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■ ~: -- — ■- — — . rur . . _ __ _ ■ fl UT! X*« '" '-■:■'*. *'•''".l".,'-.* -** '- ' »•«-"**"•- .'••■ mm ■m. ,mm. NORTHWEST WORKER OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE SOCIALIST PARTY OF SNOHOMISH AND STEVENS COUNTIES scjkx copy; $1.00 per year. TWO ARRESTED FOR SEDITION Opponents of Conscription Measure Not Yet a Law (barged With Treason—More Arrests to Follow Aaron Fislermnn, secretary of'the King County Socialist organization, and R. A. Rice, manager of a clean ing and dyeing concern, were arrest ed by United States secret service of ficials and are lodged in the Pierce county jail, in lieu of bail, on charges of conspiracy to violate sections 6 and 211 of the federal penal code, growing out of their alleged partici pation in the distribution of 20,000 copies of a seditious circular throughout the residence districts of Seattle last Sunday week. The circular complained of is as follows: No Conscription! No Involuntary Servitude! No Slavery! "Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist with in the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction." The above is a part of the organic constitution of the United States. The president and the congress have no authority to set it aside. That can only be done by a majority vote of the legislatures of three-fourths of the separate states. For the pres ident and the Congress to do it is to usurp the powers of autocrats, and if unresisted means the abandon ment of democracy and the destruc tion of the republic. We,'signing this, are native born citizens within the age limits : set for the first compulsory draft. They will make an army of us and send us to compel you to enter the sec ond draft, and some more of you to enter the third draft, and so on un til freedom is dead. Wake, up! i Stand by us now, for when we have become an army we will have ceased to think and we will shoot you if told to shoot you. Just so it is ex r-.-.ed •:,„,- tve will - ~nr„,f ami THTT our brothers in other lands and that we will die to restore the rapidly vanishing values to the investments of Wall street bankers escaping ser vice themselves—a plutocracy whose good fortunes we do not share, but for which we have suffered enough. Resist! Refuse! Don't yield the first step toward conscription. Bet ter to be imprisoned than to re nounce your freedom of conscience. Let the financiers do their own col lecting. Seek out those who are subject to the first draft. Tell them that we are refusing to register or to be conscriptel and to stand with j us like men, and say to the masters: I "Thou shalt not Prussianize Amer- i ica!" We are less concerned with the autocracy that is abroad and remote than that which is immediate, im minent and at home. If we are to fight autocracy the place to begin is where we first encounter it. If we are to break anybody's chains we i must first break our own in the , forging. If we must fight and die, it is better that we do it upon soil that is dear to us against our mas ters, than for them where foreign shores will drink our blood. Better mutiny, definance and the death of brave men with • the light of the morning upon our brows, than the ignominy of slaves and death with the mark of Cain and our hands spattered with the blood of those we have no reason to hate. SEATTLE BRANCH NO CON SCRIPTION LEAGUE. P. 0. Box 225. "Where is it written in the con stitution * * *that you may take the children from their parents * * * and compel them to fight the bat tles of any war in which the folly or the wickedness of the government may engage."—Daniel Webster on Conscription. According to United States District Attorney Allen, who will prosecute the cases, more arrests will follow. The federal authorities assert that a number of other persons are im plicated in what the government maintains is a conspiracy.—Seattle Union Record, MIGHT IS RIGHT SAN FRANCISCO.—The Supreme Court of California denied a petition to prevent Oakland officials from en forcing military registration. The (petition asking for a writ of prohibi tion against John L. Davie, mayor of Oakland, L. W. Cummings, city clerk, and their subordinates, preventing them from registering F. Claudius for military service, to which he was li able under the law, alleged that this was in violation of the thirteenth amendment to the federal constitu tion, prohibiting involuntary servi tude. PEACE TERMS DEMANDED BY GERMAN SOCIALISTS Following are the terms as pro posed by the Democratic Party of Germany. They are bitterly op posed by the German War Party) Compulsory international arbitra tion. Germany to restore ail territories liquored in this war. Russian Poland, through a refer endum .to decide whether she wants to be independent