The Western Clarion
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issued: 2016-04-04
issued: 1906-12-15
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note: tkt \ t dec n w I ST fi ft N 0fTA R10 N Published in the Interests of the Working Class Alone. metal 403, THE NEXT ACT IN WORLD DRAM A Desperate and Biter Contest With Government Ownership Next in Order Before Decks May£jbe Cleared for Final Action ki the Struggle of the Proletariat for freedom. The conflict over the distribution of labor's producf is irrepressible, and in this conflict the only vantage ground froth which any testing src- cess csn.be itxeed by either side, is the coshrol of the tools and natural resources. So thc conflict it developing itself into one' tor ownership of the means of collective production and distribution. That its conclusion utimateljr is the common ownership uf the things we depend npen in common is not in doubt. It is a question only when and how it will be. 1 The theory has not been successfully controverted, and cannot be that the development of capitalist industry ne- t< warily increases -the number of those who are unavoidably unemployed and reduces the workers to a condition more and more unbearable. For thi* very reason it is clear that tin* capitalist system must and will bc modified belore it reaches its climax. There will be a transition rather than a catastrophe. But the aggregate evils of ths transition may be great lie ownership has certain points cf immense advantage in a contest with the Socialist Party for immediate political success. Complete collectivism is not an ittue at this time, and wc cannot make it an issue. And, if we were in power to set about its establishment at once, we could hardly set about it in any other way beside that by which it is coming through the public ownership cf public utilities bv capitalist administration, though Mtndamentally different to the way it will come under Socialist administration. When we talk to the man on the street about a new system, it simply makes him tired. And when lie will listen, we do not succeed in giving him a clear and positive understanding of what we mean by t…
note: Titled The Western Clarion from June 18, 1904 to June 1, 1907; titled Western Clarion thereafter.
has type: Newspapers
spatial: Vancouver (B.C.)
is shown at: 10.14288/1.0318710
language: English
lat: 49.261111
long: -123.113889
provider: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
publisher: Vancouver, B.C. : The Western Socialist Publishing Co., Limited
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is part of: BC Historical Newspapers
source: Original Format: Royal British Columbia Museum. British Columbia Archives.
type: Text