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OWNED AND CONTROLLED BY. THE S. P. OF C. IN THE INTERESTS" OJE: WORKING CLASS The Official Organ offhe SOCIALIST PARTY OF " 1- :"1 CANADA ■;■■- - laweiea-.'WM NO. 773 VANCOUVER^ B.C., SEPTEMBER, 1915 PER YEAR $I.OO Historical Significance of Magna Charta and Burning of John Huss. - During the past month or two centennial celebrations have been held of two historic events which record fundamental economic and political changes: The signing of the Magna Charta and the Burning of John Huss. The former represented the triumph of the English barons over a centralized political power, and constituted nothing toward the advancement*; of the socially submerged class, our Industrial progenitors— the feudal serfs. | It is, nevertheless, commemorated with pomp and bombast as the foundation of all British liberties. At large public gatherings, in the Sunday News supplements, and in magazines the slaves hear and read of the far reaching benefits of this so-called revolutionary document. No praise is considered too lavish, nor have historians, jurists, and orators spared any when commenting upon the GREAT CHARTA, the wage workers joining in the anvil chorus with as much knowledge of what it means as "the -bull-frog by the puddle's rim. Prone as slaves are to rejoice over matters ©f no interest to them, there are few historical events which offer less occasion for celebration on their part than the Magna Charta. _And there are few which offer greater opportunities to the serious student of history to appraise orthodox historians at their real value.' In Two Parts. By J. D. Harrington. Part I.—Magna Charta At the close of the 12th century Europe had set definite limits to the Moslem menace. By virtue of the Saracen conquests the Papal Hierarchy had become the dominating political force, and was about to be exalted to the zenith of its power and fame under the leadership of Innocent III." The Crusades by drawing the kings .and lesser [liege-lords away from their vassals for protracted periods, and by levying heavy taxes, had aroused in the barons deep resentment and also had developed a -strong sense of independence. The disastrous crusade which occurred around this time resulted in the capture of Richard I. of England by his enemy Duke Leopold of Austria^ Leopold sold his captive to the Emperor Henry VI., who in turn demanded ransom from the prisoner's subjects. Richard, released upon a part payment, refused to pay the balance when, he had an army at his back. As soon as he had secured himself and pardoned his ambitious brother John, who had seized the Crown in his absence, he made war on France, in which country he died in battle a few years later. Upon John fell his mantle, who while not a warrior of Richard's type, was determined to recover the lost provinces in. France. The ruinous taxes incurred by the Crusaders, Richard's ransom, and the French wars, continued to oppress the English barons during John's futile forages. The people of the north, having no interest in the conquest of Normandy, became greatly incensed, and when John instituted his enquiry as to the amount of men and treasure that could be raised by the -most grinding taxation they openly revolted. In the meantime the Pope had appointed Stephen Langdon head of the English Church much to John's annoyance, who considered Langdon a spy of the French King. King Stephen of France was ordered to depose John when the Pope's appointee was refused. Stronger monarchs than Britain's had bowed before this Pope's command, and John reconsidered his decision. From this brief summary it is evident that a monarchy was a troublesome luxury, demanding sacrifices, engendering further strife, and rendering no compensation- also that a protective centralized force,- cheaper, more effective, and much less personal appeared in the Roman Catholic Church. When man becomes conscious of his power to overthrow he neve* tol- . crates institutions which inflict in jury while conferring no benefit. The Northern barons, met ad elected Robert Fitzwalter Mar'cehal, of the "Army of God and the Holy Church" and marched on London, whose citizens welcomed them Then were the "Articles of the Barons" presented to King John; these form the basis of the MAGNA CHARTA. After some delay a meeting was convened at Runnytnede on June 15th, 1215, and the "Basis of Human Liberties" was signed. Archbishop Langdon was the leader of the malcontents, and, consequently, clauses appear in the Magna Charta not found in the original articles. |1|1 The "corner stone of civilization" first declared the Church of England to be free and accords its members certain privileges. Then follows a long list of sins which kings bad apparently indulged in much to the harm of the barons. §||| Excessive inheritance fees were forbidden. The King could not interfere with a Baron and Ward, nor yet in the case of a widow within the Baron's domain. The King had been accustomed to counter-balance a powerful subject by forcing widows and wards who had property at strategic points of the powerfu1 one.'s realm, castles, forests, rivers, harbors, etc., to marry nobles whom he could depend upon. After these six or seven" chapters, a few more dealing with Jewish moneylenders cam be found. Then follows several securing knights, who must perform service, against being compelled to supply money in lieu thereof. Also several concerning kings having no right to demand more than is customary in the way of taxes.jprThe estates of felons Were to be turned over to the liege lord of the culprit, although those guilty of treason had their estates confiscated by the king. Freedmen were not to be imprisoned except according to the law and' ''after trial by their peers. Hostages held for the good conduct of certain subjects were to be restored and not slain. Serfs were not to be killed without good reason. Thus runs the great Charter before which we prostrate ourselves; granting nothing not already or THE WESTERN CLARION formerly in force, and curbing for the moment the evolving national state. Every consideration was in the interests of the Church and Overlords, having a distinct bearing upon the 12th and 13th centuries and totally foreign^ to"" our time. King John refused to ac-. knowledge it even after signing it, and the Pope declared it null and void. The Barons invited the King of France to be their Overlord. * The death of John, however, ended for a time the struggle between the Barons and King in England, a struggle general in Europe at that time and for centuries to come until the economic need for a National State arose. In dealing with the Burning of John Huss two centuries later we will see society stagnant before feudal forms, and new social forces striving for existence and expression, compelling men to overthrow their most sacred institutions. This will be dealt with in the next issue. SOCIALISM RESTATED By H. Mayo Bartholemew V. The Nemesis of Nations Our analysis of the existing 'economic order has revealed to us, in no uncertain manner, the cause of deepest destitution side by side With superabundant riches. We have wfound that the v/orkers are wage- slaves, without property; completely dependent upon a few "thieving swine" for a bare subsistence. Is this deplorable state of affairs to continue ad lib? Are the wealth producers to remain the born thralls of those who toil not, neither spin, but who are richer by far than Solomon? Those questions involve us in a brief consideration of human history, since the past must act as the guide of to-morrow. Such a glance into the past, no matter how brief, will reveal to us the truth of Engel's famous words: "In every historical epoch the pre vailing mode of economic produce tion, and the social organisation'necessarily following from it, form the basis upon which is built up, and from which alone can be explained, the political and intellectual history of that epoch." It is now a commonplace of historical knowledge that man, before the dawn of history, lived under Communism. All through Savagery and Barbarism but one common condition prevailed; no man possessed greater access to the means of wealth production than any other man. Indeed social evolution is divisible into two fundamental periods, first, Gentile Society; then Political Society. The first of these great historical divisions differ from the existing social order (and all simillar political social systems) in so far as there was no such thing as private property in the means of wealth production. Slaves captured in war, which were the common possession of the tribe, seem to have paved the way for exchange, and money, and (finally) private property in land and tools. This extension of exchange, and private property resulted in— chattel-slavery. Once the means of wealth production became an exclusive private monopoly the mass of the people became the slaves of th*e monopolists. Thus there arose the world-empires of Babylonia, and Egypt, and Rome: 'empires founded upon the wealth produced by millions of . hapless slaves. Springing from free associations of independent husbandmen of ancient Italia, and! .gaining renewed strength from greater and greater triumphs, the Roman power hushed the world in peace. And what an empire! due as it was to the generations of human cattle who toiled hopelessly on, producing wealth for others, and 1subsistence for themselves. Rome became a vampire sucking riches by tribute from the ends of the earth until the luxurious ease of the few and the wretched want of the many paved the way for Goth marauders and—Feudalism. Under Feudalism the feudal lord possessed land in return for certain II military services. Under him were serfs and villeins. These serfs, though liable to ill-teatment and even murder at the hands of their ■ lord, yet possessed some right to their toil. Thus they were permitted in the majority of cases to work so many days for themselves as against an equal or greater number of days that they were compelled to devote to tillage, forestry and similar services for their lord. But the enclosures of common lands j the confiscations of church property; the discoveries of new markets; and the inventions of Watt and Stephenson sounded the knell of Feudalism. The producton for the local market fades into production for the national and (finally) world market. 'Trades .