The Emporia Convincer from Emporia, Kansas • 3

JOB PRINTING THAT CONVENTION NOTES, turo Glovanittt. sow in prison la Lawrence, warning the workers of the east to stay away from the Pacific Coast on account of lack of work and threatened trouble, and pledging the party to the poiC of organizing all SAVES YOU MONEY llieJr'KUFnrjl "fB ASS- you consistently condemn othert for advocating them? Why do you not preach those principles as well as practice them? When you have studied them a little more carefully and learn that they are In 'harmony true religion and morality we know you will. Capitalism, or tho system of production for profit, Is taking something from your neighbor without returning an equivalent, and the spirit of greed or mammon. Socialism or. the system of production for use Is a rystera of cp-opera-tlon wherein every exchange' Is pa a basis of giving an exact equivalent, and Is the spirit of Justice, or good or God.

"Ye cannot serve both God and mammon" which will you choose? many delegates as being the best and strongest document ever adopted by the party. It will be perfected by the committee and then sent to the party membership for indorsement. The constructionists of the cities and the farmers working together in alliance the extreme revolutionaries wero routed in the consideration of tho farmers' question. The opposing elements locked horns on the first section of tho farmers' program submitted by the standing committee of nine, which had been supplemented during tho day with a "farmers' committee" of nine made up of Socialist farmers. This section declared that: "Tho Socialist party domands that the means of transportation and storage and the plants used In the manufacture of farm products and farm machinery, shall be socially owned and democratically managed." Delegate Ohsol, of Massachusetts, moved ah amendment that "the land" be Inserted before "the means," while delegato Edwards, Texas, moved an amendment that "where such means are used for exploitation" be Inserted Indianapolis, Ind.

Harmony ruled at the four and fifth days of the National Convention. This fact accounted for the passage of a number of resolutions, adoption of several committee reports, and the disposal of some of the most delicate questions before tho delegates. Unanimous agreement upon tho much debated question of labor organizations and their relation to the party-was the Impossible thing that happened. Instead of tho expected clash on this question all shook hands across the deep chasm that had hitherto marked their differences and voted to a man In accepting the unanimous reports of the committee that struggled long In reaching an agreement on this subject. "The Impossible thing has happened," declared Tom Mickey, of Texas, who told the convention how he had shaken hands with Job Harrlman.

of California, In agreemeent on this sub- FOR SUCKERS. KALAMAZOO, MICHIGAN. citizens, and their renewal of picket duty, the strikers have been absolutely peaceable and1 in eplte of the arrest of ten of their members, who are at this writing in Jail, Miss Casey, their leader among them, still the strikers bave been absolutely peaceable, bave offered no violence or show of violence, nor is there any possibility of violence, unless the authorities step in and make It la aplte of all this, the local papers come out this morning with the scare heading "Aid ot militia may be needed to keep order." To (charge directly that this Is done with "malicious forethought" might be unjust. Newspaper editors are always looking for scare heads, and might use one like this without understanding its serious Import, But to charge that the slightest suggestion that riots are apt to result is to "Incite to riot" is in accord with known, principles of psychology, and the individual or paper that doe3 this should receive the hearty condemnation of every peace loving citizen. What ever the outcome may be, you can take this as a certainty that the militia will not be needed in Kalamazoo unless the Kalamazoo Corset Company decides to use it as a weapon t6 break the strike.

The strikers here are absolutely peaceable, and intend to' remain so. But they do not intend to have their rights taken from them' as citizens without protest, and are willing to go to jail, peaceably, mind you in defense of their cause. When it comes to questions of Capi-' tal and Labor the capitalist press la not to be trusted, or on any other question of importance for that matterthe recent "Death of the Pope" Js a case in point Let the working class build up their own press, it is the only hope. with bullets but with ballots, to free you so you may stand, up like men among men and receive the full product of your labor, and not be compelled to grovel in the dust, dirt and mire as you do now, for the benefit of a few, who look with contempt upon you. But, as the slaves were freed in spite of the Nigger John, so will Socialism free all mankind, men and women alike, the world over from wage-slavery, poverty, misery and want.

Yes, In spite of the white Nigger Johns, who for the smiles of the politicians, the promise of a job and a few drinks of cheap whisky, flgnt, work and vote against their own economic freedom. Nigger John died in the Jaclcson couniy poor such was his reward for fighting against his own race and class. Worklngmen! Don't be' Nigger: Johns. Learn wherein your emancipation lies: Study Attend Socialist lectures. Read Socialist literature.

