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TARY.—WaIter Lanfersiek, 803
West Madison St., Chicago, 111.
STATE SECRET lIRI OF W ASHING
rON.—L. K. Katterfield, Box 481,
Everett. Wash. Office :>n Com
mere* Bldg., Everett.
SNOHOMISH COUNT! BECRE
FARY.—CarI Ulonska, Room ;'., The
Forum, 1612 California Street, Ev
erett, Wash.
LOCAL EVERETT, No. l meets every
Thursday evening at 8 in the Forum,
1618 California St., Everett K. H.
Hodgins, fin-sec.; Sophui Bonni
vn. rec. see; F. G. Crosby, organ
izer.
LOCAL EDMONDS moots every Sun
day evening at s, in Eagles' hall,
Edmonds. C. E. Briggs, Edmonds,
recording ncj B. H. Davis, Ed
monds, financial sec
LOCAL MONROE moots on the Ist
ami 3rd Fridays in the month at 8 !
p. m. in the St. James hotel. R. W.
Thompson, Monroe, sec.; VV. S. Kel
ler, Monroe, organiser.
LOCAL CEDAR VALLEY, meets on
the 2nd and 4th Saturdays in the
month at 8 p. m. in the Cedar Yal
loy church. Kichard I'ape, R. F. D.
Edmonds, sec; J. M. Hoover, R. F.
D. Edmonds, organizer.
LOCAL LAKEWOOD meets every
Thursday in the month at 8:30 p. m.,
in Lakewood hall. Chas. Koth, R.
1 Arlington, fin-sec; John Over
void, R. 1 Arlington, organizer.
LOCAL RICHMOND meets every 2nd
and 4th Sunday in the month at 3 p.
m. in the homes of members. F. D.
Hoffer, R. 1 Edmonds, fin-sec; Bon
ner Barlett, Edmonds, rec-sec.
LOCAL GOLD BAR meets every 3rd
Sunday in the month at 2 p. m. in
the homes of members. Rufus
Wren, Gold Bar, organizer; Gustus
Fleeder, fin.-sec.
LOCAL SILYANA meets every 3rd
Sunday afternoon in the month at
li p. m. in the Silvania Trading
Union hall. Gunda Husby, Stand
wood, Rec.-Sec; Andrew Fierlie,
Stan wood, Fin. Sec; John Ness, Sil
vana, organizer.
LOCAL BRYANT meets every 2nd
and 4th Sunday in the month at 2
p. m. in the homes of members.
Mike Kronholm, Bryant, fin-sec;
Edla Carlson, R. F. D. 4, Arlington,
organizer.
LOCAL HOME ACRES meets first
Sunday afternoon of each month at
comrade (has. Solie's residence. W.
J. Fortson, rec-sec.; (has. Solie, fin.
sec; Chas. Jurgus, organizer.
LOCAL MARXIAN, Seattle, meets ev
ery Thursday at 8 p. m., at 14.33
Lakeside Aye. I-alla Rogers, 1433
Lakeside Aye., fin-sec.
LOCAL ARLINGTON meets every
Monday evening at 8 p. m. in the
Labor Temple. Homer Caswell, rec.
sec.
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• • Addraa all questions to Attorney • ■
!! Peter Husby, 215 Stokes Bldg.. jj
; I Everett, Wash. ; |
Editor's Note: Free legal advice on
any subject is given in this column to
Northwest Worker subscribers. Are
not fifty-two copies of this paper and
a legal adviser for a year worth $1.00?
Tell your neighbors about this great
offer.
(J. lam a subscriber to the North
west Worker. Please answer these
questions in its columns:
Where a man of family owns noth
ing aside from his household goods
and a Ford Touring tar which he uses
for hire, as a means of support of his
family, and a judgment is rendered
against him. can they take the car?
How much personal property does
the allow a resident of this state?
A. A man who uses a Ford or any
automobile for hire to Buport his fam
ily would be entitled to have an ex
emption in the machine up to a value
of $500. No, they can't take your
Ford.
The personal property which the
law allows a resident is as follows (in
part, besides that above referred to):
1. All wearing apparel of every
on and family;
2. All private libraries, not to ex
ceed $500, and all family pictures and
keepsakes;
:;. To each householder, one bed
anil bedding, and one additional bed
and bedding for each additional mem
ber of the family, and other household
goods and utensils and furniture not
ling $500 in value.
