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Sniurday, May 1.
The working man of Alaska can make up his
indright, now, that he will never fret anything through
egress that will benefit him by the presence in Con
fess of James Wickersha.n: It is the other way about.
If “Our Jim’' can prevent or retard legislation that
will I: •*. let;.a workers (particularly the miners) of in
1 eric:; Ah ska, he will sure do it, as a perusal of his record
luring too ye ;• A it he has misrepresented tae working
l Congress will show conclusively.
ee, read c-r.e little him that the leccrd
dass of A1 iska ii
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•j ti Ji : i ,> extoiili''.1,
my lien ia\v
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•. 1> a lawmakers, when he was “rudely” interrupted
Congressm vi W )o 1 o ' I nvn who warded to knov/,
• d-. Yfc ycii have the lien hold the ground and you
.... have a li on law that would be worth something?”
-Vh - “Our Jin:V' reply. “That the claims in Alaska -are'
small that the dirt when hoisted has to be put in a dump!
another claim. ard the lien mast iollow the damp.”
'hat do you think of an answer like that? It sounds too
1 tie mmer to tool anybody, but you must re
mber that Congressman Wood did not knew the facts
i while he may have suspected that Jim was drawing
<. a vivid imagination, he was not sure and no man likes
••• riuicule w he should be shown to be only exposing
h.i ignorance. And Sb Jim put another one over on us.
The above is only a sample df what we are up against
jim trades oa the ignorance regarding Alaska of the men
in engross. There are men in Congress who would advo
cate beneficial legislation for Alaska, but they have not the
necessary knowledge of our needs. Jim knows but his
game since he has been in congress has been to keep that
knowledge from others.
There is only one thing left far the Alaska worker
o do then if he intends to stay here. Organize properly for
he purpose of obtaining needed legislation, get together,
• tudy the worse than defects in the Wickersham lien law.
Tudy out the reasons for Wickersham’s failure to get us
ny relief from the transportation monopoly, and when
;u have all the data, forward the same to. Meyer London,
Ae^Socialist Congressman. Depend upon it, we shall see
results. Every Socialist Local in Alaska should take ac
tion along these lines. MEMORIALIZE MEYER LON
DON.
Driscoll and his yolk-mate Collins, the tail-end of
the labor haters of the Tana'na Valley, are still at work
in Juneau preparing new devices called laws, for the fa
re exploitation of the Alaskan workers.
Stop A.t
t>A^E tTTREE, PROPIME-SJE.
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Z W'ti:
There have already been a
thousand million words of all
sorts written about the war, and
there will bo ton thousand
million written afterwards.
And if they were multiplied
ten thousand million times again
they would not save the working
class one single pang of suffering
from it, and they would not have
iho slightest effect in preventing
war from occurring again. And
we Socialists add our quota to
the immense out-pouring. We
over and over again insist that
the fundamental 'cause of the
war lies in the economic system,
in the capitalist Mode of produc
tion.
And we say that if the people
understood this, there would
have been no war. That is quite
true, but saying it is of no parti
cular value by itself
The capitalist system producer
the war, but unless the majority
know it, and know it sufficient!;,
well to act upon the knowledge,
the knowledge itself is of in
1130.
Eut to know that, is to kno?
Socialism. If a hundred million
people had known Socialism anc
known it well enough to act upor
it there would have been no war.
True again. And if they ltnov
it after this., Jherc will be it
war to follow this one. That wi'l
be the end of all wars.
All this may seem trite, but it
leads up to the question we want
to ask. What do you know abort
Socialism?
Do you know enough about it
so that if ail people were lil.-<
you, there would be no more
war? Are you quite sure that
you do? If you are, then what it
your first, duty?
Why to teach others what yot
know so that all may leant hov,
to make war impossible.
And if you don’t know enough,
what then? Why then, your first
duty i3 to know more about So
cialism.
That is what we wanted to say
i'he great, the pressing need for
all of us, is to know Socialism;
to educate ourselves; to keep en
learning, for there is no limit to
knowledge. Never.,was that need
(Continued on 3rd page.)
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1, For a single world power o' be ad- ■
ministered by an interna,ionai ongresa j
with authority to investigate and to
settle the questions involved in ‘he pre
se'rt war, to disband all armies and to
dismantle ail forts and Wars! ips, to be
a permanent world government to take
over the ownership of the high seas, to
administer all protectorates, 1 < decide
all questions of international controver
sy covering international trade and inter
national credit, and to maintain a su.Ts
ciont army and navy to polio; :ho seas
and to enforce its decisions end that
1 rhe United States should take lie init'a
live in establishing such a wo rid power*
2, F.r the nationalowner.ui.p and ad
i mnistration of allindastrud ar,o coni
I moral monopolies of every * 'id.
State,For a land system hi .i will
bring into the most productive use a.'
natural resources and guarantee to ah
jRcupiers of ills land nil vein screate i
ay them and appropriate for public pur
.voso.-iOll values collective!., created b>
p ople.
2 For state owner hip arui admink
ration of markets, collections tr»oi -
portation and delivery of goods d**t
from producers to consumers wTthoti^
the intervention of any private agev.cpj;
for the reclamation of arid and sv. iaoflu
lands, for State building, improvement
and manufacturing enterprises to be
carried on only when there are n-icr.e
men than jobs, and to be closed always
when there are more jobs than men.
", For State medical.aid, sanitation,
hospital care, industrial and education
al employment for the defective afljl
dependent, free oducat: 'i with provi
sions for self supper v '.o v employment
ai-.l mJusfi iui training in all grades of
rchoed work including university courses
nor.••ions far the aged, deformed and
p. rni.rr.er.fly difabled.
iTiunicipu! ownership and :\4.:*rr
. of tii.; water, %iu, hi at aa*t
is, marks vs, \ layground*, 0$
icar -rs and municipal dv. suing
; r establishing t n 1 adm.Eiatssi
thing i on an ir.diietrial, sell 4
. . democratic basisto the end !
ilsr employment kcjt b« provided
,'v.r a:L K iueatien and all a re on a ba
rb; cf erpiai opportunity.
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h (••■ $T M r* g 5 BmB Sr. 0 $ 1 § ^ .* £
f k W ill ‘W* us -a ^ ** ^ ^ ’k r- J ■**
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“Ye3 [ am a socialist—bean one for many yen. vs
the ticket—but11 (lo not belong to^the organization.
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-always vo*
11 voa a*
n that class, you should get out oPit Tin only Sooialists td'ww
I oount are the ones that pay tbeir
little 25 cent dues per month, ana
aid in the work of the^rarty orgam
jzation. These are the fellows tnat
are making the Socialist l’ariy the
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’reat'Torec for the common good m
America. Tnecapitalist class won’t
finance our party and we don't
want them to. Its the twenty-five
[cents ner month from its thousand >
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of real Socialists that keep In*
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(wheels*of the organization g<*
Come’on in and find out'how we
run things. You will have iust as
much to say as another, W e have
made it easy tor you to take tha
first step—below is a coujjju tsfcish
you should
Out Out, Tear Off And Mail Today
fo N. R.-King. Fairbanks, Q or L. WesteavSkj
Oleary City.
I am convinced that I should bo amember ot the otganizr.iton you re*
re*eat. Piaaso send eom* one to take my application.
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