{become (interdependent ; and then springs into existence an elaborate and delicate fabric of credit. The feudal lord- gives placeto the modern financial magnate; the serf to the present-day wage-slave. We are landed in short in that great maelstrom of capitalist production, which, as we have seen, is "the greatest and most complete organisation of robbery and slavesry known to history." And now this economic system is giving way like a pack of cards; and soon in the pregnant phrase of Marx, "the expropriators are expropriated." I submit that Socialism is increasingly called for by forces that are themselves augmenting in a geometric ratio. Just as Feudalism gave place to Capitalism; so Capitalism in its turn,-must give place to Socialism. Or, as Marx himself so ably tells us: "No social order ever disappears before the productive forces, for which there is room in it have been developed; and new higher relations of production never appear before the material conditions of their existence have matured in the womb of the old society. " The "material conditions" of Socialism have matured in the womb of Capitalism. What are those "material conditions" upon which Karl Marx and scientific socialists place jso> much stress ? In the first place there is ample verification of Marx's prediction of the "polarisation" of riches and poverty. On every hand do we sec trusts, and capitalist combinations, oorae of these combinations, (such as the Standard Oil or International Steel Trusts) have assumed colossal dimensions. An American writer of note declared recently m the "New York Journal of Commerce' that the United States were: j j Closely approximating- to a condition in which our mineral properties, our larger manufacturing interests, and our transportation facilities will be controlled by a millionaire proprietorship, relatively small in numbers, it is true, but irresistible in its influence over the Government, the legislative power, and the industries of the nation." The power of the Rothschilds is enormous. Every Government of Europe is in the debt of this financial house to the tune of well over $6,000,000,000. More than once has this small powerful group of cosmopolitan financiers stood between the world and war—because -war at that particular moment was inimical to its interests. Even the "Ency- l'opaedia Britannica <says in jalarm that Europe is "hopeless in this financial network.' j And these financial magnates are growing in wealth and in power. Each year is witness to the slow elimination of competition, and the growth of monopoly. Side by side with this industrial combination and its "polarisation of wealth," do we find the growth of poverty and the deepening of destitution. The history of the last few years is pregnant with prophesy. The world has witnessed strikes and lock-outs, and "labor unrest," and sabotage in abundance. Never in economic history were the masses in such unrest. And this because "the rich are getting richer, whilst the poor are getting poorer." (Chiozza Money). This revolt against bad conditions, has, for the moment, been absorbed by the pomp of arms. But the industrial crisis and collapse of credit which will inevitably follow this war will give it re-birth and then ! And this polarisation of riches and poverty is increasing by leaps and by bounds, until, in the not distant future; we shall be the slaves of a small but powerful clique of cosmopolitan financiers. That is to say the transformation from individual to social production will have become complete, but unaccompanied by pie modification of individual into social exchange and appropriation of the product. In other words, the international social production and social exchange of articles" of use without profit is the next step in .social evolution. Nor should we forget that this process is being hastened by those constant industrial crises and financial panics which are so characteristic of the existing economic system. These periodic "booms" and "depres sions'' of trade . are widespread in their effects; affecting, as they do, every nation and every trade. And while these crises pass—pass —pass! and come again uncontrolled and uncontrollable by the dominant class of our day, yet, unknown to to them, the corrective is developing out of the conditions of the time. Each successive crisis tends to the further polarisation of wealth and pauperisation- of the workers. The smaller organisms in -every department of trade are being ruthlessly: crushed out. Cosmopolitan financiers rule the world with a tyranny far transcending the kingly monopolies against which our ancestors fought so well. Thus do we find that the wheels of economic progress roll on crushing the noblest and the worst indifferently in their course. Indeed the economic progress of humankind has been wholly unconscious and helpless; without purpose and method. From Communism to capitalism the evolution of society has been wholly unconscious. And in every historical epoch economic inequality has been the Nemesis of the Nations. The duty of the Socialist is clear. He it is who'must direct human evolution. Socialism is the reaction of society upon its own institutions. The institutions mould society, and ssociety proceeds to remake these THE WESTERN CLARION 'institutions. Such institutions, hitherto undirected except by the logic of time, will be directed by society for great ends and noble purposes. We see capitalism breaking down of its own weight, and in its womb is conceived that social order which we Socialists will find: "Nearer to "the mind's desire." Next article: "The Soul and Socialism." Religion and Superstition KIFAWA., QUE., August 17, 1915. Ed. Clarion Apropos of your timely article on "Tommy's Love Fruit," the attached may be of interest to you. Surely your correspondent must have been wrong in stating that effort was being made to provides homes for said fruit when there was already at hand such a ready method of deposit. You will note that "no estimate of those that have gone through the sewer can be made" for the obvious reason that Dr. Moore and his friends were attending purity (!!!) congresses. Cuttings' are from one 'issue "Toronto Globe" Saturday, August 7th. Yours in revolt, , C. CHARLES BODIES OP 200 BABIES POUND IN SEWERS Works Commissioner Tells of Terrible Slaughter of Newly-horn Babies in TORONTO Human life has been destroyed in wholesale quantities in Toronto during the past two years. The city sewers have during that time given up the bodies of 200 prematurely born babies. The awesome information was given in a statement by Works Commissioner- Harris yesterday. Even 200 is a small estimate of the number of slaughtered innocents, as the number "found is only those caught in the screens at the sewage disposal plant at Morley Avenue. No estimate of those that have gone through can be made. The Commissioner of Works stated that the discoveries were reported to the Chief Coroner, with a view to the matter being taken up by the police. However, such a course was considered useless, as there were no clues presented. The sewage comes from all parts of the city, and therefore it would be impossible to ascertain where the bodies were deposited. The statement means that at least, 100 babes are destroyed a year in Toronto. The police, however, have nothing to work upon and the chief coroner can do nothing. The present average number found shows little decrease from any time during the two years. MOST WICKED CITY SITS AT GOLDEN GATE Dr. T. Albert Moore's Opinion After Investigation at San Prancisco (Canadian Press Despatch) Winnipeg, Aug. 6.—The most wicked and vice ridden city on the whole American continent is San Francisco, in the opinion of Rev. Dr. T. Albert Moore, Toronto, General Secretary of the Department of Temperance and Moral Reform of the Methodist Church of Canada, who is in Winnipeg for a few days. Dr. Moore bases his con_ elusions on an investigation he has just concluded, along with other prominent social reformers, into the vice conditions of San Francisco. Dr. Moore attended the Purity Congress. * If one knows little or nothing about a subject and is aware of his limitations, but desirous of obtaining some sympathetic order of facts pertaining to the subject, he will usually apply himself to the Ency- .^opasdia Britannica. Religion is a subject that the average man is little troubled about, that is to say, he feels that; here at least, the ground is firm under his feet. The psychology for his cock-sureness need not now be gone into, but some day or other his proclivity toward questioning everything under the sun comes uppermost and his native curiosity sets him investigating. If the mental chloroform has not numbed -his brain he learns something. All subjects are studied genetically .from their historical side, and are traced through all the complexity of their development, from their genesis or beginnings to their present accomplishment. From the study of the facts these fall into systems and orders under any attempt at classification. Thus we find that the intellectual who handles religion for the Brit annica (and the Britannica is wont to secure the best and most erudite expert to handle each subject) starts out with two major classifications: 1.—-Nature Religions and II. Ethical Religions. Nature Religion he sub-divides into four heads but finds that the Ethical Religions require but two subdivisions. His first division, Polyzoic Naturalism, or belief that inanimate objects were filled with a multiplicity of imaginary animals^ he regards as hypothetical but holds that this, experience {muslt.be postulated as the foundation from which the next step in development must necessarily have been evolved. The second division he calls Poly- demonism 'or belief in a multiplicity of demons or devils with magic at their disposal. This is the religion of savages. Hoodoo, taboo and fetish are part of the culture but animism is theWmain characteristic. ComteDgin defining animism says "The primitive form of religious consciousness conceives all external bodies as animated by a life analogous to his own." As survivals of past cultures are to be found all around us a few examples will help us to recognise that many of our neighbors have not advanced in their superstitions beyond the cultural stage of the earliest and most ignorant of the savages. By some it' is considered unlucky to pass under a ladder, to begin a journey or any important work on a.Friday, to sit thirteen at a table. Others have a hunch to try their luck or they may carry a luck-penny or keep a mascot. The retiring Roblin administration, sworn to, by Sir Rodomontade, gravely deliberated on the early dissolution of the Norris administration if it were to take office on the-thirteenth of the month or on the following day which was a Friday— and this in the year of grace 1915. Third on the list comes Thierian- thropic Polytheism, meaning belief in, and worship of, superhuman beings, represented as combining the forms of man and beast. These religions are called Purified or Organized—magical religions; purified because the demons had now been changed into gods, and organized because of having acquired approved rites and ceremonies and a priesthood distinguished by a garb, such as W. A. P.'s dog collar hitched at the back like a mule's, the shovel- board hat and the old woman's mother hubbard. He jgives us as examples of the purified (unorganized) religions: Religions of the Japanese, Dravidians, Old Finns, Goths, the ancient Arabs, the ancient Pel- asgi, the old Italian peoples, the Etruscans (?), the old Slavs, and of the Organised Religions of the half civilized peoples of America, the ancient Chinese, the religion of the Egyptians. The fourth and last sub-head is called Anthropomorphic Polytheism or worship of beings in human form but of superhuman power and half (ethical* nature. The ancient Per sians, the Vedic Indians, the later Babylonians and Assyrians, the advanced Semites, the Kelts, Germans, Hellenes, Greeks and Romans make up this list. We now come to his second main Division, Ethical Religions or spiritualistic, ethical religions of revela- ton. The first of the two divisions is National Nomistic or Nomotheis- tic religious communions, deriving the name from the name of the founder. Tavism, Confucianism Bramanism, Jainism, Mazdeism, Moseism, Judaism, comprises this list, but it is pointed out that Judaism and Moseism are already passing out of this stage into the next higher which he calls Universalistic Religious Communions. This group in- . ciudes only Christianity, Buddhism and Islam, with the latter partaking, of the nationalistic and nomistic elements of the previous group and being partly to be classed in each. No system of classification of religions is at all satisfactory as is explained by the author of the Encyclopaedia article in the following ex-: tract: "In the phenomenon of religious development, thus briefly sketched, the different stages constantly shade off into one another, and any one of the higher seems to contain elements of all the rest. This is the great difficulty of classification. All religions even the most conservative and traditional are in constant flux. They either advance or decay. In these processes which do not take place, in equal rates, in different cases, all kinds of Survivals .remain lodged and embarrass every attempt to fix the place of a specified religion in any general course of development." We will now leave this author, pausing only to reproduce his favored definition of religion, quoted froh^J. Q. Fraser of the" G-olden Bough: "A propitiation or conciliation Of powers superior to man which are belfeved to direct and control the course of nature and of human life."