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Show ooqoooooooooooooooooooooooooooo o e e j Marxian Club Socialists i o I EDITORIAL COMMITEE: 0 Kato S. Hllllard, Eugene A. Battcll, 1 Howard Hall. 9 o0coceoooooeoeoooaee Away with rights that know no duties, Away with dutlos shorn of righto. THE INTERNATIONALE. INDUSTRIAL UNIONISM. What It Ib and Why Workers Must Adopt It. Tho dozens of strikes, big and little, which havo broken out since tho now vear, and nearly every ono of which has boon lost, have given valuable lessons to tho working class. Ono of theso has boon the demonstration again that whon a section of workers work-ers -co out they have to face the whole employing class. The old method of one Trade Union going on strike, and remaining out for weeks or months, Is utterly Ineffective in 90 cases out of 100. In the days when Capitalism was younger, and small industry was the order, Trade Unions, by means of sectional sec-tional strikes could, and did at times, obtain a concession. The mon In a capitalist establishment belonged mainly to the one craft. Industry was their craft Industry. Tho workshops were small Tho omuloyer was ft man of what today would ho considered small raean6. "industry was scattered. The men emploved In ono establish- , mont were few In number. Compotl- I tlon was keen Thus, when men In n shop ceased, work, and remained out for a few days or weeks, complete ruin wvas feared by tho employer. He had not the means to sustain him during a long struggle, and his customers would bo captured bv his competitors. Strikebreakers, particularly- In skilled trades, were not easily obtained. Tho means of communication and transport trans-port to obtain men from another part were very Inadequate A glance at the present, as well as rocent Btrlkos. shows that a transformation transfor-mation In conditions has takon place. Small Industry has given way to large Industrv. Industry, Instead of being scattered. Is now concentrated. Tho major portion of th'e trade in any one lino Is now done bv half a dozen sometimes less establishments, though there may be dozens, scores, or hundreds of small factories turning turn-ing out of the same goods. The fow manufacturing firms havo generally an agreement, and In many cases havo ceased to compete with each other, and formed comblnps and trusts Employers' Em-ployers' associations have been formed, form-ed, controlling enormous sums of money Owing to this development of largo Industry, wealth has Incroased, and employers havo become men or ample means, huge fortunes are the order, and millionaires are not altogether alto-gether uncommon An unemployed army, comprising men of all trades, has been develoDed. strike-breakers have been organized, and telegraph and railway communication has hoen Improved, so that the obtaining of scabs from near or far has boon rendered ren-dered easv Under those changed conditions, when a Trade Union or small section goes on strike, It has to fight the united capitalist class, with all tho forces above enumerated at Its disposal. dis-posal. No wonder, then, defeat after defeat ha been our lot. until tho working Has has almost qlven up the battle. What are wo to do? Trulv the em plovers Bhow us the way to fight. We of the working class must also realize that, when a section puts up a Oght, It Is the fight of all section", tint a rise of wnees for ono section benefits our whole class, that each section fights to raise the standard of life of the workers In general. We must, therefore, do what we can as a clnns to win cvorv strike When one section Is in trouble, .others must do nothing which will assist tho em-plovers em-plovers During a dispute closelv-ro-lated Industries must he taught to refuse to handle goods handled In any wav by scabs. f Unionists must not feed scabs and cmHovers during a strike. Unionists must not drive trains hauling scabs to the works. 'It is a Social war There can be no neace between thi? two sides. Class solidarity solidar-ity must provall We must meet them ns a class. We control Inn means wherobv Capitalist Cap-italist Socletv lives. We must threaten threat-en Capitalist Soclctv during a dispute, dis-pute, In order to heln our army, In that policy lies our hope of succps?! In the growing class consciousness and scientific organization resulting, from Induptrlal disturbances lies our hope of elnss success tho abolition of wage slavory. WE WANT A NEW BOILER, Sid bv side, like two huckleberries on p bush, the parers of Mav 15 pointed point-ed the reports of fraudulent nrnetlfes In the Jewelry business and In the supplying of food to the New York-State York-State charitable Institutions. In one case, to such lengths has the choatery I fostered hv tho profit system gone, even In the manufacture and sale of Imitation cems fraud has penetrated. In th other, the charity houses of I the State were found to be robbed of thousands of dollars through short-weight short-weight in lard, sugar, salt, beans and other staples. The toys of the rich, the fond of the poorest of the poor, both ends of the scale wore levied on to add to the Ill-gotten Ill-gotten gains of commercial "genius" and "Initiative." Whop a boIW gels so old It leaks at everv rivet hole, the situation cries not for a tinker, but for a whole new holler. When a system has trrown so decayed that Its' morality leaks out at every transaction, transac-tion, the times crv not for reform, but for a new system. ' But would Socialism abolish cheat, cry' Unqualifiedly. Yes. The old theological conception of crime has bnd Its day Heightened opinion no longer thinks a man acts badly because he wns horn bad, -but knows it Is because ho was made