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Washington LoltCf
(Continued fro<n first pace,)
yLhcr half of the me”, women
end children will hav ■ to rely cn
hie preservers if |1'cy can' find^
them in time.
This gleet vktory ov er the pig
1 er.de d views of the organized
;sai le ra, v. ho var.Ucl li reheat and
'life-; aft caff city for ail c n hoard
is doe el if fly to S< r.ators Smith
.of Mkhuan, Ko’se n of Minneec:
i.i, and Hcprer-er.tativo3 Alexan
der ct Misremi : nd Greer a if
t> ms duucUr. They have fought
ttulb.nd.v : rii.st the • Turnons
regumtioi .olved in compel
ling vesd- j ne for the safety
of ail La, ., !:ein„s entlusted to
•them.
The ripll .. f the Leanien to
.quit the;.1 employment, when
• safely anedo.eJ or in port, is
granted by the bill as revised in
conference.
To get this compromise to the
point of possible final vote in con
cress bee taken 21 years. An
drew Feruseth, president cf the
International Seamen’s Union of
North America, has been lobby
ing in Congress for this one bill
. all of those years. Now he gets
half of what fie originally asked
, pn behalf of his union.
Assured that the benate would
not allow the Ta mer child labor
bill to s ip through, the House
machine made a great show, the
other day, of sending that mea
sure to final passage. The word
was given Representative I’aimer
by Majority Leader Underwood
that his bill would be allowed to
pass. The vote that resulted
was £33 to 43.
The most noticeable fact in con
nectien with the 43 votes against
the relief of ihe children from
>nill servitude was the way in
which it duplicated the most fan
atical opposition to woman suff
rage and other modern concep
tions of democracy. The “solid
south” assisted by Illinois, Okla
homa and New Jersey contribu
ted the minority.
Dr. Harvey W. Wiley, pure
food expert, has just branded as
a fraud and a steal the proposed
repeal of the special tax op mix
ed flours, He says that instead
of getting a reduction in the
price of bread by permitting the
use of cornmea! and other e'e
ments in wheat flour, the price of
bread will remain at a wheat
bread level, and the consumer
will pay the maximum price on
an inferior food.
Incidentally, Dr. Wiley recites
the history of the effotts made
by the Corn Products refining
Company and its parent corpora
tion to get around this tax, and
he says b'untly that it is “more
than a coincidence that the intro
duction of this bill followed close
ly” upon a visit of the compa
ny’s officials to Washington.
", The author of the bill, Vollmer
of Iowa, rays that ti.e flour trust
is lobbying against T:
(Continued from 3rd page,)
employment on account of be
ing unable to dispose of tlie pro
ducts; that the big capitalists
have constantly erowded tbo lit
i!c capitalist into the working
class; constantly increasing it,
ibat tbo introduction of labor
s.- ving machinery and the cen
tralization of industry into
ti lists and combines are con
s antly throwing working men!
out of employment; that a man
now lias to have a million in 01
der to engage in business with
any chance of success; that the
inly way in which a woiking
man can emancipate liiinsel!
from wage slavery is by break
ing and throwing off t]ie chains
of the entire working class, that
so long as capitali'in exists, the
w’oikcrs are doomed 10 remain
oil ihe rugged edge of starvation
and deprived of the big) er
higher things of life; that pover
ty, insanity and suicide have be
come fright u,iy ur lnrjiiM
ilint it is; to i he economic inter
est of the > npitaliat clfsss to con
tinue the presept capitalist sys
tem in cider that it may keep
on exploiting the workingclass
out of the lion’s share of the va
lue of its labor, that it is to the
economic interest of the work
ing class to i b lisli the present
capitalist system a id introduce
We have had several coramun
ca ions lately from persons liv
ng at a distance from any Spcia
list local, seeking information a!
10 how they could become a mcm j
her of the party. All such should '
communicate with the Territorial
Secretary, M. L. Gerih, Cush
man Street and Valdez Trail and
become a member a' large.
Socialism in order that jt may
secure the full value of its labor
and that the working class con
stitutes the greatmajority of the
population of the United States.
The Scientific Socialist there
fore concludes that the econo
mic laws ale working infallibly
toward Socialism.
By their operation, they have
evolved (he capitalist system to
a point where it has already
passed the period of its useful
ness, wh'-ro it is no longer able
to care for its own victims, and
is causing men to degenerate;
where it stands as a barrier in
the way of further progress.
By their operation, they have
concentrated wealth in the
hands of a few and centralized
the industries in such a manner
as to mate the transition to so
cial ownership easy andnatmul
The republican and dcmocra
tic parties work against the econ
omic laws. They kick against
the pricks. They try to turn
the wheels of progress 1 cck
wards. They resist the jhevka
ble. They are therefore rain
how chasers. They are fore
doomed to fail. Their doom is!
written. Their days are numlx r I
od. Future historians will chro
nicle the fact that the republi
can and democratic parties
i fought agains t the operation of
irresistable cc< nomic laws, that
I they resisted llie spirit of tl*e
'age and that they therefore disin
| tegrated and died.
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