/. ,.jg. The social psychologists handle this whole question in a much more masterly manner. According to them religion and superstition are synonyms. Animism, anthropomorphism and teleology are the three members of the series. Animism is the characteristic of the savage culture, anthropomorphism that of barbarism and civilizatijon. Teleology lis the prevailing vice of the modern scientist and the pseudo-socialists as well as of the other half-baked thinkers. The nations of Christendom were habituated for about six centuries to handicraft production. They owned their own tools and designed and moulded their raw material into products. | Out of this habituation arose the doctrine of final causes, the ends that things were intended to subserve in nature. Religion tamed down the formidable, difficult god into the benign artificer and designer of the universe. Metaphysics followed, in the same bent and all the scientists became teleological in their inferences and conclusions. According to Darwin God created a few organisms, the rest followed; Tyndal wrote matter with a big M; Huxley had three categories or forms of reality, energy,, matter and consciousness; Wallace combined scientific data with theological moonshine; Loeb accounts . for gods, even, through physical f|and i chemical changes in matter; Lodge postulates a second world, a world of spiritual reality,while with Haeckel chemistry and physics become creative and matter is! endowed with sensation and purpose. In the presence of all .these blind leaders of the blind how is the poor working stiff to pull himself up by the boot straps? Still there is corn in Egypt. The. worker in mine, mill, machine shop, railway and factory is being discip-• lined by a, new habitation^' Stress strain and thrust, mass and velocity . and fpr.ces in contact with insensate matter and with definite results flowing therefrom are rapidly giving him new and entirely^materialisft©^ concepts of relationsfiand things, without a vestige of superstition in their make-up. Efficiency alone counts. Is' a thing serviceable or disserviceable to the society as a whole ? Every worker an efficiency engineer in the large and away with parasites, preachers and bunko-steer- ers of every brand and description, and above all a realisation that so long as animistic cabinets and judges, anthropomorphic emperors and kings, iand teleological predatory strategists of the divine Bear strain, remain in possession of the reins of government and the seats of the mighty, they are going to make a fearful mess of the common affairs of mankind. John Barton. Ph. D., Ponoka University. SOME REASONS | FOR CONSCRIPTION Editor of the Star: Owing to the very natural and entirely creditable reluctance of young Canadians to fight in a quarrel which is no concern of theirs at the bidding of a lot of self-seeking politicians, servile editors, and war-crazy pulpiteers, there is a good deal of talk these days about conscription. In the end, no doubt, the militarists will have their way, and it will come. If so,"r for one shall not be a bit sorry, for several reasons. In the first place, compulsory,military service will enable the public to. clear their minds of cant by completely destroying the tradition of the "freedom, justice," and respect for the rights of minorities supposed to be secured by British institutions. Secondly, it may, if any thing can, help to crystalize to some practical end the strong, but hitherto mainly inarticulate under-current of sentiment which is opposed to imperialism and all participation in European wars. Hitherto the big business interests and the jingoes have had it all their own way, because the mass of Canadians, while brave > enough physically, are moral cowards. They are afraid of ranging themselves against "public opinion," as voiced by the .representatives and exponents of the views' of the ruling class. Above all things they are terribly afraid of being denounced as disloyal, unpatriotic or irreligious. Sooner than risk censure on this score they will submit to any ordinary form of imposition, \ from being virtually blackmailed into subscribing for patriotic funds and machine guns to being forbidden to toboggan or play ball on Sunday. Possibly the threat of conscription may jolt them out of the tdmely acquiescent attitude which has enabled the militarist ballyhoos to boast of the "unanimity " with which Canadians support the war policy. Well, "it's a long road that has no turn," and as surely as headache follows a night's debauch there will be a strong reaction against Imperialism when the people come to their sober senses. Conscription would help it along.1 PHILLIPS THOMPSON. Qakville, Aug. 16 "Toronto Star" Aug. 25th, 1915. 1 Help the "Clarion" : >\. ||j by sending your PRINTING ~fl| to us. 6 THE WESTERN CLARION The Western Clarion <T«.M»mliw»aL> $1.00 0.50 1.00 Published by the SociaUst Party of Canada at the office of the Western Clarion, Avenue Theatre Building Main St., Vancouver, B. C. Subscription Bates: Per Year Six Months Foreign.^ Per Year Bundle Bates: Five to Twenty 2 %c per copy, per 1SSU6 Over Twentyfive, 2c per copy, per issue. A change of address must be accompanied with Ten cents as it costs us that amount to make the necessary alterations in the mailing list. Advertising Rates on application. In making remittance by cheque, exchange must be added. Address all communication to "W. - A. Pritchard; Managing-Editor, Avenue Theatre Bldg., Vancouver, B. C. If you receive this paper it is paid for. SAFETY VALVES THAT J DON'T ACT 1 John Reid is not on trial; it is the Socialist movement. The powers that be are somewhat disturbed because the Socialists of Red Deer district had the audacity to nominate a candidate to contest the Federal constituency. They are aware that the farmers of Alberta can no longer be fooled with such false issues as "cheap money" or ./'reciprocity.*' They know~that the emptiness of their spring promises is now apparent to a great number of their esrtwhile blind supporters. "Sunny Alberta" the "granary of the empire"- has lived up to its reputation and a bumper crop is being reaped. But alas! What those "reptile socialists" ,predicted has happened|||The Law of Val-ue, the Nemesis of the Capitalist system, has determined that the farmers, long arduous labors and abundant products shall also be his scourge, as falling wheat prices have already announced that returns are' in inverse ratio to amount produced. This eondicion is responsible for the interest the farmers a*re displaying in the Socialist Movement; they will drive from 15 to 20 miles to attend a socialist meeting, and as far as their limited means will allow subscribe to its literature EDITORIAL PAGE The old party politicians have no words that can avail; conditions cry loudly against the inadequacy of the Capitalist system, and the striking and startling contradictions it presents defy reconciliation at their hands. Baffled and beaten they vent their spleen on the Socialist propagandists, hoping to stem the tide of revolt by throwing them into jail. The answer to such tactics is de finite and unmistakable; the Mo Te ment in the province never before presenting so united a front as it has since these petty persecutions were instigated. Go to it ye politicians! Your foolish light against the inevitable but accelerates the speed of its oncoming. The Revolutionary Socialist Mo'vement ends when its generator and source of strength— Capitalism—is no more. J. R. K. OUR NEW PLATFORM AND OTHER LITTLE THINGS After our literary effort of last -month, in which we attempeted to give a few reasons for having some definite line to which we could hew with respect to the question, of religion, we imagined that at least a return to the attack would be made by our "objector" on the points gone over. That a perusal of his letter will convince any one caring to investigate the matter that he answered himself without any further parlance being necessary is to us a foregone conclusion. Now, as can be seen by reference to another one of our columns, no reply, of any moment, is accorded us on. the religious question, he being content to leave it|k) those interested That he should be the only one, as yet, to make any real objections to the stand taken on religion, is evidence sufficiently plain to us that those interested are content to leave it alsj§fj But the come-back is along another line—a "more" important matter, and one^that transpired be- fore^the one concerning which he seemed so terribly upset. This he would have tackled sooner but was convinced that "those interested" would challenge the point. That they did not do so is taken by him to mean that they overlooked the matter, because, forsooth, the barest mention of it was ^made in the "Western Clarion." To us it means that they are content to leave this matter also as it now stands, and reflects favorably upon the propaganda that has been dealt out in the past few years. That J. H. B. is still dissatisfied with affairs is sufficient warrant for us to continue our argumentum ad hominem a little further. The clause altered in the Platform of the S. P. of C, upon the suggestion of Rossland Local would, in the opinion of our strenuous "objector." "undoubtedly carry, for it is a distinct improvement on the previous reading.' I For which praises be! But the alteration (or elimination) of the clause on the Class Struggle is an act of sacrilege on the part of the present D. E. C, for it shows a desire to satisfy "radical reformers" (ye gods) and presents a ''sample of non-revolutionary nebulosity that is a peach" Now we know! The old wording re the Class Struggle in the party platform was a bulwark against reform, according to J. H. B. According to us the latter portion of the old platform was a1 bulwark for a reform. What Peter- gained Paul had to pay. The reason this should never have been tam- peredVith is "that the Platform was; drawn up by the Party in Convention." Just so! Also in that convention of serious minded old women," reformers of the English and ' Stubbs type placed that paragraph of meaningless jargon about what the party should do when in office, etc., etc., put the wreath of maple leaves (to show that*it 'was a Canadian outfit) on the top of the Charter, and acted as such hacks and re- j formers of capitalism can. only be expected to act. It is to laugh! But the Class Struggle as laid, down by the S. P. of C. in the past, is the test between a reformer and a revolutionist. eFunny it did not keep the .reformers from getting their good work in within^ the party. J. H. B. gives his explanation of what constitutes the class struggle which, in the past, '' has placed the party on a plane far above that of any other on this continent, or elsewhere, with the exception of the S. P. G. B." The mention of