or to bo annexed either by Russia or Germany . Belgium, Serbia and Roumaiiia to be restored to independence. Bulgaria to. get back the Bulgar ian districts of Macedonia. Serbia to have access to the Adri atic by the (riant of a free port on that sea. The Lorraine frontier to be rec tified by negotiation. No indemnities to be paid by eith er side. RUSSIAN WOWS URGED GERMANS TO REVOLT Message of Revolutionary Council Call Upon Winkers of All Lands to Unite The Northwest Worker has just received by mail the full text of the address to the working class of the world adopted by the Council of Workmen's and Soldiers' Deputies at Petrograd, only parts of which have been transmitted by cable. The proclamation reads as follows: "To the Working People of all Coun tries: "Comrades: We, Russian working men and soldiers, united in the Petro grad Council of Workmen's and Sol diers' Deputies, send you our warm est greetings and the news of great j events. The democracy of Russia has overthrown the century-old des potism of the czars and takes its place in your ranks as a fully quali fied member and as a powerful force .jiift;the-s{j:u««le*Jor our common emancipation. Our victory is a great victory for the freedom and democ rary of the world. The chief sup porter of world-wide reaction, the 'Gendarme of Europe,' exists no more. May the earth have closed forever upon its grave! Long live freedom! Long live the international solidar ity of the proletariat and its strug gle for final and complete victory! Work Is Not Finished "Our work is not yet finished. Not ! all the shadows of the old regime . have been dispelled and not a few i enemies still array their strength against the Russian revolution. Yet I our achievements are great. The peoples of Russia will express their I will in the constituent assembly, which is to be convoked as soon as possible, upon the basis of universal, equal, direct and secret suffrage. Al ready it may safely be predicted that the democratic republic will triumph in Russia. The Russian people are resolved on complete political liberty. They are now able to make their pow erful voice heard concerning the in ternal self-government of 'he coun try, and also concerning its foreign policies. Addressing ourselves to all the peoples who are being ruined and destroyed in this frightful war, we declare that the time has come fo • beginning a resolute Ltruggla against the policies of conquest that are being pursued by the govern ments of all countries. The time is come when the peoples must take into their own hands the decision of the questions of war and peace, "Conscious of its own revolutionary strength, the Russian democracy de clares that it will combat the con quest policies of the Russian ruling classes by all means within its pow er, and it summons the peoples of Europe to united and resolute action in favor of peace. "We address ourselves to our brothers, the working people of Germany and Austria-Hungary, and, in the first instance, to those of Ger many. In the first days of the war they were told that, in taking up arms against autocratic Russia, they would be defending European civili zation against Asiatic despotism Many of you saw in this a justifica tion for supporting the war, This justification is now removed. Demo cratic Russia cannot menace peact and civilization. "We shall defend our o*ll liberty against all reactionary attacks whether they come from abroad 01 ' from within the country. The Russiar . revolution will not retreat before thi ■ bayonets of foreign conquerors, am • will not allow itself to be crushed bj military force. We call on you t( ; throw off the yoke of your own abso lutistic regime, as the Russian peo ple !«,-..- thrown off that if czarism Refuse to be used as tools of conquest and oppression in the hands of tht EVERETT, WASHINGTON, THURSDAY, MAY 24, 1917. BREEDING MEN FOR BATTLE How Long Shall Women Continue lo Suite! tbe Pains ill' Motherhood Breeding Soldiers? (By Olive Schreiner) In supplying the men for the car nage of ■ battlefield, women have merely lost actually more blond, and .-.".