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OUR POST ICE 1 Kansas i State Platform National Platform OF THE SOCIALIST PARTY OF THE SOCIALIST PARTY and schools and grinds their lodlet and unformed minds Into cold dollar Socialism, and hope and pray that you will look at it different to what you have so far. Tell Charlie I appreciated his letter, and want hint to write every time, and I am glad you are tryln to teach lira the right way. because Bertha, he will leurn if you will go about It right, for Charlie Is not bad at heart, neither is Era, and I have got the same problem before mo. So hoping' and praying for a speedy answer, I am, your loving sister, JULIA RANKIN, IMMEDIATE DEMANDS. Initiative, and Recall.

The socialist Party, first ot all, Human life depends upon food clothing and shelter. Only when these are assured, are freedom, culture and higher human development possible. To produce food, clothing and shelter land and machinery are needed. Land by Itself does not sat isfy human needs, Human labor gets raw materials and food out of the soil by creating machinery and using it upon the land. Whoever ha8 control of land and machinery has control of human labor and with It of human life and liberty.

Today the macninery and land UBed for industrial purposes are owned by a repldly increasing minority. So long as machinery is simple and easily handled by one man it does not make its owners so powerful that they can dominate the sources of life of others. But when machinery becomes more and more complex and expensive and requires for its effective operation the organized effort of many workers, Its influence reach es over wider circles of life. The owners of such machinery become tho dominant class. In proportion as the number of such machine owners decreases their power in the nation and in the world increases.

They bring even larger masses of working people under their control, reducing them to the point where muscle and brain are only pro ductlve property. Millions of former self-employing workers thus become the helpless wage slave of the industrial masters. The more the economic power of the ruling class grows, the less useful does it become in the life of the nation. The overwhelming bulk of the useful work of the nation falls upon the shoulders of the classes that either have not other productive prop erty but their manual and mental labor, power the wage workers or that have but little land and little machinery outside of their labor power the small traders and the small farmers. The ruling minority is steadiniy becoming useless and parasitic.

The wage workers are therefore the most determined and irreconcilable antagonists of the ruling class. They are also the class which suffers the most from the curse of class rule. The fact that a small number of capitalists is permitted to use all the country's resources and social tools for their individual profit, and to make the production of the necessaries of our lives the object of their competitive private enterprises and speculations, is at the bottom of all the social evils of our time. In spite of the organization of trusts, pools and combinations, the capitalists are powerless to regulate production for social ends. Industries are largely conducted in a planless manner.

Through periods of feverish activity the strength and health of the workers are mercilessly undermined and during periods of enforced idleness the workers are frequently reduced to starvation. The climaxes of this chaotic system of production are the regularly recurring industrial depressions and crises which paralyze the nation every fifteen or twenty years. In its mad and reckless race for profits the capitalist class is bound to exploit the workers to the very limit of their endurance and to sacrifice their physical, moral and mental welfare to its own insatiable greed. Capitalism keeps the masses of workingmen in poverty, destitution physical exhaustion and ignorance, It drags their wives from their homes to the mill and factory. It snatches their children from the playgrounds Is it not about time the folks at Washington got a move on themselves either a move on or move out? Fifty thousand dollars for an experiment, forsooth, and one man to fix the postage rate, and he the identical person who demands that the postage rate on the people's reading matter he doubled.

What do you think of thaf ETTA SEMPLE. O'FALLEN IN COMPLETE CONTROL OF SOCIALISTS. O'Fallen, 111., April 18. At the election here the Republicans and Democrats, the money power, church and saloons, all united on a so-called "progressive" ticket to wrest the city from the Socialists. In the face of this combination the Socialists made a gain of 15 per cent oyer their vote of a year ago and succeeded in electing one alderman out of three.

This gave the Socialists three out of six alderman, and with the holdover Socialist mayor, D. L. Thomas, who will cast the deciding vote, the Socialists control the council. The Socialists feel confident of making a clean sweep one year from now- The night before election Feter W. Collins was brought here to speak at the Taylor opera bouse.

