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fc<. i . APRS-1905 R!A, **• iE WESTERN CLARION Published in the Interests of the Working Class Alone. Vancouver, tt. C, Saturday, April 8, 1905. SubncrlpiloB Print ai A A PEK VBA8 SI.00 INVENTIONS OF MINERS |eet to Dtv.it Ways aad Meaai tl Thwarting Capitalist Exploitatloa IISTF.KN FF.BF.RATION. using sessions of the annual on of District No. 6 of the Federation of Miners, wore iMiners' union hall yesterday and evening. Office s were ■the place of the next annual [ was determined, and reports Dinmittees were received and i. The most important dent was the decision to take | fnl ure provincial legislation ictent of taking a vote ofthsj of the federation on the legislation before each ses- |hc legislature of British Col- Jlecrs elected for the ensuing President Frank Phillips, vice-president, VV. II. Mc. finir; secretary-treasurer, A. Snndon. Moyle, Kamloops, Ross- Nelson extended invitations next annual convention. On (of ballots the invitation ol was accepted. vance reported between two Ions was referred for settle- a committee consisting of I dent, secretary, a delegate h union concerned, and a niter to be selected by the decided that as the present bf the provincial legislature k.v far advanced, no action taken this year in respect krk. iiut in future each ses- be anticipated by the cxe- punittoo, which will aubmit reniliiui vote of the district Federation, all legislation fll be deemed advisable. The the vote will then be ft> the attention of the gov- n time to permit of the ii bills embodying the de hilly News linn h 4. e of yesterday's session of -t convention of the West- hit ion of miners wan devot- rorisidcralion of the presi- iress which was eventually in its entirety, ly other matter of imporl- sidercd and disposed of was I resolutions which had been with the request that ac- taken b.v the convention, the Federation to answer Ii ry: "Are you in favor of ern Federation of Miners art in politics?" Another Is the Western Federation in favor of the principles kinlistir party?" considerable discussion the |n decided to submit both to a referendum vote of fratton.—Daily News, March ilowing is taken from Preei- address to the conven- ession of the legislature the defeat of a much-need- the Kigtit-Hoiir Bill lor en" Although the bill has rated, the principle lives, ture to assert that we will hours for smelters before l»(10. fcrage old-party politician is •SO the need of labor legls- |til sufficient force and des- >ins been used and the point sl>'t»" of their efforts. Our fs. influenced by lobyists to Victoria, have let a Ipottunrty pass to put into |eight-hnur bill for smelters, prevent a needless, yet Ir- struggle on the industrial ('.*> Regretting it as we course is for. ed upon us, are true to our manhood • that our fellowman, toil- fe poisonous smokes, dust Khali labor but eight hours U Socialist Party represen- » the Provincial House have pmselven in no manner In- t>.v lobyists, but have fear- khed forward the demands lor shorter hours in the face ^Position, and have openly on the floor of the House e drastic action than nl- ^posed only awaits the time Party shall have gained strength to make It erTec- I' no doubt be convincing he miners thnt it is deserv- r support an the true po- presslon of working-class It is encouraging to note sing disposition towards Mlvity along class lines p victims or capitalist ex- «'ho still have spirit en- evolt against the brutal of the shambles of capital- |wn as the labor market. are of good material and <'dgc thai comes to them he firos of experience will temper them into the In- loel of the Revolution. i CiViTIOI) MINK WORKERS. Second Annual Convention of District No. 18, U. M. W. of A. held in the Miners' Hall, at Fernie, B. C. President Frank H. Sherman in the chair. District officers present: Brother Frank H. Sherman, president; Brother R. Patterson, vice-president; Brother John N. Howbrook, secretary-treasurer. Delegates: Brother Thomas Addison, Fernie District No. 2314; Brother John S. Laurenson. Michel District No. 2384; Brother Robert Evans, Frank District No. 12B3; Brother Harry Gates, Coleman District No 2833; Brother W. H. Jenkins, Lille District No. 1283; Brother James Severns, Morrissey District No. 2318; Brother Andrew Hood, Bcllevue District No. 481. Much business was gone through amongst which was business of some interest to the general public. The Following resolution was read and adopted. , Whereas, this Convention, representing District 18, favors the idea or advisability of bringing out a labor candidate for the Provincial Parliament for the Fernie riding and the Crow' Nest district of Alberta, ami that this convention instruct the district officers to take steps to inaugurate a monthly holiday, and that it be left to the Locals what day of thu mouth it should be; And it is also further resolved that we abolish all Sunday work as near as possible, and that the Sunday Observance Act lie in force in Alberta, and in case Of necessity that all men employed on Sunday be paid al the rate of time and a half. That we. elect an International Hoard member by a referendum vote of the District and that the said election take plate the 28th day of March, and returns for same be handed to the District Secretary- Treasurer not later than the 30th day of March 1903; Furthermore, let if lie resolved that Whereas, the Dominion Government did grant 250,000 acres of public lands, said lands being considered the richest lands in Canada, to a company which is now called the Crow's Nest Pass Coal Company, limited; And Whereas the policy of that company is and always has been to keep certain of its towns closed to the generul public; And Whereas this policy has resulted in one firm having a complete monopoly of the store business at these towns Jo the detriment of other tradesmen In this district: And Whereas this same policy has resulted in the workmen of the district, having to pay excessive prices for their goods and the necessities of life: And Whereas the workmen do not consider this to be justice or fair play and also do not consider these methods consistent with British ideas of liberty and honest dealing; And Whereas at the present time at Michel. Carbonado and Coal Creek hundreds of workmen and their families are residing where there is only one store allowed to carry on business: BK IT THF.ltEFORE RESOLVED that this Convention, representing the workmen employed by the Crow's Nest Pass Coal Company, limited, unanimously condemn the action of the Crow's Nest Pass Coal Company, limited, in keeping these towns clonal his ear for four days and nights, that we call upon tne Crow's Nest Pass Coal Company, limited, to immediately place upon the market plots of land at a reasonable figure or price situate in their said towns of Carbonado, Michel and Coal Creek for the purpose of allowing tradesmen to carry on a store or" othor business and also for the purpose of allowing their workmen or employes the opportunity of purchasing lands to build their homes upon; AND BIO IT FURTHER RESOLVED that if the company fail to comply with this request that an appeal be made to the Government to introduce legislation making it Illegal for any company to keep any town or village closed to the general nubile, and that copies of this resolution tie sent to each Director of the Crow's Nest Pass Coal Company and to each member of parliament! Whereas we believe that the time has arrived when the miners of this district ought to be paid every two weeks, be it therefore resolved that this convention take steps to have this done. TO Messrs. Hawthornthwa-Ke, Houston, Jones, Clifford, Fraser, Mc- Gowan. Shatford and Gilford, Members of the Provincial Parliament, Victoria, B. C: Gentlemen:—At the Second Annual Convention of District No. 18, United Mine Workers of America, held In the Miners' Hall, Fernie, B. "C, March 15th, Kith and 17th. 190R, the following resolution was unanimously passed: Resolved, thnt this Convention now assembled would fail in its duty if we did not refer and express our appreciation of the noble stand taken bViTtavorenTVDiau?l°ning t!,eiure and Particularly that of William ^^fi«^JS:s«MrfiSK'*^" " I. .L J,f . oP'mon and feel that it lurr.bia. voter whoV has 'TEPZSS* ^ An'J il ™* furt"<* «*"*«• that cause -t hrnrt . . l WorWngnum'a w« do not think it advisable for any ne"eafter irL i *,," * ft* SUm1 ""ember of the United Mine Workers SSno^rtnXn^ht"^ "' ", V*'^- of America .«, join .he militia i„ any r eso°ved th«7L i ,'a""'' of '«"»'■ «•<•'•' -amp under ihe present circtlm- H,J. * u ' W<" ocP'«'a,e the ai -stances. tion of the opponents of the maas-1 Fernie. H. r., March US 1<»0.-. STRKIE-BREAKINC AS A SCIENCE How it is Carried on ia Up-to-Oate Capitalist Style * 8-HOUR BILL FOR GOAL MINERS Hai Patted Its Third Riadini la the Legislature. As we go to press the following telegram comes to us : Victoria, B. C, April 6, 19c 5. E. T. Kingsley, Editor Western Clarion : Eight-hours, bank to bank, passed third reading successfully after biggest fight on record. The Duns- muir-Stockett combine worsted. Small majority. J. H. Hawthornthwaite. Note.—Next week' issue of the Ci.aricw will contain a report in full. SOME JOYS OF LIFE IN A SMELTER Tbe Smeltoiam'i Exitteace Oaa Round of Pleasure In the smelters of Anaconda, B. C. which at best ,,„i. , ■ and Boundary Falls the men who of capitalistDronLv ^1 *" ''"'^ work as feeders eight hours per day, upon h™ if, P ? .1 ,Jol"1," get the same pav.L t^£aa*Zi%* 2«Jg -£«£ -**£ or barrow men who work 12 hours., In Boundary Falls the company has trouble in getting feedcis as the labor is so intense that men would rather wheel charges for \2 hours than feed for 8 hours. In Grand Forks it is all 12 hours. They used to have half an hour for lunch but the company has lately cut the lunch time to 20 minutes. A few men who foolishly-Insisted on having half an hour for lunch were discharged. The labor has been so intensified in the mines that the men now expend more energy in eight hours than they used to expend in 10. This makes it Impossible to exercise proper care with explosives, therefore accounting for the increase in the number of accidents which kill or cripple men not only in the mines but also in the smelters, for the explosives often get mixed with the ore and explode as soon as they reach the blast furnaces. This coupled with the inhaling of gases and impure air compels the average man to lay off about three days in every two weeks to recuperate. As one fellow said to me, "1 hate to lay off, for 1 need the money and would like to work every shift ns 1 don't know how soon it will close down, but last night I w'as so nervous I could'nt sleep." All of this helps to make life for the workers very much like it has always been in the days of a decaying society or ruling class. The Grand Forks smelter is quite a modern plant and they are now about to give many of their employees a well deserved rest. They have already in operation in connection with four of their furnaces an electric apparatus which enables sixteen men to do the work formerly requiring about ninety. They are building two more furnaces with a capacity almost equal to four of those now in use. It is said the company will increase the capacity of all its furnaces until they equal that of the now largest blast furnaces in the world which have been put into successful operation at the Washoe Smelter at Anaconda, Montana, where in 24 hours charges of ore aggregating 2,000 tons are turned into copper matte. transform capitalist property into collective or working class property. Capitalist property makes wage labor the dominant form of labor, thereby making labor power a commodity bought und sold in the market like potatoes, onions, cow-hides or any other commodity. The result of the development of the smelling industry as described above is true to a greater or less degree of every other industry. The unemployed are becoming greater in number every hour, in other words every hour there are less jobs and more job-seekers. Supply of labor power greater