■ through a more acute anguish ami weariness, In the months of bear ing anil in I lie final agony of child birth, than bus been experienced by the men who cover it, but in the months of roaring thai follow, the women of the race go through n j long, patiently endured strain which j no knapsackod soldier on bis longest I march has over more than equalled; while, even in the matter of death, jin all civilized societies, the prob ability thai the average woman will die in child-birth is immeasurably" greater than the probability that the average male will .lie in a battle. There is, perhaps, no woman, I whether she have borne children or be merely potentially a child-bearer, who could look down upon a battle field covered with slain, but the thought would rise in her, "So many months of weariness and pain while •nines and muscles were shaped with in! So many hours of anguish and struggle that breath might be! So many baby mouths drawing life tit women's breasts this, that men might lie with glazed eyeballs, and swollen faces, and fixed, blue, un closed mouths, and great limbs tossed —this, that an acre of ground might bs manured with human flesh, that, next year's grass or poppies or ka. roo bushes may spring up greener and redder, where they have lain, or that the sand of a plain may have the glint of white bones!" And we cry, "Without an inexorable cause this must not be!" No woman who is a woman says of a human body, "It is nothing!"— The Birth Control Review, New York. TRIAL OF .AIRS. MOONEY STARTS SAN' FRANCISCO. -. Mrs. Reiya Mooney went on trial ere today f ». murder in connection with a bomb explosion here last July in which 10 persons were killed in the course of a preparedness parade. Mooney is now under sentence of death on the same charge that his wife faces. Mrs. Mooney, wearing a black hat with white plumes and smartly gowned, met her husband, Thomas J. Mooney, under death sentence, as she entered court. They shook and he whispered to her. Mooney was ale and seemed to show the ef fects of confinement. Five counsel were announced for Mrs. Mooney. More than 150 witnesses have been supoenaed for the state and it is expected that the trial will take at least a month. Frank C. Oxman, Oregon cattleman, who was the prin cipal witness against Mooney, and who has been held for trial in the superior court on charges of attempt ed subordination of perjury -prob ably will be a witness against Mrs. Mooney. COUNTY CONVENTION NEXT SUNDAY The Snohomish County Convention will be called to order at 10:30 a. m. next Sunday, May 27, in The Forum, 1612 California St., Everett. This is to inform The Everett Com mercial Club that wo are coming back stronger than ever. kings, ; the junkers and the bankers, and we will, by our united efforts, put an end to the horrible massacre which disgraces humanity and which darkens the birthday of Russian free dom. "Workingmen of all countries, reaching out our bands to you across the mountains of corpses of our brothers, across the seas of inno cent tears and blood, across the smok ing ruins of cities and villages, across the shattered treasures of civiliza tion, we summon you to the renewal and the strengthening of international unity. In you lies the guaranty of our coming victory and of the com plete emancipation of mankind. Pro letarians of all lands, unite! "For the council of workmen's and soldiers' deputies, TCHEIDZE, Chairman." About the same that the fore going address was issued, the coun cil received, through the hands of H. Branting, the Swedish Socialist lead er, a message from Haase an.i Lede bour, a message from Haase anil Ledebour, leading members 'if tli* minority group of Socialists in the German Reich . in these words: "We greet the Russian proletariat with all our hearts. Your victory over the autocracy meant emancipa tion not only for Russia, but for all mankind, from the yoke of war and the ruinous tendencies of conquest." DIG MEETING IN DREAMLAND KINK A big meeting will be held in the Seattle Dreamland rial; fiext Sunday afternoon In defence (if Comrades Fislerman and Rice who are charged With a federal offense. Comrade Kate Sadler and others will deliver addles IBS on the subject. Admis sion is free. i." ATTEMPT ON LICE OF SOCIALIST MINISTEK NEW YORK. The Jewish Daily I'm ward received a cablegram from Its correspondent In Pctrograd say ing that an unsuccessful^ attempt was made to assassinate War Minister Kerensky. The dispatch reads: "An attempt on the life of War Minister Kerensky was made just now. Kerensky escaped. All the participants were arrested. There are tumors that the plat was ar ranged by the supporters of the old - regime." S Coming Kate Richards O'HARE RENOWNED IN EUROPE AND AMERICA AS A MAGNIFICENT ORATOR, A BRILLIANT WRITER, AND A PROFOUND STUDENT OP WORKING CLASS ECONOMICS. EVERETT June 24, 1917 HAFFER PERSECUTOR SWIPED ON NOSE Colonel "Joab, special prosecutor in the case against Comrade Paul Haf fer, got a ] big jolt o*i the .nose the other day for calling President Wil son names that could not be printed. Paul Haffer was sentenced to four month's imprisonment for mention ing the fact that George Washing ton kept slaves, drank a little and used profane language once in a while and Haffer was convicted of criminal libel. Now the people of Taeoma are up in arms against Col. Joab and demanding that he be prosecuted and placed in the same cell as Haffer. The old man who messed up Joab was presented with