Organization Is Power

THE LUMBERJACK"AN INJURY TO ONE IS AN INJURY TO ALL"

V1)I,111\I, !. 1I1 ;JI'I.;IS RI(Il'I' ALEXANDRIA, ILOUISIANA, THURSDAY, JANUARY 23, 1913 * TRUTH CONQUERS * NO. 3.

Capitalists Scared CrazyChicago, Ills., Jany. 23rd, 1913.

Mr. Jay SmithAlexandria, La.

Authorities in Ta'ipa, Florid:r, arrested and imprisoned I. W. W. membersin Campaign to dcstr ,y organization. Give publicity.

VINCENT ST. JOHN, G. S. T.

The above dispa:tch was received just as we were going to press, but westopped the presses to get it in and to call on all rebels to do all in their powerfor these outraged fellow workers. The authorities of Tampa are as shamelessa gang as ever served the murderous Southern Oligarchy and all working menshould rise against them and their brutal masters, the Spanish Buccaneers whoown the Cigar Fatctories of the accursed City of Tampa, and compel them totake their gorilla hands off labor's throat. DO IT NOW, TODAY!

WORKMEN, UNITE!The dispatch brings good news as well as bald, for it :shows that, despite all

their guns and prisons, the lid of peonage is cracking in all directions, NorthSouth, East and West! Unite! and throw it on the scrap pile history! The dayis dawning, the voice of Freedom calls you, the New Age, the age of labor, is athand! Arise, O Clans of Toil!

TO THE RESCUE! ON TO TAMPA!Reply To The Kirbyvillans

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NOTE: TO LOCAL SECRETAKIES.

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paper. I Will :tay if you think it Eh.Sit.

TO ALL THE CLANS OF TOILWhen Aleander of Macedonia entered Aisa he entered It with the Greelan

phalanx. A phalanx was a clan in battle array, its members were al bretheain the clan and all the classese were brothers in the tribe, so the army of Al-exander marched as ne always and always conquered. Whether attackingbeing attacked, the Macedoslan army always presented a solid foat. Itfaced its foemen thus: Came the first phalanx on the line, then back of it an-.other and and another and another and another, ten and sihtee ranks deep,brother backing brother, row on row of serried spear-heads that were neverbeaten down or broken thrn. That army was never whipped. It conqueredall the then known world.

WHY?

Solidarity is the magic word explaining all this wondrous army's mightNever was a single regiment allowed to fight the foe alone. Ivery member ofthat army, without orders, without appeals, upheld the Macedoia cease. Thesesoldiers neither asked nor expected Alexander to do it all. Zach man actedas his own Moses, the army as one, phalanx hack of phalanx, and conqueredthe World by sheer might of Solidarity.

ARMY OF TOIL.

Heed you now the Macedonian lesson Stand not with folded arms andlet the Clan at Merryville be beaten down All the boys there ask of you isto feed their wives and children while they are on the battle line of labor. Doyour duty, and do it NOW, TODAY!

Send all funds and provisions to Chas. Cline, Secretary, Merryville, Lou-isiana.

At MerryvilleLetter from John Hill.

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i1,4 of the W'"1'st1,rn District of Ilh,' N. I.

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and i. W . ari alre. ly s, " llinl_-

in individual slbsq. and Unrlle l,|'r:s

as A. IT. Brown. Dr. •lhw. lhin East-

man and ("haq. (line, the |/lt 1),'i1n'-Secretary of the M,,rryville strike

o'nmmittpe, and iup to his ne1,. lit work

"ol who read this shnoildl also ge'tbusy. Tt is team-work that 1'oulnts in

all tihings, and nothing else. ITnless weIhear from you. we will take it that youdo not want "The Lumberjack" andquit el snlin4 it to you. If you want it

to, stay alnd kee'p r',oning to you, send inyour owni sull, today, with as many otlh-er nits you r'an seCure.l Also have yourf,,c't r;, ilrer• iIa 1,rillle fo;r everyv w'erk inthle v'ar. ('ash rlist ii('emrpany iv allsbIsie'riptioei irirl hiille orders . In theI;irS'e'r' towniis like I)e'Ifbiler, Le'e"'ville',K irl,\ ill,,, iuke h rle,, ( l ulli ir ph t..t'.the' I,,ee" .ls ,',e iehl e,';iilyv ,'ll '1 ,1 t the'ir

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YI', r, fo, r li,' th(,r!' 1.i I'nion.

THE STRIKE NEAR (RANE.

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theie'asi\ ,uirr e II 11 1-2' lper houre . a elthat for lo, ei uitini! Ic'enle'r, what deeo lu kntw a hnilt 'littinri lr'..'s, hlrn' linri

"l "r back and 4'ro, l'hill , l l l l1kinlls

of ,positions, ili the rain, the e'ehle andthe' slrrner's cin, 1t llo~ln hours e ar 'ihwee.. it •t ,nly I1 1-2 ' an hourr' " Ti'h,wa; 'e''. Ii1 ,r fhi j ri,, r ran,'e Ifrm ;.:(f.O0

n fir l0i pe-l' wee' k. eel' to rrrr ke' it ne it

r(alItl is. Wa L'es :er as follows: $1.00(f.

+l 2:. *1 :ii and *l.75 at r,11l (no skill-edI Ilaor r('rrire .( , andl $1.(O; and:1. 7?, in wo,'e s for lo4, e,'nters, "ean't

hooek iren" "ch'ain arr,.i•e rrmen." ,tc.;rare' e.xe'ptirns torme in at two ldollarsfor the lon4r,, miserable, wet, mian-

silairrhterine l days of 11 hours right on

the job; -rub fit ronly for a pauper, arindit old and unfit for .Tohn TIenry',itcek's poordle. May the world's pro-

,hiteers come out against such inhuman,enehiti.ne, as have our boys at l'rane."ITno!" (iv'e irs more rebels like the

C'rane writer.--- Ed.

THE LUMBERJACK

Education Freedom in

Organization as. nladustrialEmancipation . Democracy

Publ)shed Weekly I,y National Industrial Union of Forest and LumberWorkers, Southern I)istri t.

