Western Clarion
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contributor: Pritchard, W.A.
issued: 2018-11-22
issued: 1917-12-01
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note: sH"CO£jg| tf^ ff* F^ft **% r~~" ^» ESTE The Official Organ of • THE SOCIALIST PARTY OFICANADA No. 799 Vancouver, B. C, December, 1917 [Month 5c. To the ; ^Workers of Canada: We who address you have a policy distinct and different from that of any other party engaged in this election. As ' workingmen to workingmen we wish to point out certain facts with regard to conditions as they exist today. Hlpi Society as at present constituted is based upon thex ownership of the means of life—the land, mills, mines, railroads, etc.—by the capitalist class, in consequence of which the* workers* by whose labor wealth alone is produced, are enslaved. There is, therefore ,an antagonism of interests between those who possess but do not produce, and those who produce and do not possess. This antagonism can be abolished only through the emancipation of the working class from the domination of the master class, by transforming the property of the master class into productive forces controlled and administered by the whole of society for the benefit of all. The machinery of the State, including the armed forces—army navy,, police, judiciary, etc.—exists only to conserve the interest of the master class. The workers ,therefore, must organize outclass conscious lines for the purpose of capturing the powers of government, so that these forces may be converted from an instrument of oppression into the agent of emancipation. DOMINION ELECTION MANIFESTO Since all political parties are the expression of certain class interests, and as the interests of the workers is opposegU'to the interests of all sections of the master class, the party whose object is working class emancipation must be hostile to every other party. _The Socialist Party of Canada, therefore, enters this election cam-, paign for the purpose of giving expression to the war it must/ wage against all other political parties, whether alleged LABOR or avowed- by CAPITALIST. That was the position put forward by the party three years…
has type: Newspapers
spatial: Vancouver (B.C.)
identifier: AN .W3
is shown at: 10.14288/1.0374233
language: English
lat: 49.261111
long: -123.113889
provider: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
publisher: Vancouver, B.C. : The Socialist Party of Canada
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