a big American flag. Later: —Paul Haffer has been par ioned by Gov. Lister. He served three months of his sentence. CHINA AND HAITI REFUSE TO DECLARE WAR PEKING—After a riotous secret session lasting throughout the night, the House of Representatives refused to pass a resolution declaring war on Germany. PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti. — Con gress today refused to declare war on Germany. A resolution was adopt ed protesting in the name of hu manity against the submarine war fare. The president was authorized to break off diplomatic relation if Germany declined to make the repar ation demanded for the loss of the lives of Haitians and give guaran tees for the future. RUSSIANS SEIZE LAND Reliable diplomatic advices here | tell of the formation of an enorm i , ously strong agrarian party, the immediate object of which is dis tribution of Russia's vast agricul tural lands. Eighty million peas ants want a share. Nearly 150,000,000 acres of land have been seized by the peasants throughout Russia. The peasants could not wait for the promised breaking up of vast estates as pledged. Confiscation and distribution of land has in many sections been for mally decided on by vote of popu lar assemblies. Russian workmen, too, are taking matters into their own hands. Throughout Russia workmen are placing representative officers of their organizations with manufac turing companies and refusing per mission for shipments without their official voice. Watch out For the four page cii tion of the Northwest *, in, Before buying a "Liberty Bond" renew your sub. Bargreen'a Golden Drip Coffee, la* P«ria! Tea Co, US 7 Hewitt Avenue. SPOKESMAN FOR THE ONLY USEFUL CLAPS IN SOCIETY—THE WORKINC CLASS REGISTER ON FIFTH OF JUNE Going To Jail Will Not Accomplish the Foil That All Revolutionists Desire June the fifth, is the day set for i I'd rat ion. The question naturaly arises as to what Socialists should do in the matter. If one considers . the facts of the matter they can but come to one conclusion, The master class are determined that we shall handle rifles, receive military training and be drafted to the front. The mission of the Socialist Party is to educate the workers to their true position in human society. Can we do this by being thrown into jail at this particular time? We say no! Conscripted men must bo educated just as well as those who are not conscripted. How then, are we go ing to reach the conscripted men There can only be one answer, be one of them. As Socialists we must get control of the institutions of capitalism. And the military institutions is one of the most important. The master class has ordained that those of us who are of the ages between 21 and 31 shall become part of the military machine of this coun try. They propose to place rifles in'our bands and make fighters of us. Alright, so be it. We may need those (censored- in our business. All the revolutions throughout his tory have been accomplished with the help of military equipment. The Socialist movement is aiming for a revolutionary change and if the mas ter class, ' whom we are trying to throw off our backs, desire to arm us, so well and good. We should accept. We certainly cannot do any good in jail. I There are 10,000 conscientious objectors in jail in England. But tho war still goes on. These 10,000 are unable to deliver their message to the outside world. They are be ing tortured by the British autocrats for refusing to. put on the mili tary uniform. ' Had tl'ese "10,000 ' become part of the military machine they may have been able to make 10,- !; 000 i more converts and when the , " time came to draft them to the front, ' they could have (censored). No good can be accomplished by going . to jail at the very outset of the ! trouble. More good can be accom plished by- boring right into the (censored) machine and undermin ing its organism. Let's deliver our message of emani caption to the conscripted men in the camps. Let's get hold of the (censored) that may be used against us. Let's get an opportunity to pick out those who are for us, and those who are against us, and then we are certain of being able to ac- I complish more for the revolution than we can by talking to four bare walls in a prison cell. If we ever were taught a les son, the Russian revolution has taught one. The Soldiers, conscript ed from the factory, field and mine, were the principal factor in the revo lution. What the rifle said meant more to the Russian people than we can realize. A tremendous amount of revolutionary propaganda must have been done in the army to ob tain the united action that brought about the change. And the "loyal" soldiers of the Czar were conspicuous by their absence. For instance: Two days after the rebels were in control of