Box 78AIEXANI)RIA, II)U' IANA.COVINGTON HALL, Editor.

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NATIONAl, INDUSTRIAL UNION OF: I:()ORST AND IUMB1:RWORKERS-Southern District.

District Headquarters ------------ 1194 Gould Avenue, Alexandria, LouisianaA. L. Emerson....--------...---.....------------General Organizer Southern D)istrictJay Smith--...........------------- ..........-------------------- Secretary Southern DistrictA. L. Guillory..........-------------------------------.......... Treaurer Southern D)istrict

EXECUJTIVF BOARD SOUTI'lIERN D)ISTRICT:Ed. Lehman, E. F. Shaw, 1:. I. Ashworth, I'. 1. Collins, 1). R. Gordon.

Application made to enter as Second Class Mail Matter, January 9th, 1913,at the Post Office at Alexandria. ILa., under the Act of March 3, 1879.

PLEASE NOTE.-0--c----

In sending money for the paper do not mix it with monies intended frthe organization, as thi Ipaper carries a separate account. Cash tnust ac-ctnlpa'yv all subscriptions and hlndle orders. Make all checks and moneyorders payable t The I.ulmberjack.

THE PREAMBLE.

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The working class and the employing cla"s have nothing in common.There can be no peace so long a.s hunger and want are found among mil-lions of working people, and the few, who make up the employing class,have all the good things of life.

Between these two classes a struggle must go on until the workers of theworld organize as a class, take possession of the earth and the machineryof production, and abolish the wage system.

We find that the centering of the management of industries into fewerand fewer hands makes the trade unions unable to cope with the ever-grow-ing power of the employing class. The trade unions foster state of affairswhich allows one set of workers to be pitted against anoth 'set of workersin the same industry, thereby helping defeat one another in wage wars. More-over, the trade unions aid in employing class to mislead the workers intothe belief that the working cla'.s have interests in common with their em-

These conditions can be changed and the interest of the working classupheld only by an organization formed in such a way that all its membersin any one industry, or in all industries if necessary, cease work whenever astrike or lockout is on in any delpartlllent tlheretof, thus making an injury toone an injury to all.

Instead of the conservative miAl. "A fair dlay's wage for a fair day'swork," we must inscribe on Fur banner the revolutionary watchword, "Abo-lition of the wage system."

It is the historic mission of the working class to do away with capital-ism. The army of production nmust be organized, not only for the everydaystruggle with capitalists, but also to carry on production when capitalismshall have been overthrown. By organizing industrially we are forming thestructure of the new society within the shell of the old.

TO ALL MEMBERS.--- 0------

Pay no nmoney to any ,Ine for l)ues or Assessments unless a stamp isplaced on your membership h,ook therefor The stamp is your only receiptfor Dues and Assessnents and your only evidence that you aer a membierof tle Union. I'nles- your ,hook is correctly stamped up to date. you willnot he recognized as a Union member, either in the Southern or WesternD)istrict. All I.ocal Secretaries have, or should have, on hand a supply ofstamps. Insist that your hook he stamped for every time you pay or havepaid your I)ues and Assessments. A book is the only evidence you havepaiul your Initiation fee.

This notice is issued Ibecause the General ()rganization and its LocalI'nions have lost hundreds of dhlars thru the m,.mbers failing to insist thatSecretaries pIlace dlues and assessmnent stamn:•s in their bo,,k at the time pay-mlent was madle. ('ease this Ilise mnethld. ])emand a book when you pay.yitlr Initiatiin free aind a stanllp every tiime youtl pay I)ueps and Assessments.

N. I. U of F'. & LI. W..By Jay Smith,

Secty. Southern D)istrict.

BOOST THE "LUMBERJACK"THE MERRY MONARCHS.

-- 0---"O King David and King Solomon

Led merry, merry lives,With many, many lady friends,

And many, many wives;But when old age crept over them,

With many, many qualms,King Solly wrote the Proverbs

And King Davy wrote the Psalms.""The Hitite."

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EDITORIALS-0-

MENINGITIS VICTIMS IN BAGGAGE CAR.-0-c~--

Dr. O'Reilly Scores Shipments of Patients from Other Par-ishes Here.

"Here is another sample of how people with communica-ble diseases are allowed to travel from one parish to anotherin this State," said Dr. W. T. O'Reilly, of the city board ofhealth Saturday.

"We have just found two negro children that came in ona Frisco train Friday afternoon and who are now in the Char-ity hospital with cerebro-spinal meningitis. They came heren ith their father, who stated that they were sent to this cityby a Dr. Jonas, of Reeve Station, Allen Parish. They werefound at the depot by Officer Parker, who had them taken atonce to the hospital. Their names are George Tatune, aged5 years, and Marie Tatune, aged 3 years.

"The children were examined by Dr. Gelpi of this board,and the boy was found to have rigidity of the muscles of theneck and was in a semi-comatose condition. It was evidenthe had been suffering with the disease for some days beforeleaving Reeve Station. The girl presented marked opistho-tones, delirium and rigidity of the neck muscles.

"The children were brought to this city in a baggage carof the train, so some one must have known that they were suf-fering with a communicable disease."

The above is clipped from the New Orealsn, La.,"Item" and this from the Lake Charles, La., "American-Press :"

"Ruston is the only place near Monroe that has not quar-antined. The people there are all enlightened and are fol-lowing Dr. Dowling and the state board of health. At someplaces near this city it would cost a Mnoroe man his life tostep off the train, so rigid is the shot gun quarantine. The"Item" clipping shows Lumber Trust humanity in all itsclory and that from the "American-Press" the Association'sonly known method of dealing with the ills that are incubatedin its infamous economic system, viz:-when they break thruthe rotten shell, smother them back with shotguns.

"AS WE DAMN PLEASE."