Collins is vice president of the "Militia of Christ" and secretary of the Electrical Workers' Union, the executive board of which has ordered him to cease talk TIME FOB BIP YAS WINKLE TO WAKE IT. The postmaster general. In his last annual report, recommendeds an ap propriation by Congress for the Investigation of a proposed parcels post, with a proviso that he be allowed to tlx the postage rate. He wants to see how it will work as an experiment, The President, in a message, backs the measure up. Next in importance is the ship ment of eggs and dressed poultry, especially of geese, which come in immense numbers from Pommern in east Germany.

The goose is the national feast fowl of Germany, Just as the turkey is of American. Through the parcels post it is possible for the farmers 200 or 300 miles away from Berlin, Leipzig or Dresden to ship eggs each week to customers who live, in these cities, end the advantage Is mu tual; the man in the city deals directly with the producer and is able to get fresh goods, and if they are not fresh he can make complaint direct to the on who Is responsible instead of to a dealer. Cheese, honey, fruit, vege tables and flowers are also important products In the parcels post shipment from the country. The general use of the parcels post by farmers Is shown by the statistics of the postof- flees of rural districts, which show the number of packages sent out by the offices much greater than the number received, and the farmers of Germany seem to have used the par cels post more freely for selling their products than they have for buying what they consume. MMESSE PARCEL POST BUSINESS CARRIED ON IN GERMANY The number of pacrels carried in creased- from 97,470,690 in 1890, to 245,859,266 in 1908, and there is now one parcel carried to every ten letters.

Here parcels post has been established so long that no one ever thinks of the time when they did not have it; it is taken as a matter of course, and when I say we have no parcels post in the United States, they cannot understand how It is possible that in a rich country like the United States we are lacking the convenience of the parcels post. BUTTER, EGGS AND POULTRY BY PARCEL POST Among the advantages of the German parcels post are that it affords a method for farmers handling butter, eggs, poultry, fruits, vegetables and flowers direct to consummers. It affords the city man an opportunity of getting fresh produce direct from the producer without the intervention of the middleman. It affords the merchant a method of selling and delivering goods direct to the farmer. It tends to establish uniform prices for produce, since the cost of sending produce in packages of eleven pounds or less Is uniform when the distance is over ten miles." So much for Germany.

A Syracuse, New York, paper tells a story which is calculated to raise a smile and, besides, to start a little thinking: i A citizen of Syracuse 'is standing at the stamp window. Solvay, It should be said, is a part of Syracuse lying inside the city limits. THIS IS UOW IT WORKS IN THE UNITED STATES The citizen: "A package for Solvay. It weighs a pound. How much?" The clerk: "Sixteen cents." "Whew, so much? I guess I'd better not send this other one.

It's the same thing going to a friend of mine in London. How much would that be? weighs a pound." "Twelve cents." "How's that?" "Twelve cents." "You're mixed, aren't youysixteen cents to Solvay and twelve cents to London, is that right?" "Right you are." "Can't quite figure it out as a business proposition why the United States can afford to send to England for twelve cents what it charges sixteen cents to carry to Solvay. but I'll take your word for it. Here are two more packages; each one weighs five pounds. How much for one of them to Tokio, Japan?" "Twelve cents a pound, sixty cents In all." "Sure no one ould kick on that three thousand miles across America to San Francisco and then across the Pacific Ocean for sixty cents.

Great thing this United States postal service. Now here's the same for Auburn, a five-pound package. How much?" "Can't tako it." "Can't take it!" "Limit on packages for transmission by mail four pounds. You'll have to send It by express." "But you jrst took a five-pound package to go to San Francinco and thence to Japan, and you won't take one to Auburn at any price?" "That's right." ''Why?" "Postal regulations." "My! but Uncle Sam a corking hti'-ieess man. isn't he?" THE SOCIilir: PARTY PLATRKM OF THE STATE OF KANSAS.

