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VOL yi RBLth, ONT4l4A, THUDIIAY, DIBICN• 7, l7tI NO. 48.

SOCIALISTS GIVENDOUBLE CROSS

McNamaras Confess to Dyna-miting. Grand Play to

Defeat Socialist.(By National docalltat Premss.)

Los Aagees,. Cad.. Dec 2-Labor has 4

been betrayed. The McNamara broth- i

eos have pleaded guilty under sur-

roundlngs and circumstances of a

parting nature. The whole drama- I

tic denouement in the atest great

tragedy In the mruggle In Los Angeles

was onaefully timed at an hour when I

It would strike the most deadly blow

at the Boclast cause., .. .

Job Harrtman was the only atorney I

to the confidence of those who planed I

for the defense who was not taken In.-

and carted out the surrender. For

the past two months Hariman has

not been closely conected with the

oonduct of the case although fre- I

quently consuled on maters of moo-.

meat. He has ben giving his time I

and atention to the campalgatightlng

Labor's batleo on the polltleal fle.d i

No one could have been more dum-:fetudded than Harriman when the i

news was carted to him by the news- I

paper extras that the McNamara

brothers had been taken to court

wher they changed their plea to guilty

"I don't understand why this was

914 itm =ahe'We@.0' Ma 0We will go ahead with our campJagn."

tartdlla developments have rapid-.

ly followed each other during thepast few days. The arrest of Bert IFranklin a local detective and former '

deputy United Itates marshall on a

charte of atempting to bribe a pros- I

lective Juror started the series of I

Namara brothers pleaded gutlty on I

the advice and under the persuasion

events that only ended when the Mc t

et all the atorneys for the defense s

e.oepting Harriman. tWhen Franklin was areeted with

the two men who are believed to

have been stool pigeon. of the pro-

seeator's detectives, $I4.00. In large

dimension bills were found In their

possesion. These bills were exhibit-

ed to newspaper men in the district

attorney's office where that Plcialdeclared they were marked and that

he could TRACE EVERY ONE OF

THEM BACK TO THE PLACEWHENCE THEY CAME.

There were at once spread start-

dAn rumors that certain attorneys for

the detinse would be implicated.Iartmans' first knowledge of this

phase of the case was gained from

the newspapers and from this hour

he wee Ignored by the other attorneys

in the defense.District Attorney John D Preder-

Icke next prung a surprise by calling

a halt in the McNamaa trial just be-fore noon on Friday, announclng that

nothing of a stratling nature weea tofollow. It wee onay a delay Incidentto the conduct of such a case.

Then cane the grand cllmsa It

folowed days and nights of feverishexcltement and frequenet consulta-tion between the prosecution and cer-

tain attorneys for the defense. Longconferences were held with the Mc-Nam.m brothers. What took piece in

their cells in the aell has not yet been

disclooed and may not be until after

the boys are sentenced.To make the affair as dramnato as

possible Judge Bordwell set the dayfor sentencing the men on Tue,, Dee

fifth--eleoton day. At the hour when

the men d women of the workingclam of (0. Angeles ari La the Inidst

of their struggle for libtrati•n thriughpoltitoae notion the lawyers will gather

about and listen to the sentence to be

pronounced on the two men who havebeen forced into their awful position.

When the senoe Is set for the next

tragie event It will be an historic

gatherlng There will be gatheredClarence Darrow who site shroudedway." Then there will be JosephI• g•oom saying. "It was the only

Ucott candidate for re-election to he

Board of Education on he "Good

Government" ticket. Beslde him him

be Cyrus F. McNutt. member of thiezaeutlve board of the "Good Govern

ment" party. In the group will bi

Lecompte Davis, a capitalist lawyel

who has no sympathy with labor auits struggle; who knows nothing o

workers.To make the scene complete Beo

the defense backed by referenece oFranklin, the detective, who went iA

men whose very names should have

aroused deep suspicion to any one

who has the faintest knowledge ol

contemporaneous history In Los An.

I eles and in the country.

Socialists of Los Angeles were nol

stricken down by the blow aimed nathem. With keen and clear Insight

they quickly put the correct nlaterpre.

tation on he whole act.A meetUnl of speakerm was called

and inside of two hours 76 out of 8I

taking active part on the platfornappeared at headquarters. Alexandel

Irvine, manager of the city campaign

Winfleld Gaylord. state senator o4

Wisconsin and Job Harriman outline!

the policy of speakers. A domen quic

changes were made In speakers for a

velopmenat would be asked and atwent ahead with great precision.

This quick recovery from the shoclInspired workers and the reaction waaquick and bouyant

Ldecoln Ste fens, the famous mag.salne writer Is one of the most remarkable characters In the wholetragedy

Around thispero t centeredthe whol plot. It was Steffin whoset the stage; it was he who plannedthe mlae en scene. Steffens gatheredaround him all the prominent figures

of local capitalism. In thisL roup were

the head and fore front of the M. andM. These men are the choicest of thelabor haters of Californla.

These men were taken Into theconfidence of Steffens who is givencredit for 'engineering the "peace

pact" between capital and labor."

This mockery was carried in mostof the daily newspapers. The most

mawkish and sickeaing atory was

printed in the Tribune. The story

starts away with this paragraph."The gospel of Jesus Christ applied

to the twentieth cetnury, the gospel ofremunieotlon. self-abnegation, humllty

and charity applied to the bitterestie what induced James B. and JohnJ. MoNamara to confess their gulland the district attorney to accepttheir plea in a spirlt of humanty."

In the headlines 8teffens is calledS"Christian crusader "

Here Is the erusade: Steffens decid-

ed he was inspired to end all Indus-trial strife in Los Angeles, bring about

a new era of good feeling, peace on

earth and good will to all men and

a lot of that sortFirst he goes to Meyer IAssner, themin high bors of the inner ring of

the "Good Government" political party

which is the fore treont of the desper-ate plutocracy, maddened by the im-pending peaceful victory on the field

of political action

Next Iteffens took Into confidenceThomas m. Gibbons, a Jorporationlawyer who has stood close to H. G.Otis for years, a notorious entre-preneur of exploiters, a member of the"Good Govenment" administration

harbor commision and a man, who,

guilty were entered, was mereilemleyflayed by Job Harriman who corneredthe apologist and forced a debate be-tore 1.600 persons at Temple Audl.

torlum.

Next Harrison Gray was consulted.Then Edwin To. Earl publisher of theTribune and Express, the man of all

men who is fighUng most desperately

to keep in his grasp the city govern-

ment of Los Angeles, was brought in-

to the scheme.

The culunms of his newspapershave for several weeks reeked with

vidflcatlona, falsehoods and misrepre- us

and their plans and polcices. .e

Next came Paul Shoup vice- presi- 34

dent of the Pacific i!allway ystent.

Huntington's right hand maln and

confidential agent.

Otis, Earl and Huntington are :.wn.

era of vast tracts ofland in •as. •',r-

nando valley where the doclailetsScharge they are preparlng to cut a

$50,000,000 meb)n by dlverting the owaters of Owens River aqu4du-.t which

pathe people of Los Angelev .are con-

ccstructiag at a cost of $S5, 0o0,0ue

Others that Steffens took into his

confidence were:

Jess Stoddard, vice-president of Frirt thNational Bank.

puJ.O. Koepfll of Bishop and Co. hi

R W Burnham, local manager ( )r

R. 0. Dun and Co. ,t

Frank P. Flint, attorney and form-or United States senator.

Fred L. Baker, president BakerIon Workls

Meredith P. Snpder. president of ShCalifornia Savings Bank.

James Slauson, President Chamber th

Herman W. Frank. president Har- Inris and Frank Clothing Co.

Wildam J. Washburn, president

t Eqnltable Savings Bank.Harry Chandler, Assistant general t

manager and treasurer Times-Mirror

Publishing Co

O. F. Brant, vice-president Title toinsurance and Trust Co.

Steffens is credletd with saying:

"Perhaps this was the first time

that charity had ever appealed to a tset of business men as a dividend supaying InvestmentL"

Meyer Limne Liner Is quoted as aying:

"For a piece of purely altrulstic be

idealism, it was worked out more sopract~ic~ly than anything I have ever Ucseen, and I believe the results are to

be of far-reaching benefit to man-r hind."

caThese men had gathered in utmost a

secrecy. Job Harriman was keptIn utter Ignorence of what was go-

Ing forward. No wonder, no Social-

ist or friend of the working Class was

who were planning the coup thatstruck such a blow at the cause of f[the working clam. The honor of

being a So-between for the prose- dicutlon and the defense is offered toseveral permonm At any rate thedeal was comsumnated, most appro- capriately on Friday. be

The Los Angeles Times came out cothe foflowlng day with the foulest, si

most vituperative sheet that paper

has ever issued Scurrillons storiest

and brutal cartoons characteriled the o-msue. So vile was the attack on be

organised labor and the Sociallte pa

that a revulsion was created in the

public mind. Every effort was made

to turn the tide against the Socialists thiin the election. Other newspapers lulwere extremely mlid and none hadlmue to the story. The Times made a~c

the tendency to apply the political

the most of the opportunityand shrieksfor the blood of the men who had

Los Angeles SocialistsReceive Slight Repulse.