"We intend to run our business as we damn please, with-out any interference from the Forest and Lumber WorkersUnion and foreign agitators." This is the message of theSouthern (?) Lumber Operators Association to the Southernpeople. Well, the Association has done so, run the LumberIndustry as it "damn please" for years and years, peonized,in Louisiana alone, 46,000 working men, beat them down tostarvation wages, to rags and living conditions not surpassedin the City of Timbuctoo and, now, your child, your mother,3our sister, your brother, your father and your friends aresuffering and dying of the horrible and terrible diseases bredin the hellholes of the Association. How do you like it, Mr."Freeborn American Citizen?" And you, Mr. Lumberjack,who "won't join the Forest and Lumber Workers Union be-cause it admits Negroes to membership," how do you like it?Your are not willing to grant a man's life to all the workers,O no, but it seems you are willing to be hitched to the samelog and to die of the same frightful diseases that you in brut-ish partnership with the Neros of the Forests bring uponyour class. You who take this stand and you who consent tothe Association running its business "as it damn pleases," youare worse than fools-you are nothing but slave-breeders andchild-murderers. The birds of the air and the beasts of thefield are above you, for they protect their young at everycost. And this is civilization, "Christian "civilization?

Carpenter of Nazareth, how many crimes have beencommitted in thy name!

- F--.DOTS FROM POLLOCK.

-- 0--Agitate, Educate and Organize is No. 254's motto. Noth-

ing less than Agitation, Education and Organization willget the goods. To get a man to think for himself is his inter-est and the interest of his associates, will cause him to act.But to think for himself on the job is just what the Masterdon't want his slaves to do. Slaves!. Yes, I say Slaves. No-thing softer will define a man on a job, io hours a day, 6days in the week, 4 weeks in the month and 12 months in theyears, not even being allowed to even take one week off forXmas without losing his pay and his job, and this is not all.The half has not been told. He is compelled to stay on hisjob thru the days and weeks and months and years,because hisMaster has already figured on his wage scale and his bill offare, so that at the end of each month his commissary billand house rent, and drug bill, and his Imaginary Insurance,(Imaginary to the Slave, but not to the Master) and ten totwenty-five per cent discount on cash drawn between pay-days, which are thirty days apart, from Sweet Home to Pol-lock on the Iron Mountain Road. These are some of thereasons that the wage workers all over the South are slavesto the Master Class. The Slave has been doing the work andthe M.laster has been doing the thinking. Boys, let us change*the program. While the Boss is just thinking and figuring,*let us both work and think and figure for ourselves. Unitewith the Only Union for the Working Class, the I. W. W.,*you non-Union man,.you. Just use a little common sense andSunite with us. Let's free ourselves and our children and our*wives from the yoke of Slavery, which we have been placeda under through our Ignorance. A. H. Brown.

AMOOSIN' CUSSES.*

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A.certain Lumber Company in the Imaginary State ofTexas, after a handful of Union woodsmen had tackled itwith a strike, put up the following notice in its mill: "Here-Safter the hours of labor in this mill will be to hours per daySinstead of r I as heretofore, but we 'wish it to be distinctly un-

derstood that the Union had nothing to do with the postingof this order!"

ITA EST.

~-0----lMen, not money, win working class wars.

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"He who loses is always wrong.

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To intrust the interests of the working class to politiciansis like intrusting the lamb to the wolf.

"Who shall guard the guards, themselves?"

The Lumber King method of curing economic injusticeby pump-gunning discontent into silence reminds one of Je-hovah clubbing Lucifer out of Heaven. All Jehovah suc-ceeded in doing was to scatter the fires of rebellion thru outthe Universe.

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The farmers who farm the farms are first realized on bythe real estate sharks, then banked by the bankers, then bull-ed by the "bulls," then bared by the "bears," then landed onby the landlords, then railed at by the railroads and thenstung by the "statesmen."

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Tenantry and Peonage-the Siamese twins of capitalisteconomy, neither of which can live and the other die.

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The wage system cannot be mended; it must be ended.

There is a worse being than the scab: he is the man whorefuses to aid in the fight and yet accepts benefits othersfought to gain. To this breed belong the men (?) who are"'waiting to see" if the boys at Merryville win the fight be-fore they will join the Union. They risk nothing and yetwant the gain. They are the real enemies of the race, thisjackal breed of men, who can only sit around on theirhaunches, whimpering about the "poor working man,"breeding children to be sent into canning hells and cottonmills, waiting and watching while the soldiers fight, butouick to gather with the veterans when the feast is spread,when the war is over and the danger past. They are worsethan a scab, for the scab takes some risk. They are beggarsat heart and slaves in soul.

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Cursed is the job-coward; damned are the meek-Blessed are the strong, for they shall inherit the earth.

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"Many a man who talks like a war hero gets his meek lit-tle wife to interview the janitor every time he thinks it neces-sary to register a kick."

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Sword might is as nothing to the might of folded arms.----

Reaction but fans the flame of Revolution.-0~---

Might is right, but there is no might where right is not.-0---

"Labor is invincible" only when industrially organizedand conscious of its power and destiny.

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"Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel."--Dr. John-son.

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Fear is the foundation of" all religions, the prop of allthrones the bulwark of all despotisms, the patrol of all slaver-ies, and the midwife of ignorance.

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Ita est-"it is so."

Boost "The Lumberjack." Subscribe today.

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THE FARM--THEN AND NOW.---- o-----

By J. J. Eager.--- 0---

But little thought has been given to the transformation ofthe methods of production of wealth in the last fifty years.Not only from a mechanical standpoint of transforming outraw material into the finished product, but from the stand-point of producing our raw material. Especially is thistrue from an agricultural point of view. Many of us olderpeople can remember the old wood mould board plow thelittle hand sickle; the old wood tooth harrow; the wood toothed hand rake, and many other agricultural implements thatwere manufactured in the little shop on the farm. Then wewere an independent people; each was the master of his owndestiny; the little farm was a Kingdom and the owner was aKing. The poor man had the same chance as the rich, in asmuch as he could manufacture his implements of agricultureat home, and could and did make them just as good as thoseof his richer neighbor, hence the returns for his labor were

just as much per man as that of his richer neighbor. Thatwas then.