Discuss Socialism with your neighbor. Subscribe for Socialist papers, Join the Socialist party. Vote the Socialist ticket Don't be Nigger Johns any longer, lest you also die in the poor house, J. J. HERMAN, i Blue Springs, Mo, The time will come when children will be taught by travel, and in play, will learn the lessons of life.

municipal employes wherever the par ty gets Into power. Tho delegates bIeo adopted a resolution pledging tho party to carry on an aggressive propaganda In tho army and navy. The recommendation of the commit tee on Co-operatives' to elect a com-' mittee of five to investigate this subject in moro detail and to report at the 1914 congress was adopted. Gaylord, Wisconsin, mado the report as chairman of the committee. A majority report signed by Llndgren, New York, declaring that co-operatives are foreign to the Socialist movement and should bo let alone, was defeated.

Barnes, of Pennsylvania, reported for the committee on International Relations. The entire report of this committee, was adopted. It recommended: That the convention declare against Intervention by the United StateB dn the Mexican revolution. That tho Socialist party of this country and foreign countries arrange to send fraternal delegates to their respective conventions. That the delegates to the International Socialist Congress shall arrange for the discussion of the subject, high cost of living, international labor legislation and that tho congress be urged to secure an international agreement among the Socialist parties of the world against war between their respective countries.

Everything asked by the foreign language sections of the Socialist party was granted almost by unanimous vote. The prediction Is made that this action will double the membership of these sections before another contention meets. The completed farmers' declaration adopted by the convention provides: That the Socialist party favors the retention by the government of all land already owned, the same to be Improved and the same to be operated by collective agricultural enterprises. That the government shall insure against diseases of animals and plants, Insect pests and natural calamities. That the party favors the abolition of farm tenantry.

That the part indorses the movement to organize renters and wage workers on the farms. AS TIGS ARE, Socialist do not believe that there should be classes. They do believe that there are classes. They see in history only a struggle of one class to triumph over another. They call this the philosophy of the class struggle, and eee In the undestanding of it knowledge that shall make it possible to end classes by ending the need of struggling for a living.

Socialists are not necessarily materialists. The materiallstio conception of his tory, about which they talk, Is merely an understanding that that which caused things to happen was the need and manner of making a living. Socialism points1 the way to scientific and easy way of making a living, and understands that when this Is secured ethical culture will necessarily follow. Socialists see what to many is a mystery how the workers are robbed. They see that a man working for another must produce all he receives and something else that the other man gets.

Rent, interest and profit tell the whole story. That which a worker produces and does not get it is called by his surplus value. Chicago Daily Socialist. If you don't want all you produce the thing ta do is to continue voting the old party tickets. United This paper will always assist the workers, whether of farm, factory, mill cr mine, in every effort they mpv make to better their condition.

It will do more; it will constantly strive to awnlren the workers to a' realiza tion of the fact that concentrated and vigu.ous effort Must be made by them If their condition is not to become far more unbearable than at present. The only paper the workers can trust is the paper that they themselves own and control. This paper is owned by workingmen. Slnco this paper is so owned, it will always be 'at the disposal of the work ers and will do all it can to aid you. Why not help the paper that will al ways help you? We are going to ask ail of our sub CUT ON THIS LINE NAME.

"V.ll CALLING THE MILITIA, One of the' main functions of the capitalist press is to "prepare tne way" for Jhe militia. The slightest disturbance between labor and capital is eufficlent pretext tor them to commence their "suggestions," and at this work they are cunning and unscrupulous. There is an Important strike on here in Kalamazoo. The Corset Workers Union has been out for some weeks, falling to renew their contract with the Kalamazoo Corset Company, makers of "American Beauty" and "Madam Grace" corsets. The demands of the union bave been conservative, simply for a decent wago and decent working conditions.

Their methods have been also conservative and proper, and from the first they bave stood willing to arbitrate, or to make peaceable settlement. On tho other hand the "boss" has played the "bully" from the start. First by discharging the committee of the union that wafted upon him to present the demands, and since by an effort to intimidate the workers through Injunction proceedings, and to prejudice the citizens by a threat to move his factory from the city should the workers win out, thus frightening the timid "business man" who might be otherwise in sympathy with the strikers. This factory employes about 800 hands, mostly girls, and a threat to move such an institution from the city is calculated to carry much, weight among the general "even though it be a bluff. Aside from the fact that the strikers have become convince that the injunction against picketing served on them by an "accom6dating" court, is contrary to their rights as American DON'T BE NIGGER JOHN When I came to Jackson county, six years ago, there was(a colored man here who went by the name of Nigger John.