The Dig election In Los Angeles hastaken place, the bailots counted and

the Socialists failed to elect any of

their candidates, although their vote

was nearly double the vote receivedat the primary election last month

George Alezander the anti-Socialistcandidae for mayor received 83,978

received 52,293 votes

Without doubt the confeston of

the McNamaru was what defeatedthe Socialists, an the antl-eocialists

used the confesdon to put the Boclal.tat party under suspiolon as beingassessorlee to the fact.

While the women of Los Angelesvoted for the first time it is doubt-ful if the women voted soldly forthe anti-Bociallst candidate. Fiftythousand voters who had registeredfailed to vote, this would tend toshow that the conteasion of the Me

Namaras creeed oonfusion among the

voters and eaused a stampede ofIndependent voters to the antiU-ocial-

slet camp. The chairman of the anti-Soclailst forces in commenting on thea

large stay-at-home vote, said that the

principle reason was that they simply i

would not vote for Aleoander andrather than vote for Harriman they 4stayed away from the polls

There were a large number ovoters partially converted to Soclalismwho had their eyes opened to the

that many attdsma1 declare ,"uuluI

yeidmod and pleaded guilty Lv .rim, 4mover have beau tIsted upon th. in

IWTA1EIMEUY 3K HAnaI AN

Job Harimas iLued the following

tatment on laturday morning."According to the morning pa I, rs,

the amnes of many men who are

heavily interest/ In the Uan F'(rnan-

do and San leoro harbor deals., outof which the asa iaues of th, '.nml-

p.1gm have UarIW were press nt it

conferences latelving the Ir. r. nt

compromising et the McNamnara .,'e.

Per months. hose men ha\' s.,dthat they were absolutely cert .n .,f

the guilt of the defendants, ar l the

prosecution. ami detective W. J Iltrns

have nlformed the pubdo through thepublic press that they had an .. ,-

lutely concluiqeO cuase agaJnst th .e-

cused men.And lHarrisa Gray Otis, thr,,ugh

his organ, has been demanding ,.n-Seace, and Wm been climoring for

the lives of these men.This being true. it is apparent that

these "big business" men we.r not

inspired with a dispositlon to mn. etlabor on the high plane of a c",mpro-

miss or an srort to amiably adjust.

as far as peible, the conflictin; in-tereets, as is claimei for th ni,but,

on the contrary, they have with th,.ir

alleged advantage, premed the de-

fendants to enter a plea of guilty

just four days before the election with

the hope of converting this fact intoa political advantage, and to divert

the public ateUtion from the r, al is-

sues of the campaign.Whoever will read the front page of

Isaturday morningsl Times cannot but

be convinced but that this was thesole purpose that inspired th ir ac-Lion

But the people will not be diverted

from their own interests, merely be-

cause the prosecution surrenders its

alleged advantage In a criminal cam-

to become as issue in a political cam-pallgn.

I know aMoIsty nothing of thearrangments or the desire on thepitW dtett Me- n topIEr-eiity. Iwas not taken Into any of the con-ferences by the other attorneys, andof guilty had been entered.

did not know of it until after the pleaI have been engaged In the cam-

paign and have taken no part in thecase since the primaries I have notbeen In the court room, or in thecounty jail, or have not seen the menslnce November first

I have not tated with the at-

torneys or either of them about theasae since that date. My time has

been entirely occupied with the east-paign.

When the disaster concerned oc-garred. I was profoundly convinced

that it was a gas explosion, and filtlute innnooense of the two defend--

that we would be able to prove thistact beyond a doubt.

When I was retained in the case

(Continued on page two.)

gigantle hfand andateas In Californiabut not uffilclently versed In the phll-sophy of Sociallsm to understand theworkings and methods of capitalists.and when the confossion of the MeNamaras was made public and theMcNamaras being sentenced on elect.Ion day. it shook their faith in thesincerity at the Socialists and theydeserted on the eve of battle.

The Saoosal ts of Los Angeles areundismayed at the repulse they re-celved on election day, a•though theyexpected to carry the election. TheSocla•lsts lost nothlng, they had no-thing to lose.

With unadaunted courage they arenow gatherlng their forces togetherand preparllng to start a campsaign toelect Sociallsts to the state legislature.next November.

While a ietory for the Socialistsat this tloe would have had a greateffect towards settang he srikes inLos Angeles In favor of the workers,yet takang the aittation as a whole,

the defeat of the Soolialts at this timewill react o he Socialists advantage.

as the contmeuson of the McNamaraswill mean the purging of the unionsof the deaosrats and republicans whobelieve In Violeace In solving the laborproblem, La 'opposition to the l elicy ofpolitical Mation advooated by the So-clalists

PROGRESS OFRAILWAY STIRKE

Two Months of the Strike BothSides on the Aggressive

Men Hopeful.n.or With two months having passed

since the strike was called the strikers

t on the Harriman lines ar, standing

oft with ranks unbroken. With all the

.t scabs at their command the Southern

.. Pacific railroad have not bee.n able to

t. get a single engine overhauled in all

. Its shops rom New Orleans to Port-it. land. Oregon. where as under normal

Ir conditions a few hundred engines

e. could have passed through the shopsty each month.

Lh The rolling stock and motive power

to are reaching a state when the com-

rt pany will be unable to handle them.

s- Boler explosions and wrecks are a

common occurrence. Within the pas:

u few days word has come of a pas•en-

at ger locomotive blowing up near Raw-.

Ie lins. Wyo.. the boiler was blown 50c- feet from the track, the engine cr- w

killed, four passenger coaches derail-ed ed. and the track tore up for 900 feet.e- Another boiler blew up on the branch

t line between Salt Lake and Tintle.a- Utah, in which the engineer was kill-

n- ed and the flerman badAy scalded.

Owing to defective breaks a trainte ran away near Gunn, Wyo.. and a

te scab belonging to the wrecking crew

I was killed while clearing ui the- wreckage

id At Salt Lake the government boiler

Inspectors ordered three pasengera locomotives out of service, as the

a- engines were in too dangerous a con-

e dition to allow them to be longer used,ot The extremes that the corporation

te Is in for want of men can be seen,

.n from the conduct of the management

of the Union Pa

cific raliroad, at Raw.

.ans, Wyo. in demanding that a pen-. slon, r return t* work.

SiMr Owens an old time boliermake

at Rawlins. Wyo.. who worked fo

the. Union Pacific railroad for 44years and was discharged a numb-

of years ago by that road for beinit too old. but given a pension for llfe

.war recently notified to report foli work at once or suffer the loss o

his pension. Mr Owens is a Justlteof the peace at Itawlin%, and refuse(

to become a scab.

From Cleveland comes the repor

that the Harriman lines have turnet

over 3.000 bad order cars to the

Pennsylvania railroad to be repairee

at the Pensylvania shope at Altoona

Penn. The carmen employed by thePennsylvania refused to handle thecars from the Harriman lines and :1strike is now threatened on the Penn.

sylvania.

The Illnios C'ntral and Harrimar

lines and New York Central have

given large orders to the locomotive

factories for new engines, but the

boilermakers at the locomotive fac.

tories have refused to build loco.

motives boilers for the roads where

strikes are in existence.

Small pox has broken out among

the scabs In the bual pen at L.o

Angeles and a bad state of affairs ex.

slts there, but the labor hating author-

liles of Loa Angeles are trying to sup-

press the facts of he epidemic.

The local lodge of the Blrotherhood

of Itailroad Trainmen at Ios Angeles

have expelled one It. Dell for scab-

ing on the striking carmen.

The following letters written by

strike leaders, will show the condition

of afllirs from the union standpoint.

