D. Hazen,\u00E2\u0080\u0094capitalist doB-\niticlans are all honorable men,\u00E2\u0080\u0094was to>\nbe elected to the Dominion'House- \u00C2\u00AB-***<\nCommons. He was nominated by the-\nConservattves, and the Liberals, as HS'\nto demonstrate the truth of the SoctaJP-\nlst contention that there is no fundamental difference between the old parties, decided not to nominate any candidate. Mf. Hazen was to go to Ot-,\ntawa as the representative of a unite*:\npeople.\nHowever, there was a fly In the\nsoup. The Socialist party had been*\norganized in St. John for two years,\nand they proceeded to get busy. They\nnominated Fred Hyatt, a man whose:\nelection would have occasioned sonic,\nconsternation in business Circles.\nA Canadian law, passed to keep Socialist candidates out of the fieldt.\nmakes It necessary tor all candidates-\nto deposit $200 before being allowed?,\non the ballot. This money ts returned!\nIf returned if the candidate secures;\ntwo-thirds as many votes as his successful opponent. The money was sea-\ncured with great difficulty, as no cos.'\nporation seemed inclined to help thos\nSt. John comrades.\nThe Socialists appeared at the coueQ*-\nhouse where nominations must ltt*.\nfiled, but were refused admittance.*-\nFinally they entered the back doc-Band reached the proper officers. Thcr\nnomlnation was refused, the deposits-\nreturned, and the Socialist candidal*?\narbltrarlly shut off the ballot. Mr\nHazen was elected unanimously, au-J-\ngoes to take his place on the Borden,\ncabinet, where he will continue to talk.\nplatitudes and preach \"the gospel oC-\ngood politics.\"\nAll of this goes to show that capitalism la the same the world over, thas.\nthe franchise is more or lesB of a joke.\nand that the capitalist class, wben it-\nbecomes necessary, will not hesitate\nto take from the workers those fe\u00C2\u00ABK\n\"rightB\" which they think they haves.\nWEBSTER'S \u00C2\u00AB\nNEW\nINTERNATIONAL-\nDICTIONARY\nTHE MERRIAM WEBSTER\nThe Only New unabridged dia\u00C2\u00BB\ntionsry in many years.\nContains the pith and essence\nof an authoritative library.\nCovers every field of knowledge. An Encyclopedia in m\nsingle book.\nThe Only Dictionary with tha\nNew Divided Page.\n400,000 Words. 2700 Page*.\n6000 Illustrations. 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BRITISH COLUMBIA.\n8ATURDAY, JANUARY 27TH, 19\nTHE COLOSSAL POWER.\n(Continued From Page One)\nlast they carried the conscience ot\n'Hie nation with them.\nAn Assured Result.\nIt has been exactly so in every instance where there was a moral idea\nprotesting against a fundamental\nwrong. Always the established order\nbas received with scorn aud contempt\nthe suggestion of a change. All the\npowers and forces have united to\nsuppress and destroy agitation. In\nthe end the moral Idea has over\nwhelmed all opposition and gone tri\nrj-nphantly to Its goal.\nConsequently we have nothing to\ntear. We have undertaken a caiiBe\nthat will free the world from all surviving slavery, abolish poverty, war\nand the slums, bring light in the place\nof darkness, and for the first time\ngive mankind a chance to live and be\ndecent. We make war against evil,\nAll the forces I have enumerated here\n-are opposed to us as they were op\nposed to the men that protested\nagainst chattel slavery. The opposition tt ub ls as futile as was the opposition to them, for nothing can stop\nthe advance of such a cause.\nAnd does anyone ask concerning the\n--means by which we shall win? Then\n. I turn to the words that are the text\ntor this little discourse and Its in\nspira tlon.\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2\"Olve me fifty thousand men In\nearnest, who can agree on all vital\nquestions, who will plant their shoulders together and swear by all that is\ntrue and just, that for the long years\nto come they will put their great Idea\nbefore the country, and those fifty\nthousand men will govern the nation.\"\nSo said Wendell Phillips, greatest\n.ot Americans and one of the flrst\nAmerican champions of our cause.