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LOCAL DEPARTMENT TillH MONTANA NEWS IS l HEA IQUARTERS FO)I UNION JOB WORK IN THE NOIITIIWEST (ORIA.NIZED LAIOR CAN SUCCETSSFULLY CARRY ON ITS RESIST ANCE AGAINMT ('APITALIST OPPRESSION ONLY TIIIOI'GH ITS Si0,1b.I.\TV. EI:'il'NO. PeIW1.1I IS THE POWERl TIIAT COUNTS. WHln" SIOULD ORG(ANIZED LABOR LEND ITS ECONOMIC" POWER TO THE iLA.As. TIIA.T I'SES EVERY KNOWN MEANS TO ('Il'S11 IT OUT lOF EXISTENCE? TIlE C('AIIT.AIIST PRESS AND PRINTING PLANTS lII.: MAIN TAINED TO INFLUENCE PURLIC OPINION AG(AINiT Till: EI":FFORTS O() TIIE I(ORKING ('LASS TO EMANCIPATE ITS:I.". Till: WORKING .LASS M'UST HAVE ITS OWN PRESS .INI, % POW ERFUL IPRESS. TIIHROUGH WHICHTO STATE ITS 1.IItE\VAN' AND ITS ( IISI'. ORGANIZED) LAIBOIR CAN ONLY ADVANCEI.: THROUGH' .1 POW:WER FI'1. IllOR PRESSN. DO NOT THROW lOUR JOB WORK AND ITS PROFIT TO A. (' I1 T.ALIST PIESS THAT WILL CUT YOUR .TIIROAT .WHEN lOl GET INTO TIIOl'HI.E. TIIROW IT TO A LARBO()R PAPER AND STREIN'Tl.HEN IT so IT ('AN FIGIT YOUR RATTILES IN TI ME OF' STRESS. TIlE MONTANA NEWS IS TlHE ONLY LABOR ANI) .SOCIALIT PA 1'PE:1 IRE.TWEEN CIII('AGO AND TH E ('OAS.T. THE JOB WORK OF" ORG;ANIZED LABOR OVER THIS SECTION ()IOLI) MAINTAIN IT. YOUR UNION II.A BILLS. ENVEILOPES, LE'FERIHEADS. OON STITU'TIONS. BY-L.WS, PROCEEDI NGS, APPLI('ATIONS. NOTICES. HANDBILLS, C.ARI)S TO BE PRINTED. SEND TIII.M To US. WE PAY THE EXPRESS. WE CHILRGE YOU NO MORE THAN YOU HAVE TO I'AY ANYWHERE ELSE. WE TI'itN OUT A $I'PEURI)II Q" \ LITV OF) JOB WORK. GIVE US A TRIAL AND FIND OU T. STAND BY THOSE THAT STAND BY YOU. UNION LABOR SHOULD SEND A LL ITN UNION JOB WORK TO THE ONLY PAPER THAT SUPPORTS THE UNIONS IN THE NORTHWEST. THE STATE SITUATION. The Montana News has been under the fire of considerable criticism be cause it has not kept the party mem bership posted on the development and status of the situation within the party in the state, in order that the socialists might have some guide .i to wlikt they ought to do, some infor mation by which they might shape their actions. The reason that the News has been practically silent on the trend of af fairs in Montana is because of its widespread circulation outside of the state. The support of the News is drawn from the entire northwestern territory, and it has been our purpose not to bring in the discouragng feat ures of a state hocus-pocus as a need less irritation to the readers of the News in other states outside Montana, where there could be no interest in the unseemly squabbles into which stupid and Ill-disposed persons have precipitated the party in Montana. We do no intend to swerve fro a that purpose. We expect to devote the News to the handling of the in terests of the proletariat In this s.,: tion of the United States. The new and, to a large extent. inexperienced organizations of the Socialist party west of the Mississippi river are con stantly embroiled in trivial differences that one might almost say are insep arable from new people coming into a great labor organisation, without any experience in labor movements, with no practical knowledge of what they are in. and whose th,.eret lecal knowledge is both limited and erroneous. In such a combination of circumstances, incompetent and mis chievous persons find a large and in viting theater for evil-doing. In a good, clear, experienced move ment, where there are enough able persons to maintain a movement of that sort. as in some of the older states, these mischievous persons and tactics can never get hold of a move ment and deflect it into the absurdl ties that are making a number of the western states the ridicule of practi cal sociallst~; as Texas and Wabhlr' on at present, and, we regret to say, Montana. It is a matter of humiliation to posted socialists tha such t state of affairs exists. The publicity of the condition cannot bring us adherents from the ranks of labor or dignify our claims to a scientific solution if the miseries of labor. Therefore an intel ligent propaganda is interested in keeping these childish trivialities away from the main sween of the Great Cause, and going forward cour ageously with the essential work of education and construction. 