SIve-nr•"den•hht Hannosn's Report."I atm much pleased to be able to

state to our brothers who are out on

strike on the Harriman ralload line s

that I foIund conditlions at the points

that I ha•t visited in Califonia, Or,-Igln ;and Washington In a very good

ha:pe., the men for the most part

seene i p'eo'ssed of a spirit of de-

termnht:lia to stick together in this

greal struggle until vlcory has crown-

cd th. ir ,erts".11h, - :.titn in the city of Port-

land %h , about 1.000 men came

out on -• , is very good, the strikers

hae n,,, i. contend with In a city

adntlllli. : that opposes them at

I each and elery turn, and pub,ie ,lin-Sofun that favors the railroad crpor-f ation In this struggle betw.' n capital

and labor. Srike brteakers ha•,, ,... ni arresed time and again for carry ingt concealed weapons, and tak, n to th.I police court and dlscharged. Strikrs

are arr, sted with out caus. or pro-I vocation and ar, compell, to put

t up large and unroasonahle sums fort bail when there is really no Just cause

for their arrest at all'The union men of Portland as-

salated very materially in electing th',,present city administration of Port-

land, and they do not feel very proudof the fact, but it has be,.n an ed-ucation to many of them n,,t onlyin Portland but ad along th. hin-and it is a safe prediction that he ntelction time rolls around again inthese places the working nl n willknow who to vote for.

"1 tlsited the Dalles Ore., also 4a(;rande. at the latter place I foundth, strikers ve.ry much in evidt nee, onthe job day and night and apparentiy

g Itting good results. I sapnt a dayin Starbuck. Washington and .address-ed a meeting in the Opera House,

this is another tdwn where the aenti-mt-nt of the public seem to be withthe big corporations instead of withthe men who toll. I visited otherpoints in Washington and returned toPortland to address a meeting of theI Albina business men and then left for

the south. I spent a short time with

with the arikers a Roseburg, Ashlandand also stopped off at Dunsmuir.Californla.

"I met with the machinists andaddrems. d a meeting of the Federationand later addre-ssed a meeting of bus-i'nes men In behalf of the strikersand left for San Francisco. A portionof my time was spent in the north iniooking after the case in Portlandwhere one of our brother machinistswho has been a striker in the contractshops of that city was murdertd iacold blood by a shop owner and itlooked for a while as if he would Deacquitted of the charge, but webrought evidence to the attention ofthe grand jury to prove that it wascold blooded and deliberate and themurderer was inditetd for murder inthe first degree and held without ballfor the criminal court. The manu-facturers of the north west havepledged the sum of $100,000 for hisdetfense so it is aleged. lSince thattie another cold blooded crime hasbeen committed by one of the railroadguards at akersflield who shot andkilled in cold blood a man whosympathized with the strikers. Ontop of this conies the news that theMecNamara brothers in jail at LosAngeles have confessed that they aregulity of the crime of dynamiting theLos Angeles Times building whichdestroyed the lives of 21 personsThis information came to us with thesudennoss of a thunderbolt from aclear sky, and has caused us al tofeel depressed. Personally I had feltthat the McNamaras were innocentand were the victims of a frame up,and 1 have addressed a number ofpublic meetings In their behalf, andand to learn from their own lips thatthey were gulity of this crime was oneof the greatest surprises that I havemet with fur a long time

"Many of our broher membersthroughout the country are alreadypredicting disaster for the labormovement, but they are composed forthe most part of the brothers easilydiscouraged, here is no occasion forlabor to lay dAn, our movement Isa series of trials and struggles, manyof them severe ones, and the labormovement whif continue to live andprosper long after the McNamara in-c'ldent has been forgotten. Remem-ber brothers it requires strength andcourage to battle our way throughlife, and if things look a little dark

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The confession of the McNamaru

to dynamiting, came like a thunder-

bolt from a clear sky.

The Soclalists generally believed

them innocent of the crime charged

and based on the way that the men

were kidnapped, an opinion was

formed that the men were not going r

to receive justice.

lHowever, the McNamaras have E

pleaded guilty to the charge against

them, and took their sentence, apar-

ently willingly.

The Socialiss are being condemned

for supporting the McNmaras. In

this respect, the Socialiists have no- I

thing to apologise for. It is a right

of the Anglo Saxong that a.?

persons are to be considered in- I

nocent of the crime charged against

them until proven guilty. This right

has been handed down fom sire to son

and to maintain it the Socialists went

to the aid of the McNamaras, and pro-

tested against the professional kidnap-

ing carried on by the representatives

of the capitalist crass. and the result

is. that the capitalists pulled off a

smooth piece of political work in Los

Ageles. to their benefit as the election

returns will show.

While the Socialists do not believe

in terrorism. yet we must condemn

the action of the detectives in vlo-

laing the state laws by kidnapping.

If the detectives had such a sure

thing case against the McNasmra

Why did they kidnap them? Why

not let the law tike its course? Both

Indiana and Y.jchigan are capitalist

ruled states.

It it is wrong to dynamite. It is

wrong to kidnap.

If it is wrong to destroy property.

it is equalhy wrong to deprive any

man of his liberty without due pro- 4

cesr of law.

Therefore the detectives should be

punished for violating the law just

as the McNamaras have been punish-

ed. If the law is to be respected.

no distinction should be made oe-

tween criminals.

In using deeds of violence to solve a

the problems of labor the McNa-

maras are to be pitled. They have n

been voting the old party ticket all li

their life with out seeing any im-

provemens in the condition of the ii

working class. They have seen their t

union smashed by the capitalists, seen f

injunctions placed upon the men on I

strike and the strikers sente-nced to .

jail without a jury trial for violating

a one man made law. They have seen

working mens' homes soad under the

sheriffs hammer to satisfy damages 1

given by courts to employers, because I

the men went on strike. They have I

seen working mn disabl,.d in mine.,

mill. factory and on railroads, killed

and mangled through the criminal I

carelessness of corporations. in order

that dividends may be declared. Thvey

have se.en the courts declare labor I

Isw aftr law unconstitutional They I

have secn judges non-suit working-

men when suing for compensation

for injuries received and limbs lost. I

They have seen machinery, wild beasts

wild fowls and wealth protected,

while childhood, womanhood, mother-

hood and even manhood have been

sacrifled on the altar ofmamon. They

have seen judges corrupted and seats

bought in the UnitedStates Senate.

They have seen union pickets sen-

tenced to jail, while stealers of the

public domain went free They have

seen the cost of living go skyward

and the struggle for existence among

the poor ibecome harder in order that

trust magnates might thrive. Driven

to desieration. they decided to send

the property of the trust magnates sky

ward, in hopes that this might solve

the problems of labor.

Socialists do not beilevie In the

methods used by the McNamaars

to solve the problems of labor.

Sociallhts do not bellieve In brute

force. In terrorslam, but on constructive

measures and not destructive ones.

Socialists have a scientific method

of solving the age long labor problem.

Socialists belelve in the conservation

of human life, and not in the de-

struction of life.

The irascible plan will never eman-

cipate the working class from wage

slavery. The sword may strike the

shackles from off the limbs of the

slave, but it Is education and organl-

sation that wii make of him a free

man. Education and more education,

Intensive oducalon is what the o.-

claim are arugglnr for. It Ls beamsthat will win this fight. Sad eealoI-

pate the race, and not Miad trute

force.The Socialists advocates the use of

the ballot to right he wrongs o laber.

and have faith in democracy, have

faith that the people once edqaated

and inteldgent will solve the problemsof the race The Soclallats know

that until the people are educated and

Intelligent that their hopes and aspir-

atons. the ideals of Soc~iia•l wihnever be attained. Therefore the

8oclalists have patience and keep onwith their propaganda regardless ofwhat may transpire.

Bishop Carrol In a sermon given In

Butte last Sunday, condemned womanssuffrage. raying that to give woman

the ballot woui'd be to take her from

her exalted position.

Bishop Carrol does not appear to

take into consideration the fact that

more women each year are driven

from the home to the factory to

earn a living and compete with men,

these women want laws made to give

them protection at their hazardous

occupations, therefore demand the

ballot

The Reverend gentleman cannot

point to a single working womens"

compensatlon law, or working boy or

girl compensation law, an old age

pension for worn out women of the

factory and mill.

The Supreme Court of Montana re-

cently declared the Coal Miners' Com.

pensatlon law unconstltutional. What

is to become of the widows of the

Montana coal miners killed in the

mines? How are they going to raise

the kiddies that are left fatherless?

Three men who form the Montana

Supreme Court evidently thought that

It was of greater imporance to increase

the dividends of the coal companies,

than to give the dependents of coal

miners killed In mines compensation

for the loss of husband and father, and

so declared it unconstitutional to tax

coa; companies to compensate coal

miners or their dependents. In other

words three men in Montana pract-

cally told the women and children In

Montana coal camps )- go to hell for

compensation.

is it not time that the women were

given the ballot?

The human specie of the same sex

as Bishoi Carrol have made such a

damn poor job in handdng the ballot

that the women are starting to say.