BUT NOW?,

I shall not follow the rapid tralnsition of the old W\oodenmould board plow to the up-to-date high power Mogul gas-oline tractor engine, gangs that are turning fifty-five furrows14 inches wide, at the rate of an acre every four minutes; norof the little hand sickle with which v\e cut our grain; nor ofthe hand flail with which we threshed it, t, the reaper thatcuts a fifty-foot swath, that is pushed in front o,ga big tractorengine, and the big threshing machine drawn by the sameengine, that cuts and threshes a l~ndred and forty acres perlday; nor from the old wooden tooth harrow to the moderndisk harrow hitched behind a tractor engine that thoroughlypulverizes forty acres per day; nor of the up-to-date seederthat seeds forty acres per day; nor of the cotton picker thatpicks from three to eight bales per day; and m'any other ma-chines that go to make up the tools that are in use on any highgrade farm of today.

But they are here to stay. This we must admit, tho' notin common use, for it is only on Syndicated or Industrializedfarms that this highly developed machinery can be used, asit is out of reach of the common farmer and the renter.

THE RESULT.

Little did the country wagon maker, the country horseshoe maker, the country plow maker and the country cabinetmaker of fifty years ago think that before the end of the i-thcentury great factories would spring up that would drive himout of business. But, where is he now? His children arefactory slaves today, and why: because the machine of todayis doing the work that he did by hand. And you, l r. Farm-( r, are up against the samne condition today that these handworkmen were in the latter part of the 1oth century, and, asto what the result will be. is for you to answer. There is onething certain: unless you make an effort, and a mighty ef-fort, you will go the way of the hand workman; vou cannotcompete single handed with the mighty machine that is usedIbv Syndicated farming; and that is the next step along agri-cultural lines.

AGE OF ORGANIZATION.

Now, Mr. Working Farmer, you must remember thatunder our present economic system you are practically wageslaves. I know you dislike very much to admit this, but it's afact, nevertheless. You never put the price on anything youbuy or sell. Therefore, you are a wage slave. (I speak al-ways to the "farmer who farms the farm," please remember.)fYou sell your labor or the products of your labor; therefore.\you must organize from the standpoint of a wage worker;you must remer•her that the man that has only his labor tosell is your consimer; therefore, your interests are the sameand can't bhe selarated, and that we must all stand togetheror fall together. We who have only our labor to sell fullyrealize that we must own the tools of production or continueto be the peons of a Syndicated Oligarchy.

Hence the organization known as the Industrial Work-crs of the World. And the same condition confronts you,Mr. Working Farmer, that confronts us:; and the remedy isthe same: Organize and Induslrializ.' t,our work, own thetools of production, or before many years you and yours willhe peons on a Syndicated farm, for you will either Syndicatethe farms and for yourselves, or you, like millions of otheronce independent workers, will be Syndicated.

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In an anti-social, in a class divided system of society,justice is a byword ; order and oppression spell the sametlhing, and law ,only mieans the powcr of the owning class torelieve the working class of the product of its toil.

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LUC(I FER, LIGHTI'-IBEARERI

Covington Hall.

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I ucifer, Light-Bearer! what a fight is that we madeSince, in hate of thought, they drove us from thle Eden-shade;()ut, awav from heaven, to, the lonely wastes of hell --

tBut democracy is winning, and the fight goes well!

\Vhat tho we have faltered when the last star cease to shine?--Ever have we met the priesthoods on the battle-line!Elver and forever thru the long, long night we've fought,If lungered, naked, bleeding, for the liberty of thought.

lucier, Light-Bearer! how they hate us, how they hate us'But our star at last is shining over every state!Everyvhere the thrones are crumbling into, blackened dust;And the fruit of knowledge ripens int.) love and trust.

Backward we are driving, out into the deserts dim,Backw'ard, from the tree of life, the jealous scraphim;Backward, from the garden-earth their eunuchs did distress -And the Man grows greater as the Kings crzo\v less and less.

l.Iucifer. ,ight-Bearer! we whose blood runs red within.Iv gods hated as the wild democracy of sin;\We the ever-hunted, we the vagrants of the skies,\Ve still war for freedom, still the slavish we despise!

W'e still stand unconquered, in rebellion still today,.After all the bitter ages holding still our sway;Warring, now as ever, for the right to speak our thought,Without asking from Authority consent for aught!

tUNION DEMANDS-0---

A minimum wage of $2.50 per day for "common labor"1employed in and around the sawmills, the working day not toexceed eight (8) hours in duration, all 'boys" to receive samewages as men, time and a half to be paid for overtime; forcutting pine log, 75c per thousand, true scale; for tie making,25c per tie, to tic makers, in good timber, more in culled for-ests. Hardwood and cypress labor prices to be advanced ona parity with pine; a general advance of 25 per cent to allstave mill and other timber and lumber workers; the ratesand wages paid to workers in the Turpentine Industry, andin other by-product plants, to be also advanced 25 per cent,the working day in no branch of the Lumber Industry to ex-ceed eight (8) hours in duration.

(2) Abolition of the practice of discounting wages, wagesto be paid every Saturday night in United States money.

(3) Forced trading in Company Commissaries thru thetime-check system to be abolished, the workers to trade whereand .with who they please.

(4) Reasonable rent for houses, not shacks, with water,light and sewerage service furnished by the Companies.

(5) All towns and camps to be provided with an up-to-date sanitary system, to the end that the terrible diseases nowprevailing thru out the timber belt be wiped out.

(6) A revision of insurance, hospital and doctor fees,these funds to be controlled by a committee chosen by theworkers who pay them and all physicians to be elected by theworkers.

(7) Free speech, press, assembly and organization, theAssociation to build for the workers, free of cost, a Union hallin every town.

(8) No "time contracts" and no "recognition" of the Un-ion wanted or allowed.

These demands are all we can think of today and are sub-ject to revision at any time as willed by the vote of the mem-bership affected.

DEED OF A "WHITE" MAN.

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On last Wednesday morning Fellow Worker Sam Jones,(Colored) of Neame, La., wishing to go to DeRidder, La.,on train No. 3 of the Kansas City Southern, arrived at the de-pot a little late, (said train being on time for a wonder,) andas the train was already pulling out he had no chance to boardthe car reserved for colored people, so he swung onto the stepsof the Pullman, on the rear end of train, meaning t oget offat the first stop and go into the "colored" coach and pay hisfare, having in his pocket $1-4.5

No. 3 is yhat the K. C. S. calls its "Fast Mail," and notbeing flagged at this station, which is four miles south ofNeame, it went on through at top speed, and Sam Jones couldnot get off, of course.

