The Commonwealth. [volume], April 04, 1913, Image 5

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Workers' War In Spain
Tin- secretary of Hi. Spanish Hall
way Kmployoos Union, Comrade Ra
mon Cordanc.lllo. writes the following
letter from Madrid: The Spanish
working classes taw aftor • long
dumber at last thrown Oft their leth
argy. As they show now strength and
new spirit they can now commence
the fight which tho reactionary cm
ployorß force, upon them. The maR
ters, who will not negotiate with tho
workers' organizations, aro trying by
all ways and means, to provoke tTio
men. II is comprehensible that the
struggle between capital and labor In
such a land as Spain, where, tho power
of tho state and church la very great,'
and absolutely at tin' service of the'
employers, is an unequal struggle; '
yet the workers accept the challenge '
with spirit. Tin- government goes so '
far in its inconsiderate partisanship'
that leaders of the movement, espe-'
i dally in times of strikes, are simply'
arrested, in the hope of disorganizing '
the,, workers. But the employers have '
experienced how strongly disciplined'
and well organized are the workers — '
when the masters' organization of the
building trade locked out all organized
workers. For nine months tho 10,000
men affected held out In spits of ter-'
i rible privations and when their own j
means gave out other trade unions
| offered the whole of their funds for
the support of those engaged in the
struggle. This bitter fight ended with
! the renewal of work on the same con
ditions as held good before the lock
out, after the employers officially
promised to raise wages without de
' lay. This promise has since been ful
j filled of course only after energetic
reminders from the trades unions.
t Our opponents thought to destroy the
trades unions, but In this they were
disappointed. Also their hope that
•the organization would be crippled
i for some time did not materialize.
: The organized workers are today pre-
FOOD FOR YOUR THINK TANK
I
Chicago philanthropists keep as
I strict accounts of their business as a (
j bookkeeper in any commercial con
cern. Their charity figures tell some
ugly truths that the supporters of this
I rotten capitalist form of society will
find it hard to get over.
Thanks to the Chicago charity
agents we know that the old gag about '
poverty being due to drunkenness, laz-
I mess and all that sort of stuff is as
untrue as we have always said it was.
The charity official figures tell us that '
j while unemployment caused 4,620 '
| cases of poverty, intemperance caused '
j 1,205; while illness brought 4,311 cases '
of poverty, idleness caused 360.
i
The fat old business man, who
strokes his full stomach and talks
glibly about intemperance and lazi- '
ness causing the most part of the mis
ery of the submerged portion of the '
population, is proved to be as far from '
the real facts as his perjured soul is
from the gates of heaven.
Talking about laziness, we workers ■
are fools to work as hard as we do. '
However, it is only temporary lnsan- i
ity on our part. We have to get an
eight-hour law, and then later on we '
will reduce it to six hours, or per- '•
haps to four hours, and when the work- '
ers are sufficiently united we will take '
the earth. It's ours anyway; we get '
from it all that is got; the capitalist
only looks idly on and juggles with
his bank book while we do all the I
real work. '
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THE SLAUGHTER OF THE
WORKERS. \
Sedro-Woolley, March 29.—Wednes
day afternoon Graber Colinan, a rig
ging slinger in the employ of the Bol
com Vanderhoof Logging company, at '
Acme, was struck by a piece of fly
ing rigging, which fractured his skull. *
He was brought to the hospital here, •
but died soon after his arrival.
Pleasant Parker, while working for
the Hamilton Logging company, was '
killed by a falling tree on Wednesday.
He leaves a wife and three children.
Burial took place at Lymau yesterday.
Cincinnati, O. —Three railroad men
gave up their lives in the service to- '
day.
James Cavanaugh, 26, a Baltimore 4
and Ohio fireman, fell from his train
•ad was killed under the wheels.
Ueniry Schroeder, 25, a Big Four
switchman, stepping out behind his ',
train, was hit by a switch engine.