We. the members of tho Socialist Party, In regular conference assembled, this 11th day of December, 19U, hereby reaffirm our allegiance to the principles of tho International Socialist movement and the national pint-form of the Socialist Party. The Socialist party of Kansas, rocognlzliiR that the profit system of Industry, or capitalism, is the cause of poverty, child labor, drunkenness, food adulteration, graft corruption, and all the crimes that society is holr to, and that the Democratic Republican and Prohibition parties Us representative of the capitalist class, profit by and perpetuate this system, we, therefore, as representatives of tho great majority the working class, declare our unalterable and uncompromising opposition both to this criminal system and to all parties and all branches of parties that maintain and perpetuate it. In support of the justice of our contention, let facts bo submitted to nn honest and Intelligent people. General Principles.

Through the profit system labor Is robbed of tho greutor portion of the product of Its toil which is tho direct cauBe of poverty. For profits, two million children are murdered, or deprived of their natural heritage, in the mills and mines of the United States. For profits, saloons, joints and bootleggers Illegally engage In the liquor traffic and drunkenness results. For profits, food and drugs are adulterated and the lives of people are endangered. For profits, grafters live and grow rich at the expense of the public.

For profits, legislatures are corrupted and tho people robbed. For profits, thd white slave traffic flourishes. For profits, all the commandments of God and all the laws of man are broken. This Infamous system is based unon competition which has evolved lulo private monopoly on tyranny; taxation without representation through tho Instrumentality of the trusts and corporations on Inequality of opportunity; whereby the lew appropriate to themselves the total product of the monopolized industries, giving tho producers a wage only sufficient for a bare subslsterce. Under this system the owner of the monopolized Industry may refuse em ployment to any worker, and he Is not admitted under the laws of capitalism or of any country on earth to have a legal opportunity to work or earn a living not because of any fault of his own but because he cannot find a master to hire him; hence the army of the unemployed Is always with us Under ffJH system, a child of the owner of monopolized Industry may Inherit th'tt productive property and through this inherited ownership of the lands and tools which others must use In order to live, he Is born to be their master and they are born to be his servah's This Is not the fault of either the owner or the worker but Ib Inherent in the capitalist system and the ol this is to give to the few who create nothing, all the wealth, and reduce the nany who create all the wealth, to absolute Such con' dltions to politically free and en- lightened people, are Intolerable and cannot long endure.

The Socialist Party is the only party that takes a stand against this unjust and pernicious system and all parties advocating and seeking to perpetuate it. It uses every political, industrial and educational force at its command 1o combat and abolish It, and neither compromise of principle nor fusion with any party can be tolerated. The Socialist Party not only of Kansas, but or nation ana the world, ad locates as a substitute for the capital Jstlc system a co-operative system wherein every worker shall receive the full social product of his toil, the basic principles of this system to be The Co-Operative Commonwealth, or the ownership by the many of what all must, use In order to live; but each individual to receive his share of the total product according to the work done as near as It is humanly possible to give it to him. Democracy, or majority rule In the management of the collectively owned industry doing away with the mastery and servitude on the field of labor; equal of opportunity, or the equal right of all to (work Jn the collectively owned Industry if they choose, and an equal voice in the management of the same. Under this system the worker will not depend on the will of the few for an opportunity to earn a living and the great unmerited poverty of the many nnd the great unearned wealth of the few will quickly disappear.

As measures calculated to strengthen the working class In Its fight for the realization of its ultimate emancipation and to increase its power of resistance against capitalistic oppression we advocate and pledge ourselves and our elected officers to the follow- 1'BOrOSED NATIONAL TARTY REFERENDUM. Local. Butte, No, 1, Montana. Butte Local No. 1, Socialist Party cf Montana, 2S6 members in good -elanding.

requests seconds for the following motion: "That the following be made a part of the platform and declaration of principles of the Socialist Party ot the United States: "Established Socialism, to be successful and enduring, or, in fact, to be at all worthy the name of Socialism, must be a condition of industrial democracy. It must he a direct, Democratic management and control of Industry, and of the distribution of the products of Industry, by and for the workers engaged in industry. The Socialist Party urges the working class to so shape its form of economic organization as to conform, as far as possible, to the lines of modern Indus? trial development, thereby preparing the working class, through industrial organization, for the taking over collectively- by the workers of tho r- i '''ri WOMEN KAPIDLY AWNING TO THEIR CLASS INTEREST. Soon Millions 0f Them Will Be Aid-la the Overthrow of Ciiultulhm. The following letter, with clipping "Social Equality" enclosed, from Mrs.