Just as the train, going at full speed, reached the town ofLudington, Conductor Bill Williams came back to rear endand, without giving Fellow Worker Sam Jones any time toexplain, kicked him off the rapidly moving train, knocking agreat hole in his head, and hurting him internally.

After laying on the side of track unconscious for sometime, he was picked up by a kind hearted gentleman in an au-tomobile and conveyed to DeRidder, where his wounds weredressed.

When No. 3 reached DeRidder, this brutal conductor.who is noted for just such tricks as this, made a lying reportof this heartless business, to the effect that this negro workini'man was riding "the blind" and he was compelled to "put"him off.

As it is against the capitalistic laws, even, to throw anyine off a moving train, even if it is a poor hobo-worker, it

looks like Sam Jones ha sa pretty good shot at the pocket bookof the K. C. S. road and this "wihte supremacy" aristocraticrepresentative of one of the superior craft unions, I sincerelyhope that some shrewd lawyer will take this case and makesaid road cough up some of the dough that its workers pile upfor its stockholders: also that in consequence o fsuch proced-ure, that bully Bill Williams will lose the job he loves so well.

Yours for Solidarity and Justice,Phin. Eastman.

SAYINGS OF INGERSOLL.

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"Liberty," a word without which all other words arevain.

"Salvation through slavery is worthless. Salvation fromslavery is inestimable.

"Give me the storm and tempest of thought and action,rather than the dead calm of ignorance and faith l Banishme from Eden when you will; but first let me eat of the fruitof the tree of knowledge!"

"Beyond nature man cannot go even in thought - abovenature he cannot rise-below nature he cannot fall.

"On every hand are the enemies of individuality and men-tal freedom. Custom meets us at the cradle and leaves us onlyvat the tomb. Our first questions are answered by ignorance,and our last by superstition. We are pushed and dragged bycountless hands along the beaten track, and our entire train-ing can be summed up in the word-suppression.

"Man must learn to rely upon himself. If abuses are tobe destroyed, man must destroy them. If slaves are to befreed, man must free them. If new truths are to be discover-ed, man must discover them. If the naked are clothed; if thehungry are fed; if labor is rewarded; if superstition is drivenfrom the mind; if the defenseless are protected, and if rightfinally triumphs, all must be the work of man. The grandvictories of the future must be won by man, and by mana ne."

WORKING CLASS POLITICS.

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By Jay Smtih.

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The politician to the average wage worker is like thepreacher: a thing of the past. The wage workers have beenlistening to the wails of the politicians for hundreds of yearsand have never received any benefit to speak of. Every wageworker is becoming more and more interested in his welfareand that of his family. The walls of industrial slavery growhigher and higher each day around every wage worker inevery civilized country on the globe. So without the aboli-tion of the wage system there will never be complete freedomfor the working class. Every wage worker is disconted withthe conditions that surround him. The prices of the necessi-ties of life are too high for the wage worker to buy what hereally needs to sustain life in a decent manner. The way tochange this condition is a puzzle to most wage workers.Many think there will be a law made to adjust this grievance.Some think a modern Moses will come to free the slaves asof old. I say that the day of all Moseses is a thing of the past.There is no new country to lead the slaves to, and besides it isbad policy to leave a country in bondage and go to some newcountry to establish freedom and leave the old country to re-main in bondage. As for a law being enacted to free the wageworker, there is hope, but this law will never be put on re-cord until the working class unite in One Big Union of allwage workers in all industries and establish the law they wanton the job where they work. All wage workers are becomingclass conscious. All wage workers admit, or should admit,that labor is entitled to all it produces. This being true theymust admit that, between the employing class and the work-ing class there is nothing in common. Then why should awage worker even think.that a law can be made to representthe interest of both classes?

There should be but one class-the 'working class.There is only one way left for the wage worker: They

must organize for the purpose of controlling industry. To dothis they must organize on the job where they work. Theyshould not even think of having a law made by others thanthemselves. They should not ask some one else to make a lawthat would give to them something that they never helped toget. The idea is absurd. It would keep the working class inslavery as long as time lasts.

It is what the working class has believed that brought itinto this slavery. The working class must quit believing andstart thinking for themselves. Then they will know that abeliever is trusting his fated p the hands of others. Workerswho think have solved this problem. Might is the only lawthat will ever free the working class, and to get this mightthe workers must organize at the source of production andcontrol the machine with which they work. This might ofthe working class, organized into One Big Union of all theworkers in all the Industries, is the greatest power on earth.There is no law that can evict a united working class. Thereis no law that can control a united working class, exceptthat made by the working class itself. So, the place to voteand start lawmaking for the wage workers is in the laborhall. Then go united to the job and enforce it, regulatinghours, pay and conditions for the workers by the workers.

Also, as the price of the working farmer's produce is al-ways fixed by the wage scale, so there is no way out of thissystem for the working farmer except for him to join the OneBig Union of Agricultural workers and help to overthrowthe wage system and establish Industrial Democracy. There-fore, organize on the job, control industry and be the law.Read the literature of the Industrial Workers of the Worldand be convinced. If you are a wage worker in the lumberindustry, become a member of the National Industrial Un-ion of Forest and Lumber Workers and start organizing allthe wage workers, all the mill men, all the woods men, all thetie makers, all the turpentine workers, all the workers, andnothing but the workers, on the job where you work. Forfurther information concerning the Lumber Workers, writeto Jay Smith, Secretary Southern District, Box 78, Alexan-dria, La., or Frank R. Schleis, Secretary Western District,21I Occidental Avenue, Seattle, Waashington.

WRITS OF GODAMMUS.--- o----

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Merryville, Beauregard Parish, La., Jan. 4,'r3. Box ro3The Lumberjack,

Alexandria,.La.If I am in arrears please send bill to date. If I am not

keep the change and send paper to some one else. I don'twant it any longer. Very truly,

C. W. Epperson.---- 0---

Merryville, La., Jan. 13, 1913.The Lumberjack,

Alexandria, La.Dear Sirs:

You are hereby notified to discontinue sending The Lum-berjack to me.