\nAnd you will find these words of his\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 In a lecture on \"The Labor Question\"\nthat he delivered iu 1872 before an\norganization of shoemakers to whom\nwith eloquence and logic he presented\n.the faith that is in us to-day.\nIt Is only the thing that ls wrong\n-that needs the assistance of bargain\nand compromise. Ttie thing that ls\nright wins standing out squarely and\nalone, and so standing is as certain\nto win as the sun to shin.\u00E2\u0080\u0094Coming i\nNation.\nAN INTERESTING DISCUSSION OF\nWOMAN 8UFFRAGE,\nBy Winnie E. Branstetter.\nSeveral years ago I attended my\nfirst Socialist convention In one of the\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0Western territories. Everything had\nbeen discussed and resoluted upon\nfrom the evolution of man to the marriage of Alice Roosevelt.\nNaturally I felt a little strange and\ntilled with awesomeness, especially\n.when I heard a particularly revolution-\n: ary pharse bur-r-r from the tongue of\nan aspiring speaker. You all know\nhow revolutionary phrases affect one,\nbow the pleasing, shivery little tremulous sensations chase each other up\none's spine, flooding the brain with\n-clamorous, unintelligent approbation.\nI made several attempts to speak,\nbut each time my knees refused to\nsupport my eighty-seven pounds and\nproceeded to do a ragtime stunt under\nthe protecting folds of my skirts,\nthose blessed petticoats without whose\nrippling clinglngness I should never\nhave been able to stand erect! A silence fell upon the convention as my\npalpitating tongue aud trembling lips\nframed the following memorable motion:\n\"Comrade Chairman, I move that the\nremainder of this session be given to\na discussion of the attitude of the Socialist party toward woman suffrage.\"\nMy motion received an Immediate second.\nOur dignified chairman, looking at\nme with kindly, but condescending, understanding of my lack of political\nknowledge, remarked: \"Comrade, it\nseems to me that your motion is uncalled for. Our platform and constitution have always stood for woman suffrage. Tliere are three of you here In\nthis convention. Certainly this Is sufficient and any discussion would be a\nwaste of time. However, seeing as\nyou are a lady, I will proceed to put\nthe question.\" So again my petticoats\nsaved the day, anil my motion carried\nunanimously with great and prolonged\napplause.\nA cowboy preacher, recently converted to Socialism through the Christian Socialist, was the first speaker on\nhiB feet to defend womanhood.\n\"Ladles and gents,'1 he said, \"I have\nalways been for the ladles, even If 1\nain't married. My mother wbb a woman. God bless 'em all, and I have\ndone been saved by the grace of God\nand Socialism.\" Turning toward the\nwoman delegates and visitors, he\nheaped praises upon them, his grey-\nhaired mother, and women in general,\n'for making him what he was. I looked\nto see what lt was for which we were\nso praised, and saw top boots, corduroy trousers, a soiled flannel shirt and\na flushed, unintelligent male person\npaying tribute to persons of the opposite sex. Glancing through the window Into the yard next door, I saw a\nfoolish red rooster strutting about a\ngroup of admiring, industrious hens.\nThe next speaker had been a prohibition lecturer. He wore a red tie,\ncarefully groomed hair and mustache.\nHe did not tell us he was for the\nladies, but his smirking smile as he\nlooked our way, proclaimed the fact.\nHe launched out into bitter denunciation of brute man, bestiallzed and degraded by alcohol, mentioned serpents\nseveral times, wept over the widows\nand orphans of drunkards, and closed\nhis remarks by repeating a very touching poem about a woman, a reformed\ndrunkard, and a pair of baby shoes in\nan old trunk. His exit was attended\nby vociferous weepingness.\nAs our prohibitionist left the platform, a tall, lank lawyer, ln conventional county-seat garb, took his place.