the name of the S. P. G. B., in this connection gives good cause for another smile (see S. P. G. B. Platform). We do not want to enter into a long dissertation on the Class Struggle at this point, but* we would like to show how unscientific our "objector's" reasoning is. The philosopher and economist of Soho has now been confounded by the latest critical contributor to the WESTERN CLARION; When Marx stated (Communist Manifesto, p. 12, paper edition) that "the history of ALL hitherto existing society is the history, of class struggles" we presume he was talking from the rearside of his neck. When he qualified that statement thus: "Freeman and slave, patrician and plebian, lord and serf, guild- master and journeyman, in a word, oppressor and oppressed, stood in constant opposition to one another, carried on an uninterrupted, now hidden, now open fight, a fight that each time ended, either in a revolutionary reconstruction of society at large, or in the common ruin of«. the contending classes," he was not analysing political history as it is; a concatenation-of class struggles, he was merely filling up space. So we are led to understand. If, H J. H. B. contends, the class Struggle is the conscious effort of enlightened workers to obtain control of-the machinery of government, then no such struggle exists until we become conscious of it. Shades of Dietzgen! Or again, until there ^sprang into existence in Canada a coherent and conscious striving after the reins of power (we will say a party like the S. P. of C.) there was no Class Struggle in this country. That is an absurdity. To retain the old reading of the clause on the Class Struggle would be to bring us to the ridiculous position adopted by. "the old timers" of maple-leaf fame that "the irrepressible conflict of interests ". is rapidly culminating into a straggle for the possession of the reins, of government, the capitalist to hold, the worker to secure, by ' political action. This is the Class Struggle." The Class Struggle would not, in such a case, exist until the conflict of interests culminated, in which case, again, it would disappear the very moment it appeared. This is the bed-rock upon which the "old timers" builded a philos- .ophy great and impregnable. ^ Nebulosity! We have well said. If the only objector to the way the present D. E. C. is acting on these matters is our friend, J. H. B., and such would seem to be the case up to the., time of- writing, no serious trouble threatens us in our actions. W. A. P. EFFICIENCY During recent years a strange phenomenon has N sprung ' up in our midst; a word has achieved a world-wide prominence, and a principle, older than the human race, has been consciously grasped and applied to capitalist industry. Efficiency, in all branches of production, has become a watchword, of capitalism, and experts, specially trained in "detecting the wasted effort of the slave, are drawing huge salaries for cutting down misdirected efforts to a minimum. Throughout all Nature the organism which can accomplish the most with the least effort; which can gain the greatest amount of nutriment for the least labor expended, is the or; ganism which is most successful in living and propagating its kind. The same applies to all institu-* tions under capitalism. The business with the greatest efficiency and the most labo^-saving machinery will succeed where others fail. Organisation is a necessary factor in production. The Socialist Parties -of the various countries of the world are in the same position as any other institution under Capitalism.. In order to exist they must perform their function with the least friction and the greatest efficiency possible^To accomplish this it is necessary that they should be organised in such a manner that, their work will not be misdirected and lost; that all waste be cut to that last irreducible minimum which characterises the most up-to-date shops engaged in wealth production; THEY MUST BE* EFFICIENT. But organisation is not the aim and end of the party in itself. The main function of any Socialist Party is to educate the workers to* a realisation of their class position in society. This propaganda may be carried on in many ways: Speakers, Pamphlets, Papiers, etc., but, || is necessary that the active Socialists of this or any other country should understand that no haphazard method will ever build up a party strong enough to prevail in the impending struggle. To route speakers from coasts to coast, with meetings every night on the way; the organisation of advertising methods and machinery, the tabulation of all sympathisers, are a few of the problems which confront the class-conscious workers and call for a high degree of efficiency. Study your masters virtues and take the good out of them, adapt them to your needs; EDUCATE} ORGANISE. W. B. M. PRESS GUARANTEE FUND. Guarantees previously acknowledged ill 178.50 Single Subscriptions: ' C. M. O'Brien .. .;|||> Salll 2'00 Collection, Local Victoria 2.50 Periodic Guarantees: Local Amherst $3. for 8 mts ,24.00 "Barti" $1. for.12 mts.-^. .. . ... . J&3^4-g,00 Local. Vane. $.2. for 6 mts.* . . . . :^^^n2.00 St. Catherines Local $1. for 12 mts.-;3j|l2.00 $243.00, Of these guarantees the following have been made good and the money is now in the hank: Previously: Receipts acknowledged 28.50 C. M. O'Brien J||.-. e. .■ .'.■ 2.00 Local Amherst 3.00 "Barti" "ItS. . . ..'. '."#:'. ... 1.00 Local Vancouver No. 1 jfe;. . 4.00 Local Victoria (Collection) ...... 2.50 F. J. Mchey '• • • Ifv ••• 12.00 Art Glennie J?!!!! r-00 Local St. Catherines .'. 1.00 $55.00 Many of these guarantors have stated that without doubt they will give more, and for a longer period, but have stated their minimum guarantee in this table. 8 THE WESTERN CLARION THE AFTERMATH." An analysis ot the Election Results in Winnipeg Irom a Socialist Standpoint. Amazement fills the minds of the slaves in North Winnipeg at the re- suits of the victory of their champion at the polls in the election a few days ago. One cannot help being amused at the rhapsodies of the capitalist press concerning the victory of Aid. Kigg. "The Telegram" (Con.) gives his life 1 history and tells us of the times when he worked for their firm as a" lowly bookbinder and how he has risen in the world to his present high station in society solely by his merits. The "Free Press" (Lib.) recounts to us his many fights for Labor, and tells us with great satisfaction that he has proven himself a "safe" representative of his class in the City Council, and will no doubt do the same in the Legislature. The "Tribune" (Ind., Lib., Prog., Dem., Lib.-Lab., etc., etc.. organ) goes into a series of fits of delight in an endeavour to prove that ancient chestnut of theirs that the end of the old political, parties iis tnigh and that Independents (whatever they may be) are about to assume control of the Legislatures of the civilized world. To-day, however, a copy of "Canadian Finance" was handed to me and in this purely capitalist journal again I was met with exclamations of delight at the victory of our ex- comrade. No wonder the slaves who voted him in are amazed, they expected that the capitalist, class of Manitoba would tear their hair and that their knees would shake when the dread news of the victory of a Social-Democrat was heralded forth. Instead of this the delight of our masters is pitiful, their press publishes the pictures of all the "leaders" in the Social Democratic move* ment and their sky pilots praise God for the new M. P .P. Even I, the cheap.personality-using critic of the S. P. of C, whom-the Social Democrats loye (yea as you love the squalling kid in the next flat), yes, even I, have' been congratulated by the petty bourgeios with whom I come in contact in my business and social ine for having such a respectable individual, in '•our|lf organisation, i'ney never knew he was a Socialist beiore, and it only we were all patriotic and loved Jesus they might become Socialises themselves. However, let us look into this Nortn Winnipeg vote and make a cool analysis of the whole thing. In tne first place we have the endorsa- tion of the L.K.C. given to Rigg and i^eacli in North Winnipeg and Bay- ley in St. James, and the appeal printed by them and sent to the electors, in which they affirm their satisfaction at the fact that both the old parties are now Labor Parties or to quote their own manifesto: '' both the capitalist parties have taken into their \ platforms principles which Labor has long contended for." They -then go on to ask the people to support their endorsees to see that tiiose measures go upon the statute books as soon as possible. The fact that thisMremarkable document is signed by such notorious anti-Socialists as A. W. Puttee, R. S. Ward, and] W. J. Bartlett, not to forget our olap friend Colonel, or is it General, J.! W. Johnston, who is now "doing" his bit for "our" dear land, shows to the Reds of Canada where we get off at, and also clarifies the air regarding the delight of the capitalist press at Rigg's victory. The manifesto of the S. D. P. is also a pitiful thing from a Socialist standpoint. It carefully omits the the word Socialism, and the only anti or semi-anti-eapitalist thing in it is "The Social. Democratic Party asks for the earth and all that therein is" for the people who ..toiL Who the hell they are going to. ask for it puzzles me! They make no demands for anything but have that ancient wheeze in, which they, like all other anti-Socialist Parties, "pledge ourselves to support every measure which ^ads in the direction of easing the burdehsof the poor." I am informed by one of the few Socialists in the S. D. P. that the election committee had so many immediate demands on their first "manifesto that they were" afraid their printing bill was going to be too high, so they cut them all out, and according to their new platform Rigg is merely going to ask for the -"earth and all that therein is." I do hope he says please, eli! Now where did Rigg get his vote? Was it a Socialist vote? Those are the questions being asked by the members of both the S. D. P. and the S. P. in Canada. ^.t poll No. 3 Beech got 73, Rig^g 35; at No. 14 Beech 56, Rigg 42; No. 19 Beech 105, Rigg 86; No. 24 Beech 108, Rigg 55; at No. 31 Beech 145, Rigg 46; and at No. 32 Beech 127, Rigg 64. Now no one can say they are both Socialist votes with such a discrepancy, and on looking into the matter what do we find, merely that those are; the Jewish Tolls, and that the Jews voted for Green and Beech; and its a cinch that Beech'would not have got their vote if the Jew had been on his ticket. Now at practically all the other polls Rigg had a majority over Beech, but at Poll No. 4 we find Rigg 77 Beech 50; No. 6 Rigg 7.1, to ,45; No. 7 Rigg 116 to 82; No. 8 Rigg 27 to 15; No. 9 Rigg 127 to 86; No. 10, 11, 12, 21, 22 and 23 practically the same thing. Now sjon examination we note that this vote is Rigg and Lowery, and that it comes from the central Europeans, Ruthenians, Germans, Russians, etc., who are notoriously anti-stemite. Of course the Socialist vote has no doubt increased as it has done in Centre Winnipeg, where Armstrong j on the S. P. of C. 