than the demand for it. Keen competition between the peddlers of the commodity labor power, and down comes its price (wages) and must continue to do so just us long as capitalist property holds control of tho reins of government. We are upon the verge of a world-wide revolution, and history is calling upon the wage slaves to perform a mission. That mission is to capture thu reins of government and transform capitalist property into collective or working class property. Such transformation abolishes the wage system, frees the worker from capitalist exploitation, and society from class rule. If you would perform your part in this great mission of the working class you must acquaint yourself with the true function of capitalist proporty nnd the commodity nature of your labor power. Head Wage Ln- bor and capital. Vou can do this in an hour or so, and should you not grasp its contents nnd meaning the first time, rend it over until you do. for that which it explains should be thoroughly understood by every working man mi/I woman. C. M. O'BRIEN, Grand Forks. Mur. 2S, 190f». o SPASM AMONG U. P.'S. Of all the ridiculous spasms of scrupulosity, that indulged in b.v a 11 is of the utmost importance to capitalists that nn ample quantity of labor power be continually on the market from which they may draw such supply as ihcy may require. |lf there be a constant surplus available il acts as a lever hi hold the price firmly down to the lowest possible cost oi* production, thus insuring to capital the maximum volume of surplus value or profit. This is'uii eminently desirable condition from the standpoint of capital, und the greater quantity of surplus labor in the market the/more satisfactory the condlt ion. A huge Surplus of labor in the market acts as a veritable "big stick" with which employers beat their wage slaves into subjection whqnevor they become rebellious and make importunate demands. Once the slaves quit their jobs, the employers draw upon this surplus to (ill the places made vacant, it is much Ihe same as having extra machines available to take the place of those disabled. Out of the present overstocked labor market jt is not only possible, but in fact quite an easy matter to recruit men for any purpose. How completely men can be recruited and made available for use in case of need das been shown recently in the case of the luicrhorough strike in New York, The company had been preparing for an emergency for tt year or more, and when the men quit their posts an organized force stepped into the vacant places and in short order things ra» along much the same as though n* strike had taken place. Secret service men had kept, the company fully informed as to all contemplated action upon the part Of the employes, and others had been diligently at work recruiting and organizing from the surplus la- bor in the market, the force lhat was to turn the trick upon the deluded employes ut the critical momcii . Thai moment came when the men were foolish enough to strike. How completely the trick was turned is now a mailer of history. In a recent strike of electrical workers in Baltimore the strikers' places were filled within fifteen minutes by one of the organized bands of so-called "strike breakers," As an illustration of the way the "big stick" of surplus labor is systematically and scientifically used b. the capitalists, tho following from tho -New York Herald is especially good: .lames Farley, who is the Known chief strike breaker in tinted States, has a captain in every large city. The captain a regular headquarters Keeps un accurate record of the number Of men in his district that he can supply on a few hours' notice. Farley is In rogular communication with all bis captains and within a very short time after he Is notified that a section of his army is desired iu some city, he has the army as scinliled by telegraphic ready to move. Farley himself goes and looks out the ground. He first locates what he terms the "trouble spots," places where his men are most likely to be attacked by strikers, and makes provision to have these places well guarded by the police. Then he familiarizes himself with the operation of the company's lines and waits for the gin. Immediately his best tho maintains and there ning combination of slaves who are not only without power, but liable at any moment to be out of jobs as well. The labor market with all of its splendid possibilities from a capitalist standpoint arises out of the capitalist ownership of the means of production, As long as this ownership continues the workers must remain absolutely helpless as against the exactions of their economic masters. The first step towards their deliverance from economic bondage ia to break the hold of the masters upon the reins of public power. If the zeal and energy wasted in ridiculous attempts to force concessions from a master class with a continually congested labor market at its disposal, were expended in the class struggle, that is, the struggle to oust the ruling class from its control of public power, the economic dominion of capital would be speedily broken and the slave market abolished. 1'F.NNHYi.VANlA CH1IJJ LABOR. How it is Ground into Profit in the Mill of Capitalism. batch of Congregational preachers over the "propriety or impropriety ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ of accepting so-called tainted money Such gigantic strides in the develop-1 f"r religious purposes" is certainly mont of the smelting industry causes ,he most CTOtesqua on record. Rocke- the Grand Fork* Evening Sun to re-Keller offers $100,000 to the Ameri- mark "at this rate of progress the company will soon be able to give its employees a working day of eight hours hours." Yes, when the electrical machines do the work and the labor of the men who operate them becomes so intensified Uiat 8 hours will be the limit of human endurance per day then the smelter men may expect an eight-hour day. Then and not till then will property allow its owners to grant it. The capitalists are not to blame under the present system, as you must either b" an exploiter of labor or one of the exploited, Capitalist property says to its owners, if you are to retain your ownership and thus escape falling into the ranks of the exploited, you must defend the very fringe of your property Just as ferociously as you would the whole of it. That the capitalists of British Columbia arc alive to their true position is shown by Liberals and Conservatives pouncing upon the eight-hour bills introduced by the Socialist members at Victoria can Board of Foreign Missions, and behold, quite n bunch of these D. D.'s are thrown Into this peculiar sort of a spnsm, although for the life of us we can't see why. The Rockefeller dollars have been made as honestly ns any dollar ever was mode in business. They have been made in the ordinary course of business, and are tainted with nothing but the blood of the working class, out of whose unpaid labor they have been coined. \s the dollars that have hitherto found their way into relinrious coffers have been similarly tainted, it is the height of absurdity for these pious folk to suddenly shv at the taint. Thev cerlninlv should lone since have become accustomed to H These Boctor"! of Pivtriitv hnve an idee 'hot .Tnhn n.'s monpv N >mt ninde in Oie o^'tinnrv itut-innpt.. p-fiv, T" this thev ohrjw n lnmenta'd" lie'* of n«der«tnndim». Tf thev nre eotm1- 1v icno'inl nf <o the ills of their patient it would be better for divinity if it had no doctors. battle to b< __^^—^—^^^^——j-^ nam are on the emmd he tuki of operating thi- roud, because he knows his men nnd knows how to handle them. To all intents and purposes he is, for the time being, president and general manager of the road, and the company is obliged to pay generously for his services. Muring the Interborough strike Farley sat at his desk, with a telephone ed to the detriment of workmen, ami with only a few hours sleep, eating his meals where he sat. He simply takes the contract to re-estublish th company's service after its regular employes leave, and permits no one but himself to give an order or In the mining districts of Pennsylvania children labor under conditions which are, if possible, even more injurious to them than the child labor of the cotton mills is to the children of the south, in the mines, mills and factories, before Uie furnaces and in the sweatshops of Pennsylvania, that state of colossal industrial crimes, one hundred and twenty thousand little ones were, in Uie year 1900, according to the U. S. census, sacrificing a part of their right to life, most of their right to liberty, and all their right to happiness except perhaps of h h^Ha' Kni The commission appointed to settle the anthracite coal strike of 1902 heard the cases of Theresa McDer- iiiott. and Rosa Zinka. These children represented, though unknown to them, seventeen thousand little girls under sixteen years of age, who were toiling in the great silk mills and lace factories of the mining districts of Pennsylvania. The chairman could not repress his indignation when these two eleven-year-old child- r. n told the commission how they left their homes to report at the factory at half-past, six in the evening and spent at work the long hours of the night until half-past six in the morning. The girls go to the mills, the boys to the breakers. A year ago Mr. Francis II. Nichols said regarding these children: "1 saw four hundred lads working in the breakers. One of the- children told me, 'We go to work at seven in the morning and stay until six in the evening'." "Are there many in the -breakers younger than you?" he asked one of the children. "Why, sure; I'm one of the oldest. I'm making sixty cents.' Most of them is eight and nine years old." Mr. Nichols then asked, "Did you ever go to school?" "To school?" the child echoed; "Say, mister, you must be a green hand. Why, lads in tho. anthracite doesn't go to school; they works in the breakers!" They do not go to school, but instead they are put to work as soon as they may be trusted not to fall i into the machinery and be killed. There is hardly an employment more demoralizing nnd physically injurious than this work in the breakers. For ten or eleven hours a day these children of ten and eleven years stoop over the chute and pick out the slate and other impurities from the coal as it moves past them. The air is black with coal dust, and the roar of the crushers, sere ns and rushing mill-race of coal is deafening. Sums- bsoluto chargo| t,meH onp of ,m. children falls into the machinery and is terribly mangled, or slips into the chute and is smothered to death. Many children nre killed in this way. Many others after a time contract coal miner'a asthma and consumption, which gra- dua'ly undermine their health. Breathing continually, day after day, the cloud" of coal dust, their lungs become black and choked with small particles of anthracite. There are in the United States about twenty- four thousand children employed in and about, the mines and quarries. o ■ ■ Certain evil-disposed persons aro order and j to the fronti offer a suggestion. When the Strike raising a hulabaloo because the Chi- is thoroughly broken he sends homo'rago Wrecking Companv bought the such of his men as do not care to|proper(v 0f tnp st, TjOUvjs Exposition remain in their new places and then t for $450,000 nnd stands to clear retires to his own palatial country place near Lake Champlain. and waits for another strike to call him and his army into action. And yet there are persons professing tO be Socialists ; claiming io understand the commodity nature of labor power and the inexorable laws of exchange; making pretense of clnss-con- siousness, class-solidarity and the class struggle, who seem utterly blind to the fncts staring them in the face from the labor market, and delude themselves into the belief that concessions can still be wrung from their economic masters by some cun- a measly $1,000,000 out of the deal. Some of the E.