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INTERVENTION
IN MEXICO
ket no workingman allow himself to
be swept off his feet by the agonized
cries of an inspired prostitute press for
American intervention ill Mexico.
There is a well-defined conspiracy by
capitalists wlio have money invested
there, to influence public sentiment to
ward that end. Much money is being
s pent a n d interested newspapers are
spreading grossly exaggerated stories of
alleged outrages.
The millions of monev invested in
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Mexico by American capitalists, and for
the preservation of which intervention
is desired, was so invested in the expect
ation of reaping enormous profits
through the exploitation of the “peon”
labor there.
Money so invested is a gamble.
The insecurity of the government was
one of the risks incurred,
Why should American liv^s and treas
ure be expended to insure the profits
hoped for?
The life of one American mother’s
brave boy is of more consequence, of
more value, than all the dirty dollars
with which these gamblers play.
The war of the secession in America,
also caused much loss and hardships to
foreign investors ; to the cotton manu
facturers o f England, whose business
stagnated during the struggle,
We would not brook interference then;
why should we interfere in the internal
disputes of a foreign land ?
The only excuse we can offer is the
utter helplessness of Mexico against the
superior force we can muster And that
would be the attitude of a bully.
Let “Willie” Hearst and the others
who have money bet on the possibility
of reaping huge profits from the cheap
later of the helpless Mexican workers
do their own fighting.
The American workers would be the
ones expected to furnish the fighting
force, and finally pay for tlia money ex
pended in case of American interference.
And the workers have nothing to gain
thereby,—Ex.
Sain Gompers, the capitalist lalior
leader, has no use for Reds. Gompers
has as much use for the Reds as the
Reds have for Gompers, No grafter
has any use for those who expose his
graft. The working class has had many
years of Gompers and it has done them
little good, but now through the edu
cational work carried on by such Reds
as Debs, DeLeon a 11 d thousands of
other Reds, the workers are getting on
to Gompers and they are beginning to
realize that Sam is the best friend that
the capitalist class ever had.
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jTHE INDUSTRIAL
WORKERS OF
THE WORLD
'
Who are the Industrial Workers of the
World ? How many people can answer
the question ? If the question was put
to a greet number of people not familiar
with the history of the labor movement,
there would probably be a great many
different answers to the question, acc
ording to the knowledge or lack of
knowledge of the person who undertook
to answer the question. Some would
probably say they were a bunch of anar
chists, others that they were socialists,
while others would probably call them
syndicalists. The I. W. W. has been
organized in recent years and many res
idents of Alaska have only a limited
knowledge of them gleaned from the
press.
We propose to find out at first hand
who they are and what they stand for.
To do this we will take the original
documents,—the proceedings of the first
Convention of the I. W. W., held at
Chicago from June 27th, to July 8tli,
1905, stenographically reported by W.
K. McDecmut, and revised and approved i
by W. K. i'rautmann, Secretary of the
I
Convention.
The proceedings show that the Man-1
ifesto which was adopted at Chicago was !
signed by twenty-seven labor leaders to ’
call a convention for the purpose of
launching an industrial organization of
the working class, craft unionism hav
ing become obsolete. The labor leaders
who signed the Manifesto are : A. M.
Simons, A. G. Swing, Clias. H. Moyer,
W. E. Trautmann, W. D. Haywood, E.
Untermann, Mother Jones, John M. O’
Neil, E. V. Debs, and eighteen others.
Most of those who assisted in launch
ing the I, W, W.* now requdiate it. We
quote from the Social Democratic Her
ald, Berger's paper : “The so called
Industrial Workers organization has |
become a rabble and an unmitigated dis
grace to the cause of labor. It can not
have the support of any man with <
his eyes open who hopes for the coming
of the co-operative commonwealth. Nay,
more, it should have his opposition,
since its antics are charged up to the
Socialist yiovement and i t s anarchistic
leaders miss no opportunity to seek , to
undermine the Socir’ist cause.’’ Earnest
Untermann, one ofthe signers of the
Manifesto, and the translator of Marx’
Capital, writing in the National, j
Socialist says: “The I. \Y. \Y. has be
come a bunch of anarchists. At the
time of the signing of the Manifesto I
warned them to keep out the anarchist
element or it would'disrupt the labor
movement. The Socialist Party must
shut down on the Bummery and refuse
to give them any more money out of the
Party treasury. L,et them starve to
death. No compromise with the I. \Y.
