The Socialist press., June 27, 1914, Image 1

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THE SOCIALIST PRESS.
Published Weekly In The Interest Of The Working-Class.
Vol. 1.
No. 2.
FAIRBANKS, ALASKA, June 27, 1914.
-Puts It Ud To
Associated Press.
ZJston Sinclair charges news gathering, agency with
.coloring and.su^pressing ,n&\\*&.
It has tons been charged bySociaIiats«nd others desirous ofseeing fair play and
"the truth disseminated regarding important events that take place, that the great
news gathering agencies of the country, particularly the Associated .Press, have
discolored or distorted the news sent out at the behest of and in the interest of 'he
great capitalists of the country, or with suppressing it .altogether as best suited their
purpose, thus keeping the m iss of the people in absolute ignorance of the true
state of affairs.
During the vWest Wirginia
• cOal strike-ayhidwas ended about
one year ago, j he, correspondent,
of the AssociaVediPress is said to
have be' n a .jniL.tiu officer who
■directed a murderous warfare ..a-,
gainst the. siri; ing miners and
presided at drurahead.courts mar
tiai trials, sending dozens of men
to prison, some of them s-nten
- ced for life , on trumped up char
ges and on no charges at all. La
ter during the Michigan Copper
Winers, strike which . has _ just!
been.st ttled.the correspondent of
thesyiua eoneerji.made his home
at the mine owners’ c'ub in Calu
met. Similar,casesin times, of o
ther labor • roubles couid be cite 1* j
so it is easy to imagine, the char*
Acter of news that the.country at
large gets under such circums
tances; and it is only by means
■ of the labor press, and sometimes
when the situation becomes so sc
. rioue as i tj be no longer ignor. d.
through a few of the great metre
politan daili s, of liberal tendem
... cies, sending special correspond^
. en s to.ne scene, do the people
in genervL get'a . f, irjy. accurate
idea of wha* goes on.
About a ye r ago * “Masses”
,a Socialist ..magazine of . Ne*
,Yn-k Ci'y,.inspired by. what took
place .down in. West Yirgnni •, pub
lished a,,car oon representing the
Assoicated Press poisoning .the
news at its source. That .orgaei-!
zation immediately caused,two
indictments tu be found ..against
the editorsx;f the publication f< r
criminalJibel, one of which, how
ever ..has since been .dismissed
’ hat the other may be .the ..better
prosecuted.
No"’ acco ding-t-o. Upton Sin
clair, author i f the “Jung!e”|und
other..books, who has been in Co!
orada inves igating the coil strike
si'u ti-ni,there on behalf of the
“Appeal to Reason’’ the Associa
ted Press is. at. i s old tricks of
warping, and . twisting and sup
pressing he ; ews iu orcbr '0
fool th<‘ people. In the “Appeal
to Re S' rdjOf jJayrBO after seve
ral wee.', s on the .ground, and be
coming-exasperated because cf
h« refusal of ihe Associate*!
Press to carry his messages, par
ticulaily in regard t" *he attempt
of Governor Ammons and his
henfchrrer. to deceive President
W)ilso.r.fJ)e published this hal
lenge:
“ I charge that the Associoted
Press f<>rowing its regular; policy
of suppressing whenever poss ble
and to as great a degree as possi
ble, B'Umews unfavorable to vert
ed iuterests, has refus dito per
iriit the | ub ioto get the slightest
bint of .the true situation.
Max Eas'man and Art Young,
editors of “Tjhe Masses,” are un
dec.indictment ai d liab’e to a-sen
'enca.of a year or two i>i sta e’s
prison for charging th; t the Asso
ciated Press is p isoning the re -
ervoir of public opinion at
source. I n vv under my ov n sig
na ure.ai d ss a< d^Hucratei cn t
lenge, charge chat the Associated
Press has i cis' ned 'l.e 1, vs of
the Coloi='do situati n at its
s.urge. Will the cw ers and mar
■agers of 'he Ass ciated Press
take up this cl.a'le- ge and make
an attempt o:epd me to prison?
I am VflW.ig, gentlemen, for
for your answer.”
/fo date so far as we have heard
’ Tfyp investigation into tihe
chapter cf < the milk sup
jgli«4 to the peopla of/Fair
Jbanks was- up again , befer e
...the City Council :Jast Wed
nesday -evening for settle
jman*, but it wasn’t settled.'
' The question is to Le tackled
: -again however, at the next
meeting of tha.council.wher^
^ it is expected by the city fa
y thers that they, will get it ofL
their t..haita?;iaild its is believ-'
eclfcl^'yyull bq^lad, ep^ugh
when they,have seen the last
of it. For as the, matter ,has
develpped, it(ha^.a^si#n^d a
rather sepio-cqrnie aspect
serious to those^n,mj,4i^tely
concernedin the mix-up, and
comical to the rest of the
e jir.m#n*.ty.
The spectacle of Oity At
torney Marquam insistently
iriemamiijig proof, uppp which
to base a prosecution, when
he hna\V; that vthe evidence
necessayjLto convict had been
destroyed, was e^pngh to af
feet thp-visibles ofthe grav
est, citizen, but it-^lid: not
fqol anybody. It did Jead to
l. suspicion, however, that
it,rW4i3 ^otj^the milk .dealers
that Marqupra was after,but
Continued on last page.