-P, persons even insinuate that crookedness was not altogether a stranger to the deal. This envy of those business men who have the necessary brains to turn a few honest pennies by seizing an opportunity when it is offered, is deplorable indeed. Tt should always ho ronceeded that brains are entitled to generous reward. AN EIGHT-HOUR BAY. Mc- McBevitt—What happened to Ginnis? Hoiisell—He drowned. MeBevitt—And couldn't he swim? Housell—He did for eight hours but he was a union man.—Laborers Journal. fill": Ml THE WESTERN CLARION, VANOOUVEfe, B. 0. SATURDAY ...Apr iff? I Xt c n km Ike Men Ken Published every Saturday in the Interests of the Working Class alone at the oflice of the Western Clarion, Flack block basement, 165 Hastings street, Vancouver, B. C. SUBSCRIPTION $1.00 PER ANNUM lota of Yearly subscription cards in five or more, 75 cents each. Advertising rates on application If you recelye this paper it in for. paid Address all communications to The WESTERN CLARION Box 836, Vancouver, B. C. 316 Watch the label on your paper If this number is on it, your subscription expires next issue. SATURDAY April 8, 190S LOOKING FOR LIGHT. Phoenix, B. C, march 2b, 190fi. Mr. E. T. Kingsley, Editor Clarion: Mr. Editor,—In the issue of the Clarion dated March 18, under the heading of "Cold Comfort," on the back page of the same, 1 liud the following statement in answer to a Comrade White, to wit.: "Once abandon this sound position and admit, that the workers pay' rates and 'pay' this, that and the other, and you will soon be floundering in the quagmire of bourgeois economics, unable to find sound foothold For if the workers pay rates, then a saving of rates is to their advantage. If this is so, and if they benefit by a saving of expenditure in this or any other direction, then it follows that the whole theory of the exploitation of the workers on Uie field of production is wrong; that it is not. us producers, but as consumers they are fleeced; that profit is not made in production, but in exchange, and that the duty of the proletariat is not to organize for the abolition of capitalist domination and exploitation, but to make common cause with the bourgeois consumers to get a reduction in prices and rates." The question I want to ask, Mr. Editor, is why does it follow that the theory of the exploitation of the workers on the field of production is wrong? considering that Ernest Unterman, whom you stignatize as a "bourgeois economist," does not declare that the worker is exploited merely as a consumer, but, both as a producer, and us a consumer. Why, also should it follow that the working class, who form an overwhelming percentage of the consumers, must make common cause with the bourgeois consumers, considering that the latter are consumers only by virtue of their ability to rob the workers? Either I'm rather dense, Mr. Editor, or else you have not made a clear statement. Yours for enlightenment, . II. BAMBURY. Our correspondent is in error in attributing to lis that which he quotes from "Cold Comfort." If he will read it. again he will note that the quotations are from a comrade who contributes to the 'columns of London Justice; the organ of the Social Democratic Federal tion of England, under the name of "Tattler." The exploitation of the workers on the field of production Is the Marx- Ian theory. "Marx' Analysis of Capitalist Production," which lays bare in what he terms surplus value, the source of nil capital and capitalist profit, demonstrates j that theory to be a sound and incontrovertible one Labor power is a commodity. It is something for which the owner (worker) has no use, inasmuch as he possesses no Instruments of production, and must therefore oiler for sale upon the market in order to convert it into something for which he has a use. In throwing his lubor power upon the market us a commodity the worker finds himself subject to the same law of exchange as do the ownerti of other commodities, and this law, (hough an unwritten one, cannot be over-ridden. As Marx puts it, "the value of one commodity is to the value of any other, as tho labor-time necessary for the production of the one is to that necessary for the production of the other." This is the basis of all exchange and can be avoided by sel.ers of commodities only under exceptional circumstances and even then for but brief periods. When the worker disposes of his commodity labor power, receiving in exchange a wage which in turn he exchanges for food, etc., he has merely exchanged labor power for which he has no use, for food, etc., for which he has use, and the exchange has been made upon the basis of value for value It is already admitted, even by muddle- headed economists, that, the average wage is but equal to the average keep of a working man. This must of necessity bo so as long as there are more workers than jobs. The unavoidable competition among the workers arising out of such a condition would render it inevitable that the wage rensaiu at that point, and even eventually compel the workers to dispense with everything it were possible for thi-in to do without. The average wage, then, is the average cost of enough food, etc., to reproduce the labor power expended, and it logically follows that the worker has not been wronged in the exchange. That which he has received is the full equivalent In exchange value of that which he sold. The food, etc., he received will reproduce or make good the lubor power he expended, lie has received all his labor power was worth as a commodity. The purchaser paid ihe full exchange value In the form of money, which the worker in turn exchanged wilh the merchant for food, etc., getting full exchange value in return for his money. Equivalent has been exchanged for equivalent and while the Worker stands in the same position as before, tbe employer and merchant have each made a profit out of the transaction. -Sow- let us see how this has come about. The labor power which the worker is thus forced to sell us a commodity in order to obtain the food, etc., thai he requires, is consumed iu the process of capitalist wealth production. Its exchange value, the price the purchaser paid for it, becomes transferred 10 the products resulting from ils expenditure. Take for instance, tlie lubor power expended by the Phoenix miners. As it is consumed in the production of pre its exchange value (cost) reappears again in the output of the mine. As the ore is consumed by the smeller this same exchange value once more reappears in the form of copper matte, along with tbe value of thu labor power of Uie smeltermen. As this copper matte goes through the further stages leading up to the finished articles and there its finul removal from the list of commodities, the exchange value of the labor power of the miners und that of all the workers who subsequently contributed to the process, appears and reappears in the various articles until a purchaser is finally found to remove them from the market for personal use or consumption. This final purchaser merely gives in exchange some other commodity carrying an equiva-! lent amount of labor-time; With Uie exception of lubor power no commodity consumed 111 production will transfer to the product more than its own exchange value, or create any new exchange value. If a thousand dollars' worth of cotton be consumed in the production of twenty thousand yards of cloth, five cents of its former exchange, value will now be found in each yard ol" cloth, but no more. It is dillerent, however, with the commodity labor power, and it arises from the fuct that one day's labor power expended in production can produce more than enough" food, etc., to keep a laborer for that length of time. If this were not true exploitation could not exist. As we know it does exist then it must be true. Granting that, it does exist; that labor power is a commodity; that commodities exchange with each other according to the relative amount, of labor time necessarily embodied in their production, and a simple suppositious case should be quite sufficient to lay bare the capitalist mode of exploitation. Suppose the average product for one day of the modern worker be sufficient to keep him four days, and the working day was eight hours. As that which goes into the production of labor power, than is, food, etc., necessarily involves a large number of articles we will simplify matters by using the term one loaf of bread to indicate the necessary amount of food, etc., to produce one day's labor power. Our supposition would therefore stand thus: One loaf of bread will produce one day's labor power. One day's labor power expended in the production of breud will produce four loaves. With Uie market, well supplied, or over-supplied with laborers the wages will necessity be held firmly down to Uie line of the one loaf, and as Uie worker must sell his day's labor power in order to get the loaf that he must have or perish, we find him in the position of having to produce four loaves, or their equivalent, in order to get one for himself, and each of the loaves possesses Uie same exchange value. Each of them will purchase a day's labor power because each will produce a day's labor power. The worker has not been cheated in exchange. His labor power was bought as a commodity and the other commodity the loaf which he got produced for him another day's la*) bor power like the one he sold. The secret of it all is exceedingly simple once we make an effort to discover it. It is like this. As the productive power 'of our suppositious laborer was equal to four loaves and his wage one loaf, in two hours of his working day ho reproduced the amount of labor power he sold? and each succeeding two hours repeated tho process. The loaf that he got in payment for his day's labor power had embodied in It two hours ot labor time. As he consumed It thus turning It Into a day's labor power, again ready for sale, this day's labor power had embodied in it that two hours' labor time. It had only cost, that two hours' labor time to produce it, hence it was equal in exchange value to a loaf of bread. Bach of the three remaining loaves cost an equal amount of labor time, hence they possessed a similar exchange value. The production of tbe loaves of bread was of course not completed until they passed out of circulation and into the hands of consumers, but it is equally true that, their entire exchange value was put into them on the field of production, and by the hand of labor alone All the different capitalists did whether farm lords, factory lords or traders, was to wrestle among themselves to see who could hang on to the largest share of the new or "surplus value" represented by the three loaves. Lay aside the suppositious case and come down to things as they are actually occurring on the field of capitalist exploitation, aad we have exactly Uie same process worked out daily before our very eyes. It is out of this process that all capital and capitalist profit comes. Exchange becomes incidental to the process pending the time when one concern shall have obtained control of all production and snuffed out Uie trading fraternity to the last cockroach. Marx' theory of surplus value is that which has been referred to as the "theory of exploitation on Uie field of production." For more than half a century it has withstood the "Bon Quixote" assaults of muddle- headed expounders of "middle-class" philosophy, who even yet upon occasion hoist themselves into insignificance by their ridiculous attempts to upset it. Either the Marxian theory of surplus value and the exploitation of labor is true, or it Is not. It cannot be both. If Marx' analysis of capitalist production, and the conclusions drawn be correct, then it is Uie only safe ground under the feet of he whose purpose is to bring Uie exploitation of labor to an end. If the worker is exploited as a consumer because he is charged too high a price for his bread, meat, etc., or if he is looted by way of "rates," Marx' analysis of commodities and their exchange falls to the ground and everything stated by Tattler follows as a logical sequence. This is so self-evident that the "why" requires no further answer. As the "theory of exploitation on the