Western Clarion
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contributor: Pritchard, W.A.
issued: 2018-11-22
issued: 1917-07-01
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note: ESTERN GLAR UT1 ^^^H?^ p The Official Organ of THEisOCIALIST PARTY OF CANAD^2 No. 794] Vancouver, B. C, July, 1917. [Month 5c We, who address you, belong to the "Working Class,, like yourselves, and have neither honeyed words nor meaningless phrases to offer you. Our reason for issuing this Manifesto is that we have a few facts to bring to your attention, verification of which can easily be made by the most casual observer. * Wherever capitalism exists—and its dominance is almost universal— etliere can be seen the greatest of anomalies,® Deepest destitution exists side by side with the most profligate luxury. Workers who produce and Masters who possess stand face to face in all countries in "the piping times of peace." In war times these anomalies are hot obliterated. If anything, they are intensified. The precipitation of the Great War upon the stage of human events called for a statement of our position thereon. Our Manifesto issued in August, 1914, sets this forth and such we desire once more to present to you. The Working Class of any country produces more wealth than it can consume, more in fact than can be consumed by both workers and masters together. This surplus either remains a drug on the home market or else must be thrown into foreign markets. But since capitalism has produced precisely similar conditions -in all countries we-find all countries engaged in commercial competition for foreign markets, i.e., a struggle to sell the surplus realised from the labor of the workers. The impossibility of satisfying the desire of every capitalist nation to ' / No Conscription ' ' '"^pTo the Workers of Canada have supreme control of trade routes, coaling stations, naval bases and other perquisites to a full command of foreign markets inevitably must result in war. The lot of the worker in "peace times" is that of a slave, receiving sufficient only to maintain himself in good working order. Allow us to draw your attention to the words or a prominent military authorit…
has type: Newspapers
spatial: Vancouver (B.C.)
identifier: AN .W3
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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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