"Let the women do he wo'K."

In a reuct ilsue of the Butte Miner

. the editor In commending the action ca

of the action of the State Supreme le

court in declaring the Coal Miners tl

Compensation law unconstitutional as

'e says. tr

"It was one of these sure thing

Smeasures that comes before legli- leII latures." is

I- The editor of the Miner was a mem- lu

e ter of the last legislature and one of (UIr the "sure thing measures" he voted in d

n favor of. was the Donohue Militia J

n bill. However, the people by their o

.o votes will kilt this militia law deader ri

S than any state supreme court decision b

,n could do. tlse Another "sure thing" piece of legis. Z

es latlon voted for by the editor of the I

se Butte Miner was the substitute for c

el House Bill 146. the purpose of which h

*'. seems o be,. to aid the infant industry r

,d of Montana, known as the Montanaal butter trust wih headquarers In Bute,

,r confiscate the farmers dairy herd

.y without compensation to the farmers,.)r raise the price of creamery butter.

*y and aid the Butte butter trust con-s- trol or freeze out the independent

,n farmers' co-operative creameries In t

St. the state.

ta House Bill 146 was a "sure thing".

d, Larry! ,

Tht Supreme Court of Montana ha

deciared picketing by union men Il-

legal, by giving a decision against

Louis Dilno of Great Falls.

Diino is a Socialist and business

agent of the Cooks and Walters union.

lis union declared a restaurant un-

fair, and Dilno done some picket duty.

The restaurant proprietor in question

iapplied for an Injunction against Dilno

and theunion. the district court re-

fused to grant the Injunction and the

case was carried to the Supreme

Court and that body reversed the de-

cision of the rower court and Instruct-

ed the lower cuort to grant the In-

junctionThe decision of the Supreme Court

is rather peculiar ai the court practi-

cally revwrses a decision they made

three years ago in the case of the

Lindsay Produce compony verots the

Montana Federation of Labor, where-

by the Supreme Court in a sweeplai

decision declared boycotting legal.

The Socialist vote in Los Anelet*

In 1909 was lss than 2,000. lrat

Tuesday Job Harriman, the oelalist

candidate for mayor of Lo Ang0tle

plllo'd over 52,000 votes, which shows

an increase of over 50,000 Io•lallM

votes in Los Angeles in tWO t7*y 8.

That la going some!

OX TO VITe .

TO recent eleolo" etar hbaveMed a wave of eathenImI ta sweep

ver, the Socialist paU from coast

to seast, resulting In the esalaMts put-

tia renewed energy Iate the neverending campaign for Unstatiam.

The gowth of Sootalist soUmentIn Meatana is incremsla with leapscad bounds and good resnlts nan beobtained at the next eleetion, providedefflleant organising work Is carried on.

At present the Montana movementI souffering from lo•k e thoroughorganlaation, and if attention Is not

givea to organlisation the victoriesthat should he ours next spring will

not be attainld.The Socialists all overt he state

should support their local movement,

prepare for county organlnation and

give the state organisation every as-

mistatce possible to carry on the work

and prepare for the big struggle of

1912.The Socialists of Montana eas elect

State Senators from three Oounties

next year if they wlia but put their

shoulder to the wheel. The move-

ment In Montana is not a local affair,

Socialist sentiment has not a monoply

on any one section of the state. It is

everywhere, and the counties least

suspected of havig strong Sociallsts

sentiments are the ones that are atpresent ripe for organization and vic-

tory.

Let as be up and doing, the fight

of 1911 has now commenced.

The tlrat for profltl have cared themanagement of railroads to operate

ly redueed force, and as a result ofthe rallroad repair shops with a great- dsuch, the motive power and rolllagstock Me in very bad condton.

Railroad men working around tarshops may that. there is no pretense atrepairing cars any more. That badorder ears are Just patched up suftl-clentd" eaough to carry theet from one

division to another, and that there is

contlnual danger of the cars breaklngdown In transit.

On one short railroad li Montanathat has a large freight and passenger

traffle over it, the writer noticed alarge number of detective wheels on

the pamengrr coaches, so much arethe coach heels In need of repairsthat nearly every wheel under thepassenger coaches needed new tireand tae wonder 1a, imt are ta ,

some pIassnger train has not beenditched.

In all parts of the state looomotivescan be seen in bad condition, some

leaking so much that one wouldthink they were used fto waterspriakling wagons instead of pulling

trains.A bill was presented In the last

legislature giving the Ral•doad Com-

miseloners power to withdraw amy

locomotive from service in the statethat was In bad order. This bill was

defeated in the senate and SenatorJerry McCarthy was given the credit

of doing the charitable act for the

railroad companies. Had this bill

become a law It would have resulted Inthe railroads havng to employ at least

ii per cent more men In therepair

shops than are now employed. Of

course such a state of affairs would

have reduced the profits of the rail-

roads therefoe the bill had to be

killed.

COLLECTIVIMM THE REMEDY.

By Geo. B. Kline.

The bread-and-butter question is

the greatest question before any peo-

ple, and until food, shelter and cloth.

ing are assured, but few the people

can have the oportunity to developin lines to suit their Individiual tastes:

and as Soclaisem deals directly on

economics, It pertains almost wholly

to lving the people their phyical

needs.

At one time almost all work was

individual effort, but with the invent-

ion of machinery and the use of sys-

temrns, the production and distribution

of commodities became social, that is

tens, hundreds and even thousands,

working co-operatively in doing theworld's work.In most things the argerth unit the cheaper the commodtles

can be produced and xchanged.This il why the large factorlea.

mines, etc., can produce more cbeaplythan the smaller ones It is a prooewof natural growth, known as evolution,and explains why the trusts are se

hard to dissolve In fact, th.eir prin.ciples have come to stay despite the

effort of the 3 x 4 politicians to turnthe hands of progress backward.

The real and only objection to thetrusts Is their private ownership,whereby all their good flows to theSfew.

Socalism means the collective ownership of t' e meane of pdroducing anddistributing wealth, in which eacsworker will have have the opportunit)to work, because he is part owner,and to receive the fult pr'"lIct of hissocial effort. Boc•r'lIs also aman

the pnevtw eweuWi o thaae *mSIused privSter by th tiadtvldusl or the

The eadoleUt snehgmklp Io the

railroads. street oars, min , mima e

factories, ad lead when not used 67the owner.

The privates wnaemlp of the home

and Its tfuoslhlagl, lot and land whena

used by the owner. IIt is said. "Colleotive ownership of I

the ratlroade would double the price aof vilage and farm property beeause

there would be no discrimination arates In favor of the cities." I

Soctalilm ie a method by whch the apeople wll rid themselves of the Ille

of present soclety, for they are anoutgrowth of capitalism. We find

in history that at one time slavery swas the method by which useful Ithings were produced for society.

Later it was feudalism, and stilllater capitallem as we have it now.

The suceedlang method always hadIts room deep in tt predecessor, justas now co-operative methods are

supplanting the competition which '

caused capitasinm to attain Its growth.We have come to a point in history

that the people are pretty well dis-

gusted wlh capitalslem and its exploit-

alon, and are demanding co-operationfor the benefit of all the people, and

not co-operation for the few private

ownes"

OVIG A'IION (?)

By Hugh McGee.Why It is that today in the United

Etates, when every intelligent personkonws that It hi possible for everyman. woman and child to be suppliedwith all the things necessary for adecent life, together with all the so-called luxurles of this twenatlth cen-tury eivilisatlon. why is it that one-tenth of the peopt have tour-fifths ofall the things whlch were made sadproduced entirely by the worklngelasewhile this same working clasm, or nine.tenths of the people, have practicallynothing but fresh air and water, sometimes not even that? Why is it?

Why is that In the United Elates,In this great rich country, where onestate alone, the State of Texas, canfurnish enough gratin, cattle,trulte adprovisions to feed every man. womanandehild In the United States togetherwith making and uaautaeturiag every

aing.e ariled that is used or can beaitaes why to It that thae re f0W

ten millon people living In shacks and

tenements, tacing u'ter poverty at alltimes, underfed, cheaply and poorlyclothed, and newly alwayse diseased?Why is it?

Why is it that In the United States,

the riehest country in the would, witha popuitlon ct only about one mil-lion people, why is Itthat here arefour million public peapers , menwomen and children who exist only

through charity? Why is it?Why is it that over a mimllon little

children are taken away from schooland shut up i facetories, mines and

mlls where they work like machines

for less than fifty cents a day, whenthere are millions of grown men andwomes. ,•lling for work? Why is It?