I soon learned ho was an ex-slave, having been owned by a Mr. Nolan, who was a rich slave owner. When the agitation for the abolition of slavery started, it was feared that Nigger John, somewhat of a leader, would be the first to leave his master and get other slaves to leave also. So I am told by old settlers, who knew him well, that for the paltry sum of $50, the smiks of the slave owners sr. a few cheap drinks of whisky, he acted as a spy for Quantrell and his raiders went Into Lawrence, before that horrible massacre, came back to Quantrell and reported there were no union soldiers there and that the town was defenseless.

In every way he aided and fought with and for the parties that were keeping him. bis father, mother, sisters and brothers (a brother Lewis still lives and is almost my nearest neighbor), in slavery, and fought with ail the power and threach ery at his command against the parties that were trying to free him and his relatives and his race. "Foolish nigger!" you will say. Yes, very, very, foolish, but no more foolish than the worklngmen of today who vote the Republican and Democratic tickets, the parties that keep them in wage slavery, poverty misery and want. Worklngmen, the Socialist party Is educating, working and fighting, not Effort Will Accomplish scribers to get other readers, as the more we have, tho more we can help you.

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Iola. Socialist Co-operative Publishing Co Iolu, Kansas. AX OI'EX LETTEB. Dear Friend It Is a well known fact that a machine built on wrong principles Is always Impractical. Now we can see that the Industrial machine wo call Capitalism, which Is built on the principle of competition and has through the laws of trade evolved Into private monopoly, Is Ira-pratlcaL It utterly falls to give employment to all the people, It enab'es the strong to take advantage of the weak and as a result we have reached the point where the few who produce nothing have all the wealth and the many who produce all nothing.

According to the best statistics obtainable already 6.000 millionaires own 60 billions of th0 wealth of the U. computing their Increase at 6 per cent compounded annually (which Is much less than their actual earnings), In about 15 years they will own every dollars worth of wealth in the entire United States. Will you be one of the 6,000 or will you be one of the dispossessed? What would you think of parents who would permit the larger stronger boy to take advantage of his weaker brother? Would such a system be practical for the family? The motto of Capitalism Is "Get all you can and keep all you get," while the Bible teaches "Lay not up treasures on earth," "Woe unto them that join house to house and lay field against field." Is such a system In harmony with "Doing unto others as you would have others do unto you?" Now, since It is clear that capitalism Is not practical for the great majority of the people and is wrong In principle, let us test Socialism by the same rule. The Industrial machine called Socialism will be built on the principle of co-operation, or the collective ownership of the machinery of production and distribution, under democratic management, with equal opportunity for all to secure the product of their labor. You will admit that so far as co-operation has been applied under the present Bystem it has been a success, for instance, co-operation in production in our large factories Is the only pratical feature of them.

Individual methods were succeeded by co-operation because they became Impractical for production on a large scale. Now, If you will' make the ownership of the factory and the distribution of the product co-operative you will make the. entire system practical, and that will be Socialism. The public school and the postal system also demonstrate that the Socialist prlnclplo Is practical for they are collectively owned and operated for the good of all the people, and are In the main successful and satisfactory. The only impractical features connected with them is that we permit the privately owned corporations, Eiich as the railroads and Bchool book trusts to rob us by tholr exhorbitant rates and prices, and the further fact that they are not managed.

If It Is practical to get our education at cost and get our mall carried nt cost, would It not also be practical to get food, clothing, shelter and trans pnrtation at cost? You will agree that church organization Is' a practical Institution. You practice the principles of Socialism In Its management. The church which Is collectively usf Is collectively owned and is managed Democratically while the things that are privately used by tho members are privately owned and there Is equal opportunity for all to do church work or to receive the benefits or advantages to bo derived from the organization. These are the principles of Socialism and there are no others. Since you practice these principles The working class does everything and has nothing.

The capitalists do nothing and have everything. They say Harry Bone feels like a cancelled postage stamp, lie has been licked, o-H zjt! itujty" t'Ji RAP PRIMARY LAW Portland, Me. The Socialists in convention In this city denounced the Davies primary law which causes the Socialists great inconvenience in entering the election contests, and adopted the following -resolutions: "Whereas, the so-called Davies primary law practically disfranchises the Socialists of Maine by requiring a prohibitive number of signatures to all nomination papers; and, "Where, tho said law thus defeats true democracy in denying tho working class the right to vote for representatives of their own class; and, "Whereas, the farmers of said law Insist that the purpose of the law is not to deny the Socialists of Maine their constitutional rights; therefore, be it "Resolved, by the Socialist party of Maine in convention assembled, That we register our emphatic protest against tho manifest injustice of the Davies primary, law; and be it further "Resolved, That we demand that tho Maine legislature, now in session, pass or Immediately submit to the voters of Maine for a referendum, an amendment to the Davies primary law, permitting parties which at the last state election received less than 5 per cent of the total voto to nominate candidates for public office by nomination papers containing signatures ot 10 per cent of the registered voters of the said party; and be it further "Resolved, That a copy of these resolutions be mailed to the governor, the attorney general, the members of both houses of the state legislature and to the daily press." The following resolution was referred to a referendum vote of the state membership: The following resolution was referred to a referendum vote of the state membership: "Whereas, there is a marked disturbance in the different labor organizations; and, "Whereas, we shall shortly elect a delegate to bur national convention; therefore bo it "Resolved, That we, as Socialists, representing the entire working class, take this time to' Instruct our national delegate tot to tako any action to indorse any labor organization." When liberty is attained love and leisure will also come. When the workers of tho world unite they will not be the tail of the Hi Ml SOCIALISTS FISHING ject, after twenty long years of disagreement. The part of the report that brought about complete harmony between the contending elements is as follows: "The labor movement of tho United States has of recent years made marvelous progress in all directions.