's new platform increased his vote from 6 per cent, to 10 r>er cent, of the total vote polled, j The North Winnipeg Local of the S. P. of C. are starting an active series of meetings and we can assure the Reds all over the country that in the Dominion Election we will have a revolutionary candidate in the field. As the end of the war draws nigh so also does the las;t day of pseudo- Socialist Parties. Rosa Luxembourg and Karl Liebknecht with the rebels of Germany are ^ei^ely one phalle of the ne"w International. Our com-_ rades of the S. P. of ~G. B. are gaining new strength -daily;. they say the real reds of the other parties are* breaking away. So in Canada let the reformers have lots of rope, they can do the hanging stunt for themselves. The meal ticket looks good in the rm parties now and we may lose many of our "great men," but comrades, allow ,me to pass the new motto regarding the exit from our party of the "great men:" "Ishkabibble." PAT SOCIALIST PARTY OF CANADA Issued by the Provincial Executive Committee of Alberta Recruiting1 Pamphlet (No. 1) The Red Flag Call to Arms. Capitalism from its inception has pursued its course leaving in its wake the broken bodies of countless millions. MILLIONS of men, women and children have been crushed, mutilated and killed on the held of Industry. MILLIONS have succumbed to the deadly diseases germinated in its foul, sweat shops. MILLIONS of farmers have yielded strength of body and mind to its relentless demands only to be crushed sooner or later by an ever accumulating burden of mortgage. In times of peace or war this modern Juggernaut takes its toll of human lives, the number of its victims increasing in mathematical ratio with the time of its pro_ gression; All previous wars of the capitalist era pale into insignificance when compared with the colossal butcheries of the past twelve months. According to the French Bureau of War up to June, 1915, there were 14,000,000 casualties and prisoners, and of this number over 5,000,000 were killed, and daily the names of thousands mangled, shattered and suffocated swell the appalling list. To this horror of wholesale slaughter add the miseries of millions of dependent women and helpless fatherless children, and then call to mind the cant phrase oft used by the defenders of capitalism—"Socialism will destroy the home." The dire necessity of the Capitalist Class has torn the mask of hypocrisy from organized Christianity and laid bare its true nature and function. Priest and parson at the call of the Ruling Class hastily deposed the "God of Peace" and enthroned the "God of Battles." Cathedrals, churches, chapels and tabernacles became auxiliary recruiting stations and the peace loving, shepherds of the same vie with each other in securing suitable cannon fodder for their masters. Seated in editorial chairs the pen-valets of capitalism, true to +heir prostitute nature, clothe deeds repugnant and horrible with glowing words of patriotic praise, N and issue persuasive and .seductive appeals to young men to leave" their homes, moth_ ers to sacrifice their sons and husbands, to leave their wives. This" state of things is not peculiar to one nation but cotnmot; tc all; Germany and England, Prance and Austria, Russia and Turkey and—CANADA. The anti-militarist and pacificist tremblingly, tearfully, and just as futilely protest. SOCIALISTS, knowing that militarism, war, atrocities, etc., are the natural children of Capitalism, waste not their energy in fruitless attacks on inevitable ^results, but put forth their strength to shorten as much as possible the dying days of the system of exploitation—the genesis and cause of the world's present misery. When this war shall have shaken Capitalism to its very foundations, let the call to the CLASS WAR—the only war in our own interests—find us alert and ready. The time for recruiting is now! Constitute yourself a recruiting agent; arrange Socialist meetings in your district and communicate with the Secretary of the Alberta Provincial Executive Committee if you need the services of a speaker. Let us make the Province resound with the clarion call of Marx. "Workers of the world unite, you have nothing to lose but your chains and a whole world to gain." I| R. KNIGHT p. pro. Alta P. B.C. 2301 Trinity St. Vancouver, B. C. Sept. 4th,-1915 Editor Clarion:— I am content to leave to those interested the task of discovering if there was anything in the Secretarial effort in the last issue which has any bearing on my criticism of the action of the D. E. C. in passing the resolution on "Religion" and designating it "the official stand of the party." Another action of the D. E. C, taken prior to the publication of the resolution on religion, seems to the writer to be of much greater importance and equally unauthorized. I have not alluded to it before, as I expected that it would be immediately challenged. As no such protest has been published, I take it \ that the matter has escaped notice, due probably to the fact that it received only the barest mention in the official organ. I refer, to certain changes made in the party platform by the D. E. C. In the May issue of the "Clarion" we were notified in the secretarial column that the amendments to the party platform submitted to referendum, having been endorsed by the Party, had gone into effect. The concluding sentences of the paragraph are interesting; They read: "Suggestions received from Rossland, B. O.,, re deleting , the term "working class property," and from Winnipeg re clause on class struggle, acted upon, *f|^The platform now stands as it appears in-this issue." (Emphasis mine). How's that? The platform was drawn up and adopted by the Party in convention, and one would thiJHjfc-'that the Party alone was competent to alfer^it. The only objection^feiiat can !be laid against the insertion of the Rossland amendment is that the, D. E. C. took the responsibility of incorporating it in the platform without consulting the Party. If submitted to a vote it would undoubtedly carry, for it is a distinct improvement on the previous reading. It is different with the alteration ("elimination" would be the more accurate term) of the clause on the class struggle. The original clause, | as amended by referendum, reads as follows:—"The irre-, pressible conflict of interest between the capitalist and the worker necessarily expresses itself as a struggle for possession of the reins of government, the capitalist to hold, the worker to secure it by political action. Thisijs the class struggle." The present reading, as altered without reference to the Party is:—"The irrepressible conflict of interest between the capitalist and the worker necessarily expresses itself as a class struggle.'1 As a sample of "non-revolutionary nebulosity" the latter is a peach. The clear cut definition of the class struggle laid down in the original reading was (or is, for the Party has not altered it) the keystone of the whole platform, defin_ ing the line-up of the classes and the" revolut^^ary objective—the capture of the political power by the working class.. It points out that this is the class struggle. The unauthorized version now masquerading as the official cuts out all mention and definition of the struggle for political power as the class struggle, and may be taken to mean anything or nothing, according to the viewpoint of the reader. I take it that the following will be accepted as a correct statement of the principle of the class struggle as adhered to by the S. P. of C- :~ Ifll ::The irrepressible conflict of interest (which permeates the whole of capitalist society) as between the capitalist and the worker can only evolve into the class struggle when the workers lose their faith in the strike and similar action as a means of deliverance, and bend their efforts to a struggle for possession of the reins of government,' consciously fighting for that as the sole power by which the ownership of the means of production can be vested in themselves. It is the struggle for this vantage point that constitutes the only class struggle, for it is the only point on which the interests of the whole of the capitalist class are united as against those of the whole of the working class. The acceptance or rejection of this principle is the test which reveals the irreconcilable antagonism between the revolutionist and the reformer." This, which has been the keynote of oue propaganda from the beginning, has been lightly thrown into the discard by the present D. E. C, and an emasculated substitute provided, flabby and indefinite enough to prove acceptable to any .of our "radical" reformers who fondly imagine themselves to be revolutionists. It constitutes a complete reversal of the-attitude taken by the Party in the past, which has placed it on a plane far above that of any other on this continent or elsewhere with the exception of the S. P. G. B. If the D. E. C. continues its present line of activity it will soon be able to put in overtime at passing resolutions creating "official stands of the party," and "improving" the platform, for there will be none to say them any—or I miss my guess. J. H. B. MANITOBA MISCELLANEA By Pat. A'||;eripping from yesterday's "Free Press,-' editorial tells us, in recounting the happenings in Paris after Waterloo, that the Prussians were awful"thieves. They, even, so we are told, cleared the Depot d'Artillerie of its most precious relics, a circumstance which Sir Robert Peel regretted the more |' because I fear," he wrote "the return of the king will be less popular than it would have been if he could have preserved entire at least those national monuments and relics which are exclusively French." * * * The praise of this from an erstwhile Democratic paper is amusing; a few months ago they would have (Continued on page 11.) ' ■' ■ 10 OUR BOOKSHELF. HISTORY OF POLITICS-—JENKS By M. B. One of the most valued books in my library in England was a small reddish brown "Primer" called "A History of Politics,'' by Professor E. Jenks. It is a treatise on the development of Political Power. It is one of the very few works on this subject and for the matter the book contains it is worth, at least *a dozen books professing to write upon the Economic Interpretation of History. Professor Jenks in his book gives abundant material for quotation in lectures on the materialistic conception of history. He starts with Savage Society in a succint, clear manner, after having made his case out in an introduction that gives a lucid defin-, itioh of what he means by Politics) and Society. The * contents are as \ follows:— Chap. L—-Types of Society. Type I.—Savage Society. Chap. II.—Savage Organisation. Type II.—^Patriarchal Society Chapter III.—Patriarchal Society in General Chapter IV.—-The Domestication in Animals/^ Chap. V.—Tribal Organisation. (Uhap. VI.—Agriculture and the Clan. Chap. VII.—Industry and the MillT Type III.—Modern (Political) Society. Chap. VIII.—The State and Feudalism Chap. IX'.—Early Political Institutions. Chap. X.—The State and Property. Chap. XI.—The State and Justice. Chap. XII.—The State and Legislation. Chap. XIII.—The State and Administration. Chap. XIV.