1But recognizing all this as a well groundted policy, there is another feature that must be consldered. When Interests are at work utterly deflecting the purpose of Socialism they must be calmly set forth and ex plained that the feet of thla a',"ary may not be led astray into lab) rinths that can only indefinitely retard any possible, advantage to working class interests. lelieving hat the foregoing is a Sufflelent explanation of the policy ..f the News in regard to the SHoc:li-t party In the state of Mltntana, te. hereby appe,nd a brief resume ofl til" sltuation an It now , xists. Jnmn 1). graham l .i r.algn. dils stat secretary in April, the resignation to take cfT, et, in acctordltance with th, instructllionsll of th national executivelt otnmitte,, when a sUccessor was properly , iectl tind installed. T'h cause of the resignation was his long period of work for nothing for the party, and the necessity of his giving all his time to the rehabilitation of the News, which the asinine actions of the bolters had so riddled and weakened. In the meantime the boom of the bolters was put out of commission by the party authorities. It now de volved upon the executive committee to elect a new secretary, and the way they have gone about it is a caution to gods and men, so far as practical methods are concerned. Caulfield, the executive committee member from Missoula, has refused to be a party to the Illegal violation of party methods that the other two members, Duncan and Kruse, have striven to Inflict upon the party. It should be said in pase Ing that T. D. Caulfield is the only member of the executive committee that has ever had any experience in labor affirs. He was a member of the Debe strike committee in the great strike of 1894 and is thoroughly familiar with the American labor movement In all its phasees, as well as being one of the best grounded men on the literature of Socialism in the state. Of the other two members, one is a preacher and the other a farmer, now a student at Boseman. Nelthbr has had the slightest experience in the labor or Socialist movements, and they are not familiar with the most ordinary positions that the party is accustomed to take. These two members have attempt ed to elect a state secretary by the votes of non-party members. That Is a number of weak-kneed locals ce'ased to pay dues to the party be cause they could not have their own way about party matters. It was the old story, so familiar to school teach ers and editors, that every man, no matter how unskilled, could do Ib, tteir than the one who had the task to do. These committee members wish to record votes on Socialist party mat ters from these points that are not in touch with the state organization, and are cons(equently paying no dues into the national office. To show their bad faith with the party, some of these locals persist in saying they are in good standing, when the only evidence of a local's standing is the books of the state secretary. To let nonduepaying members vote oil Iartly affairs on just an empty statement is to throw the gates open to every crook that wishes to break in and ruin the revolutionary movement. That is the reason there are such Ironclad blrrirs against such a pro cedure throughout the International Socialist organization. And members of a committee must indeed be poorly posted in party tactics to try to force such culit:list ch'canery upon a m'novecment to protect the workins class In its r, volt. fly at maJrlity v\'ote. of the, qualified uen'mbere .1. .A. Itoade, oef Lewistown was elected Ntat, secre.tary, and now has the lparty loks. ''Thelsl two lour geols nll mleer of the ,x'cutive ('om Itittee deih'l:are iunlitns of Iteette elect. ed by the' non-du.e .payers. T'he mat ter is now before the natitonal organ ization, as it will not Ilrnllll.l stamps to Ia stlat, except thrtll" h tih. official hl:lnnel rNeognized I, Its own tioe ve I me.it. A vote of the statel ". ,lllultite., of hiih'h the exeuitlhe, .'le ritttee,, Is but iL t.Ult-,e n tlltet l., . ' ili, ll ltel the' ac litn of thile. le ' t ali . I:,1, I o the ex ecutive e'mitllllll t, , . e ., " t1.t to let ting non-members vote. Wtll they are attempting to push this method through. Serious charges have been