It has steadily Increased in numbers and has reached trades and industries which were before unorganized. It has in many Instances concentrated its power and increased its efficiency by the amalgamation of related trades Into federations and Industrial nuibns. The organized workers are rapidly developing an enlightened and militant class-consciousness." The miraculous effect that this statement of conditions in the economic struggle had upon all those who had previously been at variance was shown in speeches made by Harrlman, Hickey, Clifford and Haywood, the first three being members of the committee. Let us do everything in our power to keep the political and the economic organizations of labor working together," pleaded Harrlman. who pointed out that this was the great preventive for the growth of a syndalist movement in this country, "You can't develop power by division." "This action is an Indication of the growing solidarity of the Socialist movement," declared Hickey.

"It is a magnificent demonstration of our intellectual growth. It is a happy omen. It Is a sign of the times." "With the adoption of this declaration I feel that I can do the workers of the nations and carry to them the message of Socialism," declared Haywood. "This is the greatest fctep that has yet been taken by the Socialist party." Oscar Amerlnger, of Oklahoma, chairman of the committee, expressed his hope that a long step had been taken uniting the workers on both the economic and political 'field. The labor union declaration reaffirms the party's past position toward maintaining neutrality toward labor organizations.

Methods of organizations are considered as being the business of the labor unions themselves, Amidst thunderous applause the platform reported by the committee, with a few slight changes, was adopted by the convention. A clause on the tariff was stricken out as It was considered to be a capitalist issue. The usual attack on the immediate demands as being mere reforms did not develop at this convention The preamble was adopted unanimously. Tho various Comrades were indorsed in the main w'th a few alterations here and there. i after "farm machnery." The Edwards amendment carried but the Ohsol amendment was voted down, it being held that this demand would be considered an immediate demand and subsidiary to the party platform that declares for the Bocial ownership of land.

A. M. Simons, chairman, reported for the committee, declaring that he had come with this same proposition before every convention of the Socialist party since even its establishment. "It is time that we struck out on some lines nationally," declared Simons. "It is time we laid down principles that would apply to this; class as to the other divisions of the working class.

"We got to the farmer and show him that he cannot be relieved while he is being ridden by the capitalist class and that we alone come to him with the gospel of freedom, of liberty, of emancipation, of social ownership, of everything necessary to the production of wealth and the satisfaction of life." Delegates Wills, of Oklahoma, Wright, of Nebraska, and of Texas, supported the farmers program. Delegates Slododin, of New York, contended that the Socialist party should address itself only to the farm laborer and leave the tenant farmer alone. The report, of the committee, however, carried the convention by an overwhelming majority. Greeting from two fraternal delegates stirred the convention and brought forth the first real enthusiasm displayed by the delegates since May 12, when the convention opened. The delegates who addressed the convention were Karl Leglen, the labor leader and Socialist member of the German Reichstag, and L.

Guiter-rez deLara, the Mexican Socialist and revolutionist. Leglen, after greeting the delegates, told them of the experiences of the German labor movement. He declared that the German SoclallHt party which has been so eminently successful has never dictated nor interfered with the labor organization. For that reasn, he said, the German trade unionists are Socialists and scorn syndicalism and other non-Socialists tactics. De Lara called on the American Socialist party to use every means possible to prevent intervention by the United States government in the Mexican revolution, which is threatened.

The convention adopted strong resolutions against Intervention. Among the resolutions adopted without debate by the convention were those pledging moral and financial Wonders, subscribe for this paper. The Old Party Papers do not tell you one half the truth concealing whatever might benefit labor and reduce dividends on vested capital. If you want to know whose interests any political party will represent. just find out who pays that pa; y's, campaign expenses; this never falls to reveal the truth.

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