W,” Debs who is an industrial unionist
repudiates them. The Western Feder
ation of Miners repudiates them. The
Niners Magazine, the official organ of
the W' F. of M., refers to them as fol
lows : “The Editor of The Miners Mag
azine has frequently, during the past
several years, commented on the meth
ods and tactics of the I. W. W. more
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commonly known as the “Bummery.”
The comments of the editor on the
freaks, fanatics, hoodlums, dead-beats,
bilks, and parasites who had fastened
themselves on an organization that is
called a labor union, to mask the per
fidy and infamy of men who are more
debased and filthier than the most de
bauched outcasts that ever moped on
the street* of the “bad lands,” brought
forth many whines and howls from the
soup-house stalwarts who veiled “rev
olution” and “one big uaion,” while
munching fodder that was obtained from
Socialist locals and labor bodies that had
even been reviled by the “slander svn-!
dicate. ’ ’
“The professional parasites who had
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REBEL’S FUNERAL
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—
A year ago the kaiser visited Zurich.
A stupendous crowd was present. This
year, on August 17th, Hebei was buried
at Zurich. It is said the crowd that att
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ended his funeral exceeded that which
saw the kaiser by tens of .thousands. It
was declared that had the funeral been l
held in Berlin its magnitude-v&'Pjjld have i
surpassed anything of the kind in the
history of the German capital. Nearly
300 trade and labor organizations o f 1
many nations besides Socialist bodies of
Germany, France, Belgium, Austria,
Russia, Italy, Switzerland, the United
States and Great Britain followed the
hearse. Fullv 20,000 men were in the
procession and 500 women wreath bear
ers preceded. A choir of 400 voices sang.
Several bands played funeral marches.
Karl Tyiebkneeht, son of Bebel’s old
friend, headed the procession. The
body was draped in hundreds of red ban- j
ners and cremated.— Ex.
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The brothel is a necessary concom
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itant of the system of capitalism and j
cannot be abolished until the system j
which breeds it is abolished.
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I sometimes sit ami pomler o’er the
stories I’ve been told, of mansions in
the heavens and the shining streets of
gold, and of the pearly gates they say
are way up in the sky, where the chosen
people enter when their time has come
to die. And I often think that if the
Lord will let me have my way, the hills
of old Missouri are where I’d want to stav
I would rather wander in the vales of
this green land of mine than walk the
gilded boulevards where dazzling jewels
shine. I do not hanker for the shores
along the Jasper Sea—the Meramec and
Gasconade look mighty good to me. For
the earth is my sweet mother and I love
her every scene—I would not trade for
streets o f gold her scented laWns of
green. And even through the winter
days, when snow lies o’er the glen, my
soul would wait in patience till the
springtime came again. I do not care
for lieav’nly harps and all the tinseled
things—I’d rather listen while the thrush
his simple carol sings. I would not feel
at ease at all away beyond the sky—I’d
feel far more at home, I know, to stay
liere when I die.— Ex.
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THE FACTORY CHILD
Like ,1 trampled flower she lay there
In the cabin on the hill ;
“Jennie's sick,’’ said Tom, her brother,
To the foreman of the mill.
Tossing in her restless fever,
On a blanket soiled and torn,
Lay this work-worn child of sorrow,
Light years since she was born.
Then her fevered fancy wandered
And her eyes grew wide with fear—
“Mamma ! hurry! there’s the whistle—
I'll be late if I lie here.
See the wheel above the window,
What a big one. See it whirl!
Mamma, I’nt so tired of working—
And I’m such a little girl!’’
“Can't I have a dolly, Mamma,
Like the one we saw to day ?
Are there mills in heaven, Mamma?
Won’t God let me run and play?
See how fast the spools are running—
Faster—faster—Oh! my head!
No—I did not do it —No, sir,
Please I did not break the thread!”
“There, my finger’s caught, ’tis bleed
ing!
Stop the wheel and let me go !
Mamma, quick, the wheel will kill met
Stop it! Oh, it hurts me so—”
Then the angel paused beside her;
Fanned her with his cseding breath—
Touched her beating he^ct. and stopped
it;
Soothed her with the peace of Death.
—Anon.
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