Why Js it that every d In tkyear there are three thousand mem,

women and children killed and In-

jured while doing useful and necessary

work for the people of the United

Statee? Why is it?The answer is easiully given and

easily understood.

This earth contains evrything which

human belnga require for food.clothing and sheter

Everything we use, everything we

see, everything we eat or drink, comesin its first condition out of the land

or water.All we have to do in order to live

is to work sometime and somewhereon the free matter whleh is scattered

all over he surface of the planet, and

by our work satisey our wants.

,,But the earth and its contents, part-

cularI y the industries, are claimed Uthe private property of Morgans andother capitalists who say it betongsto them.' and who require us to divide

up with them in order to get an

I opportunity of work for a living.These ooeditlons can be changed by

political action-by voting into the

leglslatureo and courts SBooalist law-I makers and budges, to make the In-

dustries collective property, and thusinsure equal opportunity to every man,

woman and child dving today, as well

Sas to thoee who will be born to-morrow.

-s m n u e u s

Not the most girted man that everlived, In the practiee of any art orsoienae, and paid he highest rate thategoeptional genius couM demand fromthose who have worked for theirmoney could ever earn a million doleterIt Is the landlords and the merohantprlnoes and the railroad kingls and thecoal barons (the oppressors to whomyou Instinctively give the titles oftyralst) It a these that make bu noman earns them. What artist, whatphyslcian, what saientist, what poetwas ever a millionaire? -WiAlam

Dean Howells.

~apiolistls ,lonDouble Cross,

(Cotltaued trms Per 1.)

I was equally coaAdeat of the abse-I lute laannoeace of the two deead-Sants".

SHarrimua's statemt has had ann exceellent erfect. He imued another

statement to the Bocialiste but thee moral otstet was mot needed, as everyle worker had gone about his task with

a redoubled seal4 The newspapers are tilled withysorlee of probable arress of others

at Implicated in the action "Bribery"

Is a word that stands out in awfulIt blacknems on every page. More ar-r rests are threatened by the over-

d wrought aewapaper writers who' seeN terrible speotree behind every door.

.e These stories are met with reassurls

b statements "there will be no more ar..rests in connection with the bribery

Saftalr."Burns telegraphs the story he was u

offered 40,.000 bribe and threatens bmore areste of all sorts of bad men.

Ortle MoManIa'os fate is Is doubtMalotm' McLrea. Burns'- chief oper.-stlvo, made a special piea to DistrictAteorney Fredericks asklng for clem- aency oer the confsor. Frederickspromleed to do the best he could. d

"I eapet is to have my best rleandsunderstand why I took the cameBut the ehan•es are the world willnot understand," said Clarence Dar-row. 'When I took the case lastMarch I could look ahead to this very smoment and see just what wa be-fore ut. AA I wanted to do was tosve the lives of the MoNanmaras.-ay what you pleaes about them,they thought they were taking theonly oourse left to win the fght In tLos Anteles They filured themseveas soldiers In the war between capitaland the common people

"Whether they were right or wrongthey beleved they were on the fight-lag line. They were not murderers atheoar but they were detroyer ofproperty. Jim McNamara did notIntead to kill anybody. His dynamatebroke the gas naln. And that is theplight I found him In. He told methe truth about it all. Because hewasa't a mrderer at heart I decided

o wa ase s sew a ivss we am asn tle."All my fe I have tried to be on

the aide of these who lose In theunequal fight between the rich andthe poor. Hem was a man who.whether in the right or wrong, triedon the Name alte-the side of thepoor. I couldn't see him go downIn his own grim way to be a soldierwithout giving him what help I couldI know there are many Americanswho will not understand what I havedone, who will be able to analyse thespirit In which I did it. I know thatI took the only possible chance therewas of saving McNaasars life."

Darrow Is brokenhearted. III anddiscouraged. He declares this is hislast case. He will close his officeIn Los Angeles and go for an In-definite rest.

Lie has taken a deep Interest inthe munlclpal campaign and donewhat he could In a quiet way to aidHarriman, In the belief that Harel-man's election would greatly he.pthe McNamara ease

The "Good Government" party is

ma"y vmue.v ms e 61.

bw e

*4 newwedpktewd M

wr"iauws. De w..~m w -rw

ag

'*IW, UUSASS,IL..

maklag the meet oa the sltatm mm dthe ones hUnd br -Mg Dl ar about.,lag wildly mot the Marsom t 'elisof the Rodo whelo they dplr t o•something portetly awul. Thou-

ade of Idle rmorn a o thareJmteI cad thoe emuoe teanlop growa to i.-

tenilry everr boar. In the mld ofall the turmeil the sooialist speakems"ad writem sad the theusand ofworkers ae going about their taskwith a ooasem ad datermtlnatlkthat gives ourage and faith to theweak and waverlng.r The effort to tampede Harriman

cad his followers was of no avail.ber of wavering voters who becameThere were, of ooure, a large num-frghtene and be wlldered by therapid and trage developmenta of thepast few day..

For the past two weeks the air hasbeen filled with alarma It has re-peatedly been rumored that "plants"of exp.'osives had been made and atthe ilft hour explosions were to be"pulled off" a n d these were to befollowed by "finds" at points whereworkers ,would be implicated. Onestory had It that George Alexander,the "good government" candidate whois running against Harriman, was tobe menaced. Nothing has grown outof this but there are a few daqr re-malhlng during which almost any-thing may happen.

Labor haters of Southera CaAforntaare in desperation. They feel thatthis great stroke, whatever else it hasdone, has not even shaken the mild-arity of labor. Ution labor men goabout their business of the campaignwith a steadiness of purpose that sor.prise their enemies Not even oneeasb statemet has been made and inevery cae where hotheads havestarted to give utterance to sharp re-marks they have been rebuked andcurbed by their cooler headed broth-eore

In the excitement there was for atime no recollection of the plight ofF. Ira Bender, A. R, Maple and BertHI Consors who are ad in the countyJail charged with complicity in plac-lag a stick of dynamlte near the Hallof Records several weeks before theTimes exploeson. Much depends -onwho Io chews by labor to conduetthe eases of these men.

The Supreme Court of Montanahave gives two deeloo agalast laborIn the past two weekL and to over-

constitutieoal ameadmeate must beadopted. To get these ameadmeats.labor will have to carry two-thirds ofthe countles li Montana before theamendments csa be submitted to avote of the people.

It Is evident that the MontanaSupreme Court must be trying toboost the Reeall of the Judlciary.

ml- - -

' rl~w

as MIIbM/ "

.o0r orw S-nAunMA

Dv v'a Ormaad

"Let other weept" a maldea cried.

"No teea shall flow from me. Iwem;

My foe's ast-lowlUs. orryst tide,Rfletsn but spritn's eostatl sheen.

The Joy Is deep;Let others weep.

"Let others weep: From pertumed

hallk,Whet good and noble tfae shine.

The volve of Pleasure loudly calls,

And I must go, for eyes Ake minehbould lustrlous keep:Let others weep.

"Let others weep: Wake not In meOne bought that shall oocauon

Or mar the sweet realityOf happiness beyond belief

From care I leap:Let others weep.

"Let others weep: Is life so long

That I have time to think of tears?1i, no! For me the laugh and sons!

The ear Is sad when woe It hears,And tears are cheap:Let others weep!"

BIOTI•BSMOOD OP PAINTS=mHOD NATI O NAL ELMW'ON

BY REERKNDUM

An election for general officers of

the Brotherhood of Palntere, Decor-

ators and Paperhangers of America

will take place in December. It as

attracting a great deal of attentlos

among labor men In general, for morereasonso than one. It is claimed by

members prominent in the Palnters

union, that their last oonventleo,which was held In Clncinnati. Dec.

1561, was largely dominated by the

Madden geag of Chicago, a evidenced

by the fact that his henchman Jobe

M. lasn was elected first Vice-Pree-dent. And further that George .•

Hedrick, who le now up for o-election

as General Preeldent was elected by

the same Infltuenee.The Chicago iocai, of which John M.

Flnan is a member, local 147 Is about

e reactionary as they are to be found

and ian is sald to be repreentative

of his local union. The progenive

members of the Palaters' ules are

alive to to the kind of men who have

for the past two yea and areotheIn their efforts to deseat them

Charles Lumber of St Louis who

Bell Phone 79•-Rea Automtalc 1566

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I. oppoolg Hdriolm for the tffoe SIGeneral Preident Is wer ad toave -

aeoy knowo In labor etnles. vAnssbee nsetive ia the It Ltid movement t

for manir ear, both is the Federation 4

of Abo tand the Palrates Union. IHe has the solid sort of the pro- I

greolve element of the Panlters and

is in line with the advance movement Iof labor.