Julia Rankin to her sister In Iola. Is a straw that shows which way the wind is blowing: SOCIAL EQUALITY. I have been aBked the question, do the Socialists believe in equality for the negro? Well, that depends what kind of equality you Socialists believe that all men, regardless of race, ought to have the full product of their toil. Just like the unions demand the same minimum scale for all their members. If they did not do this, the cheap man would get all the work, (he boss Is not worried about equality of any kind.

He wants cheap labor. Justice demands that all men should have all they produced. As for social equality, it has nothing to do with econiomlo equality. Birds of feather flock together. That Is a law of nature and will always be.

consequently no sane man, be he Socialist or anything else, will ever try to mix oil with water. But aay. brother, did you notice on last election day la Memphis, both fac tions of the Democrats hauled the ne groes to the polls la the same automobiles that carried poor white trash? This Is a fact. Boss Crump was not worried about social equality. He wanted votes, and got them.

Fulton, April 20, 1912. My Dear Sister: All the sister I have In the world, and brother, let me tell you something, both of you. Bertha, you are old enough to vote but your husband isn't at present, but let me tell you, my dear, you are a Socialist, but you don't, know it. You have been misinformed about Socialism. A poor person, the laboring class, are crazy when they won't look at things as our Lord and Master says they must.

Bertha, listen, Socialism does not mean negro equality jfar, far from It. They don't a bit more believe in negro and white marrying than you or I do. I am a Socialist teeth and toe nail and you know I am no negro lover. Socialistic principles are this (equal rights to all, special privileges to none). That is every man have the profit of his own labor.

Now here is an exam nle Charlie works at tne smeiter and he. I dare say, doesnt make a fortune in money. Now, does he. Well, now Socialism means that there shall be no smelters, nor anything else that will work thousands of men at starva tlon waces, and another example, a man will not be allowed to buy all the land In the country and work the poor men to death to cultlvate.lt for them, and the "capitalist" or the man that owns the land to have the rich harvest and the man that did all the the work to Just barely make money enough to pull through God tells us in his Holy word that these kingdoms must come down and they will come down there will not be a kingdom under hea ven by the time God gets through with it. He says so, and then Christ will establish his kingdom and reign for evermore; isn't It a beautiful thought? Though on account of the sin and deg radation going on in this world and be cause all people (I say all), because everybody in general Is worshiping the god.

gold. We have got to go through a terrible time of trouble, sucn such as there never was since there was a nation. No, nor ever will be, still In the end will come peace on earth, good will toward men and the Dear Christ who shed his blood on Calvary, that we might be saved, will rule over us henceforth forever more. Bertha, this time of trouble Is on all this world. Look at the strikes, at the wrecks, the floods, besides all the hidden deviltry that is going on as they have sinned, so must they suffer.

I wish you were here with me so we could talk together. But Bertha, the thing. take all things into consider eration. That is the title of one of the Socialist papers, Appeal to Reason Now I hope you don't get angry with me, for God knows I don't want to see you mad, but see you looking toward the cross, not away from It. I am sending you a little piece I clipped out of a Socialist paper on the very sub Ject you wrote about.

Socialism and negro equality, You will very readily see when you have read It and lay prejudice aside that, though they be lieve in the negro having what he works for, they don't bellove in mixing (oil and water), as they express it. So 1 ask of you to be reasnable and figure this' thing out, for you have as much sense as I have and it is as plain to mo as the nose on your face, whlct, like mine, is the most prominent part of your make-up. And now as I have not done one little bit of my work, I must get at it. but I could not rest until had 'old yni- whnt thonirht sbmit It wantonly disfigures, maims and kills hundreds of thousands of work ingmen annually in Mimes, on rail roads and in factories. It drives mil lions of workers into the ranks ot the unemployed and forces large num hers of them into beggary, vagrancy and all forms of crime and vice.