Petrograd, several regi ments of "loyal" soldiers from Fin land were dispatched to put down the revolution and retake the city. The rebels not wind of it and pre pared for the expected fight. But there was no fight, for as soon as the "loyal" soldiers saw the red flags flying in the distance they ar rested their officers and turned them over to the rebels. A few hours aft erwards, several Siberian regiments on sighting Petrograd did the same thing. What could the officers do; they were but a few? What could the ex-government do, they were but a few? We know that many of our readers will disagree with us on these tactics, but if you are a rebel you will do your damndest to undermine the sys tem before going to jail and if need be, being shot. It will be many months before the conscripted men will be drafted and that is plenty of time to undermine their military (censored). So our advice is to stay out of jail, register on the fifth of June, carry your message into the military camps, organize your machine within their machine and when the time comes, your guns can speak out with more effect than your voice from a prison cell. The guns of the enemy can be spiked their machine demoralized and autocracy trampled under your feet. It it better to die fighting for a NO SEPARATE PEACE; ONLY SOCIAL REVOUTION The Russian Socialists are united in the belief that a separte peace will not serve their purpose. To bring universal peace they have de elded to urge the proletariat of Eu rope, irrespective of nationality, t( combine in a social revolution. It is for that purpose they have resolved to negotiate with the Stockholm So cialists. All Europe is confronted by a grave crisis. A general rising of the masses is a possibility to be reckoned with in connection with the proposed international conference. Its avowed purpose is social revolution for Europe, which entails, first of all. civil war for the new Russia. . Our "Liberty Bonds" can be pur chased for. one dollar and in return you get a dollar's worth of unadul terated liberty tonic. PLUTOCRAT SENT BY WILSON TO GREET RUSSIA Reactionary Tool of Russian Czar and Diaz the Damned to Congratulate Russian Workers In spite of the protests made by the Socialist party and radical labor, unions, Elihu Root has been sent to Russia to greet the Russian peo ple in the name of the American people. i With him also goes a bunch -:■ of financiers and reactionary . labor leaders who were appointed by Pres ident Wilson. . Victor L. Berger was appointed on the commission but he refused to serve unless Root was taken off. Charles Edward Russell was appointed in his place. ' Russell's mania for war makes the commis sion even worse. It might be pos sible to overlook the appointment of Russell but Root is the last man in the world who should have been sent to Russia on behalf of the American masses. ..... ': Root A" was sponsor for th* Root amendment, which was designed to aid the czar in hunting down and hanging Russian revolutionaries, and to aid Porfirio the Damned in hound ing and persecuting Mexican revo lutionaries in this country; that is, he did all that an American could have clone; he did what few Ameri cans could have thought of doing in aid of czarism in all countries, and against the great revolution that he is now being sent to congratulate the people upon having accomplished. He is universally considered the chief Tory of the country. He is a lawyer whose sole fame and sole work has been as a corporation law yer, and who has done nothing in his life to show that he sympathizes with the masses. He has been vital ly concerned with four pieces of leg islation, all of them bad, and three of them emphatically rejected by a free people; that is, he worked to keep the word "male" in the qualifi cations for voting in the constitu tional convention of 1894; 500,000 New Yorkers have since repudiated him on that. He introduced the infamous and unspeakable Root amendment, which did not become law; he opposed with all his might the liberal and democratic Arizona constitution, and he is the father of the Root constitution that went down to defeat with a majority that was damning . How will the Council of Deputies, the real rulers of Russia, greet this man who may have sent them in a body to Siberia or to the gibbet? How will Kerenski, the real head of the Russian government, greet this man who would have sent him to the gal lows if he had come to this country ? FINE BUSINESS City elections took place in Tomsk, Russia. The Socialists have elected their entire ticket. The city is now under a complete Socialist adminis tration. The liberal members were all defeated. GERMAN "GAS" The people of North Yakima are losing a whole lot of sleep these nights over a story that the war press is circulating about two old ladies who were overcome by Ger man "gas" while traversing along the country road. If a Skunk could talk it could perhaps tell the truth of the matter but not being aide to, the press has put the crazy story in circulation about Germans trying to kill people in that, vicinity with gas. it noble cause than to be a passive resister in a prison ill. We have censored our own article because this is a free {'!) country. No. r::;2. DISMISS CASE '■: 'AGAINST EDITOR Artillery Company Not Hurt By Article—Wonder Who Fitted Inte Write-Up? 3*:'^ ■ - ' • -.' :'.