field of production" falls to Uie ground there is nothing left for the worker to do but "make common cause with the bourgeois consumers to get a reduction in prices and rates," and we have yet to learn of that fraternity ever manifesting any disposition towards "the abolition of capitalist domination and exploitation." That "robbed as consumers" cry comes from the "petty bourgeois" that are too weak, because of insufficient, capital, to be able to get in on the ground floor in the "divy" of tho loot taken out of the workers in the shape of surplus value on the field of production. The Marxian theory and the consumers' proposition are as wide apart as the poles. It would require something more than a "Colussus of Rhodes" to stand with one leg upon each without being split asunder. It requires less of effort to drift helpless in the fog of economic confusion than to obtain chart and compass and steer a straight course, but tho latter Is the only safe and sure way to reach the haven of working class emancipation of which so muny of our class are now dreaming. As we have never heard of any "theory of exploitation of the fle.d of production" other than that of Marx,' and as that, of necessity falls to the ground once the discovery is made that the works are "fleeced" as consumers. It makes our correspondent's last ''why" a rather ridiculous one. "Bourgeois consumers" never admit that wage earners are robbed, and those who abandon the Marxian theory of exploitation, and thus cast their lot with them, should refrain from making inch admission lest the suspicion be aroused that they instinctively feel that Marx was correct in his conclusions. If those conclusions are not absolutely correct how do these "bourgeois consumers" come by "their ability to rob the workers" anyhow? Like our correspondent, we wish for enlightenment. is to be commended. But our friends of the U. M. W. of A. fall into the usual error of attributing their discomforts to uomething which occurs at the consumers end of the proposition. In this instance they fancy that at least a good portion of their hard lot is due to the fact that but one firm is allowed to do a store business in their; locality, and infer- entially this firm is in caboots with the coal company. Presumably this firm has a sort of lead-pipe cinch upon a very good thing in thus having a monopoly of a nice little trade, and the miners make loud complaint in consequence. Just why a complaint of this sort should be made by members of an organization the purpose of which is to effect a similar monopoly in regard to Uie sale of its own wares (labor power) is a connundrum. If other traders are shut out of this particular field, thus avoiding that competition which can be fought out only by a cutting of prices and the destruction of the weaker competitors, it should meet with Uie ap. pioval of every man who is loyal to Uie principles of his trade union, for it is exactly what the trade union attempts to do. These capitalist concerns like Uie Crow's Nest Pass Coal Company are much wiser in their day and generation than are their victims, Uie workers. By shutting out all except the favored trader and thereby avoiding ruinous competition, they are able to hold the prices of Uie things the miners are compelled to buy at a figure that virtually acts as a cut in wages, and it does not so readily come to the notice of the men that their wages have been reduced, as it would were the reduction to manifest itself in their pay envelopes. Led to believe that they are fleeced through the high prices they are forced to pay, they lose sight of the point at which tho trick of exploitation is turned upon them. They try every means in their power to successfully combat these high prices, and leave untouched the means of wealth production upon which they depend for their existence, and to the owners of which they are forced to sell their very lives for a wage, over the fixing of which they have no control. Let the coal miners of District 18 learn that they ure fleeced by the Crow's Nest Pass Coal Company at the mine and coke oven. It is there they surrender all that they possess, their labor power, in exchange for enough food, etc., to enable them to return next day and repeat the process. They should not allow themselves to he led astray by artful schemes designed for the purpose of making it appear that tho blow has been received from another quarter. So long as the means of wealth production remain capitalist property this exuloitation will continue unchecked. If representatives sent to parliament are to be worthy of the name of labor they must understand how and where labor is exploited in order to know where to strike affective blows. Every Local of the Socialist Party of Canada should run a carl under this head. $1.00 per month. Secretaries please note. SOCIALIST PARTY OF CANADA. Headquarters, Vancouver, B. C. Dominion Executive Committee, A. R. Stebbings, John E. Dubberley, Ernest Burns, C. Peters, Alf. Leah, A. J. Wilkinson, treasurer; J. O. Morgan, secretary, 551 Barnard St., Vancouver, B. 0. t OCAL VANCOUVER. No. 1. S. P. of n. C. Business meetings every Wednesday evening in Uie headquarters, Ingleside block (room 1, second floor), 318 Gamble street. Educational meetings every Sunday evening at 8 o'clock in the Le Petite theatre, Cordova street. D. P. Mills, secretary, box 836, Vancouver, B. 0. A*> Every Labor Union in the orm,,.. ?«7d to place a card under thu head i month. Secretariei pleaae note. '''w Pt. Greenwood Miners' Union mT^ VV. K. M. Meets ever?"sjo.* evening in Union hall. J. R R& sc<Tetar,'' president; Ernest treasurer. Mills Phoenix Trades and Labor Meets every alternate every alternate fc<a« John Riordan, president; FdlJL Brown, vice-president; p u ? I casse sergeant-at-arms; W H R I bury, secrYtary-treasurer, P n n I 198, Phoenix, B. C. flo,l Pwr*Bi? MMiMr"'i Union' N* ■ _ W. F, M. Meets every Satunl evening at 7.30 o'clock in Mi 3 hall. Wm. Barnett, president U "-—J— secretary. "m Riordan, Practical BMt IkM ■■kit C. PETERS * Haas-Made Boot* and Shoes to order In all style*. Repairing promptly and neatly done. Stock or staple ready-made Shoes always 00 baud. UH Wnatalnsttf avt. 1. InWaJLD BlSD. A. C. BSTDON-JACS. Quo. I. MOCaOMAH. BIRO, MY0IN-JMK i McCRISMN BABKIBTBR8, SOLICITORS, BTC. Railway Bio I. Tel. KM. P.O. Box ML 114 NHtlntt Stmt - Vailiwir, S. fc I'D LIKE TO BE A SAVAGE. By W. Covington Hall in Wilshire's. MINERS MIXEB. Wo publish elsewhere in this issue a part of the proceedings of the second annual convention of District NTo. 18, United Mine Workers of America. Whether the other papers to which tho report was sent published it or not wo do not know. Any earnest effort on the part of organized bodies of workingmen to The supreme court of Hamburg, Germany, recently settled a very knotty question as to the ownership of a pearl valued at 9750. It appears that a lady while satisfying the inner woman with the succulent bivalve known as the oyster, the same being paid for by an obliging escort, suddenly located the pearl in that portion of her anatomy lying betwixt her teeth and gullet. As It struck the lady that the pearl was more suited to the adornment of her outer than inner person, she spat it out and seized upon it as her own property by right of discovery. The restaurant man claimed it as his property along with the oyster shells, chicken bones, dishes and other non-edibles which as a rule were left behind ny his customers. The court awarded the gem to the lady's escort upon the ground that1 he paid for it when he settled for the oysters, and held that if it were awarded to the restaurant keeper, the oyster dealer who supplied him with oysters was entitled to recover It from him, and the fisherman who brought the oyster from Its bed, in turn could recover from the oyster dealer. The absurdity of having this $750 gewgaw fall Into the hands of a common fisherman was thus happily avoided, and no doubt to the satisfaction of both the lady and her escort. The wisdom of the court In deciding the knotty problem so as to avoid burdeniner the fisherman with $750 worth of property Is to be commended. ' ■(>■■ ■ m Thn battleship represents the chief element of force In a war fleet, and such vessels will soon cost $10,000,- 000 each, says Engineering. The most advanced, nations of the earth are busily engaged in laying in a plentiful supply of these engines of death and destruction, and manifest a hearty disposition to use them upon the slightest, provocation. This might lie taken as an evidence that nineteen centuries' teaching of the gospel of "peace on earth" has not been an overwhelming success. O ! ' The nature of the grist ground out by the mill of Justice depends upon which economic class in human so- I'd like to be a savage fer a little while again. En go out in the forests where there ain't no business men; Where I'd never hear the clatter uv their fact'ries en things, But jest the low, soft buzzin' uv the hiiuiinin's crimson wings; Tho dronin' uv the bumble bees, en old bobwhlte's lovin' call To his mate acrost the medders when the leaves begin to fall. I'd like to be a savage, ur a barefoot boy again, A-roamin' through the clover where; there ain't no business men; Where the whole derned tribe is strangers, en their dollars en their dimes Don't never 'sturb the music uv old natur's songs and rhymes: Where a feller's heart kin nestle close to mother natur's breast, En the orioles en redbirds sing his tired soul to rest. I'd like to be a savage, en uncivilized again, A member of a nation where there ain't no business men; Where no women folks ain't driven to the sweat Shops every day; En the children don't do nothin', 'cept run en romp en play; Where tho dollar ain't ez mighty ez Che song the mockin' sings, En a feller's heart ain't hurted when he stops to think o' things. o ——- In this country the size of the family seems to be in inverse ratio to the size of the income. But from what we have seen of the children. of the rich, wo are glad that there I are not so many of them. Nanaimo Miners' Union, No. i7, ul F. M. meets every third Satn'rdl from July 2. Alfred Andrews Df' ident; Jonathan isherwood P fl Box 259, Nanaimo, B. (J, \t(m ing secretary. ■—'—-—* The International Brotherhood ] Electrical Workers.-Local No »j M>ets second and fourth Thur! days at I. B. E. VV. Hall, R00ra Ingleside Block. President Dillabough; recording secretin Geo. P. Fair; financial secretary,/ H. Sellar. Address all commonW tions to the hall. Ail sojournin, brethren cordially invited. WANTFJ). LADIES AND UENTLKMKN i„ th, and adjoining territories to r--; rrt«g and advertise the Wholesale and i-jot, tional Pu|iai'triieiits of an old establlaaj houKP af solid financial standing. Sakj ry S8.50 tier day. with exiwnmn vanred each Monday by check Anns, from headquarters. Borne and bui-p furnished when necessary; position m manent. Address, blew Bros. & C| Pept. 0, Monon tilde-.. Chicago, V\ P." TAHI 1 II' li isu4 Tie VOICE I T»» Oltfetf I aba* P»pw in »iai|, A|lw, v« n f«--n li s-s ex poll! ', cim «• <>f labor. it in '.Tor (me Hull.11 th<- ji.it* r Will ' S"nl 1 any mldrr ■« loi 1 in yew. tWi 1 k it- }• nn- n "f «l' inui tries ■• arjoti o-ioyio/r • lit- fact Mial ll ■1111 1 inuoit snd lent tin ir lab papers. , Issue, I every Friday. The Voice Pvblisliing C&, Limited j WINMI'KO. MAN. -THE- Miners'Magazine Published Weekly by the Wtitin FederUion 01 Miners A Vigorous Advocate of Labor 11 (Muse, Clear-Cut and Aggressive. Per Year f 1.00. Six Months, Awl Address: MINERS' MAOAZINIC, Denver, Colorado. There are many forms in width I bacco is used, but Kyrti't Own Kurtz's Pioneer Spanish Blossoms Cigars Is the height of perfection of tin all. Only the best material is US in them, and they are made by led Union workmen. We guaranta] them to be composed of the best i Clear Havana Fillers with the t**l of Sumatra wrapi>ers. Kurtz & Co. PiOMtr Cigar Manufacturers VANCOUVER S. C. United Hatters of North America When you are baying a FUlt HAT ace to It H th* Genuine Union Label la sewed in it. If n retai" has loose labels In his possession und offura <o on* In a hat for you, do not patriinlra him "" laJbsl* la retail stores ar* counterfeits. Tbe (t» Union label la perforated on four edge*, exartly •am* aa a postage stamp. Counterfeits arc »«"' times perforated on three edges, end some tluiei out on two. John B. Stetson Co., or Philadelphia '»' non-unloa concern. JOHN A. MOKF1TT, President. Orange. N. ' MARTIN LAWLOK, Secretary, It Waverlv I'1""! N*w York. lN| solve the problem of what is daily j (iety, capitalist class or working making their lives more miserable, ' class turns the crank. ^rf«J£I££faS7,taMei *■»* ■»«■«• our economic and .