To maintain their rule over their fellow men the capitalists must keep in their pay all organs ot the public powers, public mind and publio conscience. The control of the dominant parties and through them the elected officials. They select our executives, bribe our legislatures and corrupt our courts of Justice. They own and censor the press. They sway our educational Institutions.

They own our nation politically and intellectually, Just as they own it industrially. The struggle between the workers and capital grows ever fiercer and has become the only vital issue before the American people. The wage orking class, therefore, has the most direct and vital interest in abolishing the capitalist system. But in abolishing the present system the working-men will free not only their own class but also all other classes of modern society. Tho small farmer, who today is exploited by large capital more in directly but not less effectively than is the wage laborer; the small manufacturer and trader who Is engaged in a desperate struggle for economic independence in the face of all-conquering power of concentrated capi tal; and even the capitalist himself who Is the slave of his wealth rather than its master.

The struggle of the working class aeainst the canitallst class while it is a -class struggle, is thus at the same time a for the abolition of all classes and class privileges. The private ownership of the land and means of production used for exploitation, is the rock upon which class rule is built. Political government is its indispensable instrument. The wage workers cannot be freed from exploitation without conqueror-ing the political power and substituting collective and democratic administration for private ownership of the land and means of production used for exploitation. The basis for such transformation is rapidly developing within the very bosom of the present capitalist society.

The factory system with its immense machinery and minute division of labor is rapidly destroying all vestiges of individual production in manufacture. Modern production is already very largely a collective and social process, while the great trusts and monopolies which have sprung up in recent years have had the effect of organizing the work and management of some of our main industries on a national scale and fitting them for national use and operation. In the struggle for freedom the interests of tho workers of all nations are Identical. The struggle is not only national but international. It embraces the world and will be carried to ultimate victory by the united workers of the world.

To unite the workers of the nation and their allies and sympathizers of all other classes to this end, is the mission of the Socialist. In this battle for freedom the Socialist movement does not strive to substitute working class rule for capitalist rule, but by working class victory to free all humanity from class rule and to realize the international brotherhood of man. ing against Socialism on the union's time. He has tendered his resignation as secretary of the union, to take effect June 1. Adolph Germer was on hand witlng for a chance to answer Collins, but was not given the opportunity.

After Collins had finished making one of the most cowardly denunciations of Socialism ever attempted, one of his audience, named Wilson, arose to ask a question. Collins claimed he had come to speak there, intending to have the right of speaking and not answering Socialistic questions. JOIN THE PARTY. "I never realized the Importance joining the party and paying dues until I read an editorial in your paper, said a new member to me on Frldaj night, as he paid for his red card. "Your article set me thinking.

Here I am call myself a Socialist, take a few papers, but do nothing to help the party. I am leaving the burden to a few willing souls. I concluded I was not doing my duty and here I am." Cow ley Co. Leader, Winfleld, Kan. When Shakespenre -said: "A dog's obeyed in did he, perhaps, have in mind some of our late officials who throw privileges little ones to the people as a master, nilghij to his curs? The poet, modern ln many things, was particular inodcrrj la his dPFerlptioni of official an advocate of reaf democracy desiring to place the reins of government squarely within the hands of the toll-Inp masses; we therofore pledge our-scnes and our candidates under all circumstances to support th princi ples underlying the initiative, rerer- endum and recall.

Public OVtlHTNlllp. KwiniiMt Partv stands alone In Its advocacy of collective- ownership of public utilities and the co lective ownership of all industries which are organized on a larger Bcale in which competition has ceased, and in the democratic management of the same. So long as municipal, state ana national government is dominated by tne financial interests the public ownership of public utilities will bo si gnt, if of any real benefit to the working class; but under the ownersnip auu democratic management as provided in the organization of the ociai Party, public utilltios would be made to serve the people who must use and iiiom rimier this head we pledge ourselves to the enactment 01 such legislation as will permit um state, county, cities and townships to engago in any Industrial enierpnau a.wii an 2M nnd electric light plants, telephone system, municipal laununeo and bakeries, water plants, paving plants, ice plants, street railway systems, coal vards and market placus and such other industries or business as to the people shall seem most nae-ly to conserve their best interests. We would especially recommend a free water system in all cities of 5000 or over, same to be maintained by gen-off) tavntinn. water to be furnished nhnnintniv free for domestic service and a nominal charge made for commercial and industrial institutional Unemployed ProBlem.