\nHe was perfectly at ease, and spoke at\nlength and with great eloquence to his\nspell-bound audience. He mouthed\nphrases about the ignorant chivalry of\nman to woman, said something about\na weaker vessel, and the duty of a\nmighty oak to protect the clinging\nvine. Drawing a spotless handkerchief from the inside pocket of his\nfrock coat with highly dramatic effect\nhe stated that his mother also was a\nwoman, and cited other touching Incidents in history which proved beyond\na doubt that the mothers of the great\nmen of all ages had been women.\nFolding his arms across his breast, and\nresting his body upon his right foot, he\nstruck the renowned pose of the conquering Napoleon\u00E2\u0080\u0094although in reality\nhe looked like a vaudeville impersonator of Lincom. He ended his speech\nby saying he was willing to die, If need\nbe, to save Mayer, Haywood and Pettl-\nbone from the gallows.\nA village preacher followed the lawyer. He was delighted to address the\nconvention upon a subject\u00E2\u0080\u0094upon a subject\u00E2\u0080\u0094upon a subject which lay so near\nhis heart. He advised us women to go\nright ahead as we had been doing, distributing \"Appeals and giving ice\ncream socials,\" working always within\nwoman's sphere. He assured us that\nin 1912 we would have the fatherhood\nof God and the brotherhood of man,\nand then woman\u00E2\u0080\u0094blessed womanhood\nand sacred motherhood\u00E2\u0080\u0094would come\ninto her own. He said that he would\ngive his life if the wife of his bosom\nunderstood Socialism like Sister Jones,\nand that she would have been right\nthere by his side if peaches had not\nbeen ripe for canning. He closed his\nremarks by offering up the last drop\nof blood In his body to save helpless\nwomen and little children from the demon rum.\nA cranky old fellow, and an active\nmember of the Farmers' Co-operative\nAssociation, was opposed to reforms or\nremedies of any kind. He had read\n\"Patching the Old Garment\" and was\nfor our sticking to the class struggle\nand emancipating the working class\nfrom wage-slavery. Anyhow, he had\nread tbat Mrs. Belmont was for woman suffrage and he was opposed to the\nSocialist Party having anything to do\nwith anything that Mrs. Belmont was\nmixed up in. He \"llowed as how'1 he\nwould quit the Farmers' Union or the\nWoodmen of the World if that woman\nshould join them. By way of closing,\nhe said, \"I jest want to go on record\nas objectin' to our speakers sellln' sech\nbooks as Bebel's 'Woman' and the\n'Communist Manifesto,' which ain't\nteachin' Socialism at all.\" He subsided Into his seat, expectorating an incredible amount of tobacco juice Into\na cuspidor, and continued to build the\nco-operative commonwealth by whittling toothpicks and matches.\nI had been sitting very quietly during the session toying with a bottle of\nred Ink, and loathing myself for having brought tt all upon the defenceless\nheads of my women comrades. Weighed down by the hopelessness of the\nsituation, and the dark, malignant\nglances of those women who had been\nmy friends and comrades, I was trying\nto decide between an exit by way of\nthe window or the .red Ink route, when\na mighty oak towered aloft In the rear\nof the room. His twinkling eyes looked with understanding Into my fearful,\nappealing face, as he said with quiet\ndignity, \"Comrade chairman, I insist\nupon your confining tho remarks of the\nnext speaker to the question before the\nconvention, 'What shall be the attitude\nof the Socialist Party toward woman\nsuffrage.''\nThis all happened several years ago\nln a western territory. Times have\nchanged somewhat since then, but the\nwoman question is still shrouded In\nthe nauseous sentimentality of a past\nage. Even our Socialist speakers and\nrepresentatives seem unable to strip\nfrom this issue the foolish chivalry of\nthe Round Table. Many of our strongest men are content to mouth, with\nmasculine bigotry, a mass of meaningless phrases.\nOur recent experience ln California\nand Wisconsin forces us to recognize\nthe dual character of the woman question. It is not alone a sex Issue, but tt\nIs also one of the most vital class Issues, and as' such the Socialist Party,\nln its championship of the working\nclass, can no longer evade lt.