prefer red against Duncan for vlolaion of party regulations by Local Lewsltown. and the state committee has pased a motion suspending him trom the ex ecutive committee until it can tIll. eti gate his case. Be he is not in po aitlon to act upon partty aalirs at present. Instead. howe'ver, of obeytl. the' mandate of the party), he and Kruse' persist in sending com.lln unicatlouae to the' party overflowing with reasons as to why they should set aside eon stitlutions and party methods In or dehr to save the country. It is the old idea of a few self-styled saviors transcending all mncthodl and order eof the maIss to Imposa e their peculuilr Inmethods of salvation upon thenm. These e.ommuntcatlons are replete' in nemisrepr.esentations to the party mem lership. For instance,. a recent one' states. that C'omrade Glracham would not permit the books to be taudited. ;end this Impre.rion is continually elddlled Iby these' people, in spite of the facts, which no one' knows bet 're' than the'y. Comrade Graham turned his books ov,\er to the convention a year ago. Duncan was on the auditing commit tee.. lie' was appointed iby the state comnlittee to audit the books once a month, which he never did. and final ly resigned as auditor at a meeting of the executive committee Feb. 12, on the plea that he had not time for the work. Kruse was at this meet Ing., yet he and Duncan will delib erately put their names to a state ment saying that Graham would not permit his books to be audited. In July Graham turned over his books to William Pepsworth of the Babcock Mercantile company of Hel ena. an expert accountant, endorsed as auditor by the executive commit tee. He made a thorough audit of them and made a beautiful and thor ough report testifying to their accu racy, and sent a letter to Kruse in forming him of the same. Yet In the face of this Kruse sLgns his name to a perjured statement charging that Graham would not permit his books to be audited. This is a sample of the stuff with which an attempt is being constant ly made to sidetrack and disrupt the party. The organisation, however, is now straightening itself out. Experiewses takes the place of nonsense or worse, and we hope in a short time that all difficulties will be settled, and the party get down to the work of organ isation and fighting capitalism, which ha3 not been done since these trouble makers have attempted to become conspicuous. It is noticeable in the party trouble that we have had in Montana that every dirty scab and crooked union man has lined up solidly against the' promoters of the' News. That is the most consplieous thing in this en tire struggle. The' bum union me'n. the scals, those opposing the. class character of the' labor organilations, middle- class light-weights, men at tached to no craft or industry-these are the' ones that have fought us It is considclralel satisfaction to know that. IAK'AL SUt'Pl)RT. The News is calling this week for a loyal, warm and ge'nerous support from the true socialists in the state. There Is certainly no socialist who knows the serious import of what a socialist movement means but what realizes the absolute necessity of estallishlng a strong and powerful local press. The socialist movement will never be anything but Idle wind jamming till this is dlone. F,wuh sn,* tlon must handle Its own affairs and its own difficulties with the capitalist class in its own way. The Montana movement is exceedingly weak In ex ecutive ability and constructive force. The active work will necessarily de volve largely upon the socialist paper. Every intelligent socialist knows that an active and uase:ul party to the Interests of labor ca Inot exist with out the paper. We are sure from our personal work among the locals that the rank and file of the party want the News. That there are none who do not want It except a few bitter enemies who are actuated by ulterior and personal motive-s. I am sure that we are cagre-ed that we all need the Netws, and want the News; that we must have. the News In order for our work against capital lam to go forward. Now, comrades, thosle eof you who, understand socialism know that this can only be accomlllshel d Iby united effort. There atre 60 weekly and 