Thomas Hose, 30, also a switchman, 1
had his foot caught a frog and be- i
fore he could extricate himself a cut ;
of freight cars backing down hit him '
and cut his body to pieces. |<
DESECRATING THE DEAD ;
■ uminers O. U. Tatro and \
F H U*ban charge that the bodies of j
163 paupers w. :ted together <
in King county and the ashes rak^d ']
ii the floor, then divided j
Into 1U parts and placed in aeparate 1
1 with the names of ,
individual!. '
THE COMMONWEALTH.
paring to celebrate »l tin- end of the
year 11,, , achievements 111 (lie way hi
securliiK Increased wages anil to dem
onstrate Hint they nro stronger than
ever.
BOM after tin' termination of this
fight tho employers began, under tho
protection of ii"' government to lock
out other organizations in tho build
ing trades. And bo one aftur another
i In- painters, Hie layers, glaziers, plas
terers, floorlayers, Iron workers, etc.,
were shut out. They all faced (ho at
tack bravely boforo they were com
pelled to glvo way. How gallantly
Ihese groups defended themselves tho
Iron workers give a" example. As
there appeared no possibility of com
ing to an arrangement they decided
'after nineteen weeks fight to emigrate
rather than to submit. And so they
are now leaving the fatherland In
small and large bands, freeing them
selves from Hie greed of the employ
ers and the terror of the ruling classes.
The best workers, the most qualified
artisans, are emigrating, leaving their
! little ones in the guardianship of col
leagues In other trades, to protect
from adversity and an uncertain fu
ture. So the other trades are stand
ing by to help In these troublous times.
This sacrifice and renunciation has
not moved the employers in the least
on the contrary they are so indignant
that they have at this moment locked
out 30,000 workers in all building
trades. Again the oppressed and half
starved workers begin a heroic fight
against hard-necked employers and a
despotic government, who at every op
portunity attack the labour party.
They will have to answer for the con
sequences. The Spanish working
classes breathe the air of freedom to
day they demand social equality, and
will, despite all opposition, march, for
ward and upward on their way to so
cial justice.
There is no law of God or man the
cohorts of capitalism j respect They
grind the lives out of the workers and
sell their dead bodies for gain.—Kit
sap County Leader.
LOCALS ATTENTION.
: Never postpone until tomorrow
what you should have done yester
day.
Will Doitnow is the name of the
best socialist in Washington.
Comrade Secretary— are 307
active locale in this state. Of these
307 active locals we want 307 local
secretaries to • comply with the re
quest here made.
The request is this: First, give the
number of married men. who are mem
bers of your local.
Second, give the names and ad
dresses of all women in your local. 1
We need this information for the
purpose of promoting socialist activ
ity and education among ALL women.
Your part in this work is to comply
with the request here made. We will
allow you to comply to the best of
your ability, but COMPLY. We know
it often takes half a dozen letters to
get so much as a squeak out of some.
Well, we do not intend Bending you
half a dozen letters. This is the first
and last call. Here is the request,
right in front of your nose. No mat
ter what you were doing when you
stopped to read this. Whether you
were about to take a sip of cham
pagne at your evening meal, whether
you were about to board a train to
attend the funeral of J. Pierpont Mor
gan, or whether you were about to
take in a notch of your belt for want
of board, DROP IT ALL and AT
TEND TO THIS NOW.
HORTENSE WAGENKNECHT,
• Woman's State Correspondent.
How many married men in your
local ? Answer
Give the names and addresses of
the women in your local.
Name •
Address
Home of local «•
Secretary
Groceries. E. D. Schmaltz & Co.,
20th and Colby.
Foster education and uproot ignor
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JESUIT OPPONENTS
OF SOCIALISM
CHANGE THEIR ;l
TACTICS !
Not. many months a^o tho Roman
Catholic- prii'Hts wero thundering their
anathemas against Hoclallflin. In their
eyes, or in tho W/m of their superiors
who tell them what to flay, It was a
vile thing without a Having feature, It
was a child of tho devil, and its spokes
men ought to be. silenced with bullets.
