| Show SOCIAliST PRESENTS VIEWS IT AT MEETING Declaring that the tolerance of the small mall concern which is barely making money is a wasteful method and that b by combination wastes can be minimized minimized minimized mini mini- Charles T. T Stoney iStone secretary of the he state Socialist party and organizer for or Utah arraigned the present social system yesterday at a meeting of the Utah Socialists The small concern with its wasteful methods Is merely a training raining ground and we let man operate operate operate oper oper- ate merely because ho he may thereby become a man of large caliber and build up a large concern said Mr Stoney The adoption of Socialism means the adoption of operation co-operation on ona ona a L large scale the obliteration of national national na- na boundaries and of the profit idea idean in n industrial life Quoting frequently from the report of the industrial commission of 1912 Mr Ir Stoney said Under Socialism Prof Hurtz of Austria has shown b by statistics that if f 5 22 of the population worked eight hours a day thirty-seven thirty days in the year ear they could support the world in all of its needs and comforts There would be lie e no use for mone money under this system The purchasing power will willIbe willbe willbe be Ibe the unit of or service rendered Billions Billions Bil- Bil lions ions of dollars are wasted annually in n the handling of money In speaking speaking speak- speak ing ng of other wastes Mr Sto Stoney ey said that hat there was a waste of in n the United States estates ever every year because because because be be- cause of the policy of fencing In a operative co-operative commonwealth there would be no fences he said When asked how the regulation of labor abor to the different trades would be made he lie said People get the Impression impression impression sion that if a system with labor and service as the basis were established that everybody would want to be something easy as a student or a clerk for instance and none would want to dig in the ditches or do dirty work vork But that would be remedied first because of the different view that hat would attain when money is not the god of worship and secondly by bya a system of relative hours of work I For or instance if men were rushing from the sewers to the counters it could be e stopped toy Iby making the counter counter counter coun coun- I ter work longer The man would have to put in more hours bours to get the same amount of purchasing power Mr Stoney said he was ashamed that the dominant church in the State had given the tabernacle over to the people to talk war propaganda He also said he was ashamed that University University I I sity students should have flaunted the I banner U of U. U U. U S. S A. A well we'll help at that meeting and asked the members members members mem mem- bers of tho the club point blank what object object object ob ob- ob- ob they would have in going to fight German students He said that it was an erroneous idea founded upon the false precept of nationalism Probably the most sensational par of or his lecture was about the methods used to suppress labor and socialistic movements It took letters of or dema demand d from people of the country to get the Industrial relation committee report of 1912 published by the government There There were only copies printed For a long longtime longtime longtime time the report was suppressed by congress but finally through the the efforts efforts efforts ef ef- ef- ef forts of or Frank P. P Walsh and M. M I. I Manly two members of the commission who through their work on It turned Socialist Socialist So So- and the millions of letters the report was published An active campaign will be bo waged by members of the Utah chapter of the I I. I S. S S. S to get into the club all aU students interested in the stud study of socialism The Tho next meeting two weeks from yesterday will witness the inauguration tion of the study course outlined by bythe bythe bythe the national headquarters of the I. I Si S. S S. S s. s |