<"•;?' thi?2£fl2! wl",•"»»• day make It clear even to the dullett *»» 'Si"! "J,.oluUon °!.°»r industrial problems is possible only W'» aunt la*! fi2j}itti.C-i0S^'on^ 3?* are we t0 'o°k on paenlvrly ««.I,£5?ih,d*m,0? duOand dense than onr own.li SKSJHLV^fi byiteelft Certilniy not. Wewnnt to . ■•ZSSRSl-V X' ""I K*t there In tbe near future if we set to t»o» fM„„ifnethJmAnwho,,»tm»TroPinKln the dark. Wc kno* SPlEuS1 mak£jAti "««tn« U*ht •«•* «>»T. but we want h « In\2**a.i5ow* Tjlerefore ""f Incessant propaganda nnd agit" I s?«tt*5&& S°?d woZk y°u *wd «°°d tools. Select your prop 8 ff-l if SSdt5iSa.t!5*1 5¥HHl*a,W l°» Will see results. Two book' MAPtFBu •». w^til tried as means ofsociallst propaganda are ., Mi&f&LI 52CJALI8M • ^Edition; 18bPa^Papcr25c, Cloth 7* PRINCIPLES OF SCIENTIFIC SOCIALISM- **» EditJ?l Pages; Pt umerii nw ^oaMadc£b^peratlve Co. they are sold at a discount of *o percej*^ rU-RDAY ......April 8, 1905 Tflg WB8TEBH QLAEION. VANCOUVER, B. 0. •**• {Capitalist Production and Crises ■•■■■■ From "Socialism," by Frederick Engels. a matter of. fact, since 182"), the first general crisis broke the whole industrial and com- ri,il world, piodnction and ex- Due among all civilized peoples their more or less barbaric hang- pi], ure thrown out of joint about every ten years. Commerce is at andstill, the markets are glutted, nits accumulate, as multitudin- as they nre unsalable, hard cash ppears, credit vanishes, factories ilun-d und the mass of the work- lire in want of the means, of sub- mce, because they have produced iniucih of the means of subsls- buiiki'iiptcy follows upon bank-1 ley, execution upon execution, stagnation lasts for years; pro- (lye forces and products are wasted destroyed wholesale, until the ululated mass of commodities fin- tiller off, more or less depreciat- |i value, until production and cx- erailuully begin to move Little by little the pace Iken.". II becomes a trot. The si lie I trot, breaks into a canter, nntor in turns grows into the nig gullop of a perfect steeple- uf Industry, commercial credit, speculation, which finally, after kneck leaps, ends where it tie- in the ditch of a crisis. And so and oyer again. We have now, ihe year- 1825, gone through I live times, and at the present nit (1877) we are going through r the sixth time. And the char- of these crises is so clearly de- lliat Fourier hit ail of I hem, he described the first as "crises orique," a crisis from plethora, these crises, the contradiction en socialised production and lulist appropriation ends in a it explosion, The circulation of Juxlitiis is. for the time being, il. Money, the means of eir- lun, becomes a hindrance to cir- jion. All the laws of production circulation of commodities are Kl upside down. The economic Sun bus reached its apogee. THE \l OF PRODI I'TiON IS IN KE- 1108 AGAINST THE MODE PvCHANQE. fuel that the socialised organ- kn of production within the fac- |fius dcvclojtcd so far that it has pie incompatible with the anar- pf production in society, winch side by side with and doiuiu- |il, is In ought home lo the caftr themselves oy the violent Ms Entration of capital that occurs g crises, through the ruin of large, and a still greater num- lof smull capitalists. The whole iitnism of the capitalist mode ol Uclion breaks doun under the lure 01 the productive forces, its creations, it is no longer able urn nil this mass of means of union into capital. They lie faland for that very reason the in- rial reserve army must also lie |w. Meuns of production, means ubsistence, available laborers, all |elcmenis of production and oi al wealth, are present in ubun- i. Hut "abundance becomes tne le of distress and want" (Foui- Jbecause it is the very thing that jcnls the trunsforiuuiiuu of the fis of prodiu tion and subsistence capital, For in capitalistic! so- the means of production can function when they have under u preliminary transformation rupilal, into the means ol ex flng hiiinaii labor-power. The ne t.v of this transformation into |iul of tlie means of production ■subsistence stands like a ghost feen these und thu workers. ll prevents the coining together {he materiul and personal levers 'reduction; it alone forbids the us of production lo function, the .era to work and live. On the Lhand, therefore, the capitalistic % of prodllcUlou stands convicted ts own incapacity lo further di- these productive forces. On thu these productive forces ihem- with increasing euergy, press produced, parcel it out among themselves, and thus enforce the selling price fixed beforehand. Hut trusts of this kind, as soon ns business becomes bad, are generally liable to break up, and, on this very account, compel a yet greater concentration of association. The whole of the particular industry is turned into one gigantic joint-stock company; internal competition gives place to the in- leriuil monopoly of this one company. .This has happened in IM'JO wilh the English Alkali production, which, is now, after the fusion of 48 large works, iu thu hands of one company, conducted upon a single plan, and with a capital of JLG.ouu,- 000 in (,he trust, freedom of competition changes into ita very opposite— into monopoly; and the production without any definite plan of capitalistic society capitulates to the production upon a definite plan of the invading socialistic society. Certainly this is so far still to the bene fit nnd advantage of the capitalists. u„ . ~ ■» ~"" Hut in tnis case the exploitation is f****™ ««. M ™ have shown above forces which have outgrown all control except that of society as a whole. The social character of the means of production and of the products today reacts against the. producers, periodically disrupts all production and exchange, acts only like a law of Nature working blindly, forcibly, destructively. But with the faking over by society of the productive forties, the social character of the means of production and of the products will be utilized by the producers with a perfect understanding of its nature, und instead of being a source of disturbance and periodical collapse, will become the mosl powerful lever of production itself, Active social forces work exactly like natural forces: blindly, forcibly, destructively, so long us we do not Understand, and reckon with them. Hut when once we understand them, when' once we grasp their action, their effects, it depends only upon ouiselves to subject them more and more to our own will, and by means of tbein lo reach our own ends. And this holds true quite especially of the mighty productive forces of today. As iong as we obstinately refuse to understand the nature and the character of these social meuns of action —and this understanding goes against the grain of the capitalist mode of production and its defenders—so long these forces are at work in spite of us, in opposition to us, so long they [aid to the removal of the ex- rg contradiction, to the aboli- of their quality as capital, to ■practical recognition of their peter as social productive forces. Ins rebellion of the productive I Mi as they grow more and more erful, against their quality as 'al, this stronger and stronger "land that their social character I bo recognized, forces the capit- class itself to treat them more J '"ore as social productive forces, [ar as this is possible under cap- ?«tic conditions. The period of Mrittl high pressure with its unfilled inflation of credit, not less the crash itself, by the collapse p-nt capitalist establishments, P« to bring about that form of IT socialisation of great musses of "s of production, which we meet 1 'n the different kinds of Joint- k companies. Many of these "» of production and of distribute, from the outset, bo colos- I'hat. like the railroads, thev ex- "all other forms of capitalistic ottarfon. At a further stage of "'ion this form also becomes in- jcient. The producers on a large "> a particular branch of In- [''•v'n » particular country Unite Trust," ft union for the pur- _"» regulating production. They so palpable that it must, break down. No nation will put up with production conducted by trusts, with so barefaced an exploitation of the community by a small band of dividend mongers. ,' ' ' In any case, with trusts or without, the official representative df capitalist society—the State—will ultim- ttlety hdve to undertake the direction of product ibu. This ' necessity for conversion into State-property is felt first, in the great institutions for intercourse and communication—the postotllce, the telegraphs, tho railways. If the crises demonstrate the incapacity of the bourgeoisie for managing any longer modern productive forces, the ' transformation, of the great establishments for production and distribution into joint-stock companies, trusts, and State property, show how unnecessary the bourgeoisie are for that purpose. All the social functions of the capitalist arc now performed by salaried employees. The capitalist has no further social function than that of pocketing dividends, lea, ing oil coupons, and gambling on the Stock Exchange where the different capitalists despoil ode another of their cupitul. At first the capitalistic mode of production forces out the workers. Now it forces out the capitalists, and reduces them, jusfns il reduced the workers, lo the ranks of the surplus population, although not immediately into those of the industrial reserve army. Hut the transformation, either into joint-stock companies and trusts, or into State-ownership, does not do away with the capitalistic nature of tho productive forces. In the joint- stock companies and trusts this is obvious. And the modern State, again, is only Uie organization that bourgeois society takes on in order to support the external conditions of the capitalist mode of production against the encroachments, as well of the. workers as of individual caji- itali.sts. The modciii State, no mat. ter what its form, is essentially a capitalist .machine, the state of the capitalists,- -the ideal personification ol' the total national capital. The more it- proceeds to the taking over of productiare forces, tho more does it actually become the national capitalist, the more citizens does it exploit. The workers remain wage- workera*—proletarians. The capitalist relation is not done away with. It is rather brought to a head. Hat brought to a head, it topples ovur. State-ownership of The productive forces is not. Socialism. When the means of production and distribution have actually outgrown the form of management by joint- stock companies, and when, therefore the taking them over.by the State ha.1} |'berduie .economically inevitable only then—even .if it'-is the State of today that effects'* this — is there an economic advance, the attainment of another step preliminary to the taking over of all productive forces by socjety itself. BUt*'of" Intx.',' sipce Hisniaick went in for State-Owner ship of industrial establishments, a kind of spurious Socialism bus arisen, degenerating, now .and airnlh> into something of .fltinkeyism,' that without more ado declares all State- owuershlp, evei^the Hisinnrckian sort to be socialistic. Certainly, if the taking over by "the State of the to- bacco industry is socialistic, then Napoleon and Metternich must hu- numbered among the founders of Socialism. If the llelgian State, - for quite ordinary political and firiuuiinl reasons,- itself constructed its chief railway lines; if Bismarck, not under any economic- compulsion, took over for the State the chief Prussian lines simply to be the better able to have them in hand.in case of war to bring up the railway employees as voting cattle for the Government, and especially to create lor himself a source of income independent of parliamentary votf's— this wns, in w> sense, a Socialistic measure, directly or indirectly, consciously ol- unconsciously. Otherwise, tho Roykl. Maritime Company, the royal porcelain manufacturer, and even the regimental tailor of the army would also be socialistic, institutions, or even, as was-ser-. iotisly proposed by a sly dog in Fred, rick Willjnm IIT.'s reign, the'«aking over i>/ the State Of the brotheif.. Stale control of industries is not tho solution of the conflict, hut concealed within It are tho technical conditions that forty the elements'of that solution,.