Yours very truly,J. W. Tooke.

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Merryville, La., Jan. 12, 19r 3.The Lumberjack,

Alexandria, La.Dear Sirs:

You are hereby notified not to send The Lumberjack tothis office.

Yours very truly,Felix Taylor, Cashier.

( (The People's Bank.)-0-

The above epistles are the finest compliments The Lum-berjack has yet received. Thanks. Do unto others as theywould do unto you. Nomel a meht dnah.

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Thi-.. Thn Ir un-'". it :m ' ,ri 'tivt , that

Uh, so lu-ndnil Ionifn. Cr falfill is mi, -

,' l' :i p..r , a irr f the wrtrk knr" 'l,"is

iir,'r, st 'i,! ti. intrrt'nf of the rmploy.

iTat rn atptr) I ,' th wthrorkrs fr the

vll~Vli\'I'11.J145, 1 h..rsi l'lill.'lII, llo+J(r, by

I'lnfollt',i' Thal tIh ii' follitatiwornrs of

\w,,rk .-'. do not tarine nt iw ,,h.dih'n..t, hE l l i.hw th1 t il,' l theI'I into exist-

,'n,', is Irvlll'n Ib thi . flit, that. w'ithI',w ex'•-tIonsw. th,.ir ,h,.laratioJns of

princ'il,e, l en• ,llumlit thir ,l'anizlrtions toth,. ir,, e,r w ot ,•al',,.,arding th' em-

pl ,y' .rs' ititre•st , a,15 w II a1 thi illt'r-

,.ts ef their li'elll iIrslhilp--a pro'ramn of

hIiIrllrllizill' tll;It vhich ('can not he hlar-

mon41iz,.,I. Such a protlravm iislEads

lichir lrc14l'h4'rs., hlinls them to the rea-

s.n, flr th,, c(.wlflict. an51 thf'r4'hy aids in

Il,,ft' rtin_ theim in their struitles. It

Ill rn•s th emn iuit ( thle hands of their op-

i'nl.ii4'ts, for it. sets th(e seal Iof their ownc,,r.,annization's alppr,,vl uponr th,.ir con-ilit ion ,"f ser\vitw1(*.

"Contracts.'"'

(hiit ,f this wronr1 p1rilc.iple flow many

.vils that c,,nltrillutil to, thl niet result.

"',o, ,.nt.r i,,to tinw con<tltra•c|s with the

,'mploly,'r i'i to, hinm.: (.ertain partS of the'

wII'k4'rl i SI eil 'lvn i1listry t, ( liltri-

ht11' th4ir 51 to th( . 4'miloy; 4 'r i'a, inist

,lthl.r pairts ,f the wvorkers. ill 1he s1rn.

i11lulstry sivil. iil 11(1St '1.eS'.'. ill the st51am,e.•,tlblishmlntl. Tillwi ,'ontralts depiv er\th,'n of th,' right t,, determlin. when ar.

;lttlplt iS to hl mliadh. Io enfor,'e el'ttertl'lWls o"f ('Im loJymvl nt,'llf ; p~rv'\'.vit th|i'n

frI ,,'i r'.'E,'llizii. thlL' ihi(' il.tity Ef i ntt'.rest

,,etw en','lI 1.v,, ;1thl l ' 11 thl ir' fe'llow.

olrkl''s.: 5I111 di\vi'es thllir Etfforts iraIl

tivitiiiS. 1 1 'V\4'ry fichhl Ef aitiow,I th1u1

mai;kiniL inltlliLvin!. ,',n,'rtd cl as n.e, ,-

t: Il i l 4Sl,,1'il,. iI f II l I'hlEh\'lv1 ilit.

No ... ,I ,,,' h. saiI in lpro ,I ,f tht,

unvionismv, \' 'h;,t furth,,r lpV'oo, is nean-,-

•,r\" to, dlm onstrt,, th,, vur,,,, in ess.•, oft

th,, lVin,,ilpl,.. ,,I ,v'rilt unioh nism:?

A Relic of the Past.Thie eli. It y4h, If ,I , i', zwIIll/ tion i ai r,'-

lie'f t l i : rm11 e'. l 't'!if Io . .11 tell 'llh til' !ee l 'tl. 't ,I " th,' seI/.'i, lll Ilhtl' ir, '.l li, ',.

v , 'l tle.r i l, ' ei lv'e im i 5 I IIt e' :1,k th11ne,. r'ow anatriall. mnl with th, tol,,, ofith,' lt'r l,' or ,.raftt. ,.,inlp ,.,.Ie th- Ir',-

, Take Railroady. Industry.iv ry

I...-; ' Sr I,,l .rIi ., hi ,lslt .' e tii , ,'elII--. i .th,. u ,,'lk .v'• ,.,i hiniv ., il ,,r.: ntixa-, in., th . li It, e , w hi,.h w ,.r',, e e•l'.r '.

II, th. t . .. Ils that th 'S tis:, l. T1 ,51 . in5\'i,.w oI th,. .,,.,i.,li/•,ti,,t ,f" th,. l ro .,•.,-

eel'l~l' ) IIe'411 il: I ''' I ll 411.' e 1e,'s lr i'ti' , he.i. i vtn1 ie, , ,1' f w ' hii-

-1hil it i mj ,lintr4 r ,,r1l e . /ili'nI . h' lt, i i i', ,tl. ,it It i ,livi? i, ll' illlh,'e 4 tIu ' 4l 1ii

I'ilc L I I' ir tl e wI ,rk,,l r ' 1 ,I,l5 lt f,'kt elin,,I,,zrlJintin .Take Railroad Industry.