bad. Now oven a Prof, Patten breaks away from his riddling mysticism of "Mis-,ery "Mis-,ery is sin; sin Is povorty'2 long enough to admit that "A family on $10 a week, has more morality and culturo than Its condition will per- c Questions concerning Socialism 0 I answered. Address all communlca- j Uons to Howard Hall, 27S3 Pacific e n avenue. V ooooooooooooaooooeooo mlt Us members to express. Gvo them $20 a week, and they will seek a better homo, In which both morality and culture will improve." What applies to homes applies equally as hard to food and clothes. Give, under Socialism, to each worker work-er weekly the $G0 ho produces, and cheatery will dlo Mice a fish out of water. Both Its Impelling cause, and tho environment In which It thrives, will bo snatched from It. I BERQER'S MISS NO. 4. The Hous of Rcprosenlntlves being In committor of tho wholo on the Farmers' Free List bill, Representative Representa-tive James M. Graham of Illinois, delivered de-livered on May 3rd a lengthy speech that one should think wns oxpressly Intended to set up a series of cloan targets, challongins Socialist bolts so many were tho opportunities which the speech held out to Victor L. Ber-ger Ber-ger to "Interpellate," In strict parliamentary parlia-mentary form and conformity with the usages of tho -house. Bcrger missed them all. In successive articles we shall treat the leading "misses" on that occasion. For lustance Tackling the faKe reasoning that j I Protectionists delight to Indulgo in of comparing the higher (money) wages paid In America wjth the lower ones paid In European countries, and Imputing the more favorable American Ameri-can fmonoy) wages to protection. Mr. Graham said: "How ridiculously absurd, ab-surd, to compare wages and condl-L'ons condl-L'ons In two countries, whn the popn- I latlon Is twonty times as donse In one j as In the other and competition pro- I portlonately keen " j This statement, made by a Freo I Trade, or Low Tariff man, who was B all along claiming a lower tariff was I In tho Interest of the worklnsman, 1 was a bugle call to bring the Social- I 1st to his feet with the request I "Will tho gontlpman yield?" Representative Represen-tative Sims of Tennessee, who was at the time officiating as chairman, would have asked: "Does tho gentle-mnn gentle-mnn from Illinois yield to the gen tlomnn from Wisconsin?" The gen- H tleman from Illinois would certainly H hnve yielded, ho yielded ropeatodl) to D others: It Is th'e "courtesy of the house" Whereunon Berger could have scored thp following Inning for sound, , for Socialist, for Labor political economy econ-omy "The gentleman's reasoning to the effect that a bare comparison of American Am-erican wages with wages In other countries Is an absurdity. In so far as the comparison Is Intended to argue In favor of protection, is cogent As tho gentleman correctly stated, other factors have to be considered Among the determining factors cited bv tho gentleman was the factor of 'competition 'competi-tion among the workers for jobs In other words, the condition of tho La bor-Market. This, of course, means that, where and when tho supply In the market Is In excess of the demand, Labor will fetch a proportionally lower low-er price, that Is, wace. This Is o recognition of soclologlc fact that, within the frame work of the present, or capitalist system of production, the price of Labor Is determined like the price of cattle, of bales of hay, of hairpins. In short, of all other mer-, mer-, chnndlse, by the supply of and the demand for the same In the market And, finally, this is the consequent admission of the further soclologic fnrt that, -within the capitalist system, the status of the worklngman Is, economically, econ-omically, neither better nor worse . than that of an article of merchandise. Now, then, keerlng In mind this pregnant preg-nant social and economic fact, pointedly pointed-ly Indicated by the gentleman from Illinois himself, I would request him to explain to mo, to this house, and, through this house, to the wage earners earn-ers of the land for whom ho expresses express-es such admirable solicitude, and for tho benefit of whose wages he so fervently fer-vently advocates a lower tariff I would request him to explain bv what process of economic, or any other, reasoning rea-soning the low tariff or freo trade man can make out that a lower tariff can redound to the benefit of tho wage earner, of the wage slaves, to put It plainly. Seeing, as the gentleman gentle-man correctly indicated, that wages, the price of Labor, depend upon tho supply in the Labor Market, honcc. that where the supply Is high wages i will be low seeing that, bv what pro cess of reasoning does tho law of supph and demand in the Labor Market Mar-ket cease to be operative under Free Trade, or a lower tariff Does it not rotber follow that, high tariff,-or low tnrlff. or no tariff, wages depend upon up-on the supply of and the demand for the merchandise worklngman' hence, that tho tariff Issue Is of no economic interest whatever to tho working class'" While other congressmen freely availed tlionselvesvof the usages of the house and interrupted oprosenta-tlve oprosenta-tlve Graham with questions In the Interest In-terest of the specific capitalist Intqr-ests Intqr-ests that they are the watchdogs of in congress, the "first Socialist congressman," con-gressman," supposedly the representative representa-tive of the Working Class, to the tuno of $7,500 a vear for two voars, was awav from, his post, making grandstand grand-stand speeches outside, to Justify his Impotence inside of congress and missed the opportunity. 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