Published Weekly In The Interest Of The Working-Class.
NO. 44. - FAIRBANKS, ALASKA, Mar. 20, 1845 Vol. 1
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From Socialist Service Party Press
Washington, Florence Kel
ley, veteran agitator in be
half of women and children
in industry, came to Wash
ington in the hope of getting
Senator Hughes of N. J. to
do something that might ad
vance to passage the convict
labor bill introduced in the
Senate in his name.
The flabby gentleman from
J. was also taken in hand
by Senators LaFollette and j
Norris who really wanted
something done. The bill has
four times passed the House
and can probably be gotten
through the Senate in short
order if any Democrat wants
to make it an issue with the
administration forces in the
present deadlock over the
shipping bill.
But Hughes was afraid.
He did not want to have
to have trouble with the cau
cus crowd. He wanted to
protect his patronage by
staying mum and regular.
Aliqhe labor legislation on
earth was of slight account
to Hughes, it seemed so long
as he was not pul in a bad
light at the ^hite House.
The bill in question pro
tects the working women in
trades competing with p.'iso!
contract made goods, it per
mies any state to forbid entry
and sale of prison made
goods on the same terms as
thU state forbids the produc
tion of prison goods for sale
within its borders, It would
affect 33 stales including
New York where the women
in the garment trades are
[ forced to compete with the
paison shops.
Convicts in the West Vir- *
ginia penitentiary, making;
garments cost the contract* ’
ors from fifty to eighty can's
a day
The bill is scheduled to die
on the calendar of the Sena* e
becauseyhe shipping bill fili
buster must not be disturbed.
Railroads Fight
Full Crew Law
The big railroads operating in
Pennsylvania are subsidizing tne
capUa'ist press with big adver
tisements fighting the full crew
haw which the railroad workers
are seeking to put into effectjn
l’ensylvania, New Jersey and
other states,
Nagro Socialists
Lead Protests
Negro Socialists of the Lnited
States are leading men and wo
men of tneir race in a protest a
gainst the discontinuance of con
gressional aid to Howard Univer
sity, one of the' leading educa-J
tional institutions for negroes irr
the land.
Socialist Colony
Is A Success
Great progress by the Socia’ist
Cooperative Colony at Llano del
Iiio, near Los Angeles, Ca!.'. is
shown in'a report just issued for
the colony ' ■ Frank E. Wolfe.
By John JVI. Work.
Probably the chief reason why
some people regard Socialism as
impractical is because thos6 peo
| pie regard the Socialists as im
practical and becausethesepeople
' have hot investigated the subject
of Socialism closely enough to
discover tnat its ’Ogic is based
upon the inevitable operation of
economic laws.
All the Socialism they have ev
er heard of is utopian Socialism,
and they do not know that there
is any difference between the po
litical, scientific Socialist and the
utopian Socialist.
But there is a vast difference.
The utopian Socialist is a man
whs approaches the subject from
the standpoint of sentiment or
mere intellectual conviction that
Socialism would be a good thing.
He sees that the masses of the
people are compelled to^s'.arve
mentally, morally and spiritually
in- order to keep from starving
physically. He sees that Socialism
would cure that evil. And there
fore, without considering whe
ther the project is practicable or
not, he pronounces in its favor.
do him Socialism is an arbitra
ry scheme,an invention, concoct
ed in order to cure the evi’s of
society.
To the scientific Socialist on1
the'contraVy, Socialism ig not an
arbitr ry scheili* or invention,
but the logical, necessary and in
evitable goal of economic evolu
tion.
The scientific Socialist has the
same ''deals that the utopian So
cialist has.
But instead of standing on the
mountain peak and trying to get
men to fly up there through the
ethereal blue, when they haven’t
any wings to fly with, he stays
d own below and marshals them
for a march to the mountain side.
He scans the history of the hu
man race, and, while he finds
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Our Defective Inheritance lax
Written for The Socialist Press by Carl D. Thompson Article 19.
The lata Anthony N. Brady
left an estate estimated at from
§70,000,000 to §100,000,000. Un
der the present inheritance tax
laws in New York, there came
to the state from this inheritance
55,000,000.
If this estate had been in Illi
nois and under the operation of
inheriapee tax laws in this state
we would have received $3,000,
000 for the state.
But in order to show hew de
fective our inheritance tax laws
are in this country, compare the
above results with what would
have taken place under similar
circumstances in England. In
that country this estate would
have been taxed three times as
much as here. In other words, it
would have turned over to the
government $15,000,000 instead
of $5,000,000.
In Swi zer'and the inheritance
tax laws are still more effective,
If tho Brady estate had been
I h Switzerland it would have
turned over to the state eight
times as much as it did here ctr
•?40,0Q0.000.
From this one can readily see
■ that our American inheritance
tax'lxws are very inadequate.
The Socialists propose to ex
tend those laws. The State plat
forrh of the Socialist, party of II
inois proposes tl at the law shall
be so amended that widows are
rot to receive in excess of ?J00,
000, direct heirs not to exceed
$50,000, and collateral heirs not
to exceed $25,000, All the remain
der goes to the state.
Under this law the Brady es
tate would have turned over to
ihe state of Illinois not less than
$99,500,COO, or 16 times a.-, much
as under the present law
1 hey Don! Want
Liebknecnt.
Karl Liebknecht, the Germar
anti-militarist who was called to
the Lamlsturm, has been dismiss
t
ed as a’superniimery. The opin
ion in Berlin'is that it would lx
inadvisable that so'energetic op
ponent of the war should ts ii;
the ranks of the army.
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Los Angeles
Socialists '
Los Angeles Socia’ists whG
have waged many brilliant muni
cipal campaigns in the rtast;
have chosen Ralph L. Criswell as
their candidate for mayor in the
coming municipal elections. Free
Wheeler, the Socialist council
man has been renominated.
Ohio Socialists
To Fight BiH
V
The Socialists of Ohio have
started a state-wide fight against
the proposed anti-red. flag law _
that the state legislature! is try
ing to enact.