Now, behold, a quick change. The
wily Jesuit smirks and mnilefl. Father
Hernard Vaughan, who slammed us so
recently, slaps us familiarly, calls us
"comrades" and says:
"* • * Wo are under a great debt
of gratltudo to tho socialists, and for
two reasons. In the first place they
have opened tho eyes of the public to
realize the state of things In our
midst. They have told tho world what
the working man is suffering from.
They have diagnosed his case, and
they have revealed to the world what
it is to live a life or an existence under
the sweated wage, trying to make the
ends meet, when the problem Beemed
impossible. We are indebted to the
socialists most especially for having
told us on both sideß of the Atlantic
the needs of our poor brothers and sis
ters. They have not been alone In
telling us this story. There are men
and women innumerable who are not
socialists in «ny sense of the word,
who also have been at pains to tell us
what their discovery is In the slum
doms of our great seething cities.
• • • We are thankful to the com
rades for having set us the example
of how to go to work in the cause we
have at heart. They are object les
sons to us In their spirit of self-sac
rifice In their tremendous earnestness,
in their propaganda, in. their trust, and
in their method of showing us that
their cause is right at the root of their
hearts."
Likewise, the Jesuit Father Terence
J. Shealy, professor of jurisprudence
in Fordham university, and editor of
a periodical specially issued to com
bat socialism., has changed his tune,
and instead of his former denuncia
tions he now damns us with faint
praise. He says:
"The only way to combat socialism
is to remedy those wrongs which have
given socialism a reason for existence.
It will do us no good merely to refute
the arguments of the socialist. We
must furnish a constructive program
of reform. We must right the grave
and deep-seated abuses to which Amer
ican labor has been subjected. We
must curb the power of capital."
Be not deceived by these Jesuits.
They stand pat for the old rotten capi
talist system, no matter what they say,
and no matter how often they change
their face and their tune.
BEGGARLY WAGES, BIG
PROFITS.
Washington, D. C—The United Ci
gar Stores company declares Im
mense dividends, ranging from 20 per
cent to 200 per cent. In financial cir
cles the report of the United Cigar
Stores company is received with ac
claim. With these big dividends, how
ever, there la another side to the story
which has been left untold. There
are many thousands of women, chil
dren, and men who make possible
these great profits, and who only art)
awarded a beggarly enure in the in
come of the trust in the form of wages.
It is stated upon good authority and
by those who have made investiga
tions, that the employes of the to
bacco trußt who manufacture the ci
gars disposed of by the United Cigar
Stores company receive but a pitiful
compensation for their labor. Prac
tically all the trust factories are oper- (
ated by nonunion men, women and
children, and this giant corporation
i is grinding out dividends at the ex
! pense of its helpless employes. There I
is one way to aid these helpless em
ploye! —purchase only goods that bear
the union label.
HOT AIR
"Will use more gas," says a head
line. A good head for a story letting
forth plans to rehabilitate the bull
moose party.
Many a mutton-headed supporter of
the capitalist system puts up this sort
of argument: "Divide up the money
today equally among all and tomor
row some will have nothing while
others will have more than th.-lr
shar. I *c ain't going
out dividing up the
money I .pirate In
nwnhlp «f our Jobs, which is a
mighty different proposition
Do You Want Shirts
With the Label?
We've Got Them All Kinds—soc to $4.00
Bachelder & Corneil
BETTER CLOTHES
Chattel Slaves
and Wage Slaves
The chattel slave never had to
worry about being out of a job; even
If thero was no work to do his master
had to feed him because ho was valu
able. How different is the lot of the
wage-slave. It is now no longer neces
sary for employers to Invest many
thousands of dollars In the bodies of
laborers to carry on their capitalistic
operations. The buyer of labor power
no longer visits a slave auction, but
merely lets It be known by an adver
tisement or in some other way, that
he wants workers for his business.