The defeat of Flan for re-election Ias lst Vice-P eeldedt is almost con- Iceeded, he being opposed by one of Ithe strongeast men In the Brother-hood of Painters, Otto Deam of Local S

104. Chloago. This locil union has Ithe deestnlcton of being the largestIn the Brotherhood with a member-

ship 2.000.Among others whom the progres-

sive are suporting to defeat the old Imachine, is listed A. J. McKeon ofBridgeport. Conn. for End Vlce-Presl- Ident, Wm. Rodrigues of Chicago fordes~gate to the A. F. of L. conventnon1912-13 and Herman Jeeson of Dav-enport. Iowa, for delegate to the I

Building Trades Deparment. I

Progress ofRailway Strike(Continued from Pape 1.)

for us at times, we must summon all a

the strength and courage at our com-mand to fliht that much harder, the a

fellow who gives up cannot succeed e

in any walk In Ate.

*The McNamaras and their kind

have done an trreparable Injury to the

movement of which they were a part,

but that is no reason why the move-

ment should be blamed for the actions

of a few men no matter who they

may be, men of that kind may have

thought that they would help the

labor movement by such actions, but

in my opinion they are the most dan-

gerous element that we have to con-

tend with, many are condemning

them but the broader minded persons

will exprem pity. let us hope If there

are any more of their kind in our

ranks that they will be purged from

the movement. Organised labor

should not sad will not be called

upon to asume the responsibldty ofthas awful crime by the fair minded

people, it Is only the Ignorant and%r eml r thja t will ttake advant-

else our movement for the actions ofthe McNamarr and McManl.aL

Hold year head up and resent theacousatlUo of any prejudiced persoaswho may criticise us in this esew.Stl•k together boys and out of thiS -darkese will come sunshine and with Iit the dawn of a better day. OrgeamIsed dabor ha many enemies who will 0take this opportunity to asesal us, fibut we are strong within ourselves, iour movement huas done too much *

good for the masses of the people ofmachialstions of a body of organised 4Ithis nation to be disrupted by the 1:capitallsts or by the actions of a few gunfortunate misguided Individuals whohave posed as a part or our great ahavemovement. i-

'The strike situation from all points'and angles looks good. so keep thegood work up boys and above allto win.-Wm Hannon. International'Vice-President International Aseoc-latlon of Macinlsts. t

Vlve-Presldmt BtBmkalew's Report.All of last week I war meeting ;

with the Rock Island committee and atrying to reach a satisfactory settle- .ment rith the management. For sometime it looked .Ite a strike as the com- t

pany had built fences around the tshops and made other peparations to acarry on a stike. The Fedeation wasmaking a demand for two cents per thour increase in wages which thecompany refused to give and when athe Federation took a strike vote it

began to look serious However, the

matter war settled and you can tell

say one concerned that in the midst Iof the fight on the Illinois Centraland the Harriman lines, the general I

one of the roads, the Rock Island

managers association has permitted'SSytem to sign up with the SystemPFederation and It Is a good agree-meat too.

The officers are now in a pestlionto give your strike more attentionas the Rock Island matter has taken upabout two weeks of my time and Inaddition to that, I got all of the delo-

gates to agree to go home and thosewho had not already put on an as-sreement, to do so for the benefitof the men now on strike, by thisyou will see that we are gainnlgp ground all the time. I know that It

r the general managers asoolation felts that there war a ohasn•e or the othersto lose that they would never havesigned up wth the Rook Island Fed-

,er sation.This is not the time for the sun- "'

shJne patriot or the summer time runion man. We are teaas a crisis,

lives and the man who msands hisblground and fights for his rights, the trights of his tamily and his country UJwill be crowned with honor and loveIn his life and one whose taking awaywill be an hour of regret to his peopde n'and his country and whose grave wecan mark with a shaft of granduerwith this Inseription "Oreter love Cihath no man than, that he gavehis life for hie riends. (

Tyranny and Hell are he two worst pthings to conquer. To deal with hell Nis a question for you and you alone, 0

but to conquer tyranny it requires thecombination of those who come under fcit's ban to suppress it It takes nerveand grit to be a man, but whatever CIt takes, be a man and a fighter for

Justice and freedomI must warm you again that there

is a two-'egged animal walking and Esneaking around among you whose Pputrid hide is sending forth a stench ti

that would put a skunk to shame. I1whose pr'senme makes you think IImore of your dot. He n . *oxlKe •aIike a man but since he began to

do the company's bidding in matt.r bof going among the men telling them 11to go back to work and quit the rlike lhwe define him as a crose between a h

hog. hyena and shark. Wonder whowill take the name.

Stand firm do your duty and do it tnow.-J. D. Buckalew, Vive-president aT. A. of M. k

I

We can have universal suffrage,but with monopoly of land. womenwill be ground down by enforc'd pov- c

erty, and straving children -will still t

cry for bread. We may pawm restrict- 01lye laws egarding the sale of alcoholli as

liquors. but while the present land al

system obtains the crowded condition h

of cities will continue to breed drunk- eards.

Labor may In it's desperation organ- N

ise to revenge it's wrongs by strikes t.

and boycotts, but they are powerlesswhile the usurpation of; and lordsextract the product of their industry

through rent.-William Lloyd Garri-soa,

We will make heres a clearance or

every law-made privilege and monop.y oand will make It Intolerably hard forother countries to maintain privileges diand monopolies There shall be news-papers at length and ualversities, and ththere shall be ideas that march. Weknow that we cannot win .lberty orjustice for one country without win-

ning It for all countries; that to lift mone Is to lift all, that the load Is an

Atias-load. But the shoulders of

democracy are bread.-Charles rer-

guson. r1

oIOIAuIr WIs a it ImIATLEOpposed by the entire daily and

Weebly press of seattle. Richard Win-ga. @oclarist, was elected to the scll.al

te Issue was Boolallms declares th.

utallstic papers. Wnsuor declaring

e twuing the schools for public met-

Tag places and denoutncng the p~,litl-el methods used by the old parti, s.

Tle business men of that city tok-tar•l of the opposition and app all.d

at the c4tliens to keep politics andl 8-eIlaI~ out of the schoo u.

Per many years. Winsor wasr stit,,

•teator from the Port Austin district

Il Moihigan.

1T1 OLD RED SCHOOL Hol'hE.

By Murray Youts.

Twenty-five years ago the old -Iun-

try school house was ndeed a-- < asa social cnter, for It is there that thepeople for mi'es around would therat night and hold an old time. •i, flingmatch,. etc

Some of the greatest men th- ,i Ionhas prooduced can trace th. r \.rybeginning tu those old Umer : raryand debating clubs

It is the one feature above al 'hr•a

that gave the school life, and t , twea common saying among youi- andold. "that they 'earned mort ,. I'ri.day night than during th, wholeweek."

True we were never allowedI to talkDpolltier or debate religion, :.!1 na-turally because the politlcian nil theIpreach, r wanted to do that.

Whenever you find people who donot want questions discussed tr.m aneducational standpoint In th, schoo:,

then look out for some body has anax to grind.

Iosme sixty years ago the lquistionwas proposed at a school In LancasterOhio. for debate. "Roeol',d, thatrailroads are practical". The directosdelMded that to talk about people ridingflfty miles an hour was th,. rankestheresg and so they did not permit

I that foolish discussion to take place.It the school Is for any purpose in

the world It IS for the purpose ofteaehlng science.

Plitics is the sclence of li\ling.II there is a greater sclence than

that living I would like to know whatIt la

Terrible as is may seem to be. it Isnevertheless a tact that the public

Sschool today Is not what It should be.The process of educalOes instead of

r belng an Institution of d light andIs u ertalnmeat, has really retrogressede to such an extent that It Is looked

upon by the young a as ort of punish-

e meet for did you ever hear they mother say: "Now. Johnny, if you are

not good you wial have to go to school

y today."r The question for the people to de-e cide today is:

Where would you rather see thefamily? In the demoraliling moving

it picture show, in the brothel, in t',l saloon, or In the social center activit..q

of your district school?

, You can decide this when you voterfor the school board

CAST WEDDING RINGS INC)ILLE(ITION II.ASKET.

The recent demonstration of theEanglish suffragettes against the du-plicity of Premier Aliulth ttlowards

their measure in Parilament was fol-lowed by a gigantic me. ting in AlbertHall to collect funds for the ren. alormUltant methods.

Mr. Petthick-lI&wrellnce started thl.,bliddllg with a *uhvrl.ti.,n of onethousand pounds ($5.00o); and otherlarge pledges followed with suchhardly record them.