SWORN STATEMENT
Of the ownership, management, etc.,
required by the Act of Congress of
August 24, 1912, of The Northwest
Worker, published weekly, at Ever-
Wash., for April 1, 1916.
Publisher Socialist Party of Snoho
mish County.
Editor Maynard Shipley. Everett,
Wa
Mi naging Editor None.
Business Manage] H. W. Watts,
That the Press Committee are: W.
L. Carman, Everett, Wash.; C. P. Mor
rison, Everett, Wash.; Frank Cort, Ev
t, Wash., Carl Ulonska, Everett,
Wash.; 11. W. Watts, Everett, Wash.;
Hans Bonnivie, Everett, Wash.
Thai the known bondholders, mort
gagees, etc, are: None.
11. W. WATTS,
tnager.
i icribed to ami Bworn before me
thi 'in! 'lay of April, 1916.
PETER HUSBY, Notary Public.
11, i
116.
A Wage Slave's Duty
You son of the earth, mountain . eai, factorial and hops; you, the prop
(■rtyless, plundered ilave you, who from your earlie i youth pave luffered
iiniii Mi.- u.ini ni the ncci ari< of life; you, who have lean youi Father and
mothei lowlj dyini the nltur of rapitaliMn. you, who still Buffei under
the ami tj i annical ocial bj <■ m
WHAT IS YOUR DUTY?
I 1" Mm .( how the rich au<l powerful seek i<> still further ensnare yi
I In (lien ncl '
lio you see how your comrades an abused by the bought pare litei of
< 'apitalißin '.'
Mn sou gee liow these vampires air preparing to suck the last drop of
blood from your starved body?
Itn you scr how these millions of plundered people, unemployed and nun
i'iy, wander about the tree) and alloy:' to pick up the crumbs and bones
which are offered with ■ sneer of contempt?
Do you hear the thousands of Innoceni children, starving and Freezing,
Pegging: "Give us bread?"
WHAT IS YOUR DUTY?
Shall you like other cowards bow to existing injustices?
Shall you like other unthinking i pie enroll In the ranks of tlic ene
mies of humanity .
Will you trade off your name for a number In tin1 army <>f life-destroy
ers?
Will you lutray your olass by serving tho Interest! of the plunderbund?
Then d" as August St I indlicrg bids: DrSBI in while clothing which will
: how the stains of blood and dirt and advertise your stupidity.
Paini on the white cloth tin- millions who have shod their Mood "in war,
:wul the thousands who were driven insane !>y the horrori of the battlefield,
WHAT IS YOUR DUTY?
Surely, you know! We call upon you, in the name of Immunity:
Do not drill for murder I l'«i not Kill lor pay!
Help us to stop tho preparations lor wholesale murder 1 Help us destroy
Militarism!
Do not dross in tho uniforms of the enemies of the proletariat- they are
stained with blood and violence and tyranny.
Take your place in the ranks of the pioneers in the struggle for peace.
Think and act in your own interest, and in the interest of your class.
The capitalist system must be overthrown. Militarism, its bloodhound,
must be destroyed. The enemies of mankind must be driven from the seat
of power.
PROLETARIAN, WHAT IS YOUR DUTY?
Swedish-Finnish Socialist club.
Agitation Committee,
For sale as "Leaflet No. l," by Allen Blomkvist, utit! N. 26th St., Portland Or.
Price $1.60 per 1000 copies, in English or Finnish.
MAORILAND
IS AGAINST
CONSCRIPTION
One of the most truly representative
gatherings of organized labor ever
held in New Zealand was that con
vened in Wellington the lust week in
January to consider the question of
conscription. Eighty-seven industrial
and political organizations were rep
resented, and the list included dele
gates from every Trades and Labor
Council in the country, with the ex
ception of the OtagO Labor Council,
which council had already declared
against the conscription of life unless
accompanied by the conscription of
wealth. Practically every section of
the Labor movement—"moderate" and
"extreme"—had delegates present,
and the manifesto which was issued
as the result of the deliberations of
the conference may be taken as the
unanimous verdict of the New Zea
land working class upon the subject.
"No document," says the "Maoriland
Worker," "was ever more truly the
expression of the whole of the body
issuing it, and we venture to think
that so positively unanimous a pro
nouncement from a national congress
reflecting the will of practically the
whole bona-fide Labor movement com
pletely disposes of the threat of con
scription. It would be a foolhardy
faction indeed that would make the
attempt to force Prusaianiam on the
people of this country in face of the
clearly expressed hostility of the or
ganized Industrial and political
strength of Labor."