Many more than he requires will make
their way tramping the highways, hit
ting the ties, clinging to the brake
beams of freight trains, or cheating
Jlmmie Hill out of a ride on a pas
senger; anyway, no matter how, so
long as they are conveyed to the place
offering a chance of a job, carrying
with them the labor power which they
have to sell. Arrived at the desired
haven aa Simons says, "They find no
long line of maßters to bid for their
bodies but on the other hand the work
ers themselves engage in a sort of
"Dutch auction" where the lowest
bidder takes the Job."
Then again if the chattel slave fell
ill his master was much concerned
about him because he was valuable
property. The master's wife would
see that everything was done that
could be done to nurse the slave back
again to health. The daughters of the
house with their own fair hands pre
pared the poultices and plasters and
potions and punk necessary or sup
posed to be necessary for the sick
man. The master's son would mount
the fleetest horse on the estate and
rise if necessary forty miles to get
the best doctor in the county to tend
that sick slave. No expense was
spared to nurse him back to health,
because he represented an outlay of
anything up to $4,000.
How different it is today with the
poor wage slave. He contracts con
sumption or some other dread disease
through the foul atmosphere and un
sanitary conditions of the place where
his employer forces him to work; or
through having been so exploited that
his miserable wages only allow enough .
for him to house himself and family
In an unwholesome shack or disease
ridden tenement. He can crawl home
and die for aught the modern em
ployer cares, because plenty more
wage slaves are forthcoming on the
brake beams of plenty more freight
trains to take his place.
Under the present cruel capitalist
system, the wage slave is of less con
sequence than the former chattel slave
was. But at the same time the wage
slave has it in hia own power to alter
the whole of the miserable business
whenever he will, by combining with
his class at the ballot box, and taking
over for himself the whole manage
ment of the country. If he has not
sense enough to rise to the top and
control industry he had better go on
riding the brake beams until he learns
his lesson.
THE RED FLAG.
"General Putnam raised the red
.flag on the day after the battle of
Bunker Hill. At the battle of Long
Island, August 26, 1776, Captain Haul,
Of the Hessian regiment, captured
'from the Americans a red flag with
the word 'Liberty' Inscribed within Its
crimson folds. At the battle of White
I'lains, October 28, 1776, the Ameri
cans carried a red flag of the Bedford
Minute Men, which is now at Bedford
library in Bedford, Mass., and had
upon it an outsretched arm with an
uplifted Bword.
"Count Pulaski's legions carried two
flags at Savannah, now In the
poßst-SBlon of the Maryland Historical
society. In honor of this Polish patriot
our poet, Henry W I-ongfellow, wrote
an inspiring poem, of which the fol
lowing is a part:
Take thy banner e'er thou shouldest
jtoldier's bier.
And the muffled drum should beat to
•read of mournful feet,
, this crimson flag shall be mar
tial cloak and shroud ' ■
—Ohio Valley Socla! ■
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CINCINNATI BAKERS STRIKE.
The employes of. the Weinberg bak
ing company, David street, Cincinnati,
are out on strike for two weeks past
The breach between them and the
bosses came about through the dis
charge of one of their number with
out sufficient cause. The workers,
their foreman Inclusive, are members
; of the local bakers' union and there
i fore demanded the . reinstatement of
I their unjustly dealt with comrade.
I Upon the refusal of the boss the union
i men all walked out. At the very out
! set of the struggle Judge Max 8. May,
! progressive democrat, took at once
sides with the company. Issuing an in
| junction restraining the strikers from
: Ticketing. This Is likely to result In
the loss of the strike, non-union men
being put to work under police pro
tection.
i An Incident of this kind should be
, both an example and a warning to the
1 politically Indifferent working men.
It should show them how little the
pre-election promises are kept by the
."progressives" after they have safely
, landed In office. ,
ABOLISHES DEATH PENALTY
Olympla.—Oov. Lister baa signed
the bill which abolishes capita! pun
ishment la the state of Washington.
The new law will go Into effect on
June 14