Theu the baskets were passed, andwhen their contents came to be count.ed. It was found that among the notesand coine were bits of Jewellry of allkinds, including a large number ofweddlag rings.

In the hall there were rows androws of working women. There isscarcely any doubt that it is fromthea that the rings came. Wih mostof them, It is their one bit of fine.ry.as wel as the one touch of sentimentand beauty in their otherwise hardand barren lives Having nnhingelse to contribute to the promotion ofthe eause which they have come tosa as their one way out, they gat'othey gave their wedding rings.

That's how much suffrage means to

the working women of England!

How much does it mean to you?

"What one man has donec anothercan acompllsh." Why. of cours'eOne mlan In Texas owns fifty thol-sand acres of land. All men canOWn fifty thousand acres each one

mea's cheek Is good for fifty millllndollaru AM men's checks can he

good for fifty mllions each. That'sthe letog of the lobsters who i.tlnd

for legIl loot.-Rehtl.

Nlalld up the Socialist press. th.mMbewteat needs a good strong, vigt -

ous battery of Socialist papers.

Ae the waves and daulghters of theb slr better than ours?

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MONTANA ASOKAAIdTPARTY AIIVITY.

The Socialists of Anaoonda have

reorganised, and Indloations point to

a large growth of the party in the

Copper city. The Socialist sentimelt

in Anaconda has increased amazingly

during the past two years. The Mon.

tana News has reason to feel proud of

the increase of Socialist sentiment in

Anaconda as six unions In that city

subscribed for bundles of 25 and 60

copies of the Montana News per week

for a year, besides having a large listof Individual subscriber.

The Socialist local of Boseman is

making great progress, over 40 mem-

bers appear on the roster. The local

is planning to carry on a vigorous

campaign during the winter and

spring months. The Civic Lecture

Club have engaged( John Spargo,

member of the Socialist National Exe.

cutive Committee, for a lecture, in

the near uture.

A branch of the Socialist Local is

expected to be organized soon among

the students at the State Agriculural

College, this wlln make the firsteocial-

Ist collegian organization in Montana.

Deer Lodge is another place where

the Socialists have recently organised

The local at Der Lodge is in a flour-

ishing condition and huas every pros-

pect of Increasing its membership to

one hundred by the first of the com-

ing year. Deer Lodge is the county

seat of Powell County and is a division

point on the Milwaukee railway, where

the repair shops of that road are lo-

cated, it is a strong union town.

Powell county is one of the counties

where it is possible to elect one So-

cialist State Senator and one Repre-

sentative next year There are pros-

pects of two new locals being organ-

ised in Powell county in the near fu-

ture. The Montana News has had a

large circulation in Deer Lodge for

nearly two years and an ever increas-

ing circulation throughout Powell

county.

The movement in Livingston is gain• -

ing momentum. the local has sold a is

large number of tickets for the Soclal-

let Lyceum Course, which promises to ai

be productive of great good to the ve

movement. Livingston the largest, in

best and most active Woman's Social. n,

ist Local in Montana. There is a 1

great increase of Socialist sentiment at

among the farmers of Park county of lri

which Livingston is the county seat. >s

Considering its population, Livinston vc

has a greater percentage of readers of Bi

the Chicago Daily Socialist than any ac

other city in the State, and about di

one fourth of the voters are sub- ai

scrlbers to Socialist papers of some alkind.

At the last meeting of the Woman's w

Socialist Local of Livingston, dons- it

tions were made as follows:

To the striking shopmen on the to

Harriman system of railroads 10. f11

Striking Button Makers of Muscatine, n

Iowa $5. and to the Socialist campaign si

in Los Angeles $5.

Can any other Local in Montana 8beat the Socialist women of Living-

ston

A few years ago the Socialists ofI.i.'ingston, elected Charles Simpson. t,a machinist, to the cl y council as

an alderman One of the first acts ofSimpson after being elected alderman owas to introd-. an ordinance to in-

orease the pa; of common tanorers

working for the city from $2.50 toS3. bper day of eight hours, and one manand team from $5. to $6. per day.

The Socialists failed to reelect Simp-son as the old parties centered their

strength on the republican candlidate

and the wage slaves scabbed on them.

selves. Within one month after Simp-son retired from the city council the Iwages of the laborers hired by the citywere educed from $3. to $2.50 andman with team from $4. to 65.

Thus the working clam refused to

stan•l by a representative of their

class and the old party oouncillors re-warded the workers by reducing theirwages.

Eugene Woods the first speakeron the Lyceum Lecture Course filledthe regular Lyceum dates at GreatFalls, Lewistown, Livingston, Missoulaand Red Lodge While Helena has

not taken advantage of the lecture

course, yet Comrade Woods flided onedate here.

It is to be regretted that only five

locals, up oo date have taken the

Lyceum Course.

The followingS s frmo the Sago

Independent of Nov. 24:

"Sago can now boast of a Socialistlocal. This means that the youngerpolitical party has a Socialist organl-sation in this town. Henry T Jones

of Milwaukee, Wis., who calls himsef.a Socialist agitator and claims to be

one of the mrean brand, came IntoSaco last Sunday and In the evening

he talked on the subject of Socialism

for an hour and a half at Taylor's

hall. The result of the metatm wasthat comrades Ed Record and oeb

Powers and a few others sgt b~aafter the lecture and the aeo o-icialist local was started, eight being

the number of charter members. But

Powers and Record say that the eo-cialist membership within sixty days

will be more than forty in this neigh-bourhood.

"Sociallscm is not only gaining

in Montana,,said Mr. Jones to a repre.

sentative of the Independent, but It is

growing in every state in the unioa.

As proof of this we can point to So-

cialist victories in New York where we

captured Schenectady, and a member

of the New York ,eglslature. but Utah

Ohio, Mississippi. Minnesota, CalliforniaWahington, Pennsylvania and other

states showed many Socialist victories.Ohio has ten cities In the socialists Icolumns.columns.

"And It Is up to the people generally

to find out what Socialism Is. We

claim that Socialism would benefit

the banker, lawyer, doctor and capita:-

lat class generally as well as the farm-

er and other members of the working

class. As proof of this claim we

can point to bankers and other cap-

Italists who are in the Socialist move-

ment working earnestly for its success. I

Two bankers at Kloten, N. D., are

Sociaulists and when farmeres comp.rln I

to the Socialist bankers of the high I

rate of interest they are payng. the I

Kloten bankers hand them a piece of

Socialist literature and tell them to 4read and learn how to wipe out the t

interest, profit and dividends game of I

capitalism. Omemee, N. D., also

has a bank president who It a Sociallst I

and these bankers woul.t nu- be 8o- I

cialists if they wer t. not .'.)nv!nced s

that Soclalsm would qiv them morm

material beenfits than they now enl-

joy.'The general store keepers too are I

joining the Socialist party. They t

are beg!nning to discover that they are r

not capitalists but are simply collect-

ing agents for the trusts.

"It Is absurd that the great maj- Eority of people should constantly have '

the spectre of apprehension staring I

aJeq) uaqM XL'lwada awJ sq ul waqiis too much of everything here for all. t

"Socialism is a scientifcl arrange- '

and any fair-minded man who will In- I

vestigate it will learn that it will not tInjure one human being on the earth. '

not even Jim Hill. Rockefeller or t

Morgan. And as Socialism is coming c

and mighty fast it is up to every one t a

find out what it is. Congressman

Berger predicts 2.00,oo0 IOstOIalist

votes In 1914 and perhaps victory. l'

But the Socialist victory will surely be

acomplished In 1t20 if not before that

date. It is inevitable. The farmersand other workerers are waking up )

and it Is up to all classes to find outwhat it means. And the invetigators

must come to the Soclalists to learn

what it Is and who We are to put it !

In operalon t

"Mr. Jones is on a ,O000 mile ,ecture C

tour He will speak every night for s

five Months before he gets back home '

next Marsh. He will tolr elevn I

states."

HELENA WCIAIAITS HEARLYCEUM IPEAKER

Notwithstanding the fact that there

was several dances and other enter-

tainments in Helena at the time, a

crowd that filled the Socialist hall

to over-flowing heard Eugene Wood

of the Lyceum Lecture Course

This orator has the faculty of al-

ways keeping his audience Interested

by mixing mirth with cold facts.

The lecture of the evening was 'How

we are gouged" and if there was any-

one who did not know something more

when he left the hall than he went

in, it is because he heard the topic

before he went in.

Preliminary to his talk, he outlined

how he was the president of a cor-

poration. In part he said. "It might

surprise some of you to know that I

am the president of a corporation. Oh

no! Not one of these men that draw

a fat salary of $50,000. per year, but

one that promotes a Socialist period-

Ical namely the Masses Publishing

company of New York. The way

that I make my salary is to setl these

r periodicals and I make $1. profit on

I every 100 sold by me.

