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Show . 1 OVERWHELMING FOR SOCIALIST DOCTRINE Western Federation Pronounces Most Strongly in Favor of Politi- cal Action. DENVER, June 6. After a warm debate de-bate the convention of Western Federation Feder-ation of Miners yesterday, reaffirmed the former declaration for socialism by adopting the following resolutions: Whereas, The natural esources of the earth, upon which humanity depends, are being swiftly concentrated Into the hands of the privileged few; and Whereas, Political Independence Is a bauble and a delusion while the tolling millions bear the yoke of wage slavery on the Industrial field; and Whereas. No man among the vast army of laboring humanity can successfully assert as-sert his manhood while his necessities make him a suppliant at the foot of another an-other for a Job which he must have to sustain life; and Whereas. The privileged few who own the Jobs which the many must have, must necessarily own the man; and Whereas, Capitalism can never be dethroned de-throned and wage slavery abolished until the natural resources of the earth and the machinery of production and distribution shall be taken from the hands of the few by the political power of the many, to become the collective property of all mankind, man-kind, to be utilized for the usend benefit of all humanity; and' Whereas. The Socialist party is the only political party In any nation of the world that demands that the land and the machinery ma-chinery of production and distribution shall become the common property of all, and that labor shall receive the full product pro-duct of Its toil; now. therefore, be it Resolved. That the delegates of the Western Federation of Miners, in their eleventh annual convention reassembled, reaffirm the political policy of the tenth annual convention, believing that the prin-clples prin-clples enunciated by the Socialist party will make the "noblest work of God," weman. the queen of the home, and the child, the bud and blossom of an emancipated eman-cipated generation. The resolutions were adopted by' a vote of 128 to 20. |