T'rlI e I, I, ' nelll" iie'i ,trel" t" ,l'5 llI4' \i.i-

Ir . es, '.I '.it, I' i ill i lt ' ,'if '! l ll' . .1i1

f.,' l t-l , r,1 ' H il\ l icsi'n i Il ;i ollr. 1 h,'

t',..•!,c,.r• t hl iItl~lcl!•lt'• -r ih lA~,h. r :i ri,

ih aleci r nro 1 in Rnduthr\: thce rnailrmed

i 'il t'i rl, t rIl', r iiilrs. i e.e. I 1 ,',' r in .. .. -jeittel :i ;'1' ilrse',I l ki e i!' r ,,1l i elrll w l

,' l'• s r l., l ir,., I. Tlhe ll l- r i i ..e .i:tI

t.' il lh l 'l".t r ,' ie's e'_'" Ill,<. 11i, i ,re tll',

fl 'r141po1'ttion t he 4rs ills .he11reill'_ i!'e rllers;llt 111 114 eeIi""•;le'V! 1151 tie' 11151

Tere, n 't areil ,t'ler ile lm i t tr51 '1'i ti lil

T ,enin. ' i h,. he i tir . "i ,_'eI i ri re , th il -fl l',. t ei'ei,.ill 'teer, i h ll , .l, (. r ier eef

I'l'+l ,'lw .i t, ,'4,1 ,llle'te l' ,t" ,l ' l;rkell, rIi ll '\

he,,k , V•; Br lt'rh w..I elf U i i , 'h 5 , V"• \iirsI ill l llthe ., w ite'h ..r , il ,t hi en'l'. Ijt' il ,rli' i' i -

een th. freir iit. \v h ia n ..i'r , 1 h1 ,-lill'r l.r-

frt ihe ;.t i , nen iven h mt ill'r1,. hikot

!,;t,'h .rs,. tr~tk wailk•:,y'. il,an eenirall

s',rkboer rmalur. the 'ariorleir rlir in,~'ofit i, imlIll try. T!'I .v ure, ,lividl,', int,, th,.

f,,II,\w in,_ ,at'._o it tio/i n,,i ,,I,,ratini '_ !ll, n

th!. lti,. ry ht i t~i h,, int .r-..•l. oJ thio rail-

rat ,orprnh'tion ] a tieir resit l fthe

,relknisati,,n fr, ihtitm.tl: Trt. wthelltit

noers in the arotharll. Th f ln ,orthativEngineers: th,' firomen in the Blrotir-

,.in-moen. the comin atlors in the, (ir, hr ,,i

Hlailway I•',wri alt,,rs: tho' britk,.nvw, it,

the Blroth,.rh,,o- ,,f lailwaIv Trliinmnin

the .srit+'hm-n it, tho, S 'if,.hti,.n's• I'n-

Un: the frei, .ht ha-ndllors inl al'lh+.r ,,r-

<-,nination : thit,' l,'v-rnlhirs il anoth,.r:

the .•ectionr mten in annoth+r: the machin-

ints., hoiller-makers. ear-r,.v,,ir,.rs in s,,.arate organizationn. The r•.•t ,,f th,'.wrkers'• art,. for" th, mot par.-i withonut

organiz.ation at all. The, reason for that

is that the organizationss above namedmilake no attempt to fortify their own po-sition, hby organizing the unorganized

9workers in the industry. They are un-

l,.r the false belief that their own or-

tanization is sufficient in and by itself.

"Sacred Agreements."EaIh of . the above named organiza-

tions is working under a contract for a

certain length of time. Their member-ship is hound by the organizations to

remiain at work so long as the railroadcomirlany lives up to the terms of the

contract. arid, for the most part, thecontracts of the different organizations

expire at different periods. The railroad

manageiennt is thus insured against hav-

ing to subjugate more thain a part of itsemployes at any given time. The resultof this condition of affairs is that when-

ever any branch of the workers in thisintistry enter into a conflict with the

emiplioyer, they have not only

to o,,baibat the resources of that

.,i ,eloyer, but also their fellow workers

in the same, industry who remain atwork, aid assist thie employer in the op-'.ratio of the railroad. In every in-

stac',. the dlefect is due to the' lack of

Illiite'dl aItion by the workers, part ofthoan J'ing om' nelled to remain at work

ill observance,' of thlleir sacred agreementwith the emplo,yer. They 're simply

Ilind 'd lby the wrong principles andnethlols of their organizations.

Railways Industrialized.(',outrast this state of affairs with

what wo,(hl he the case', were these

worke'rs organized Ion the1 plan of the T.

W'. W.. atlil elieatedl in th' principle's

nll whic'h it is las'ld. The railway w4ork-

I rs opeIrating froml anIdV givyen di\'ivision

lpoint wouldi he' orlanizeid undler one

cha;rte'r. cnvering,. that inllistry f'or that

dlivision. a lo'al Indstrial l'Union of

T'ra;llsl,•ortlation Workers. The worke'rs

ol'iipposi.r that local industrial 'Unioni

wo,,llI be branehd : so as to permit the

\worlo,.l•,s of each department to sleet.

discess anil rceitl(e all lupistiolns. "For

instance~. t111e Engin,'ers and Firemen,

who woul meet as such to discuss and

decide upon the colitions co'lernilng

the workin l co'ltitiois of their respee-

ti si' ehIpart'mnit ls. The train c'rewwould doli likewise. C(',oks. Wait'rs and

I' ter's' , fi'or ' linl. anlsther branch for the

Illl'lrpos' if le.lislatio, n as to, their work-

in.' conIdllitiollns; DepotI . Employ'es. Tele'-

eLil'rl•hers. I)isp;ltcl'helrs anlI TeIowernn'll

iMac.hinists. Itoilhrnlakerl alids Rlc air-i -

011,.1. I'Ta'.w; ik.i'rs alli S'lectionmlen.I lrl elllll. si witchmenl . l II,r 'II' illlI

'ar.i,,'l s ,to which thei I'lonI d bI iii iea-

son of Ithl' I lrtie tilahr kinld of lep.sar'nl i ti

in which thiie workied. These wranche•s\\l,:11l, I il' i n1 _ :l 1part1 s of ilt Ica';

h olill'.t|ri;ll I 1li, ,1. . s ol,'h IhI. w ,,I ,I

ih i';v ,' tII p 'wet'r l' t h lis ss 1 , t111; 1 iI'' l"