\nBefore the next convention, it Is to\nbe hoped that the feminist, and the\nmasculine egotist will both have disappeared from our midst, and that we\nmay discuss this important question ln\nIts social, economic and political phases with understanding and sincerity.\nHOW UNEMPLOYED ARE CARED\nFOR.\nHundreds Housed In Old Church and\nTheir Hunger Satisfied with \"Mulligan\"\u00E2\u0080\u0094Are Genuine Working Men...\nUp at the city hall to-day the civic\nemployment bureau is crowded with\nwould-be workers. Occasionally\nsomebody rings in for a man to do\nsomething about his house, but for\nevery job there are a dozen men eager\nto take it. The same thing ls true of\nthe employment agencies.\nLast night a hundred men crowded\ninto a little old , fashioned church,\nwhich once housed the Seventh Day\nAdventists. It stands on the southwest corner of Gore and Keefer, aud\nlast night, it bulged with the crowds\nwho lay sprawled about the floor or\nstood In the corners to snatch sleep\nor keep warm.\nCongealed misery was marked on\nthe faceB of those who turned up toward the lamp which a reporter used\nto light his way over their prostrate\nforms. They are hungry and cold and\nsome of them are angry at the defiant \"iron hand\" message that the\nmayor sent them.\nIn a little room at the back of the\nchurch, where once the minister donned hiB surplice, a great cookstove\nstood on four bricks and sent Its\names roaring up the chimney.\nAround about lay half empty sacks of\npotatoes and in between a half dozen\nmen sat or lay prone.\nThey were the helpers..\nYesterday they served three hundred men with food. Common, but\nwholesome, was the food handed out\nto a long line of hungry men. At noon\nthey served a mulligan, a delectable\ncompound of meat and vegetables and\nmuch loved by hungry men. Bread\nand cheese and weak tea eked out the\nsupply when it dwindled. And after\nthat there was nothing.\nThe men who served are poor. Not\none of them has as much as a dollar.\nThey went out yesterday and got what\nthey could for the others.\nThe Royal Bank of Canada collected\n$75.80.' That for 300 men, but still\nthere are more and still more, and as\nthe cold damp days begin and end\ntheir hunger grows greater and greater.\nEnergetic committees, hustling\naround all day long found employment\nfor fifty of them. Six hundred and fifty are left. Where wlll they go? What\nwlll they do?\nThis morning one great hairy chested fellow rolled over on the cold, hard\nfloor, stretched himself and got up.\nHe felt his pocket and Instantly his\nbrow clouded. To J. W. Hudson, who\nis helping, he stated that he had been\ntouched.\n\"I had ten cents and it's gone, that's\nall I know,\" said the men.\nTo-day a committee Is at work securing additional quarters. Last night\nthey turned away a hundred or more\nwho sought rest. They want the use\nof an old building or a new one. They\nwant blankets If they can get them\nand mattresses and something anything, to eat. But most of all they\nwant work and they will take it when\nthey can get lt.\nThey are honest men, the most of\nthem Britishers, or at least the sons\nof Britishers, predominate. They ask\nfor work.\u00E2\u0080\u0094Vancouver World.\nSERIOUS RIOTS IN STREETS OF\nPARIS.\nMounted Policemen Charge the Rioters\u00E2\u0080\u0094Many Persons Are\nWounded.\nARE THE I IMES PROSPEROUS?\nBy John M. Work.\nA metropolitan paper is authority\nfor the statement that we are enjoying a season of groat prosperity.\nIs lt really true that the times are\nprosperous?\nLet's look at the matter very briefly\nfrom several different angles.\nIf tho times are prosperous, no one\nate a charity Christmas dinner.\nIf the times are prosperous, there\nis not a single beggar on the streets.\nIf the tlmeB are prosperous, there ls\nnot a worker out of a job.\nIt the times are prosperous, the\ncharity organizations have gone out of\nbusiness.\nIf the times are propsperous, prostitution is unknown.\nIf the times are prosperous, child\nlabor has ceased.\nIf the tlmeB are prosperous, poverty\nhas become extinct.\nIf the times are prosperous, there\nare no tramps.\nIf the times are prosperous, crime\nhas become a rarity.\nIf the times are prosperous, suicide,\ninsanity, drunkennesB and disease are\nseldom heard of.