- , ,' -' . ' Tills 'soliinon can only consist in the practical recognition of the social ftrtture of the modern forces of production, nnd therefore in harmonizing/the modes of production. appropriation, and exchange with the socialised character of the means of production.. And this "can on|y come about by society openly and 'directly in detail. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ But when once their nature is understood, they can, in the hands of the producers working together, be transformed from master demons into willing servants. The difference is as that between the destructive force of electricity in the lightning of the storm, and electricity under command in the telegraph and the voltaic arc; the difference between a conflagration, nnd fire working in the service of man. With this recognition at last of the real nature of the productive forces of today, the social anarchy of production gives place to a social regulation of production upon a definite plan, according to the needs of the community anil of each individual. Then the capitalist mode of appropriation, in which the product enslaves first the producer and then the appropriator, is replaced by the mode of appropriation of the products that is based upon the nature of the modern means of production; upon the one hand, direct social appropriation, as means to the maintenance nnd extension of production—on the other, direct, individual appropriation, as means of subsistence and of enjoyment. Whilst the capitalist mode of production more and more completely transform" the great majority of the population into proletarians, it creates the (lower which, under penalty of its own destruction, is forced to accomplish thfs revolution. Whilst it forces on more and more the transformation of the vast means of production, already socialized, into State property, it shows itself the way to accomplishing this revolution. The proletariat seizes political power and turns the means of production into State property. Hut. in doinrr this, it abolishes it- selfself as proletarint. abolishes all class distinctions and class antagonisms, abolishes also the State as State. Society thus far, based upon class antagonisms, hns need of the Stn'e. That is. of an organization of the particular ela«s which was pro tempore the exploit ine class, nn organization for the purpose of pre venting any interference from without with the existing conditions of production, and therefore, especially, for the purpose of forcibly keeping tho exploited classes in the condition of oppression corresponding with the given mode of production (shivery, Serfdom, wage-labor). The State was the official representative of society as a whole; the gathering of it together into a visible embodiment. But it was this only in so far as it was the State of that class which itself represented, for the time being, society as a whole; in ancient times, the State of slave-owning citizens; in the middle ages, the feudal lords; in our own time, ihe bourgeoisie. When at last it heroines the real representative of the whole of society, it ren. ders i'self unin'ccHsary. As soon as there is no longer any social class to be held in subjection: as soon as class rule, and the individual struggle for existence based upon our present anarchy in production, with the collisions and excesses arising from these, are removed, nothing more remains to be repressed, and a special repressive force, a Slate, is no longer necessary, The first act by virtue of which the State really constitutes Itself the representative of the whole society—the faking possession of the means of production in the name of society—thN is at tne same time, its last independent act as a Slate. State interference with social relations becomes, in one domain after another, superfloiis and then dies out of itself: the government of persons is replaced b.v the administration of things, nnd b.v the conduct of processes of production. The State is not "abolished." It dies out. This gives the measure of the value of the phrase "a free State," both as to its justifiable use at limes b.Vv agitators, and as to its ultimate scientific insufficiency, and also of the demands of the so-called anarchists for the abolition 08 the State out of hand. ' o The working men have no country We cannot take from them what, they have not got. Since the proletariat must first of nil acquire political supremacy, must rise to be the leading class of the nation, must constitute itself ihe nation, il is. so far, itself national. though not in the bourgeoisie sense of the word.—Communist Manifesto. o The eJn'Ass sirugp-ie between the capitalist class and the working class is a political struggle forVontrol of the powers of wealth production. The former will Rtruggle to retain its control, the latter to seize it. The nearness of approach to the class struggle is indicated by the extent to which the knowledge of the class character of polities is spread among the members of the working class. AH The Working Men - Out Victoria Advertisers ~ ' Patronize Them and Tell Them Why j. s arid 7 STORK STREET Telephone 296 VICTORIA, B. C. Feed INTERNATIONAL STOCK and Poultry Food to obtain best, results. SCOTT & PEDEN FLOUH, FEEO HAY ANO GRAIN Agents for SUTTON'S SEEDS. 0<K>00<XK><jOiXKX)<K>0<KKKK> i i i CHARLIE BO ^?oSANT Clo'liing fcfatle to Order. Fit Guaranteed HAROLO BURNETT, Newt Agt. Victoria General Agent for The SKATTLe, times HURll.A.M) OKEG0N1AN SAN KRAM-IHOO CHRnNlCLE HAN FRANCISCO BXAMINKR LOS ANUJKI.kS KXAMI.tJJR i.OS ANOStes TIMES CHICAGO t.XAMINKR AND AMERICAN PENNeYlAA IA liRll P. 0. Box 444 VICTORIA, B. C. •!> 27 Store Street Victoria, B. C. ? OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO CCflirtADLu, strike at the ballot hex on Klectlon day, and be sure to strike the Rock Bay Hotel When in Victoria. 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PLATFORM OF THE SOCIALIST PARTY OF CANADA We, the Socialist Party of Canada, in convent! n a rernbled, affirm ou - allegiance to and support of the principles and prog.arr, of the international revolutionary working clasa. Labor produces all wealth, and to labor it should <tMly belong;.. To the owners of the means of wealth pro of government—the capitalist to hold the worker to secure it by politica' action. This is the class struggle. Therefore, we call upon all workers to organize under the banner of the Socialist Party of Canada with the object of conquering the public powers for the purpose of setting up and en dm tion belongs the product of labor. I forcing the economic, program, of The present ec^Kmic system is based | the workine class, as follows: upon capitalist ownership of the means of wealth production; therefore all the products of labor belong to the capitalist class. The capitalist is master; the worker is slave. So long as the capitalists remain in possession of the reins of government all the powers of the state will be used to protect and defend their property rights in the means of wealth production and their control of the product of labor. The capitalist system gives to the capitalist an ever-swelling stream of profits, and to the worker an ever- increasing measure of misery and degradation. Trie interest of the working class lies in the direction of setting itself free from capitalist exploitation by the abolition of the wage system. To accomplish this necessitates the transformation of capitalist property in the means of wealth production into collective or working-class property. The irrepressible conflict of interests between the capitalist and the worker is rapidly culminating in a struggle for possession of the powei The bourgeois historians have invented the legend of the Revolution of 178b bestowing tlie lund upon the peasant and freedom and happiness therewithal; whereas the plain truth is that the great revolution stripped him of his rights of common, and Other rights of equal importance, delivering him up, defent'elesv, into the clutches of the usurers und middlemen; loading him with taxes and iuiving him to enter into competition with the great landed proprietor, equipped with capital and machinery. The great bourgeois revolution wus fraught with misery and ruin for the peasant.—Paul LaforgUe. o The largest blast furnace in the world has been put into successful operation ul the Washoe smelter at Anaconda, Montana, Tho big fur- iiiti■'•; is as large as three of the ordinary .size," having un inside measurement of 61 feet by 50 inches. 'I ho blast is led by 88 tuyeres, and in 24 hours charges of ore aggregating 2,l>"U tons are turned into copper matte.—Grand Porks .Sun. o The need Of a constantly expanding iiiuiket for iis products chases the bourgeoisie over the whole surface of the globe. It must nestle everywhere settle everywhere, establish connections everywhere;—Communist Manifesto. COMfiAOES Strike at the ballot box on election dny but be sure to striko the LKJJlTHOl'SK ItESTAUKAtfT 836 Cordova St. any day you aro hungry. .lust around the corner from the Socialist headquarters. T OHRISTENSEN, Prop. RISE LIKE LIONS AFTER SLUM- >BEK. Men of England, Heirs of Ulory, Heroes of unwritten story, Nurslings of one mighty Mother, iioiie of her and one another; Kise like lions after slumber, in unvanqui.shable number; Shake your chains to earth, like dew, Which in sleep had fallen on you; Ye are many, they are few. What is freedom? Ye can tell That which slavery is too well, For its very name has grown To an echo of your own. i'is to work and have such pay As just keeps life from day to day in your limbs as in a cell I''or the tyrants use to dwell. Horses, oxen^ have a home. When from daily toil they come; Household dogs, when the wind roars Kind a home within warm doors. Asses, swine, have litter spread, And with Tit ting food are fed; All things have a home but one— Thou. U, Englishman, hast none. P. B. SHELLEY. o The essential condition for the existence, and for the sway of the bourgeoisie class, is the formation and augmentation of capital; the condition for capital is wage-labor. Wage- labor rests exclusively on competition between the laborers. The advance of industry, whose involuntary promoter is the bourgeoisie, replaces the isolation of laborers, by their involuntary combination due to association. The development of modern Industry therefore, cuts from under its feet the very foundation on which the bourgeoisie produces and appropriates products. What the bourgeoisie therefore produces, abova all. are its own grave diggers. Its fall and the victory of the proletariat are equally inevitable.—Communist Manifesto. working class, as follows 1. The transformation, as rapidly as possible, < t capitalist property in the means of wealth production (natural resources, factories, mills, railways, etc.,) into the collective property of the working class. a. Thorough and democratic organization and management of industry by the workers. 