* *" -I. ' ■■*■■ Because the members' of The' Ev '.= . ■ ' ' -is'- -•'■ erett artillery , company requested the prosecuting attorney to drop the case against 11. W. Watts, editor of the Northwest Worker, the local So cialist paper, charged with criminal libel against the members of the Artillery company, Judge Alston, on notion . of Deputy Prosecutor • John Sandidge, tolay dismissed the action and released Watts from his bond. The case started from a . statement published 'by Watts, alluding ;to Prince's cigar store, the recruiting station for the artillery company as i place for recruiting' "gunmen and legalized murders!" He was arrested •ml after spending a day in jail pro cured bond and. was released. The following letter received . by Prosecuting Attorney Lloyd Black from . Maynard M. Cardie, first ser geant of Twelfth Company,' Coast Ar tillery Corps, "National Guard of Washington, to request, that the pros ecution - instituted against -. 11. ■ W. Watts," charging ' him .with a libel ipon the individual members of this company be discontinued."; This | ac tion is taken after .'. consultation among ourselves and with our' of ficers. <*vo.;'':] .. ". :' "Regardless" of his intentions, in naking ; the : publication :we do. not eel that it j in any wise 4 injured us, md as we are T about to be called nto the service of , our .'country, we prefer that the |defendant' be not nunished for his offense against us. Hence I api, by the direction of the members of the company, addressing this request to you." ' The prosecutor asked !to have the case dismissed because of insuffi ciency of evidence, in view of this '■-. statement that the alleged libel had not damaged the members :.f the;' company.—Everett Herald. - '• ' REBEL P. O. CLERKS -.";: /'^-' :-V"- ARE DISMISSED -. ,'..,.^,^ r t,: : ...___^_-"_ ... -tr1 ;*---- j^g Edward J. Ryan, j president of the Railway Mail association, and Fred L. White, president of the Rural Carriers' association, are the latest victims of the tyrannical rule of the postal beaurocrat who will brook no criticism of his administration of the public utility known as the postal service. Guilty of "Lea Majesty" "Both were charged, tried and found guilty by Burleson of the heinous offense of lese majesty. They dared to question the propriety of his reorganization of the service that vitally affected the well being of thousands of the postal employes who elected the officials of the unions to voice their grievance to Congress. The arbitrary dismissal of Ryan and White, "is in line with the es tablished policy of the postoffice de partment in suppressing I free speech among the postal employes. Re cently in Washington, D. C. a post office letter carrier was dismissed by Burleson because he was suspected of having placed an obnoxious news paper clipping on the employes' bul letin boardobnoxious because it ex posed some of the shortcomings of the Burleson administration of the postal service. Criticise Postal Service "The St. Louis central labor body recently passed resolutions criticis ing the conduct of the St. Louis postal service. Burleson was furious. He set his sleuths on the trail. Sev en months after the central body passed the objectional resolutions two postal clerks were dismissed by the postmaster general for having been responsible for the introduc tion of treasonable utterances. It so happened that the resolutions were sponsored by Organizer Shaun nesy of the International Bartend... .' union. Shaunnesy declared under oath that the men punished by Bur leson were innocent. But the postal Romanoff had to have his pound of flesh. Somebody had dared to tell the tactless truth and somebody must suffer. The two innocent clerks walked the plank." MORE SEDITION DALLAS, Texas—United States Judge George' W. Jack fixed the bonds of the seven men brought here from Snyder, Texas, on charged of seditious conspiracy against the United States, at $1,000 each. Arrests were made in connection with alleged activities of the Farmers' and La bo; era' Protective association, which planned, it is claimed, to legist con scription by force. For best meals, waffle* and coffee with cream, go to Everett Coffee House, 1113 Hewitt. ' —n