\nNow, answer the question yourself.\nVAGS WILL HAVE NO\nMERCY SHOWN THEM\nSentences ranging from one to six\nmonths were dealt out by Police Mar-\nistrate South this morning to a number of men who had been arrested on\nthe charge of vagrancy. No less than\nthirty vags toed the line, and the majority of them had the usual excuse to\noffer of no work, but could give no\nsatisfactory account of themselves.\nThough the Provincial Jail Is crowded\nat present, Hla Worship said he would\ncontinue to Impose heavy penalties In\nthis class of cases until the city was\ncleared of undesirables. Several men\nwill be sent south of the line tonight.\n\u00E2\u0080\u0094Vancouver World.\nParis, Jan. 11.\u00E2\u0080\u0094A series of violent\nriots broke out in the vicinity of the\nPalace of Justice yesterday and resulted ln a large number of rioters and\nseveral policemen being injured.\nThe demonstration waB brought\nabout by the trial of several trade unionists in the correctional court of the\nSeine on a charge of distributing circulars of a revolutionary character\nto the soldiers serving with their regiments.\nWhen it was announced that trade\nunionists were to be tyrought before\nthe court yesterday the General Federation of Labor called a four-hour strike\nin sympathy. Thousands of masons,\nbuilders and laborers now unemployed\nowing to the bad weather, gathered ln\nthe streets leading to the court of justice. The authorities fearing that they\nmight penetrate into the Palace of\nJustice, ordered out a large body ot\n\ police and a squadron of mounted municipal guards. The policemen and\ntroops endeavored to keep the demonstrators moving, but at several places\nmet with resistance, violent collisions\noccurring on the Place Du'Chatelet at\nthe northern end of the Notre Dame\nboulevard.\nA mass of men atacked the police\nwith stocks and canes. The foot police were unable to drive them off and\nthree policemen were Injured ln the\nmlx-up. Municipal guards were then\nordered to charge, which they did,\neventually clearing the streets. A\nnumber of the rioters were wounded\nand numerous arests were made.\nThese unemployed members of the\nworking class have no rights in capitalist society. By virtue of being\nwithout employment they are openly\nviolating British law. If they receive some of the medicine we understand Vancouver's newly-elected\nmayor has promised them\u00E2\u0080\u0094they are\nto be arrested, driven out of town,\netc.\u00E2\u0080\u0094they may solace themselves\nwith the no doubt satisfactory reflection that they are merely getting a\ndose of \"BrltlBh justice,\" than which\nno finer brand is manufactured by\nany country on earth.\nIt has often been pointed out by\nSocialist writers and speakers that a\nplentiful supply of labor-power ln the\nmarket was at all times a requisite to\nthe successful conduct of capitalist\nproduction. With a Burplus always at\nhand from which to draw any needed\nsupply lt were next to Impossible for\nthe workers to maintain wages at all\nsatisfactory to themselves. With thiB\nsurplus available, tbe employers of\nlabor are at all times possessed of an\nadvantage over the workmen, and are\nthus enabled to hold the wage at the\nlowest possible point, thereby Insuring the most rapid expansion of capital possible. But lt ls possible to have\ntoo much of a good thing. It looks as\nthough the surplus labor-power ln the\nmarket ls becoming too great for the\nsafety of the ruling class. So long as\nthe army of the unemployed was\nsmall ln numbers lt could not constitute any serious menace to capitalist\nrule. But when it runs up into the\nthousands, and even hundreds of\nthousands, in a single city, it becomes\na menace to capitalist security that\ncannot be ignored by our precious\nrulers, it is easily to be understood\nhow a few men may be awed uruiKPtttonU*\nVutonts token tSrouuh Munn * Co. receive\nmptcia* nutlet, without ofaama- la tha\nScuffle fla.er.catt\nA hmduciuo. 'lluntnted w\u00C2\u00ABokl>. Largest clr-\ncaUtion of anj- s-iviitltic journal. 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