The manifesto was definite and con
vincing in its opposition to the cry for.
conscription of flesh and blood, but
boldly proclaimed the necessity for the
conscription of wealth; it upheld the
principle of voluntaryism, and put
forth a Btrong demand for decent
want's for the .soldiers and adequate
pensions for their wives and children;
and il declared that the time had ar
rived when the people should know
what they were fighting for and the
terms upon which the allied govern
ments would be prepared to cuter up
on peace negotiations.
(Kmil Seidel, Everett, April !))
THE MISSION OF LABOR
"If we are to escape the fate which
has overtaken most of the warring
countries," says Louis IS. Boudin, "we
must go to the root of the matter, and
start a vigorous campaign of educa
tion, designed to teach the working
class of this country the principles of
the class-struggle and to wean it away
from the bourgeois principle of Na
tionalism, whose main office now is
to keep tin workers of the world di
vided into separate groups competing
with each other in times of peace and
slaughtering each other in case of
war."
Upholstering and Furniture Repair
ing neatly done by Svarrer Bros. 2811
Wit more, rear of Uohbins Transfer
office.
APPEAL SI It CARDS
We have a bunch of Appeal to Rea
son sub cards on hand. Help v
them up. Send iii two bits and get
B H'-week Appeal sub.
TIIK NOKTHWKST WOKKKK
THOUGHTS OF
HENRY DUBB
When Henry Dubb was a little lad,
And pleached Socialism to his dad,
His dad was poisonous against it, you
set',
Just exactly like my old dad used to
lie.
He got a slap to the side of the head
And the jokes he got down, and my!
how he read!
Then maw would say Socialism and
She got the slap instead of Henry or
the hired man.
His paw said "You must fight for your
country
And thus make peace on earth and all
he free."
My maw is a Socialist thru and thru
From reading this you'd know I am.
too..
My sister don't like to have me say
this,
Hut if she says more, I'll lend her my
fist.
Paw said, "Co ahead and make up a
(food one, that's right;
I knew for rights my kids always
would fight.
Now I'll say something concerning
war.
Do you think it right to fight and see
friends no more?
Kiss them good-bye and that'll he the
last;
Very few reach home from that awful
blast
That makes the earth shake with
shower of shot and shell,
You'd just as well be in the place
called hell
As to be in the trenches resting e'er |
more—
If nobody fights there'll be no war.
Now I'll close my tablet and say no
more.
Written by Ida Stone, age 1-1.
Bay View, Wash.
A LKSSON IN
SOCIALIST DEMOCRACY
Meyer London, Socialist Congress
man, will render an account of his
stewardship to the members of Local
New York, Socialist Party, in Public
School No. 82. Members in good
standing —proven by showing their
Socialist credentials at the dour will
alone be admitted.
The meeting will not merely approve
or disapprove of its representative's
course in Congress so far, but will
also confer with him as to his future
stand on the questions that may come
up in Congress. As the announcement
of the executive committee of the local
puts it:
"If we want our representatives in
the legislative bodies to represent the
party, we must give them a chance to
know what the party members want,
to discuss and agree upon a policy.
We have no right to assume that our
representatives are mind readers and
know what we want.."
If Ihe war keeps going for another
five years, there will probably be
more capitalists than wage slaves
left. Maoriland Worker.
Take a good long look at our ad
and get a line on those who
co-operate with you In the getting out
of this paper.
OPEN FORUM
THE NATIONAL PLATFORM
To the National Platform Committee:
After much consideration and dis
cussion, as Individual in special com
mittee, and in meetings of the local,
Local Spokane No. 1 submits as its
Idea of what the next national plat
form .should be, the following recom
mendations:
1. The platform should be brief.
2. A clear, concise statement should
be made of the nature of the class
struggle, and why this struggle is be
coming more pronounced each year,
especially mentioning machine produc
ilon as an important factor.
3. A clear distinction should he
made between progressive or reform
measures and the one revolutionary
change on which the Socialist move
ment rests — that is, the collective
ownership and democratic control of
natural resources and machine produc
tion. In this statement the common
ownership of land should be made
prominent, rather than concealed.
4. Omit all that part of former
platforms known as immediate de
mands, though the explanation should
be made that Socialists are not of ne
cessity opposed to reform measures.
■>. Call the attention of working
people everywhere to the misleading
and erroneous information that is
given by the newspapers, the churches
and the schools, in regard to every
Working class revolutionary move
ment, and urge the workers to support
Working class papers, schools and un
ions.