—Varieties of Political Societies. In addition to that there is an excellent list of authorities given by the author. All Socialists know how valuable a book is " Ancient Society.'' Of this book Professor Jenks says in referring to Prof." Lewis Henry Morgan, \ \ whose book on... Ancient Society THE WESTERN CLARION will ultimate*.y be recognised as one of the greatest scientific products of the nineteenth century." When we have capitalist professors tumbling over one another in a desire to discredit the great ethn-v ological work of Morgan, this statement of Professor Jenks will be looked upon in no small way by Socialists. The book scintillates with pas- j sages that are well known to many propagandists. The chapter on Savage Organisation is splendid when dealing with the Australian natives. To show how the Economic Interpretation is given let me quote from the passage on Slavery (page 27). "Slavery arises from the practice of keeping alive captives taken in war, instead of putting them to death. In savage ,days wars are usually the "result of scarcity of food, andefjras was pointed out previously (page 14) result in the killing and eating of members of a strange 'pack.' But with the increasing certainty of food supply resulting among other benefits from pastoral pursuits, Cannibalism becomes un- | necessary, and captives are carefully kept alive, in order that they may labor for their captors... v Slavery is an ugly thing, but is better than cannibalism. . Again however, we notice that the upward step was due,, not to exalted morality, but to practical convenience. Morality is the result, not the causejibf social amelioration.' I (Emphasis mine. M.B.) In-the chapters on "The State and Feudalism" and "Early Political Institutions"' the materialistic and economic interpretation of Religion is finely recorded. Jenks '' History of Politics" is a book that is not written by a Socialist but is a veritable gold mine for those who read Morgan's "Ancient Society," Engels "Origin of the Family and Private Property, De Gibbon's "Industrial History of England.'' I know of no book that contains as much valuable matter in so small a space. It is an intellectual treat and every Socialist should get a copy. It can be carried in the coat pocket. Listen to Professor Jenk's last paragraph: " Those readers to whom the political arrangements of the world represent merely the outcome of a series of local accidents will have little sympathy with an effort based on totally different belief. But to those who, with the writer, regard history as the outward manifestation of great universal laws, capable of infinite variety in the circumstances of their application, but tending with irresistible impetus to similar ends this attempt may seem to have been in vain , it is an effort miserable and imperfect perhaps, but still an effort, to realise that deep seated instinct of humanity which bids man turn for help and guidance to his fellow man. It is an affirmation, on unmistakable lines,of that social side of our nature, which may fairly be regarded as one of the fundamental facts of the universe. As such, it is surely worth earnest and impartial study; and all the dreary and repellant accessories which attend its practise cannot disguise its essential importance. The day may be far distant when the actual political arrangements of the world will realize the highest ideal of which our social instincts are capable. But every life honestly spent in the faithful service of the common weal, every hour devoted to the earnest study of the public good, brings that day more surely within our reach.'' HERE AN3) NOW. $ 50c 25c Tom Beattie 11 A. E. Fay . #-||||||jV. 1 '5 Local Winnipeg 2 R. M. Alexander .pf 2 Thos. Hanwell 2 2 M. L., t||f 2 - 2 M. -Vangar "•. .. •]&§$ 2 22 6 2V Singles: Dollar: D. Rees, C. H. Towns, A. W. Cantrill, E. J. Simons, Local Rossland, Henry Dosch, Martin. Opiius", We A. P., M. Nicoleff, I. E. Stimson, Local. Victoria, Wm.' Churchill, W. Davenport, M. Goudie, .W. H. M. Revsley, R. M. Sachlin, Wm. Clarkson, H-.-: J. B. Harper, Tom Hughes, G. Veige, Geo. A. Mitchell, Wilfrid Lafontaine, O. Raynor. Fifty Cents— A. Harris, C. M. O. B., Geo. Rossiter, A. Steadman, G. Davis, W. | Braes, G. Vvestlin, M. D. Armstrong, H. Bolingbroke. Sixty two new readers. Not half enough and the money for same did not in all cases accompany sub. card. Wake up! MANITOBA MISCELLANEA (Continued from page 9) been insulted at the suggestion that France should be anything other than a Republic^ now they are blaming the Prussians for trying to keep | the king out of his job 100 years ago. We can at least remember that Sir Robert Peel believed in the Democratic tendencies of the Prussians. 4£ w Another little clipping from Sept 1st paper makes amusing reading:— The people of Canada cannot afford to let their young farmers, their young businessmen, their young doctors and lawyers, from whose ranks must come the leaders of the future, constantly reflect that a man of the type of Hon. Robert Rogers is one of His Majesty's advisers in the Government of the Dominion. \' # * * One can only wonder if the slaves of Canada will continue indefinitely to need leaders, and, if their ignorance makes an affirmative answer true, e.g.,whether they will allow the bunch of snobs that the colleges breed to do their thinking for them. # * * Crop worth $350 to Every Person. : The wheat crop of Western Canada will be worth $350 to every man, woman and child in the three provinces," said W. P. Hinton, assistant traffic passenger manager of the Grand Trunk system, who returned to the city this morning after a 2,000 mile tour of the west. Mr Hinton predicts a revival of all classes of business this fall and reports \ that the company's passenger bujsiness in the Rockies is in a flourishing condition. The above clipping is from the front page of the "Tribune," and in registering our agreement with Mr. Hinton we request some information as to where we can collect our share of the swag. # * Next Sunday /is pLabor Sunday, which means that the peddlers of 'the "Pie in the sky" dope have to lay special stress on that line of talk which emphasises the "Dignity of Labor," the "Spiritual meaning of THE WESTERN CLARION work" and anything else that sounds nice but does not mean anything. F. J*, Dixon, our jexrfreethinker friend, who is now an M. P. P., takes the place of Mr. Hindley, ex-mayor of .Spokane, who is now Pastor of the Central Church here, his subject is: "The Labor Problem." "Birds of a feather flock together." is a grand old proverb and in this case it seems specially applicable. Here we have Hindley who tried the politician business and evidently made a poor job of it, as he is now back in the sky business; and our old Market Square orator and chief assistant to Prof. Mobius, the Single Tax Comedian, F. J. .Dixon, M.P.P., who made a punk Free-thinker and is now back to the faith of his childhood's days. * * # It is only a few months ago that Dixon commenting on a Unitarian sermon stated that the preacher was endeavoring to do the impossible, i.e., make Religion and Democracy square with one another. Now, of course, Dixon has accomplished the impossible * * * The first noticeable result of the Liberal administration in this province is the announcement that, we in Winnipeg are to have an aviation School^ Gage says Hoop should get the job as Professor, but Hoop says Gage is much lighter headed and would be the better man. However, this is the first Social Reform and as a follower I would suggest the provincial ownership of the Keely Institute and the Gold Cure. Our methodist friends seem to be on the winning side on the booze question and it seems 5i unfair'' that the owners of those booze killing establishments at present in existence should not be compensated. One of them says he expects business to pick up after prohibition, but the supply in the cellars of our leading citizens cannot be. as big as that, eh! * # * Most of the boys are at the harvest so things are quiet in the city and news is therefore scarce. One can only hope they all get their $350. 11 POT POURRI. By Wap. Ben Tillet, the melo-dramatic blood and thunder artist, of the B. S. P. obtained free shipping at his master | expense, to Flanders, where he saw his beloved transport workers on the job. He came back, according to his reported words, to preach — bloody murder. That's Tillet all right, all right. But ever since we were knee high to a grasshopper Tillet has been preaching— b****y nonsense. Go to it Benjamin! The Dockers will get wise some day and their idol will fall rather nastily. Instead of tearing your own hair in those days others will be willing to do it for you. * * * If England persists in stopping Uncle Sam's traffic on the high seas for the purpose of inspecting cargoes and Germany keeps plugging holes in Atlantic liners carrying American ammunition salesmen, etc., it would appear to us as though America engaging in war with Mexico would not be beyond the range of possibility. # # Who put the Bull in bulletin? Our office boy thinks it was the one that put the fish in official. * % * The dithyrambic dunder-pate who "edits the yellow journal known as "John Bull"r(five per cent. John and the balanee Bull) is possessed of a mystical obsession which causes him quite an amount of mental exer- ciseJ||He has found a means whereby rates and* taxes can be reduced— take the Four Hundred Pounds away from private members of the H. of C. Brilliant! Horatio, how did you come to think of it ? But what is the matter with an attack on the Royal purse? This is dismissed as sacrilege. We must wait for a business government. # * *■ We learn from a recent issue of the Hamilton "Labor News" that Hilkiah Martin, late S. D. P. Dom. Secretary, has joined the army and been appointed Major, having charge"- of one of the Companies of the 71st Battalion. The "Labor News" tells us that Martin was always convinc- -l--~'.^.-_t--?_ri-m *,"?ir-. 12 ed that Britain entered the conflict in a righteous cause, and that his action has created a profound impression in local circles When he sent us his picture last Xmas,wishing success for Socialism, and giving fraternal greetings, we divined that he was another good man, but a poor Socialist. Maybe, those few REDS now in the S. D. P. will take a lesson from this downfall of their champion. Men have been compelled, owing to economic -stress, to join as mere Tommies, who professed revolutionary principles, but Martin, of whom we are compelled to say, that he knew more than the majority of S. D. P—ers, has joined with a commission, having been in the militia previously when he ranked as a colonel, and at least might have had the - decency not to attempt the dirty tactics of the hypocrite. We await the verdict which will be given by those intellectual co-workers of Martin's, Simpson of Toronto, and Rigg, of the 'Peg. ||p SECRETARIAL SCRAPS We are not in any kind of a rush to put the Press proposition through, as we are driven to the conclusion that by waiting a little while those things on which, our weather eye is now focussed can be got for about 50 per cent, less than the price now asked for them—when (they come under the auctioneer's hammer, as they undoubtedly will. # * * But that should not stop anyone from either making guarantees or paying the money they have, already promised. We have an offer from a comrade, who wishes to remain anonymous, that the $1000 necessary for complete initial- outlay, will be given by him, on conditions that suitable arrangements can be made •for re-payment within a not too long period. As he cannot remain out of his money for very long, we are withholding action on the matter im- til a little more enthusiasm is shown. * # That a little money should have been promised and sent for the Press Fund would almost convince us—seeing the financial status of the ' j Clarion" that such payments had been THE WESTERN CLARION m made at the sacrifice of the paper. Alberta just now has its hands full with Reid's case and cannot be expected to.do a great deal. But for a' that and a' that, it is ahead of any other of the Provinces.p:So let us -wake up and keep the "Clarion" coming regularfly at least fence a month. It is not politic to discuss the case of 'Jock' Reid,seeing that he is awaiting trial, but we wish to point out that as far as we know the indictment is one of "seditious intent." That a Christian (!) Socialist should be one of the principal witnesses against him on such a charge ought to be sweet honey for those who wish the Party to remaki neutral (!) on the question of "Religion." # * # However, congratulations keep QCming in (oh! if they were only §ubs.) to us about the stand the committee took on the question of Religion. If, therefore, there are any who imagine that such stand could not be designated "official" we wish to inform them that it soon will be. Keep it up! # # # It is possible that Reid's trial will be set back for a while, but we cannot say with any degree of certainty. We would like to give a resume of the whole matter, but, as we have said, anything likely to injure his prospects of "getting off" must not be indulged in. Verb sap! . ■wr tF *lr .