Show e i n 4 1 t t 1 0 C Chib MU b oc a 9 t S r 3 t i Any concerning Social SocialIsm 1 Ism answered Address all corn com 1 c to K C S F Herrick Avenue o o r l uL L i I Trades Unions work well as centers ot of resistance against t the tho encroach encroachment mont ment oi of capital They fall fail from an Injudicious uso of their thelt pow IOV power or er The They fail generally from flom lug Ing themselves to a l war I against the tho effects of the t system instead o of simultaneously trying to change chango It instead of musing their organIzed forces as a lever leel the final emancipation of oC the tho class that is to say sar the tho abolition or of time the wages Marx in Value Price and amid A LETTER FROM AN P MEMBER We C gladly publish the following let lettel letter tel ter written b by ono one who has been active In tIme the S p or of Ogden and has left it because It Oot what tl it as to bea party parts for Socialism Ogden Utah NO Nov I 1 1909 Mr Ir Working mau It ii Is time for you OU to awaken to your own interests Sluice Since time the working class is the most class In society today It will have hae to wrest rest from time tho capitalists all time the means of production and distri as well vell as the Jowers or of go emmonl Time Tho Socialist party Part of America l Is to mb this by political action alone but it can never succeed All time tho votes Iii time the world will not do 10 dothe time the any good Ii If lie tho are not organized on omi time the Industrial field to back imp their votes Several years ago a workingman was as elected governor of Colorado but buthe lie he never tool took his seat scat as governor of oC that thal state Time The capitalists not let him take tako time the office and and th the work worl worlIng working Ing class were not organized on time Iho economic field to hold him hini in office llie workIng class In to lo con control control time the means of life the tho tools of production and amid distribution must or organize on Oh the tho industrial and polItical field In order to gain those ends s Then rhen when time tho working class claim the Socialist republic the will abolish nil class lines and class dis distinctions and man will at last step I forth free and bo be Lord of Nature I Time The Socialist Labor or of Amer lea ica unfurls the banner of a the present mode modo i of production anti to overthrow this present system It Is organizing the tho working class on the economIc and political field to lend lead them to victory I HALT I I I WHAT IS THE MATTER WITH iTH THE SOCIALIST PARTY Time The following article tal taken en from irom time the International Socialist Review an anS anS S P magazine but like all the rest owned b by a few stockholders shows the tho awakening going on In the party part Socialism the tho proletarian rev revolt H Ha a against the ruling s was wa novel so alive as today Time The march or of organized capital Is the tho with nw wage age and malting making rebels out omit o of both bolh time the old and new h Imy grindIng down wags wages to the tho poInt of bare bame As a time the laborers are arc becoming more re rev revolutionary than ever before All over the world the tho ruling are arc busy devising measures to stem steni time the rising title tide Hero Hore in fri time the United States the coni of silence It is broken and Socialism Is being discussed from rom jilt pre and platform Our own from rom all over time the Slates Is day hy by day more op showing an ou foi or our gauda Meanwhile Limo tho Socialist party as ai an organization has fall failed cI to 10 make a corresponding growth Its voc In InI I OS was as but slightly larger than In 1901 11 l has during durin the last five years enrolled probably over oel members Including those who held cards In 1904 the tho pr present sent total membership as shown by tIme the monthly Is 15 about aul and the who vimo took the tho to att nd meetings and ani voto oto on a recent referendum was wa only about Time The action taken at this refer reCer referendum was a surprise Two decided 1 iy reactionary were ere adopted One was to drop our o demands In the list of social utilities the collective ship of which Is 15 the words and all land This carried by Gas to 10 The other was wa to lo Into th limo declaration o of principles the id fol following lowing There can he no absolute private tithe to land A All 11 private titles called fee feo simple or other otherwise wise Ise nrc aro and must be subordinate to lime title Time The Socialist party strives to land from being for or th time oi of exploitation aud speculation It the eel col lectie control or manage management mont ment of land to whatever extent ma mahe lie he to attain that end Tt Tl Is not opposed to time occupation and of land 11 by those It ItIn itin In a m useful and amid bona tide fide manner without it Il was WoIS adopted hy by a vote ote or of to J 1 Editorial Committee KATE S HILLIARD E A BATTELL ROY E SOUTHWICK i if f I 0 2565 We Ve have hac given these details sInce the they are necessary to time thc un of the fOll following official lately latch received receive rom time the Third artl Branch Branch of Le Local LI Denver which we regard as being Irmi im important enough to deserve full con and dIscussIon To the Membership of the SocialIst Party of America Whereas It H has for some time been that time tho SocIalist party of the United States Is not a revolution ar ary organization o of tIme the working s based on the principles of SCIENTIFIC SOCIALISM T but Is merely a stamp lug Ing ground for faddists and notoriety seekers bent upon obtaining pelf and power at the expense of an already overburdened