(!. Explain briefly the evolutionary
materialistic foundation of the Social
ist movement, and show that this is
the cause of such oppositon as is
shown by some of the churches to So
cialism.
7. Make an unequivocal declaration
in favor of internationalism as against
nationalism, and show how national
ism and a desire for commercial su
premacy have brought on the greatest
war in history.
8. State the main purpose of the
Socialist movement, in the language
of Frederick Engels, to be: To accom
plish the act of universal emancipa
tion is the historical mission of the
modern proletariat. To thoroughly
comprehend the historical conditions
and thus the very nature of this act,
to impart to the now oppressed prole
tarian class a full knowledge of the
conditions and of the meaning of this
momentous act it is called upon to ac
complish; this is the theoretical ex
pression of the proletarian movement,
modern Socialism.
JAMES GRANT,
Cor. Secy.,
Box 1733, Spokane, Wash.
(Emil Seidel, Monroe, April 10)
TO THE DREAMER
I cannot help but love the knight who
goes
Unchampioned, desired by his foes
And friends, to seek the white star of
his dream
In the black night. He only sees the
gleam;
And, heeding neither laughter nor the
sneers
Of sane complacency, his course he
steers
Into the starless skies. Perchance for
him
The gleam will never out of darkness
swim.
Yet better, dream-possessed, to falter
down
In failure than to snicker like a clown
Over the dream.
FLORENCE RIPLEY MASTIN.
! VOLNEY A SOCIALIST
More than fifty years before Marx
and Engels issued their famous "Man
ifesto," Constantine Volney, in his
work entitled "The Law of Nature,"
gave expression and sanction to the
ethical principle that lies at the base
of Socialism by asking and answering
the following questions:
"How is property a physical attri
bute of man?
"Inasmuch as all men being consti
tuted equal or similar to one another,
and consequently, independent and
free, each is the absolute master, the
full proprietor of his body, and of the
product of his labor.
"How is justice derived from these
three attributes (equality, liberty and
property) ?
"In this, that men being equal and
free, owing nothing to each other,
have no right to acquire anything
from one another, only inasmuch as
they return an equal value for it, or
inasmuch as the balance of what is
given is an equilibrium with what is
returned; and it is this equality, this
equilibrium, which is called justice,
equity; that is to say, equality and
justice are but one and the same word,
the same law of nature, of which the
social virtues are only applications
and derivatives."- J. L. Hicks, Waco,
Texas.
According to Germany, battering
one's way through a neutral country
is purely a defensive measure, while
the carrying of a gun by a steamship
for the purpose of holding off mur
derous attack is wantonly offensive. —
Philadelphia North American.
SECONDS TO REFERENDI M
V.y Ewauna, Klamath I all i, Oregon:
i Proponing thai the platform o
ime ' -anadian Socialist party be ub
mitted for referendum vote at the
n ■ time an the plat form to \>< draft
el by the National Exei utive Commit
tee. First published, Feb. 6, 1916).
Seconded !>y: Omaha, Neb., No. I, De
Moii, Mich., No, I, Everett, Wash., La
Grande, Ore., No. i, Portland, Ore.,
Tacoma, Wash., No. 4, Kennydale,
Wash., Edmonds, Wash., Grand Rap
Ids, Mich., Silveidale, Wnsh., Irvine
tori, Wash., Scotia. Wash., Finnish,
Granitesville, Vt., Tacoma, Wn., No, 1.
THAT PROMISE
"Many returned soldiers complain
that the promise of employers to keep
I heir jobs open has been broken. "—
News item.
Hanker (to returned soldier) —"Ye.s,
sir; possibly I did say something about
keeping your position vacant, but it
has lately been capably filled by a
charming young woman (to whom
wages are no object); and I feel sure
that you, as a soldier, wil not be so
unchivalrous as to ask me to discharge
her to reinstate you!'—Australian
Worker.
DRIVEN INSANE BY
SPEED-UP SYSTEM
WASHINGTON.—-"The speeding-up
system in the money order division of
the New York postoffice has already
driven three men employed there in
sane and one to suicide," declared
Thomas Flaherty, secretary-treasurer
of the National Federation of Postal
Clerks.
Flaherty declared • that under the
administration of Postmaster General
Rurleson stop-watch tests and speed
ing-up devices generally have been de
veloped to an extent unheard of until
labor conditions in the Postoffice de
partment were Burlesonized.