J' III LJl ii tho iHnf i but this was a proD' lem with wlilon only European countries hart to dp-l, but of late years with the comlner of the uoxoy nrnuua, mo i o.iri caused l)V un nil. ijutti on Mill ili'J Illl.Hfc that this la one of the crowning curses ot oivllzation. At thin moment we are In the midst of one of those industrial breakdowns that periodically paralyze the Hie of tho nation. The much boasted era or our national pros jerity has been followed by one ol general miBKry; muu and mines are silent; the hum of Industry la reduced to a mere echo; millions of men ready and willing to work are on the nt iiannHnn' nhn.rltnble institutions are taxed beyond their capacity; reformatories, penitentiaries, insane asylums are unable to accommodate the Influx result ing from the era or crim" ami ueui-tnweft nnrni tho neonle as the result of unemployment. Therefore, we pledge ourselves ana our eiecieu onv unit ml Insolation that will In any degree alleviate this condition; such no hi.I no- DtDtA niDnWIlVB HUU tilt UUVMU Imnrovements.

city, county and state, by the direct employment system. In this connection we, the Socialist Party, stand unalterably opposed 10 tne cuniravi torn in nnhiin wi.i'k. All oersons employed on audi works to be employed directly by tho city, county or state government under an eight hour day and at prevailing unon wages with a mininwim waga of at least 2 per day. we aisu rwiuuiuio that a state wide employment bureau be established the same to be maintained by the state without cost to tne emiJiuj-ei to those seeking employment. Equal Suffrage, lam nr avntwm lit government wnlcn attempts to deny any class of human be ings a right ODtainea mruusn to- sacrifice such as their political right, Is undeserving of the respect and contidence of fairminded people.

Therefore, we believe In equal suffrage regardless of sex. color or former condition of servitude, and pledge our candidates 11 elected, to Inaugurate a vigorous campaign in the Interest of women suffrage and urge an active campaign for the amendment to our constitution now pending, Free School Books. Inasmuch as an education is a public necessity in an industrial ns well as a political democracy, we favor the passage of a law whereby the State I'rnter shall publish all school books for the state, the same to be furnished free to al pupils so that the child of the poor shall have an eyiiEil opportunity with the child of the rich to secure an education and where necessary food and clothing should be furnished by the State, Convict Labor. The Socialist Party stands for the abolition of tho contract system of leasing convict labor nnd the sale of the product of their labor In competition with free labor. We demand that Congress pass laws prohibiting tho transportation of the products of contract prison labor, and of child labor in factories, in inter-stats COw'e "contend that the labor of the con-vet belongs to him and that society has no right to confiscate it, but that its value should be turned over to him or his dependents.

We favor Old Age Pensions, nnd that nnvmn whn roaches a certain deter- shall he entitled to honorable -ctlrement with a fixed income equal to 'wo'u nlteritlon to the constantly in- Teasing tendency of our Federal Courts usurp the power at no time delegated ft it snd trampling under foot the rights rt the common people In favor of the li-eedv interests. "Kept" Judges are a menace- to our liberties and demand that the Irresponsible federal Judiciary be eliminated from our legal syHtem. We call nftontlnn of thp people to the rule of the nostofflce department which interests itself more in censoring tho business of the people tnnn in perfuming its proper functions. We imperatively demand that it take Its clutches I he throats of the people, and de- vnte Its energies to Its work of transportation. It Is not our master nor ruler, niir nnrvnnf.

