Show i Ht i 1 i Marxian Chub Socialists I t Any ny question concerning Social Socialism SOCi Editorial Committee i t ism km answered Address all com corn communications KATE S 5 HILLIARD I IY Y u to K S 5 E A BATTELL BATTELLi 1 r i Horrick Avenue ROY E SOUTHWICK J JH X 4 H r i Hij H J i iH I The heart that feels not now Is dead lead the blood bl of his children will curse his cowardice who shrinks back at a time when a little might have saved the whole and made them hap bal py P I love the thc man mun that can an smile In InI trouble that can gather strength from I I distress and grow brave by b bs reflection I tion the business of little minds I to shrink but ho he whose heart Is IB firm I and md whose conscience approves his i I conduct will pursue his principles unto death gar A Poo Poe PooI i CATS PAW I 1 To the tho orchestration of the Hatters strike tho lie latest striking evidence of i I the Inability of ot labor to enforce tho the so I I called contracts that it enters Into with I capital the international convention of oC oCth I the th United Mine Workers Is gathering in Indianapolis with one Issue supreme i on the delegates del the Issue ot of electing a president to make con contracts contracts contracts tracts II Charming Is tho the of the I I bituminous dole Who are ara assoni I bling at the international convention CO o tI of tho the United Mine Workers In Indian Indianapolis apolis Thoy Tile are at TI 11 loss to under understand understand stand tho ho financial delinquency of the tho anthracite mine workers towards the tho organization seeing that they the the bituminous assessed themselves 2 In 1002 10 to help tho lie anthracite men win the lie strike These bituminous ous ens men do not yet yot seem to know that they the Wore used as cats paws pairs by bj the lie bituminous mine owners who finding j I their profits in a dearth of or anthracite checked oft off from the lie of their I pay em emI the that went vent to keep I the anthracite men on strike Not an Increase e of oC strength but a decrease of ot strength the tho Inevitable result rosult of a union that Is i operated upon In such a away awa way wa Weekly People CHILD LABOR AND THE UNION Once again wo we take tako Issue with the Union Labor LalOr Department editor and the tho claim that he makes a mistake when ho he says tho the thoI union has baa taken the tho child from I tho mine factory and the tho mill and wd I ask him In good faith as ns wo hare havo ba vc ask asked asked ed before to provo prove tho the truth of tho the assertion Statistics show that child ch lid labor Increases year rear by year tho the union Is against it but Is lu powerless to prevent It It is easy to mako make assor asser assertions not so gO easy enS to prove provo thorn thom j Such assertions aro are meat and drink rink to child labor exploiters The sinews of ot labor should not be used to whitewash j child slavery IN A COAL MINE j i I There Death Ever Lurks at the Toll TOil Toller er ers erD o Elbow II From Erom the bottom of tho the shaft If J you look straight up you can see seo a very blue star That Is tho tue daylight You Yon will be lie lucky If IC you OU ever oyer see it again Everywhere around are arc creeping mysteries Death In a million forms forma seems to bo be lurking In the tho darkness A loose stone from the tho roof a snap of ot the steel hauling rope ropo curling round your Jour our neck and strangling you yon a sud sudden sudden suddon den don flash of flame and roar of oC explodIng t Ing lag gns gas a deadly silence In the work workings ings Ingo something gone wrong with tho the theair air you aro are You turn from tho shaft to go Into the tho face where the tho coal Is la still In iii bed bcd Horses Homes men and boys are going In with you ou There may mar be boa a couple of ot e hundred horses and over a thousand human beings A masons arch overhead protects you OU for a hundred yards or 01 so Inwards Electric lights blurred with the coal dust burn red and anti drowsily In lie tho archway Tho Tue clatter and rattle of ot hauling engines and coal cars begin to tobo tobe tobe be bo heard behind you I IThe The nt aro are breathless to send up as nearly as ns possible p fifteen hundred or two thousand tons Ions of oC black treasure before tho ho eight hours houra are arc oyer Whence are arc they to got get this enor onor enormous quantity quan tit of ot coal I IThe The horses mon moo and boys crowding cr In through tho ho narrow nanon roads 19 will wUl have havo to answer tho the question When you ou begin to go In you seo see long black tunnels that scorn to run rim Into tho eternal It Is worse than looking up tho the shaft abaft There Thero Is no daylight at the tho oud end of tho the dark darkness darkness darkness ness But Butt thor there Is 18 treasure there here and you must dig It out by b hard work Tho The long string of swinging lamps carried In tho the hands of tho the Ingoing men Inca anti and boys bo s soon breaks up Into and threes Two lights turn down a still nar nat narrower narrower rower roadway open a l door turn once more and father and son sen aro are In their stall Between them they thc must send out six Bb or seven Boven tons towards making up the total thousands Continued on pogo Pago Fourteen J MARXIAN DEPARTMENT x Continued from rom Paso Page Twelve The Tile nina man strips to tho waist if ir tho the place is normal Most pits pi 15 are arc fiery so far in They rhe are a mile ami a halt haifa hal from the shaft now nou The boy bar stripped only onh to his shirt joins his father rather Get the bottom mandrill says tho thoman thoman man holding his lamp lam II to the coal conI Ha Its black face race shines under the tho light shines and md smiles in spite of Qt tho the thorough thorough rough treatment awaiting It Tho TIme collier throws a friendly friend glance glanco at it To him the coal Is a good gOOtt friend who feeds tIme the four tour or five children al ut home Ho He scarcely ever over thinks of the dan clan heroes berous tricks it will sometimes play pia The pick hick is swinging The rhe coal is iK IK pulled out of Its comfortable bed bcd Tho ho hoboy boy boV and man are arc straining arms ami l bod body and amid legs carrying huge black lumps to time the car It is filled Thin horse hone with a singing driver comes comi lown Iown with an empty Out goes goCs the full one oie to the bottom Three Phree or four times tho the process Is repeated Time for a rt bit of or grub says the collier Father anti and son Aon squat In the dust duat and cat eat time the bread find anti cheese they the have brought in their tin box The Tho drink is cold tea without sugar or oatmeal and water The dust and heat make a man maim mandrink drink a half halt gallon a day He would drink a cask of it if IC he dared Two Iwo or three minutes spell after grub then back to the face of or the hue shining coal Heat dust and labor have havo male man finn and boy bo w weary iry No longer they the work brilliantly The sweat on their bodies Is black and glittering at ni a tho tue lamplight flashes nashes on them Two J Joi or oi three more visits from the horse and the tho driver who Is now no probably 1 swearing instead of singing until he suddenly says Answers |