3. The establishment, as speedily ai possible, of production for use instead of production for profit. The Socialist party, when in office, shall always and everywhere until the present system is abolished, make the answer to this question its guiding rule of conduct: Will this legislation advance the interests of the working class and aid the workers in their class struggle against capitalism? If it will the Socialist Party is for it; if it will not, the Socialist Party is absolutely opposed to it. In accordance —i»v> this principle the Socialist Party pledges itself to conduct all tl e public affairs placed in its hands <" such a manner as to promote the interests of the Working class alone. Newspaper Publishing WE ARE MAKING a specialty of newspaper publishing, nnd nre prepared to give eslinintes on printing nil kinds uf weekly or monthly publications, if •011 are thinking of publishing any kind of pamphlet or other matter ne- 1'essilai ing a large amount of typesetting, conic to us as wc are par- g the 1 iiuine the total amount to be taking possession of the productive ^—"^(sjHSSsajmmmmmmmmm.«■«—————«^ APPLICATION FOR MEMBCR3NIP IN THE SOCIALIST PARTY OF CANADA 1 undersigned, hereby apply for membership in wOcal Socialist Party of Canada, I recognize the class struggle between the capitalist class and the working clans to lie a struggle for political spreinacy, i, e, possession of the reins of government, ana which necessitates the organization of the workers into a political party, distinct from and opposed to all parties of the capitalist class. If admitted to membership I hereby agree to maintain or enter into 110 relations with any other political ) arty,and pledge myself to support by voice, vote ami all other legitimate means the ticket and the program of the Socialist ,Party otCanmlri only." Applicant .., , 1 Address , Occupation , Age I Aihnitted to Local Citizen. L .Chairmaa .19. .R*c. Sec. The Western Clarion 165 HASTINCS STREET P 0. BOX 836 VANCOUVER, B. C. J tlcularly equipped for just sucn work. Also anything iu Ihe way of office stationery, business cards and advertising matter handled with neatness nnd despatch. Mail orders for Job Printing from other districts will bo promptly ex- eeuled to the letter and sent return mail. Prices the same as for work done in this city. Try us with an order. if w f" .■I h' I- !l .1 I *HE WMOTUt OLAMOH, VJJTOiyOVMt, B. C. ftATtTRDAY "■I Socialist Party of Canada ' SOME CAUSTIC CUTS FROM "CENT BELT" J. G DOMINION EXECUTIVE HEADQUARTERS. MORGAN, Secretary. Vancouver, B the Declaration of George (lapoti t .International Socialist Bureau :— "In order to avoid any misunderstanding which might hurt the work .■I the armed Insurrection of the Uus- i tan people struggling for daily .:read. referred to in the petition of ..he workers of St. Petersburg; an insurrection which alone can assure • he defense of Ihe interests of the vorklng masses and lay a sure and ..olid foundation for the triumph of he principles of Socialism in Rus- r.ia. "But fearing—according to my pergonal conviction—to be restrained in .my pursuit of truth and liberty, 1 request the international Socialist Bureau to advise ull organs of the •Socialist press to propose to the two Russian Socialist parties to agree, jn order to secure unified action in organizing the working-rlass insurrection in Russia. "In the present condition of affairs I consider us premature my of ticial adhesion to One or other of the Russian Socialist parties, "I send fraternal greetings in crying 'long live International Socialism." The Executive Committee of the international Socialist Bureau believes that it does not go beyond its prerogative in asking the Russian •comrades of different organizations to give a favorable hearing to the proposition of Oapon and follow the cheerlhg example of our comrades in France. The Bureau requests the authorized representatives of other parties to impress these facts on all the Russian groups that there be real ized in this decisive and tragic moment that unity in action so necessary and Lndespensable. Camille Huysroans Secretary. transact ion thi ness. Concerning Comrade O'Brien's tour; Hui ns-l-euh—That the secretary call attention to the lack of ....ances for the organizing fund and that the organizer will have to be reca.led if the locals up country do not respond any better. Receipts: Local Nanaimo. No. 3, organising fund *1<» 00 Local Revelstoke, No. 7. :i due stamps Ihe question of the permanent es- ! tablishment of separate schools in I the new provinces of Saskatchewan j and Alberta at present overshadows all others, thanks to the systematic agitation of tne capitalist press and f provincial busi-j fanatical clerical agitators who have It 00 Total «ia y" tain there to any extent. 1 have" no sort of use for clericalism, but imperialism is a far more real and imminent danger and so I for one am rejoiced to see the turn things are taking, and exult over the squeals and grimaces of tho Orange jingo crowd over the bitter pill they have , .to swallow at the hands of the no word of protest against handing, Frt.mh (anndians. "Still there's ini-r the aforesaid provinces bound morc to follow" in Ihe words of the hand and foot to railroad, mining' hymn, for the French influence is am! land corporations. It is just | growing in Ontario, one of these questions over which! There were no French members of capitalists and their henchmen like j the legislature at the time ot Con- to set the workers quarrelling so as' federation. Today there are five, to distract attention from the mat- j and there are some twenty or thirty ters which vitally concern them. So Ontario constituencies where the long as they can keep the people oc- j French vote is an important if not copied with fighting over racial and! a deciding factor. Do you wonder religions antagonisms, they can keep' that even the representatives of on plundering them with impunity. I Orange tory Toronto are shy at at- Now so far as the question itself I tending meetings to protest against ••••••••• • • • • • : HCProvincial Executive Socialist Party of Canada. Vancouver • ••**•* Bt C, April 4, l'J05.— (Room 10, Mattonic block.)—Present: Comrades Stebbings, Leah, Wilkinson, Burns, Organizer Kingsley aud the Secretary. Comrade Stebbings elected to tbe chair. Minutes of previous meeting read and adopted. The following correspondence was dealt with' From Organizer O'Brien (8) dated from Greenwood, Grand Forks and Rossland, reporting progress in that country. Wilkinson-Leah—That the reports be received. Carried. From Nanaimo Local enclosing $ 10 to organizing fund. Luah-Wilkinson— Received an filed. Carried. From New Westminster asking for speaker on Sunday, April 2nd. Hurii.s-l.euh—Laid on table till order of new business. Carried. From Local Revelstoke eoclosing $H for stamps and usking prices of supplies, and notifying change of secretary. Leah-Wilkinson—That the information be furnished. Carried, Received and filed. From Ladysmith Local, report. From Victoria Local, enclosing book catalogue that the secrotary might check off what the party considered good, sound literature. Burns-Wilkinson—That the letter be received and filed and the secretary explain thai the constitution inly gives the Executive Committee control of literature issued under the auspices of ihe party. Carried. Fiuiu Vancouver Local enclosing accounts re Irene Smith's meeting, .showing u balance duo Vancouver Local of $1.10, acceptable in due stamps. The secretary was instructed to comply. , , From Kingsley & English, bill re iirinting. advertising, etc. This was laid over that the secretary might confer with the late sec- -etary und separate Dominion and irovincial accounts. From the International Socialist Bureau enclosing an appeal from* Father Oapon for unity in the ranks of Russian Socialists in the present v-Tisls.- Kcferret! to Western Clarion for publication. Concerning meetings in New Westminster: Burns-Wilkinson—That the ■iHTftary nnd organizer be ap- ', minted a committee to arrange for .ipeukers for that town, said inoet- ngs not to exceed two in each -nonlh. Carried. WilkfnHon-!,t>iih—That this committee meet next Tuesday evening for ABOUT LOCAL TORONTO. Editor of Western Clarion: Our Commune celebration on March is was well attended and wns interesting and instructive. A large number of Finnish Socialists ure expected to Join Local Toronto during the coming month. A Finnish branch may be organized as very fl'w apeak English. Dr. II. F. Titus or Win. Mnilly. of Tcledo, will i be the speaker in Toronto at the May Pay celebration. Weston Wrigley. Toronto. March 2tt. 1905. o The news despatches show that in ninny places throughout Russia tho employes of warehouses and shops are again demanding shorter hours and more wages. The strike troubles have evidently not eSfcirely subsided. :—o In proportion as the bourgeoisie: i. e., capital, is developed, in the same proportion is the proletariat, the modern working-class, developed, a class of laborers, who live only so long ns they find work, and who find work only so long as their labor rincreases capital.—Communist Manifesto. 1 o : It is reported that A. Vershinnin, who was civil governor of Port Arthur during the siege, declares that Stoessel sold out to the Japanese. Well, what of it? Is this not an age of bargain and sale? It-is to be hoped that the gentleman was not compelled to sell too eheupl- even though it was a sort of sacrifice sale Is -Mr. Vershinnin kicking because he got nothing out of the deal'.' We are justified in viewing things strictly from a commercial point in this ul- tra-commerrial age. _ o . Oen. Chaffee, of the United States army has recommended the adoption of a new bayonet to be tired with the King rifle. It. is to be six inches longer than rhe one now in use. The recommendution has been made as the result of an investigation set on foot by President Rons velt because of the experience of armies in Manchuria. In these strenuous times it is necessary to have the bayonet sufficiently long to "spit" more than one person at a time. In currying out its mission of benevolent assimilation the United States might find the present bayonet too short to reach through two fnt Filo pinos at once. is concerned every Socialist, of | course, believes in a free national1 secular system of education. But this is not what the people who are shouting themselves hoarse over the course of the l.aurier government stand for at all. They first insist on the Bible in the schools—"the whole ilanin.il Bible" as a very zealous Orangeman put it during the agitation in this province some years airo, and then having made the teaching in the public schools of a strictly Protestant religious type, would refuse Catholics the cominon justice ol having their own religious teachings. Make the public schools as they should be, purely secular, and then there will be ■ ome show of reason and fair plaiy in the argument .that all citizens must, support them, and that those who want religious teaching must pay for it themselves. But so long ns the Protestant Bible is rend nnd Protestant religious observances maintained as part of the r-'gular school exercises, no one can blame the Catholics for insisting on the right to establish separate schools for their children. Clericalism vs. Imperialism. There is another phase of the question of special interest to Socialists which has not so far received any attention. Orange fanaticism and jingoism go hand in hand, and our pftblic schools in Ontario—I don't know how it may be elsewhere but probably like influences produce like results—are the1 hot-beds of imperialism of the most truculent type. There are not. only regular military drills but continual celebrations of "patriotic" anniversaries such as Paardeburg Day and the like, wnen the children are crammed with the conventional capitalist lies concerning the grandeur and glory of the British Empire and the exploits of "our" army and navy. Now there is none of this sort of thing in the separate schools. Hero worship and flag worship don't ob- Burns & Coj HARDWARE and Second Hand Dealers. largest ami cheapest stock of ,Cook Stoves in the City. Boom Chains, Augers, Loggers' Jacks, Etc. ;We have moved into our new and commodious premises : 138 Cordova St., Cast 1579 Vaocouvor, B. 6. i & b n iti A Poverty Party -fepog '| -ojj |ti.io'| ,\i| u.i,\i3 oq ihm ist Party of Canada in Sullivan Hall on Saturday, April 15, at H o'clock. If you belong to the working class you are invited. Bring your family, your sweetheart and your friends. Don't dress up. The following penalties will be imposed for "soft clothes" nnd other misdemeanors: Fines for Men. Coining without a girl ... Coming with n girl Boiled shirt Creases in pantaloons ... Hnii purled in middle ... BiiLj head , Watch, not Waterbiiry Cutaway coat Ring 011 Finger Other ,Jewelry Shiny Slioes ...10c ..r>c ...r)C ..Be „&C ...r»c ...r>c ,.6c ..5c ...rIC tti Fines for Women. • Coining without a beau 10c Wearing silk 5c Rats in hair 5c Frizzes r,c Without an apron 5c Lace and ribbons 5c Chewing gum fie Jewelry 5c Train on dress 5c Paint on face , 5c Judges will be appointed, who In orthodox red wigs nnd blue gowns, will preside over the court of. Inspection. Fines may be ubridired or remitted at the discretion of the judges. N.B.