We favor State Insurance for life and property (it cost. distribution; thus fitting the workers for harmonious, Democratic working- class control and management of the future industrial democracy Social ism. "COMMENT: The most significant development of the International So- clalipt. movement in recent years was the Gustave Iterve's com' mcnt on the German elections. "The militant French writer makes straightforward acknowledgement of the tremendous Importance of united working class political action, and ad mlts hlB conviction that such action can bo made powerful factor In the struggle of the working class toward economic Independence, The air is alive with Investigation and fraud exposure.

How much are you getting out of it as long as you All your mind with the deceptions and lies which the monopoly papers dish out to their We need no federal or state senates In this nation, neither do we need a Supreme court they make unwise The Fall Of Capitalism. There are Capitalist gratters Who have ruled this world for years, Who have robbed the tolling millions Spite of all their pleading tears. We have learned to light our battles Spite of all their threats and Jeers, As Socialism marches on. Teddy's back at Sagamore With his ear upon the ground, And above self praise, he says he hears A drcad'ful rumbling sound, Seems to come from toward Milwau kee And from every where around. An admonition ot capitalism's fall.

Then beware of capitalism's henchman At election time this fall, For your vote they promise everything Referendum and recall," Or a "pass-port straight to heaven," Which will only lead to II 1. We have tried them oft before. They are offering a fortune If you fully guarantee A white-wash that will make white His Satanic Magesty It Is wanted down at Washington To keep officials free, For use instead of the recall, Let's get in the fight my comrades. There is going to be some fun. Buckle on your propaganda But you need not get your gun, We will lick them with our ballot For we have them on the run, Then labor will have its own.

A. J. PUCKETT. 3 3t Hi 8i 3 Hi Hi Hi National Notes Hi Hi Hi Hi Hi Hi Hi Hi Hi Hi Hi Hi Hi Hi Hi Hi Hi The National Committee is now voting on Motion No. 2, by National Committeeman Hogan.

of Arkansas, providing for an appropriation of $1 000 for the victims of the McCurtain (Okla.) mine disaster; also upon an amendment to the same by National Committeeman Gamble of Kentucky that the sum appropriated be $250 Vote will close April 24th. "In view of the fine, tolerant spirit of Herve, and its probable effect upon the World of organized' labor, is it too much to expect the Socialist Party of the United States to reject the d'ls gusting and futile compromises of previous platforms respecting organiZ' ed labor, and to substitute therefor a clear and decisive declaration showing broadly the Socialist attitude regarding the organized labor "The adoption of the above declara tlon would remove any existing justl fication for the charge that the Social 1st Party favors any factionalism in the organized labor movement. It would simply outline a form of orgj.nl tion economically that is ABSOLUTE LY ESSENTIAL to the triumph ot the working class through Socialism. In other words, tho Socialist Party the political party of the working class- in seeking to abolish the wage system points to the working class in a pure ly constructive manner a development in unionism that MUST PRECEDE ac tual Socialism. "We leave the manner of securing this desired- organization entirely the hands of the workers themselves taking no stand either for or against those who "bore from within" or ham mer from without.

"Moreover, such a declaration as the above would emphasize the working class character of the American Socialist movement, tend to discourage the apparent tendency within our party in some localities to compromise with small capitalist Interests for Immediate political spoils, and form a solid groundwork for a permanent, substantial growth." Locals were organized by National Organizers during March, as follows: J. E. Snyder: Bentonvllle. Arkansas, members; Locksburg. 5 members; Nashville, 7 members; Hope, 6 members; Emmett, 7 members; Pres-cott, 13 members; Malvern, 10 members.

E. J. Squler: Hartley, Delaware, 9 members; Newport. 5 members. Dan A.

White: Sandy Hook, Maryland, 7 members; Knoxville. 12 members. S.W.Motley: Senna. Idaho, 9 members; Payetta, 23 members; New Plymouth, 11 members; Vale. Oregon, 33 members.

O. F. Branstetter: Newberry. South Carolina, 6 members. By a recent, referendum in Montana, S.

M. Rector, 505 Second avenue South, Great Falls, was elected a member of the National Committee, and Jacob M. Kruse, 240 West Main street. Boze-man, was re-elected to the same J..