15 daily gIape.rs In the state uphldillng th. power and the' InsolencIle f cr idtallsm and only one snmell i.pplner t., loppos, this hideous olJpression. The News was never eIt a I,,we.r ebl, to maintain Its exist, nc.,. $ccmnn. if you have negIected to, re Io w your subscriptions. onmoe eof ýII i rt nt thinking it worth while to get new ones. The N, ws has not been going out very regularly of late because there It not momnny on hand to pay for the work. W. :are doing everything we can with e.v. ry effort we can put forth. It i+ th,. le.k debts that the party will net pI.. and have saddled on us. that are et ippling the News. The money th:t \e have raised is all the tim ,';itmn .1p by these old debts, rent, in surne.. linotype notes, printers, press wrkrL . ten some old wage debts that the' 11I Uty contracted. \\'," want to get rid of these old d, hIb so that our strength may b.* gir n to pushing the News. Five hliu,;r d dollars would put us in the cle,:r -," that the News would some out rul ,nrly. and we could go forwar'd Sith or old-time vigor. Th re, are fifty socialists in the t:It who are abundantly able to risk a 1 , like this for the sake of making a. ci.* a socilalist paper; and after all Ithi the promoters of the News have II,1 and given for that purpose the c:a, of the revolution should touch th. pursestrings as well as their h.;e ' ts. 4 mrade Graham has within the last three months raised $950 one hih own securities, most of which has gon. to pay party debt; $500 on his hon.e. $150 on his furniture. $100 frt, . his blrother-in law, $211 on see onl mortgage. \\ ill the socialists of the state take this money from one man and refuse to ,o anything themselves? We know that you would not do It if you understood the circumstances. We know that you would really Ilke te see the News prosper and grow. We are offering to the ociali'. party this week a new plan for llfttlr. the News to an unimpeded advance ment again. We are asking every sincere so cisllist in the state for a loan of from $5 to $25. Forward this at .,n'e to assist the News In its straits. An im mediate response will save us. loc will receive our note In return. You can take the amount out in suo cards or Appeal to Reason sub cards, of which we still have about $50 worth on hand, or Job work or literature. You will thus see that you have a chance to make a good investment for the cause, and also to comn. to the immediate relief of the News We know your heart is in the right place, and you do not want to ace the News go down, and you wan: to help it. 8it right down and send us according to your resource., $5 to $25. Do It now. WE MUST HAVI IT. 73OM 31301 C3331 This will tell the story. We hive just arrived in Bishop, and have had a very pleasant journey. Bishop has a popu lation of 1500, and is surrounded by an immense valley eighty miles long and twelve miles wide. Its industry is farming and cattle raising, mostly farming. There is also an abundance of fruit such as apples, peaches an. pears. Besides all this there is the mining. To-day we made a visit .to the Bishop Creek mine, where Wilshire has the controlling interest. I am very much pleased with the mine, and the way they are making progress on it. My husband and myself took a ride to the bottom, 275 feet deep. They are work ing three shifts a dlay, andl claim to have a great body of ore. I am no judge of such matters but they tell me the mineral averages from $15 to $20 a ton. Mr. Bauman took some of the specimens from the first level. The company claims it is going to build a stamp mill, and use the eyanite pro eess on the ore. They expect this to be completed by October. There is an abundance of water power as there is a lake within a mile and a half. The mine also gets its power from Bishop Creek, which is a forceful stream that c·omes from the lake. This creek runs into Swan's river which empties into Swan's lake. In this lake an eastern -.orporation puts the water into vats to extract baking soda, whi.h is shipped dll over the world. This is what goes into soda biscuits, I could write considerably more, but think that the News would not have room. When we leave here we make Ogden and Denver a visit, and then to lAvlngston, which will eomplete our journey. MRS. WM. BAUMAN. ~------- Deer Lodge, Mont., Sept. 6, '09. We had a glorious celebration here oday. The machinists, boilermakeri Ind blacksmiths all had floats. As the \ft. Powell Lodge No. 100, Interna :ional Association of Machinists, was lie first labor organization In Deer isodge, we felt proud of ourselves, and he other organizations tihe same. Out ide of the shops there is nothing organ. 