*■ What about that one acre? # # # Anybody going south? Speakers can be used in Everett, Wn., so says Watts of the Northwest Worker.* THE PRESENT—AND ECHOES OF THE PAST.- The British Government is dominated by those who represent industrial and money capital. It rules and exploits the major portion of the wealth producers under its domain with the cunning system of wages, and it also absorbs what merchants' capital in various ways crudely exploits from the remaining or lesser part of the wealth producers. The Boer Government was dominated by merchants capital The rich, mines gathered a population of Uitlanders (outlanders or foreigners) that outnumbered the Boers. But the Boer capitalists retained control of the government by regulating the franchise so the Boers always had a majority vote, which enabled them to reverse ,the general rule and absorb from industrial and financial capital by unusually high taxes. They also compelled the mine owners to^ give much better than average wages and conditions to the peddlers of labor power. Hence the Rhodes- Jameson 1 rebellion in 1895, and finally the horrible slaughter of workers from 1899 until 1902. This exemplification of might was afterwards modified, but continued with the constabulary under the pretense of impressing the survivors with the might of British justice, but in reality for the purpose of crushing any remaining rebellious ones,|||nd to compensate petty officers, by giving them a chance to loot the small holdings of such farmers and other slavies as were ^overlooked during the war. From start to finish atrocities ^galore were perpetrated on the women and children of Boers and Kaffirs. |||1||1 The excuse offered for the origin and continuation of this wallowing in human blood was: To get a vote the Uitlanders must reside a certain period and declare intentions of becoming citizens, much the same as in* the U. S. A., Canada or England. American and British slaves 'have been"hypnotised and made to believe -that they are free. In this instance the latter were induced to fight to obtain conditions abroad such as they were supposed to have at home, unmindful that citizen and residential qualifications in England disfranchise every election, between - two and three million adult males. When the war was over the capitalists demonstrated that even they have contempt jfor belly crawling slaves who slaughter for the gain of their masters, by putting hordes of Chinese coolies into the mines under contract for two and three years. The capitalists and their henchmen of the British Isles and Colonies jollied the slaves to get them to go to Africa, then hired Asiatics and cheap packages of labor power from the rural parts of Europe. War unfits many of its victims for industry. Untrustworthiness, slowness, indolence, and other such defects among employees are often referred to as soldiering Returned soldiers are not desired. The editorials in The Western Clarion have often jogged our memory with the following: "The jlong suit of the wage slaves is their short memory." Grossly deceived by open violation of contracts and promises regarding wages or the conditions for delive- ing labor power, made the objects of insults and humiliation we snarl and growl occasionally and act rebell- iously by going on strike. But the first election, war,- or any other occasion on which -it is to the interests of the representatives of capital to temporarily extend the glad hand, the majority of the slaves forget the past and voluntarily defend those who rule and rob them, and bitterly denounce the, few of their class who have developed from the habit of spasmodic revolt to intelligent, persistent revolution. The Boer War is within the memory of all adults. The brazen shamefaced falsehoods of the Press, politicians, schools, parsons, .etc., as to the" cause of the war and the events or happenings while it lasted, have been exposed so many times by the Socialists, and also"by a certain faction of the English Liberal party (which represented interests not well - conserved by the. war.) that' it is almost impossible for anyone not to know. The present war has forced those who represent capital to act coarser and|j|nore. vulgarly than before. Though the slaves are more critical than of yore there is need for lots of memory jogging. Canadian Liberals, then in power, reluctantly supported the Boer war. Their chief spokesman, Sir Wilfred Laurier, trying as usual to straddle the fence. He urged those seeking information to read "Oom Paul's'people" and "The Uitlander." One of these books defended the British, the other THE WESTERN CL A R ION was supposed to defend- the Boers. What-a huge farce ! At the time, being an ignorant Canadian full of master class patriotism, I offered to go to Africa and was sorely disappointed because I could not ride or shoot good enough to qualify. But -I bit like a sucker at Laurier's advice, spent money I could ill-afford securing the two books aforementioned. My visiSon "was so narrow, I knew so little of Canada and nothing of Africa or the rest of the world. I worried and "re-worried" through these books and the news in the Press, but I was so ill-informed I could not detect the vulgar, coarse deception so I showed my loyalty by swallowing it (holus-bolus. Even when I did feel sceptical I said, •■ \ per- ~ ish the thought." Like all cowards I found- it easier to go with the mob. So also did Ralph Smith, of Nan- iamo, B. C, and Mr. Puttee, of Winnipeg, the only two members in Parliament elected to represent the* unions. They voted for Canada to help Britain. About that time many horses, cattle, pigs and wage animals were shipped to western Canada to . construct the Crows Nest Pass and Kootenay Central Railways, cut timber, develop the mines, and other, natural resources. Two dollars to cross the continent 1 had it cost much more I could not have gone; I who thought I owned a'country to fight for. Filthy construction camps pestered with vermin. $1.75 the days we, could work, and whether there * was work or not $5.50 per week for rotten stewed prunes, sow-bosom 13 etc. The "Montreal Star" and the "Spokesman Review" were full of patriotism and the war. So was I, every opportunity boasting about my country. What a distorted mentality! Existing as I was yet thinking I owned a country. An old timer said to me "Young feller, how much of this country do you own ?'' I had to admit I didn't own any of it. He said, "How much does your father own? I'll bet the place is mortgaged." I had to admit it was. He said, "You and your folks are like the rest of our class. They don't own any part of any country. What are you hollering about?" I was taught at my mother's knee to uphold the truth and defend those who were upholding it. I thought I had the manhood to do so but coward like I abused him with such taunts as "If you don't like this country get out; we can get along without you." We are so accustomed to deceit that the facts are repulsive to us. The Hon. Emerson, one-time mirn^- ter of railways, stated in parliament that about twenty-three men controlled Canada; a few days later the "Montreal Star" published the pictures of the possible twenty-three. It matters not about, the accuracy of the figures, the fact is, a small and ever decreasing number own. what the rest must have access to in order to' exist. See "platform of the S. P. of C. CM. O'BRIEN. PAMPHLETS Issued by the DOMINION EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE (Prices include Express Charges) (3) WAGE-WORGER AND FARMER (Pilkington X Price—Per 100, $4.50; Per Dozen, 55 cents; per Copy, 10 cents (6) WHAT IS SOCIALISM?U(Hardenburg) Price—Per 100, $5.50; Per Dozen, 70 cents; per Copy, 10 cents ■ ■ 14 THE WESTERN CLARION B: Executive Committee Reports m DOMINION EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE Convened at the office of Secretary, Tuesday? August 24th, 1915, at 9' p.m. Present: Sinclair, Smith, Partridge, Jenkins, Parsons, and the Secretary. Chairman, Sinclair. fss|| Minutes of previous meeting read and adopted. Correspondence read from: Royal Bank of Canada, Qity; Marshall Erwin, Wim- borne, Alta (re organisation—secretary instructed to forward same to Alta P. E. C, since this was within their jurisdiction); . C. C. Wellerman, Lumsden Mills, P. Q.; F. J. McNey, Victor, Alta; Columbia University in the City of New York; H. Skinner, Nanaimo, B. C.; Local Rossland, B. C.; Local Markerville, Alta; Local Edmonton; Local Amherst, N. S.; Chas. H. Fuller Advertising Co., Chicago; A. Wheeley Can- trill, Shillingthorpe, Sask.; Local Flower- dale, Alta; Mrs. J. R. Macdonald, Flower- dale, Alta; Local Montreal; The Wolseley News, Wolseley, Sask.; Paterson, - Winni-1 peg (with enclosures); S. Mushkat, Hill- crest, Alta; Pearce and Hodgson, City; A. Hodgson, City; Alta P. E. C. (three, with enclosures). It was decided on motion that Organis. ing pamphlet No. 1, issued by the Alta P. E. C, be published in the next issue of the "Clarion." Financial Beport. Dominion Executive Committee Receipts Buttons:Man. P. E. C 1.30 Supplies: Man. P. E. C 3.70 $5.00 Expenses W. A. P 11.00 Stamps v 2.00 Rent for August to Vancouver Local 8.50 $21.50 Western Clarion Subscriptions 8.25 Directory: Local Rossland ....... 3.00 Local Edmonton 2.00 Local Vancouver No. 1 1.00 Local Winnipeg 2.00 Man. P. E. C 2.00 10.00 Bundles: Local Rossland 1.50 Local Edmonton 4.00 Local Vancouver No. 1 .... 4.00 Local Winnipeg 2.00 11.50 C. M. F. :— Local Markerville 5.(M) Local Clayton 1.40 Local Vancouver No. 1 . .. . .JS&-..90 R. Taylor .1.00 W. B. M 75 9.05 $38.80 11.00 Expenses W. A. P Sundries : Cancelled Stamps, 2.00; Mailing Exps., etc., 50c; P. O, Stamps, 2.00 4.50 $15.50 Adjournment. DOMINION EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE Convened at the office of the Secretary, Tuesday, Sept. 7th, 1915, at 9 p.m. Present: Partridge, Smith, Jenkins, Sinclair and the Secretary. Chairman, Partridge. Minutes of previous meeting read and adopted. Correspondence: J. Reid, Edmonton (2); -Kennedy and Mackintosh,, City; Chief Press Censor, Ottawa (2); C. M. O'Brien (3); F. J. McNey, Victor, Alta; John H. Wilson, Anyox, B. C; B. Hodges,-Montreal; The Northwest Worker, Everett, Wn.; Editorial Board of Boston "Strahdneeks"; Columbia University in the City of New York; National Office S. P. A., Chicago; Thos. Hanwell, Brandon, Local Victoria; Sidney E. Gage, Winnipeg; T. Connor, Milestone, Sask.; E. Simpson, Victoria (with enclosure); Chas. M. Robertson, Montreal; M, Lightstone, St. John, N. B.; Local Tor. onto; Local Springwater, Sask.; Local Eagle Hill (S. D. P.) Alta (2). Moved and seconded (Jenkins—Smith) that Eagle Hill (S. D. P.) Local, Alta, be referred to Alta P. E. C, and that the Secretary be instructed to bring the matter before the attention of Alta P. E. O, informing that body that the D. E. C. re. commends their application. Carried unanimously. Financial Report. Dominion Executive Committee Receipts Literature: Local Eagle Hill, Alta (S. D. P.).. .25 Expenses W. . A. P. . H 11.00 /Stamps 1.00 Wm $12.00 Western Clarion Receipts Subs 16.25 Directory: Alta P. E. C. ... 