A sale of literature then took place

and nletynine per cent of the audience

s eagerly purchased pamphlets.

C "In taking this subject" began the

e speaker, "I did not like to use the

subject as outlined. I did not like the

e word 'Oouged', I would rather use

e the phrase 'Stung again' 'To gouge'

is worse than 'Stung' 'Gouge' means

to yore reach, to out do ma-

o liclous.y or to take when others are

almost helpless. To illustrate let meit tell you a story that goes the rounds

'r in the east about Helena. A long time

I. ago in a barroom here there was a

,s general fight and soon after It was

. over a travehler came in for refresh-

me ments and seeing the chairs ,veered

:o tables with broken legs and bullet

ig holes in the, wall, he asked the pro-

n prietor, who was sweeping out what'a was the cause of the destruOtLon..

'Oh there was a little herea ubort time ago but it is aU n sow.'

"'What we are after" eantlamed the

speaker "is a $5.000 Job, a• that canbe done by elmining the capitaliet

autem and to keep ouretlvee from

being further gouged.

"To illustrate how we are being

gouged lht me go over the manner

that a railroad for example goura the

public. First without a ceat of capital

they issue m'tgagre on property tobe. After selling these beads theypurchase rolling stock, pay oft laborat about i of their production, ad-

vertise for further gougers, etc. They

then operate the road a meeting of the

stockhoadtrs Is next In order. Thestockhold.rs then elect a presildent

and other petty larceny officers andgive them a salary of several thousand

per year and when that is over they

vote thems. Ive.s fat salaries by the way

of dividends for which they never dida tap; that is nothing more than un-

adulterated, genuine, pure clear, un-

polluted and absolute gouging.

Then this keeps on and new fundsare required, for extentions, reserves.

striker furyis etc. The workers putthese funds there, they make it pos-mlble fbi themselves to he further

gouged.Statistics show, and thefe state-

ments are nmade by the gougers them*

selves, that labor receives a trifle lees

than one-fourth of their production.

"Some warkers think that they arewell enough off when they caM make

a living, and the only definitlon theyhave for living ie to be not dead.

"If the workers would cease work

for Just a few days and board at a2., per day hotel and then go home

and board they would at once become

disatilsfed and want to live as they

had in the hotels This can be better

brought ablut by the workers dolnaaway with a system that forces them

to suport their masters and make he

masers suport themselves.

"The men that tell us that we must

have capital owned privately are theone Ohat emp.oy child labor In the

varlous factories and I am told thatin the mills of the South where theachildren work nights, that between

he hours of 2 A. M. and 8 A M.when the litth, ones dose off to sleep

in the seats that the foremen bringthem to life by thrtwlng a bucket ofwater over them. From the blood ofthese tots are built magnificentchurches and libraries that cannot be

atended by the ones that are gouged."In olden times wh.n the knights

wurt buge slu umrons nmto Ua WsjTo.it war the custom to take by forcewhaever was required by the robbers

(the counts, barons etc.) now we have

a system that the robbers take away

your products with your full consent."The slaves of the South were al-

ways taken good care of and in ease

of sickness they were well docored.

Now the case is reversed. You musttake care of. not only yourselves but

of your masters, and when you aresick you care for yourself. Stungagain! Those were good days com-pared with the ones we are now hav.

1mg."The on.y way to do away with this

system is to away with It The wayto do away with this system Is to riseup In a body and demand that youget the value of your production "

MARRIAGE OF MARY McARTHUR, IMiss Mary McArthur, who has twie

been in the United States the last timeas fraternal delegate to the second IBiennial Convention of the NatloamUWomen's Trade Union League. wmsmarried in .jss.mber to Mr. WilliamC. Anderson, Chairman of the Ind-pendent Labor Party, Miss MoArthur'swork for the British Women's TradeUnion League and the great shareshe had in the Anti-sweating caL-paign which ended in the pasiagof the Trade Boards Act, have placedher deservedly in the position of ngreat woman leader and orgaaiartof the most down-trodden workersof he esx Her las achievemetwar to lead the Bermondsley Jal-packers to victory.

Mr. And treon is like Miss McArthur,Scotch. lie is the son of a blacksmithHe started life as a druggslet's asult-ant, entering the trade union move-ment as a member of he Shop Assist-ants' Union.

On his removal to strenuous IAnea.shire, he Joined the Independentlabor Party, and aft - a very fewyears rose to be it's chairman.

Her marriage will not take MiemMoArthur out of her public worlkand In connection with it she willcontinue to use her maiden name.

THE BIG BAT2.E BEGINS?Capitalists have been hearing ap good deal about Socialism. From now

on they are going to feel it. Wehave already hit them in their U'Wiscon.sin-now watch us lambast them intheir Ohio and kick them In their* California!

They taught us the combinatol.n ofI horse, foot and artillery in war.t They taught us the erushing pow.r 'of

-combination In industry., We've I,.ar.t ed he lesson well, nad now we're going

to turn against thbm, one and all.

Cem•en O.tl Ihlhns takes 3I oop-Lee of the United States Conatutloaand SoeaNln

H. . Irvie d ad In $1. for subs.

Twenr-five dollars of Job work fromClancy this week.

The rnl road boys of the N. P. Ry.still send In their subs. this week16 Sl their doostlon.

Comrado Williame of Lincoln sendsIn $1. for sube.

The workers of Whitetfish send :n$5. for subs.

0G A Bruaffe sends In his sub andthereby does what he can to boomthe clrouhlaton of the News.

A Bomman comrade sends In $4.for subs.

IivLngston sends us an evse dosensubs as their esteem to the workerspaper.

Tro more subs from Libby to showus that they We siacere.

Chimney Rock sends In $3. andUikborn 6$3.0 .

Anaconda sends in eight this week,the list I. growing rapidly In the Cop.

per dity.

$1.50 puts Logan on the map thisweek.

!URTHER OCIAlIlT GAINS.

A gain In the Socialist ranks wasmade in the Sixth ward of Helenarecently, a son being born to Com-

rade B. T. Ward Congratulations!

CAPITALUITO IES AfOUTTAXATION IN MILWAUKEE.

By Cart D. Thompson.According to the capitalistic papers

another dreadful catastrophe has be-fallen the poor city of Milwaukee-theSoclalists have enormously increased

the taxes.From every direction people are

sedinbl us clippings from the capital.

Istlc papers that play up in lurld

headlines the fell onlamitiee and thedire ditrees inflicted upon the poor

y reas f itheterrIblencreae m

All of which is very interesting it

true.But what are the facts?In the first place, the newspaper

reports about the increase in the cityexpenditures in Milwaukee, are about

as near to the truth as the capitalisticpapers geierally get. They report hat

the present Soclalistic adminlstrationhas speat nearly a million dollars more

than the last Rose adminlstratson.And they claim that this is according

to the official tax levy filed by the city-2--U

All of which is another one of their

cheerful capitalistic lies. The fact Is

that the expenditures this year for

city purposee have been a little over

four hundred thousand doliMu more

than last year. The capitalist papers

have added six hundred thousand dol-

lars to the amount.But what is still more Interesting,

and still more to tie ponlat, is the fact-•s the increase of the rate of taxa-tioa anio the last aemu... .4A-

usaliaration or the preceding repub-

Itcan addminlrtatJon.Wid the labor and Socialist papers

please copy that single simple state-

meat? The effort of the capitalist

press to discredit the working clams

administration In Milwaukee must be

defeated.The city of Milwaukee is growing

It is growing very rapidly. In fact,

the last two years have been the most

remarkable years in the commercial

development of the city.

Naturally, as the city grows the

expenditures for municipal purposes

Increase. The rigid economies of the

present administration have, however,

reduced this rate of Increase as stated

above.The tax rate in Milwaukee is lower

to day than In almost any city of Its

eise In America.

Though Increauing slowly, thel-

orease is less than under any of the

former administrations.And the actual increase in the tax

rate to about elevn cents in the thou-

sand.So much for the awful conditions

in Milwaukee as pictured by the cap-

itallstic press.

You knock a man lnto a ditch and

then you tell him to remain content

In the position in which Providence

has placed him.-John Ruskin.

N. A. Richardson, the second speak-

er on the Lyceum course will fill dates

at Ielsaton, Dec. 12; Great alils Dec.

18; Missoula Dec. 16; and Livingston

Dee. 1f.

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borders ef Canada sad Meslo. and goinr lnso to many foreign oountriesIt I reaed by the buyers the chief consumer, the workers, who are SOper neat of the population.

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