Democratic Primaries.
The Democratic primary for
the selec ion of delegates to the
leritoi i .1 convention at Skagway
is to beheld at Fairbanks on Ju
y 7, and at 0 herplacts in the
Fourth division on July 11. Be
fore being alllowed to vote a a the
primaries, all must pledge them
selves to support the Candida'e
w* o is nominated .at Skagway.
This rule has been adopted for
the reputed purp s ; of avoiding
any danger of tha convention be
ing controlled by any but '"“tried
and true” Democrats, but in rea
li y it is a new scheme in the way
of machinepblitics 'hat has been
sprung on the faithful vvi'h no o
ihtr i bjec in \a>s\r tru n to mate
it easier for a few to say who
sh -ll go to the convention. The
woidd-be bosses of .the p*r‘y
know very well that every demo
crat will not p’edge himse f to
vote for any dummy that may be
put up, and .that is just what
they want. The fewer and 'ha
more select the contingent that
vote at the j r/mavies the easier
it will be to direct things in the
way they t'hoidd go.
The h'cal bosses are in all pro*
bability the cbiefnirsLigaEknrsr of
the scheme as it is in consonance
with their oft repeat d v.ishes to
.keep the p»r y < f Jefferson, Jack
sop, etc. “pure, “, butithey may
yet learn that the men of Alaska
are no to be hand ed like a lot of
soaks and bums on the “Barbary
Coes't’j in’ ’'Frisco 1 r die brow
beaten “niggers” down in Jaw
gir. _ _
'they have not answered.
J The Governor of Colorado had j
callecha s; ecial session of the leg
i isla ure, ostensibly?^or the pur-"
pose of devising ways and means
for setting ihe strike, but all j
jfhcyi&id was to authorize a bond
issue of $1,000,000 in order’to se- j
cui'e money to pay theinilitia and ,
gunmen that h d been Imported
to shoot down tho.min.TS, and to
pass an act “to generally, investi j
gate all mafers connected with'
said strike; that remedial legis a
tion may be enacted at the next
general assembly which will tend
to prevent a re currence of msu
rec'ion ai cl public dis >rder,” > nd
also .i acl e“ b ing the^gee ern
<>r to closesaoons in time of
disorder, and to pass a 'aw de
signed to .prevem _ the miners
from defending ihemselvei a
g inst he murder usonshuights
of thugs and. mili in. Wh n thdt
had been accomplished the legis
lature wrs preparing 'o . djoum
when the whole bunfch of them
Wss thrown into at-urarc pf ex
citement by aie’egram firm the
Preside t of the United States to
the Governor editing the latter
sharply to account because of the
condition?:prevailing; in the state
The telegram could not be ignor
ed; it had to b“ answered, so ths
Gov' rror called s* me of the ma*
chine pO'itidan4' in 'the hgisln
'ure arid tw<> or hree ; g< nts of
the mirr< owi i-rs i to consulta
tion. and -tog-ther 'they; fram’d
un adying'deceptive reply stating
\Vhab the legislature had actually
done; and some things it h;d not
donejamong the latter, that a com
itiitt.ee on mc-diadon had been pro
'vided for arid appointed. After
frustrating aii attempts-■vo have
the president's message and the
reply read before the legislature,
the reply m. as- sen men dto Wash
ington.
It was h an a'icmpt to set 'ho
mat er righ> before t’-v, President
and-the country, that Sinclair
came into collision with the Astro
elated Press. That concern in Deu
\ er refused to accept and cany
his messages, though some of the
papers it served accepted ac 1
paid for them when sent by Sin
clair Vy means of the commercial
telegraph.
“Yes I am a socia.ist—r'*een one for many years—always volo
the ticket—but 1 <lo not belong to the o-gunization.” :i If you «ro
in that class, you shoo'd eet nit of it. The onlv Socialists that
lOUi.ti iv the oi.oo tbai y .Wir
lit:le 25 cun dues per mm.'.h, und
aid. iv ihe. \v ik > f the party o tfiin.
zatiiiii. Tbe.-e are tlte :< 1 un tiiai
aie maki-r^ he Socialist i’any the
_,reat force for tLe coinn on got*! ip
Ameiica. Thecapi.ulist class weii’t
fina'aceour party a:ul wo don't
want,them to. *• Its the. twenty-five
cents i_tr luoiitu liom it* dionsanos
of rial Socialists ib.it ketp tie
wl eels of tbe organ zath.n going.
Come on'iu.Bud-- fihd out; how wo
run things: You Wtill have iust as
much<to say as another. We have
made it-e *8y for you to take tl.o
hist s ep—1> law- is a coupon wbi.h
you s. ould
Cut'Out; Tear Off ‘And Mail Tcday.
T« Nv R. King? Faaibaj-,1,"=, Av ft sza,;-G.«n’eo Island or L. Westeniik,
Cieary City.
■ I ain pnn*ii cert- that T sho uld be amen.bar of ibe organic ti. n you re«
.present. Please sen j.^ouia one to4i*:-e my application.
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