—Kicking against tho judges' decisions, extra fine of 25 cents. Two Prize Contests Will take place during the evening. The prizes to be awarded b.v the judges still in their robes of office. Refreshments, consisting of tooth picks, pop-corn, cold water and such oilier dainties as the ladies of the organization may provide, will bo served, speciul prizes to bo given respect Ive.y to the prettiest waitress anil the most elllcient waiter. The various features of the evening win be pleasantly interspersed with songs, speeches, recitations, etc. Mr. Tom Pwyer will preside at the piano the separate school clauses of the autonomy bills? Wait a little until the French vote of Ontario develops strength and see how the jingoes will begin to sing small. A Typical Opportunist. But the funny part of the whole business is the amazement and surprise of the bourgeois grits over the course of l.aurier who has been their idol for so many years. Really, the faith of these simple confiding people In the honor and consistency of cheap, trimming, truckling politicians of the Laurier, Mowat or Foster type would be sublime—if it wasn't absurd. The least knowledge of human nature should have shown them that Laurier was a hypocrite and an opportunist, ready to take any course that would bring him prestige or votens. The Laurier who has antagonized all his previous professions by championing the separate school proposition is the very same identi al Laurier who won the applause of his party here by sanctioning Canada's participation in the South African piracy. Then he outraged every principle he had ever professed and betrayed his own countrymen. He showed himself in his true colors as a trimmer and a hypocrite, in short as just the kind of man that Ontario public opinion delights to honor. It was a question of holding his job and he held on. Now it, is a question of keeping his French following together by going back on his record, and why- should anybody for a moment, be surprised at his action. Why should he value honor and consistency higher than his job today rather than Ave years ago? And anyway, where is the capitalist politician who can throw any stones at him? Is there a prominent man in political life— or commercial or professional life either for that matter—who wouldn't do the same thing in his place? Liars and Crawlers. The managers of the Industrial Exhibition have secured a great attrac- A SNAP $25.00,$22.OO,$2O fjjjj MM .00 and $18.00 A IJj 1111 SUITS for ¥■•"»» For One Week Only. $6.00, $5.50 $5.00, $4.00 Trousers for J. OANAHER & CO. Corner Granville and '• Pender Streets SOLE AGENTS FOR "ST1LENF1T" CLOTHES Samples and blank meusu reruents sent on application. tion in obtaining the consent ofj Lord Rolierts to open the show. This will be groat news for the belly- crawlers and boot-lickers of Toronto society who are never so happy as when flattening their protuberant stomachs in the dust before some member ol the-British aristocracy or plutocracy. Moreover there will be a natural curiosity on the part of many who arc not altogether snobs to see the wholesale murderer of Boer women and children in the concentration camps and the most monumental and successful liar of his generation. It was this man's false and misleading statement "to the effect that the South African war was "over," when as a matter of fact it lasted for about a couple of years afterwards, that saved the Salisbury government from an ignominous defeat. He was repaid for this timely and serviceable lie by a grant of $500,000 of the British taxpayers' money—a scale of remuneration enough to make ordinary capitalist journalists, college professors and preachers and other professional dealers in mendacity turn green with envy While "Bobs" draws a small fortune for his share in rendering South Africa a safe field for capitalist exploitation by means of Chinese slave labor, how did the common working- class dupes who did the fighting come out of the game? Here is an extract from a Britiah paper which throws some light on that matter: "Southeast Dorset is at present overrun with tramps, says the Western Daily News, and it is reported to tbe Poole Board of Guardians that out ot the 883 vagrants who had received relief in the house during the six weeks, no less than 111 served in ""the Soutn African war. The announcement provoked cries ol "shame" on the war office, and other expressions 'of indignation. Rev. Norman Bennett said it was a scandalous shame that men who had been soldiers, and fought in South Africa, should, after they came back, be simply turned adrift on the country. Mr. Budden: What do we give the men who have been to South Africa? The Master: The same as the others. Mr. Hodden: Cold water and bread. That's something for fighting for old F.nsrland. It was decided to make a communication to the war office on the matter." Conventional Cant. As England hasn't any big war on hand just now, peace sentiments are finding their way into print. Our capitalist editors are moralizing over the horrors of the Russo-Japanese war in a strain which a fern years ago would have been considered treasonable. The pious editor «f the Globe, for instance, cants In this unctious fashion: "The horrors of Manchuria should suffice for the curious and should mightily promote the work of public- men and journals campaigning against militarism." Of course, coming from the source It does, this twaddle means nothing or less than nothing. On the very same page, by way of showing his zeal in the campaign against militarism, the editor has an article fairly reeking with fulsome sycophancv concerning Lord Roberts and his course in South Africa. Such is capitalist journalism. The man's liy- pocricy has become so much his second nature that he doesn't In the least know he is a hypocrite, or realize /.ow much more sickening is such nausea 1 Ing, semi-rellglous cant than the frank brutality of the bar-room jingo. Our Benevolent Millionaires. Negligee Shirts Nat Tm Early to Look Exclusive patterns are now here- some of the choice ones will be suij early, and some of the designs We cannot duplicate. If you appi-adj,^ unusual styles it will iotawwt ye* t0 come promptly. Flatiron Hats Tho SaurlaU Soft Hit ot tho Saaioi These Hata have been enthusianti- cally received by young men from the very first day we brought them out. Neither trouble nor expense has been saved in the production ul these goods, as you will cheerfully acknowledge upon examination. KILRQY, HORGAf. CO., LTD. Ill Carina Itraal and Rockefeller and affect the role of philanthropists. The executor* of the late Hart A. Massey are endowing the Victoria College, a Meth- odisi Institution, with $200,000 0| the plunder that the late Must*}- couldn't take away with him. Hou. Oeorge A. Cox, the sanctimonious swindler who promoted the Cycle Motor Company and ruined a large number of investors by means of unloading heavily watered stuck un the market, Is trying to make a little deal with God Almighty by contributing 950,000 of other people a money to the same object. 'lliey are wise jn their generation, these millionaires. Such "munificent" gifts are simply bribes to retain the allegiance of the Intellectual class- the college professors, journalists, literary parasites, etc, and furnish an argument to the hard-pressed upholders of capitalism. "What would our colleges, churches, libraries, etc., do without the aid of the benevolent man of millions?" Of course', the people who support the colleges control their teachings on economic ami social questions. And yet some people wonder that Socialism does nut make more rapid progress among 1 he intellectual class. Phillips Thompson 119 Indian Road. Toronto. March 28, 1905. sp HE LACKED QUALIFICATION. A recent arrival from the "cent belt" who came to' Vancouver expecting to be able to pick up numerous simoleons in the streets whenever he felt, the need of cash pressing upon him, wus somewhat rudely awakened from his pleasant dream a couple of days after his arrival in the city. Having read in the daily press most glowing accounts of the prosperity enjoyed by he who was fortunate enough to abide in British Columbia, and fully expecting to be met. upon his arrival by a plethora of wealth which would with gentle though firm insistence force itself upon him, he had neglected the wise precaution of bringing anything more then a few odd pennies with him. His liockets, as is quite the usual thing in Vancouver, became speedily emptied and there appearing to be no aimoleona lying about, the "cent- belter's" vision of speedy and easily acquired wealth suddenly vanished and he was forced to adopt the habit of many nn old residenter, of hunting a job. He dropped into the Hastings saw mill and with the easy assurance of one who feels himself duly qualified to not only success- Work Ingmen Aro Always Welcome at New Fountain Hotel 0. 8CIIWAHN, Proprietor Meals 25 cents and up. Beds, 25 cents per night. Rooms $1.50 per week and up. 29-31 Cordova St. Vancouver, B.C. fully command a good position, but to hold it as well, made his wishes known to the boss. '•'Have you a queue?" blandly inquired that worthy. Not being familiar with the vernacular of the "lorioua with the vernacular of the glorious west and thinking the boss wanted to know if he knew how to work, he confidently replied, "yes." "1 mean do you wear a pigtail?" said the man of position and brains. "Do you take me for a Chinaman?" somewhat testily replied the man from penny land. "Well, that's the only kind we employ here," was the consoling reply. A gentle but suggestive wag of the thumb and the recent arrival was dismissed from the august presence. Ah he pensively hied him from the premises the circumjacent atmosphere took on a peculiar blue tinge, o When, therefore, capital is converted into common property, into the property of all members of society, personal property is not thereby transformed into social property. It is only the social character of the property that is changed. It loses its class character.—Commuist Manifesto. o To be a capitalist, is to have not only a purely personal, but a social status in production. Capital Is a collective product, and only by the united action of many members, nay, in the last resort, only by the united action of all members of society, can it be set in motion. Capital is therefore not a personal, it is a social power.—Communist Manifesto. Some of our millionaires have taken a leaf out of the book of Carnegie 4if Opportune Vm for Reading iii,»p in snd set our splendid nnswtnitiil •I" rea ing mattt-r. Tr >nr I k Yi'hauge. Metmn two old bucks Mini •r -ivr on< new • n- E. GALLOWAY VANCOUVER. B i t ■■«! 14 Areata. 32b Albitl SUM Mail order- promptly It- <>ded t. 8, T. WALLACE'S Cash Grocery Store We also carry a full line of Furniture, on easy payments, at prices that cannot be duplicated. Kindl) inspect our stock. Cor Wottatettar Avo and Hirrio Strati VANCOUVER, B. C. OUR OWN PUBLICATIONS. "Wage-labor and Capital," alnpls copy 5 cents; 6 copies 25 cents; 15 copies 50 rents: 40 copies $1.00; 100 copies and over, 3 cents per copy. These rates Include postage to un; part of Canada or United States. THE WESTERN CLARION. Box 836 Vancouver. 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