'ed as yet; but the business men here eat us with courtesy, so we have no ,ek coming. Send us 11o00 envelopes id 500 full letter headl with the one and 500 half sheets the same. From your old war partner, J. C. MURPIIY. Why Be Without a Home ? When you can come to THE GREAT JUDITH BASIN IN FERGUS COUNTY, MONTAANA Where the wheat grows 40 bushels to the acre. Where every acre will net you $20. 200,000 acres of rich, productive soil, subject to Homestead Entry. Plenty of rainfall in crop-growing season. Deeded land now selling from $20 to $40 an acre. Send for our large list of farms for sale and free booklet on HOMESTEADS IN THE GREAT JUDITH BASIN STONER IHARRIGAN S3E DUILD STWN, M 301X 35 LEWISTOWN, MONT. 8OOIAJLIJT WANT A FAUM. A couple of eeal who wlsh to beter their sesities wouldo Ibe to a. se a ho esteisad er holod o smeas frosar s tsedael who kanws of say ged lead ewes fr .tw em we sat are iliag to pay fer the tremble Ia seer. tag the late ltie. bAddress: Reeasetuder, -a. Meatsea News male.. Meat -----o~----- We have many inquiries for sample copies of the News. If any Montana News reader wish to distribute socialist literature among their friends, we will mad the News for ten weeks for tea Ceat. Or if they wish to sample ten of their friends we will send the Newd to ten names ten weeks for e dellr. A dollar well spent. How many want to spread socialiem that wayt Bend in the names of your friends. They can get the News fifty weeks for fifty cents. -----0---- You are the one that must build up a sectional paper. (omrade Hendricks of Great Falls renews his sub. No Eclipse of The Sun It Can be Seen Every Day. Without Smoked Glasses. It Enlightens Every Man the "'SUN" MECHANICAL WRITER makes for clearness, cloanliness, legibility, correctoaes, speed ITS USE WILL IMPROVE YOUR STYLE Will Teseh You Punctuation, Capitalization, Paragraphing MODERATE IN PRICE You Should Cet One If You Never Write a ULne, For Then You Will, Let Us Show It to You MONTANA NEWS OFFICE, 19 PARK AVENUE HEBLNA, MONTANA FIGHT FOR YOUR LIFE By BEN HANFORD ISeoad EdUtion NMw Reed This book bids fair to be one of / the best propaganda sellers in the Socialist movement. It is written in Hanford's well-known style, and - contains many striking stories, each covering some special points in the Socialist argument. Just the thing to appeal to the workingman. Nicely gotten up, paper cover, with por trait and biographical sketch of the author. First edition ex. hausted first week. Price, 2c.; $1.50 a Dosen. @WILSHIRE BOOK CO. C~war Hous for All ocialist Literature 200 William St, New York "'Revolution" that does not touch the pocketbook, the press, sacrifice, hard work, enorn, contempt, persistence is but skin deep. No eapitalit need ever tremble before it. Up the Divide A new 1I eral magasine comes to our desk with the name of William Thurston Brown as one of the editors The name of the little magazine is "Up the Divide". It is published in Denver by Duren J. H. Ward. who is also one of the editors. The design is pleasing to the eye, the cover being a warm cherry color emphasised by de corative features In brown, represent ing the far-distant, long sweeping range of the Snowles. The inside pages are pink with the letterlng and design done in brown. An explanatory line specifying the new publication as "a periodical asking-why not see re ligious and other things social from a higher altitude?" The general treatment of the subject matter is from the unitarian stand. point. (omrade Brown is the field see retary for the Rocky Monutain depart ment of the American Unitarian As sociation, and tis the lecturer of the church at Salt Lake and Ogden. As is well known he is an earnest socialist, and the magasine will doubt" less carry much of his revolutionary thought.