1.00 Local Victoria -^LOO ,M| 1 2.00 Bundles: Local Victoria ... : .'g|p .50 C. M. O'B. .....;.;. 2.00 - 2.50 C. M. F.: O. Mengal 1.00 A. Goodall (per J. S.) J|''. 1.00. N.V. Campaign Fund (per A. Steadman) .M:'. . 15.50 W. Wallace . 1.00 R. McLachlin 1.00 Local Vancouver No. 1 (col-> .. lected at Smoker) 7.15 Collected by Henderson . . 1.95 2860 $49.35 Expenses 11111 W.' A. P n.oo Cambie Printing Co. On account Clarion No.- 7/2 28.00 Sundries: P. O. Stamps 2.00 Exp. to Buffalo, C. M. O'B. .30 2.30 W. A. Pritchard Secretary Adjournment. $41.30 W. A. Pritchard Secretary REID DEFENCE FUND. Name Amount Nicoloeffl, Mrs. and B. E.. Place July 1915 Morningside, Mr||i: • Vashon, U. S.—-Anderson, August 1915 Edmonton—Keeling, S Edmonton—Knight, J. R Edmonton—Pratt, Tom Edmonton—Maguire Edmonton—jRadcliff a, Len Edmonton—Hitchcock, Mrs Edmonton—Com.. Lawless Edmonton—Snooke, Ira Edmonton—Propaganda Meeting . . Leduc Conjuring Creek—Faulkner A. E. 1 Leduc Conjuring Creek—Blondheim Walter Morninside—Ponoka Sympathizers. Eagle Hill—Arneson, S. A Eagle -Hill—Johnson, Charles F... . Erskine—Trueman, Mr. and Mrs. W. E Red Deer per—C. W. Perry Red Deer—Mrs A. L. Most, Snell, * C. H. -p> pllll • Red Deer—Carr, Mrs. A. S Moose Jaw—Grazier, Geo Moose Jaw—Com. Bonar Vancouver—Pritchard, W. A. . ?1|1§| Lake Basin, Mont. U. S.—Guss, We. E |s*' | Lacombe—Keitel, Albert i Lacombe—Boode, Ole Lacombe—Urquhart Myers Chas Markerville—Markerville Local... Baldwin, S. E...."... Mechlenbury, F Morningside, per Nicoloeff—Mike Drebot -. |I Peterson, A Bakun, B Urolsky, A Swazyck, George...... Sundial, per Elsie Thorburn 'j0j0r Bergman, Carl Anderson, Theo Whits on, Bryson Sungard, Ole Thorburn, E Jones, Thos ■ Dovney, Wm Palmer," Russell, . Cousins, Hanson, Morningside—Linscock, Mrs Winnipeg—Local No. 1 .... E. D. and B. C. Railroad Camp—S. Johnson • ^ 10.00 W. . . Frank Leah I. M. . .60 1.00 1.00 1.00 2.00 2.00 1.00 1.00 1.00 1.00 4.40 2.00 1.00 ,40 .50 .50 2.00 1.00 1.00 1.00 5.00 1.00 • 1.00 1.50 1.50 1.00 5.00 1.00 20.00 1.00 1.00 .60 1.00 .50 .25 1.00 1.00 .50 .50 .50 .50 .25 .25 .25 .25 .25 .25 1.00 5.00 McCauley, Joe . . Bell is, Fred Bellevue—Mushatt, Sophie . . Toronto per—Local No. 1 Geo. Rossiter—Barti ....... Seven Persons—Local No. 7 Provost per—H Schlinsog . . H. Schlinsog—Day, John . .. S. Gurt Bean .. Hallowell, Wm. Quid, Albert . . Burgeson, Zan Adams, James . Golden, Wm. J. Beckenaw, Wm. Kef for, D. ...... Ballard, W. T. 1.00 .50 1.00 1.25 1.00 4 00 1.00 1.00 2.00 1.00 1.00 1.00 .25 .50 1.25 .25 .25 I if P|$ Chad, Sv^r. .25 Miles Wm. 25 Robley O 25 Red Deer—Olson, Peter 1.00 Provost—Olinger O. B. .50 Caroline—Devore Roy ": . 5.00 Richard—Larson S. !R 5.00 Garron W. 1.00 James Walter ......'' 1.00 Montreal—Moors T. E 1.00 Gillet, E. T. ft|| . ... 'M- 4.00 Cassidy T. S. | 1.00' Vancouver, B. C.—Local No. 1 Per Sinclair 30.00 Botha—Effenbeiger Carl 5.00 Victor—F. G. McNey 3.00 Toronto Per—Stant Walter 50 M. Q. Armstrong—Debbs John .25 WM Pettitt H- If 25 Houghton W 25 Frost Com .25 Armstrong M. D .50 Sandon B. C. Per—Dewar R 1.00 H. L. MacKenzie—McNeill R 2.50 Hanson J 2.50 RUidquisf T 2.50 Lhtomaks J. .50 Blozina S 2,00 Ciemtnts J 1.00 Polick F 2.00 Lamo M . 1.00 Walton G 1.00 Faulkner George 5.00 Mr-Kenzie H .||fl 2.00 Shilland A. .',J|&.. . . ,'^M 1.00 McMillan J. R 2.00 Fergusson W 2.00 Leslieville—McLean Andrew N. . . 1.00 Morrisdale Kgs. Cty. N. B.—Gribble & M. E I 25.00 Eagle Hill Per—Gardner R 1.00 C. F. Johnson S.D.P.—Johnson F. R.Jj| 1.50 Johnson Mrs. F 1.50 A sympathizer ...... .50 Johnson C. F. . . .50 Toronto, Ont.—Local Dovercourt No. 71 1§. v 2.00 St. John, N. B.—Blair J 1.0Q. Total to Sept. 6th $229.25 Comrades: The Alberta Ex. Com. wish to thank you for so promptly coming to their assistance. The importance of this fight lies in the fact that it will determine" whether or no our organizers are, in the -future, to do more to strengthen our hands than the legal assistance conditions make indispensable. All who intend, but have not yet sent a donation are reminded that the trial is set for. September 21st, at the Red Deer Assizer. Any donator whoso name does not appear on the above list will please notify the secretary or' the Alberta P. E. C. A balance sheet will be published in the next issue of the Western Clarion. Yours for Socialism and No Compromise S. I. -Johnson Xnight, Provincial Sec'y. T'p LOCALS ||-would remit on JL -T accounts regularly half the anxiety now felt at headquarters would disappear. 5HSHSH5iSE5H5H5E5H5H5ES35HSH5H5a5H5H5t THE WESTERN CLARION 15 Socialist Party Directory LOCAL VANCOUVEB No. 1, S. F. of C. Business meeting every Tuesday evening. Economic Class every Sunday at 3 p.m., Education Class every Wednesday at 8 p.m. at Headquarters, Avenue Theatre. Dialectics Class every Friday, 8 p.m. in D. E. C. Headquarters, A.. R. Sinclair, Secretary. ||||| VANCOUVEB LETTISH LOCAL No. 58, S. P. of C.—Business meeting every first Sunday of the month, and propaganda meeting every third Sunday at 2 p.m. Open to-everybody at Finn, Hall, 2215 Pender E., Secretary, R. Amat, Box 667.- LOCAL VANCOUVEB, B. C, No. 45, Finnish. Meets every second and fourth Wednesdays in the month at 2215 Pender St. East, Ovia Lind, Secretary.- LOCAL .GIBSON'S LANDING, B. C. No. 49 S. P. C. Meets first and third Sundays of each month in Socialist Hall. W. Ben net, Secretary, Gibson's Landing, B. CT LOCAL EDMONTON No. 1. S. P. of C.— Free reading room and headquarters at 715 Second St. Propaganda meetings every Sunday in the Bijou Theatre, First St., at 8 p.m. Business meetings every Tuesdav at 8 p.m. L. Buckthorpe, organizer, P. O. Box 1682. H. H. Somers, retary, P. O. Box 1682; Phone 5495. LOCAL ENDEBBY No. 65, S. P. of C, Business meetings first Sunday in each month at 2:30 p.m. Propaganda, third Sunday in each month at 2:30 p.m., in the Theatre, Main St. Everybody welcome. J. Pilkington, Secretarv, R. R. No. 4, Armstrong, B. C. LOCAL LETHBBIDGE, ALTA,, No. 13^. P. of C.—Meets every Sunday at 3:30 p. m. m Miners' Hall. Secretary,-W. Shaw 210 19th St. N. Wm. Devoy, Organizer. LOCAL No. 1 WINNIPEG, S. P. OF C.— Club and Reading Room, 5 Home Bank Building,' Main Sti eet. Business meetings for summer months first Sunday of each month at 3 p.m.^ Propaganda meetings Sunday and Wednesday at 8 p.m., on Market Square. Literature Agent: R. C McCutcheon, Dreamland Block. Secretary: J. Robinson, 344 Edmonton Street. LOCAL MONTBEAL No. 1, S. P. of C. A-ddress all communications to the Secretary, Box 148, Station B, Montreal, P. Q. LOCAL TOBONTO No. 1, S. P. of C— Propaganda meetings, City Hall corner Geo. Rossiter, Secretary, 52 Tiverton Ave. LOCAL GLACE BAY, N. S., No., 1, S. P. of C.—Headquarters Commercial St., open every evening. Business and propaganda meeting every Sunday at 3 p.m. Harold G. Ross, Secretary, Box 505. LOCAL SANDON, B. C. No. 36, S. P. of C.—Meets every Tuesday at 7:30 p.m. in the Sandon Miners' Union Hall. Communications^ to be addressed Drawer K., Sandon, B. C. LOCAL NELSON, S. P. of C, MEETS every Friday at 8 p.m., in Miners' Hall Nelson, B. C, I. A. Austin, Secretary. DOMINION EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE Socialist Party of Canada meets every alternate Tuesday 9 p.m., Avenue Theatre,, ^Vancouver, B. C. W. A. Pritchard, Secretary. BBITISH COLUMBIA FBOVINCIAL Executive Committee, Socialist Party of Canada, meets same as above. ALBEBTA FBOVINCIAL EXECUTIVE Committee—Secretary, Mrs. S. I. Jon- son Knight, Box 785, Edmonton. SASKATCHEWAN .FBOVINCIAL .EX- ECUTIVE COMMITTEE, S. P. of C, invites all Comrades residing in this -province to communicate with them K;°n organisation matters. Address Geo. Grazier, 739 Hochelaga E., Moose Jaw Sask. MANITOBA FBOVINCIAL EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE : Invites all scientific Socialists in the province to become affiliated with the Party. If unable to form a Local in your district you can become a member at large. For any information or literature apply to the Secretary, Alex. Paterson, Suite 1, Waldorf, 235 Langside St., Winnipeg. ONTABIO AND QUEBEC FBOVINCIAL —Secretary, W. H. F. Kent, Box 148, Station B, Montreal, P. Q. All Socialists desiring information on organiza- . tion matters, or iiterature, should write to the above address, and will receive prompt attention. NOVA SCOTIA FBOVINCIAL EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE, Socialist Party $|p of Ganada, meets every second and fourth Sundays in the Cape Breton office of the Party, Commercial Street, Glace Bay, N. S. Dan Cochrane, Sec- retary, Box 491, Glace Bay, N. S. NEW BRUNSWICK FBOVINCIAL EX- ECUTIVE COMMITTEE.—A. Taylor Secretary, East St. John, N. B. For Party literature and information on organisation matters, etc., write to above a'ddress. LOCAL FEBNIE, S. P. of C, hold e&u- cational meetings in the Socialist Hall, every Sunday at 7:00. Business meetings third Sunday in each month, 7:30 p.m. Economic class every Sunday afternoon at 2:30. Oscar Erickson, Secretary, Box 505; Organizer, Wm. Allen, Box 505. LOCAL BOSSLAND, No. 25, S. P. of C, meets in Miners' Hall every change Sunday at 7:30 p.m. E. Campbell Secretary, Box 54. LOCAL VICTOBIA, No. S, S. P. of C, Headquarters and .Reading Rooni 1424 Government -St., Room 8 Business meetings every second and fourth Tuesday in the month. Secretary. Fred Harman, 1424 Government St. LOCAL CUMBEBLAND, B. C.,. No. 70. Businesse meetings every first and third Sunday in the month, at 10:30 a.m., economic classes every Monday and Friday, at 7 p.m., in the Socialist Hall opposite P. O. Regular Propaganda, meetings at every opportunity. Secretary, H. Walker. LOCAL ST. JOHN, N. B., No 1, S. P. of C. Visiting Comrades welcomed. Secretary, Stanford E. White, 24 Main St. A GOOD INVESTMENT Comrades with money to invest —buy shares in the building owned by Local Vancouver, B. C, -No. 45 (Finnish), Vancouver, B. C. Shares $100 each, payable at $10 per month. Loan money, up to six months, at 6 per cent. Longer terms, 8 per cent (per annum). All moneys guaranteed by FINNISH BUILDING CO., LTD. 2215 Fender St. E. .Vancouver, B. C. GUST AVE MYERS' HISTOBY OF CANADIAN WEALTH tells for the first time the true story of how a little clique of financiers have made themselves masters of the natural resources of Canada, so that they take the greater part, of the wealth the workers produce. Every charge backed with proof. The book that makes rebels. Extra cloth, 347 pages, $1.50 CHAS. H. XEBB & CO. 118 W. Xinzie St., Chicag-o 16 THE WESTERN CLARION PLATFO RjM Socialist Partyiof Canada We, the Socialist Party of Canada, affirm our allegiance to, and support of, the principles and program of the revolutionary working class. Labor,-applied to natural resources, produced all wealth, The present economic system is based upon capitalist ownership of the means of production, consequently, all the products of labor belong to the capitalist class. The capitalist is therefore master; the worker a slave. So long as the capitalist class remains in possession of the reins of government all the powers of the State will be used to protect and defend its property rights in the means of wealth production and its control of the product of labor. The capitalist system give to the capitalist an ever-swelling stream of profits, and to the worker, an ever-increasing measure of misery and degradation. The interest of the working class lies in setting itself free from capitalist exploitation by the abolition of the wage system, under which this exploitation, at the point of production, is cloaked. 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