11I'1 necIsar to he w orkle a vaitilys

Il; I i I,' it 1' ti,'l finr ,li'l;rtl tllll f t. I':;tIt h

bricrt l o h b'l ' s'si 1(1he r('lerI S nted i the rail s

inlasn~e2Cnhilt.iNl Istion of the works'r

ouldIso. Tho'y udasnon m e'tin, w,,si ,li•in ,the • ' rit1 ilslt l'c ac alien irnlv lrai. 1fr

thwrkia for ,unilions ted r cthi, ion trh at,,I ,.;l,'h b It'; .h w ,o , i c e m, • ittll, th,.

c, ir illof,.,. th i u b,, ll i ;alq. ;ar i t',r,. fth,',ilro',ai maIlln rs. re.,iv, thi ir r,.l: lY

olf, rtl,,t w k' in, tha orinhd'uryip t,'

Ithn.tr iha rn their vs. Irft nAittion .mal in strlt th, .ir lo, a l i hilltrial ulni,, o

thril _h it.• r'~,ntan itt,'. to pro,,ce ti

t;k,'n u' t,, th Nati,,al Induhsrtrial ln-

i,,. com"oi o. f all l lord Tran ,,,rt(

,essary.. united action of the worktrs

wo,,t, r,•lli in thr ,rtir. industry. If.

in orl.r t, ,nfrc, the ir h. rnayid .it i

Industrial Branches vs. Orf Autonony

It is necessary to state here that thebranching of the different workers hereoutlined is not by any means arbitrary.The workers in the industry affectedwill decide that matter as the specialconditions, of which they have fullknowledge, may dictate. The tendencywill be to have as few branches in theIndustrial Union as conditions will per-mit; at the same time making it possi-ble for every worker in the industry totake part in the affairs of the organiza-tion. Usually the investigator of indus-trial unionism will, at first glance, seein the branches of the Industrial Unioncraft unionism under another name. Theopponent of industrial unionism will in-sist that such is the case. Do not thebranches mean a division? the investi-gator will ask. Not at all; no more thanthe division of an army into companies,battalions, regiments and brigades meandivisions. An army is so organized inorder that it can be handled to accom-plish its mission. In industrial union-ism the Branch will be the company, theindustrial union the battalion, the De-partment of National Industrial Unionsof closely allied industries as. for in-stance, electric, marine, and steamtransportation will be the brigade, whilethe combination of Departments willconstitute the working class on the eco-nomic field.

Again, the defenders of craft union-ismn will assert that the tendency of suchorganization is along the same line. Theywill justify their contention by pointingto the recently formed Building Trades)Departmenlt and Metal Trades Depart-

mnclt of the American Federation ofLabor. The student of Industrial U'n-ionis•n also will he inclined to agreewith that view, as a proof that craftunionism is 1rraluhally evolving to eon-formn with the present state of industrialde.velolnient. Such is not the eas:'. The'very ess.ence of craft unionism is crafta utonimny. ('raft autonomy means thateaueh craft organization, as such. has the

Iower to treat and make terms with thecmploy,'er. The craft. organizations teachthis. and they deny it also. hut in stru,-

l.es nw ith the employer they invariablypra,.tice it. re_,ardlless of the f•ec thaterafts. as such. are olliterated in mod-ern industry.

The power clainmed for each era ft to

mnake separate terms with the e•ployer

is the fatal defect in the craft fo,rm of,oraniization. It •ai never be remediediby any combination or agreeiienit he-

1twee' ur:;uanizatgRs so long as it is ;I-Iwo, to r"euain, i ii ingine. if von enui, alla•v'im in whi.h the' integral parts hada;rtonori, " 1(t to fr';t with the ,'ei11 y amidenter into Jia,',' p;,et., r-,':rdh,•ss of the

wVhoui '. 'I u lha rI iits fat' vi ii nu .id ouil

in theii industriall rs o'f ou'r till.

''h, hi'anihes of the, limnlstr-ial I'nio,have no sulh i• ,jet. Thei" s•I !'•1.

fhu i." fib i'sist ii"i 1tihiiti.i. it .f . . .. I

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simplifying the drilling of the army ofproduction. This self-imposed drill, dis-cipline and education is the method ofthe Industrial Workers of the World.Its purpose is to gain codtrol of themachinery of production, and then tooperate it, distributing the wealth soproduced to all who by brain or musclehave contributed in producing the jointproduct. To achieve this result the In-dustrial Workers of the World is in ex-istence. To make possible the achieve-ment of this result it offers the follow-ing Preamble as' a statement of its prin-ciples:

(SRee Preamble on Editorial Page)And as a working program by which

to build, it proposes the following rules:

Working.ProgrsL.

All power vests in the general mem-bership through the initiative and re-ferendum and the right of repeal andrecall.

Universal transfer system and recog-nition of cards bf union workers of allcountries; one initiation fee to be allthat is required, and this is to be placedat such a figure that no worker will heprevented from becoming a union manor woman because of its amount.

A universal label, badge, button andmembership card. thus promoting theidea of solidarity and unity amongst theworkers.

A defense fund to which all membersshall contribute.

The final aim of the industrial unionwill he to place the working class inpossession of the wealth producing ma-chiner., mills, workshops, factories.rail-roads. etc.. that the labor of the" work-ine class has created.

This aim can not he accomplishedwhile the workers are divided upon thefield of production, as they have beenin the past and are today. It can nothe accomplished until the workers, inan organization of and by the workingclass alone. edueate themselves to carryon production in their own behalf.

Until sufficient numbers of the work.ers are edueated to accomplish this task.the battle of the worker in capitalist so.ciety must he fqnght. and industrial un-ionism offers the only weapon withwhich the worker can hope to snccess-fully combat the power of the employ-in!, class on thc economic field.

All hail Revolutionary Industrial Un-ionism ! peed the day of its advance-ment and ultimate triumph!

VINCENT ST. .TOTTN.

"CURSED."

('urs•'el le the se,'il w'ants tha:,t sinag Ininst lth stre.niLth of youth!

('urse•l be the sae'ial lies that warle usfri',, , the, livin•- truth!

'i rsei'l l.e the sickly frmurs that err frnm

ht ,, \:etul re','s rule'

Tenn f.UesonI