BEFORE AND AFTER
WASHINGTON.—By a vote of 58
to 23, the Senate passed the Tillman
bill authorizing the construction or
purchase of a government armor plate
plant at a cost of $11,000,000.
Bargain prices in armor plate—s39s
a ton, marked down from $425 —were
offered the House naval affairs com
mittee today, following the action of
the Senate in voting an $11,000,000
appropriation for a government armor
plant.
WAR'S HAVOC IN
AIR AND ON SEA
WASHINGTON.—More than 2,000
craft of sea and air have been swept
out of service, many entirely destroy
ed, in the European war, according to
figures received here.
Germany lost 25 Zeppelins and 600
ships. One airship was captured by
the Russians in September, 1914; oth
ers were wrecked, burned or lost in
storms.
The British lost 500 ships, Austria,
80; Turkey, 124; British allies, 225.
The total capture of neutrals is placed
by the United States Department of
Commerce at 736, but most of these
were released after being reported
captured.
RUSSIA FEARS TROUBLE
Possibly forecasting a serious in
ernal situation in Finland, all military
eligibles have been forbidden to leave
the country.
Finns between the ages of 19 and
41 must remain in Finland pending
the Czar's decision to draft them in
to the Russian army. There are ap
proximately 500,000 men in Finland
available for military service. Less
than 4,000 Finns have joined the Rus
sian army to date. All ports of exit
are now closely watched with the ut
most vigilance by the Russian author
ities.
Berlin reports by wireless that Ger
many has captured 19,700 cannon and
3,000 machine guns. She couldn't
capture that many from us.—St. Louis
Star.
Admiral Scheer, just appointed to
command the German battle fleet, is
said to be a great tactician. That be
ing the case, the fleet will remain in
hiding.—Philadelphia North American.
Congress may be timid about some
matters, but in Federalizing the Na
tional Guard it isn't going to be scared
by the Constitution.—Charleston News
and Courier.
Chicago's salary-graft scandal indi
cates that there may be more privi
leges desired by the suffragettes than
the mere casting of the ballot. -Nash
ville South Lumberman.
The war has made Peru too poor to
maintain a .Minister at Washington.
This is unfortunate, hut not so regret
able as the sharply contrasted fact
that the war has provided too much
money for lome other diplomats at
the Capital. —New York Sun.
North American,
Leather Goods, Umbrellas and Re
pairing. Everett Trunk Factory, 2815
Rockefeller.
page three
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Dealers in
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Dry Goods, Drugs, Grain,
Feed and Flour
Sunset .'557 [nd. 315
v 1
Kittleson Grocery Co.
Good Things to Eat
1701 Wet more Aye.
Phones: Ind. 47; Sunset 1540.
J. C. SOVDE "
GROCERIES, DRY GOODS
AND NOTIONS
3419 Everett Aye., Cor. Summit
Phones: S. S. 1818, Tnd. 470
EDW. ECKLUND
Fancy and Staple Groceries
Phones 328 2707 Wetmore
j
Thueson Grocery Co.
Agent Dr. Fahrney Medicines
1209 Hewitt Aye
Phones: Ind. 14X, Sunset 1356
MOON & KEEP
Groceries, Feed, Vegetables
1912 Hewitt Aye.
Phones: Sunset 197, Ind. 437.
High School Grocery
Both Phones 1166. 25th & Colby
High Grade Groceries
Our Motto, Quality and Service
Charles L. Lindblad
Staple, and Fancy Groceries,
Fruits, Flour, Hay and Feed
Sun. 1064. Ind. 465 X. Lowell, Wash.
C. M. STEELE
Grocery and Confectionery
Stock always fresh. Least possible
prices.
PACIFIC AND GRAND
EIDEM'S GROCERY
Scandinavian Goods a
Specialty
2709 LOMBARD IND. 477 X
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Staple and Fancy Groceries
Phones 42 2933 Broadway
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EVERETT, WASHINGTON
EMERSON'S TRIBUTE
TO SOCIALISTS
Back in 1883, Ralph Waldo Emer
son, America's greatest philosopher,
said: "I honor the generous idea
the Socialist.-;, the magnificence of
heir theories, and the enthusiasm with
which they have been urged." W ■
sure you that the so-called educational
journal-;, in con aid m, are
careful not to ■ to the above.
It wouldn't do to have the people
liia' this count tinker was
friendly to Socialism. Vppeal.