class and PractIcally all or of the tho of Ada positions in him time tho org organization have been usurped hy by as conscience conscienceless less a cre crew or of bourgeois buccaneers as have hao ever evem practIced piracy on time the high seas or of Liberty Libert EqualIty and Fraternity and Whereas This cockroach element composed of preachers without pul pulpits pulpits pits lawyers without clients doctors without patients storekeepers with without out customers disgruntled politIcal coyotes and other othor riff miff mu through its Ita leadership has relegated ed the thc real proletarians to the rear and Tn their mad scramble Scram hie for fOI votes these muddleheaded mu of the middle class have havu seen fit fil to foist upon the tho j SocIalist party in the th tiame of the working class such sueh Infamies as Craft Unionism Anti Immigration State Autonomy and anda a series of ludicrous ald illogIcal Im Immediate mediate Whereas rho final mf t time the climax the culmInation of th so and other came when time thC Socialist Party h by referendum vote ote decided to drop droll S I front from Its platform and amid adopt In its stead an emasculated form of the late lamented Single mx ho o it therefore Resolved Resoled That we the pro members In imm good standing of the Third Ward Local Den Dener Denier ier er Socialist party of Colorado do 10 reaffirm our allegiance to the Lime of SOCIALISM mind to the cause of OUR class and do hereby from the tho falsely called TIme The Socialist Party of tho time tat s and be beIt beIt It further I Resolved That a copy of these res ie be sent to the and Na or of th party and to time the Socialist Labor Press of time the Unit United ed cd States Third Vard rard Branch of Local Den Denver vcr ver Socialist Part Party of Colorado h hHerbert by Herbert Graham 1762 Philip Engle 1830 Champa C CSmith CSmith Smith W Ave Avo committee Dated at Denver Colorado Septem hem bel J 1 1009 In publishing these resolutions we wedo wedo do not indorse the view o of th Domer comrades that should do de desert sort sert time the Socialist Part Party as hopelessly We hell believe co there is IR sommie of truth In iii the tue Indict Indictment Indictment ment butt but we e can set see a definite eco ceo economic cause for time tho of oC tIme the middle class in the party up to this time and economIc reasons also why we should hope for fol a radical change to tactics on the purl part of the Socialist Parts Part In iii time the near future Craft Isa is ii survival front from o of butt con which It was time tho logical or of True Tru time the march of progress has made It as obsolete as the and time the stage stagecoach stagecoach coach but It always takes people some sometime time to adjust their Ideas and amid Institutions to now imo conditions Most of the Proletarian members of the Socialist Part Party thus hums far hao been een members of craft unions minions tom 01 tIme ory ery good reason that such membership was for or them a necessary condition for holding their jobs This membership naturally made reluctant to antagonize craft I unions anti this timis Is reflect t etl 1 in III time the platforms and and resolutions ot of the Socialist Party Apart from trade unionists membership thus mi CI has hns been mainly recruited from time the small producers and professional men who as 13 E B Nilsson OUt OUton on Oh page pago of this months Re He view are not In dally daily touch with the great groat Industrial processes ilS as prole are and cm can exercise control over Or thele processes through timo tho political state Thus It Is not In the least IcaM surprising that the Socialist Party In iii time the hM has placed on voting oUng and lawmaking Nom Ol on the other hand Is It In lug that with these tactics we SC havo scarcely touched touchet time the great mass of time tho But Dut forces than ourselves are arc us out Oil TIme The great greal capi capitalists 13 II tip a system of or 01 which time the political state is a pigmy In the tho course of this the they ha have e been systematically crushing out omit the oJ oil trade unions onions On theIr ruins Is already almeady rising a no type of union revolutIonary as Marx hImself r ruthless as capItalism In tho thought learned not from Marx but I I from mom grim experience that the work worker workers er ers havo hao nothing to hose loso but their chains and all 1111 the world to gain It ItIs Itis I Is In those these not the aristocracy of labor but its democracy that the Socialist Party of oC time the future must find Its strength Long enough we have hae cringed before the aristocracy or of labor begging for votes that we did not got get Long en enough I ought ough we have hayo with im immediate I mediate that might swen our strength by winning tIme tho votes o of people opposed to TIme he time lime has come ome for Cor tho thio Inns of time party part and those who h he hove the party should b be proletarIan Its tactics to bring about a lion time party I Lot t us not withdraw like the tho D Denver nver but take tako possession Let us put wage workers on the NatIonal commIttee Let its cut the ate demands out or of our platform and leave leao reformers to wrangle over re reform form JAt It make It our chief task to spread the tho o of and of the now IndustrIal unIon unIonIsm Ism and when wo we elect members of our own class to office lot let mis liS Instruct them that theIr most Important work Is to hamper tile the ruling class In the war It will be on the unions With tactics like these apathy will disappear and the Party will for the first time lIme become a vital force lu in the struggle I capitalists capitalist and wa C rs I |