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Show 'ershlp of the lurid mi'l the machinery of production. Without u workliigman realizing i''e t:u V cf class distinction, ho will not understand that the Democratic and Repi:bllciin parties, together ' with their organized cahbery ttool-pigr"i. seek to protect the class that lives upon hl.s back. Nor will he he able to bf-e that his claws Interests direct him to Join tho Socialist Labor Party Par-ty and the Industrial I'nlon. twin, organizations for the aloltlon of cap-ItallNin cap-ItallNin and the emancipation of the worker. Weekly People. Ellen, a struggling art student. In ho rdestluitc East Side tenement; El-len, El-len, applying at the Art School for tuition, tui-tion, rejected for lack of a Jl f'-e; Mill n lollowf-d by Jordan, a wealthy idler who decide to slum It to "hlp" her; Ellon's design for a new ite.l Cross charity stamp accepted; Ellen receives lh $100 price from Jordan. I this time In his Fifth avenue ces-tutne; ces-tutne; weddln? bells for Ellen and Jordan; such In a new moving ilcture Him sent out by the National Association Associa-tion for the Study and Prevention of j Tuberculosis, In lis "campaign against lung disease." Only one sceue Is I locking to the film an Introductory' one. Knowing the shop In which Jordan's Jor-dan's wage slaves are bending over their tHkH, ncoulrlng the tuberculosis which their exploiter will later pose a a hero "campaigning" against, with tho n hi of the wealth he has expropriated expro-priated them of. Exchange. t' V I Marxian Club Socialists i I JL EDITORIAL COMMITTEE: Questions . conr-onilnK Socialism j. Y Kate S. Hlllrd, answered. A i! dress all roinmunlca- ! T Eugene A. Battell, tions to Howard Hall, 27SJ Pacific jj J Howard Hall. ovt-nue. j WORKERS AND THE TAXES. The Sydney "People", the official parly-owned orcan or the Socialist Ia-bor Ia-bor Paity of Australia, makes the following contribution to the question, "Who Pays the Taxes': "Fi eudenstadt, in Germany, is an Industrial town which Is probably unique In this, that all Us municipal expenses are paid without rates or taxes being levied therefore. But arc the workers any better off on that account? ac-count? Oh, no! Thc workers toll In iron and chemical works for their masters' profit, there as elsewhere. They sweat at laborious taskings before be-fore the roaring furnaces, and rot away amidst the fumes of chemicals, despite the fact that thc 'public' owns municipal forest lands, which, carefully care-fully managed, relieve the capitalists of local rates and taxes. Under capitalism, capi-talism, munlclpallsm Is only cuniclpal capitalism, and Its advantages o, not to the workers, but to the owning class. This is rot theory only; it Is experience, observed fact. Social revolution rev-olution al'no can enable the working clafs to become the owucrs of society; to become free." It Is the test of correct reasoning that facts, subsequently observed, square with the conclusions previously previous-ly theoretically attained The Socialist Social-ist Labor party, with an eje solely to labor's emancipation from wa&e slavery, slav-ery, hag ever Insisted that the working work-ing class pave no taxc9, and hence, were taxes lowered, or even abolished altogether, tho workers would be no more In pocket than before. T he extreme case unearthed by our esteemed Australian contemporary clinches the point. The working class has no more interest in the question of high or low taxes than it has in "how old is Anne?" shxiilder a small :!'J per cent of the adversity of the lim4 ndvtTfi'tv that bef.ilis partner Employer, Employ-er, all the more seeing that the nd-veMiy nd-veMiy of the flue bei'll partner Employer Em-ployer only In pursuit of that shower of prosperity In which partner Em-ployo Em-ployo wna to be a prospective sharer? Fretii Attorney General Wicker-Hhum's Wicker-Hhum's own premises there is nothing lo Indiitute about. Everything to re-Joici. re-Joici. over. No alwmcer of a theory ever wcepeth weepsles over evidences I that prove bis theory (rue. He re- :iceth thereat. Uur Attorney General must le off Ms trolley. Daily People. I UNCLE SAM AND BROTHER JONATHAN Brother Jonathan In spite of all your talk, I don't see why we men of America are not free. When all Is snld and done, jou must ad:nli that we have no lords that we must knuckle under to, I'ncle Sam - I-t's see. Must you and all workers not 'knuckle under" to your bosses frm early Infancy, or can you do what yon wuM? Don't they compel you to sign away the rights the law gives you for protec- j tlon from Injiuy in exchange for a crust? Ai.d. furthermore, do you not know that c::r woil.ers in America support more lords, princes and mar-quizes mar-quizes tliMii niiy European country? Who are Duri..cs Torlonia. Countess Count-ess Monip'l'i, tie Counters of Suffolk, Suf-folk, the I'omiicss of Esi x. the Countess Coun-tess de Bvi!i'i!(, Lady Cnizoit, the Duchess of M.n l!..i oukIi the ox-Marchlone.-s o: "hm llano, the Princess Prin-cess of II.M.fe'd t:,e Onintcss of OapitioiVilce. 'onnieKs Scherr-Thoss, Countess Vie! ( atel, Countess Fit z-James. z-James. Count, .s; ifichenfell. Princess Chlniay, f)jr Cuiii ri-!.s of R.ssImi. tho Princess do Mi' vlie. the Princess of Caiitacuziue, the Duchess de Rex-burphe. Rex-burphe. the Princess of Brazanza, and Kcores of other If not American women wom-en who own our American property, and whom we, our wives anj children must support with the sweat of our brows, and who bully us :ind have caused us to be clubbed and shot If we strike! (Pull-- B. J under the pump anil administers a thorough soaking.) That much lor "equality in fore the law." Much pood does the absence of lord und duVes in our constitution do us if praeiic:illy they are on our backs! Now go i n with your claims. It la a paltry evasion to say that the workers are free to consent or to refuse the terms of the employer. It Is, as Dickens says In "Hard Times." "An evasion worthy of the man who asked permission of the Virgin to rob her of her necklace and then did it, taking silence for consent" The laborers la-borers have to consent Lawrence Gronlund t TAKE THE TIP. "Speed.", says the hero of a recent novel, "SnVed is the greatest thing in the world What's a railroad? Spi-ed with capital hehiud it. What's an ocean liner? The same thing. And the faster they go the more they make. Get, speed and you get every-thlug. every-thlug. You fellows are handling it every day. "Then why ain't wo all rich? 'Because you don't own the speed. That's tho reason. You're Just working work-ing for a man who does own Jt." Now. boys, what's the matter with that? Why not decide to own I'.? Tho capitalists are speeding you up all along the line. Your speed is their profit. Organize to "take and hold." Speed on the Industrial organization of the workers. Signs are cumulating that Spain is ripening, if not ripo already, for a bourgeois republic. Latest despatches tell of moves made by the Minister of Commerce against the "tax dodders" dodd-ers" in the Rio Tinto mining company. Tax dodging is a typical bourgeois leauty spot. No doubl the days of the bourgeois republic are approach-lug approach-lug in Spain. Nothing can resist it. Io! out, ye wage earners In tho Federal einplo ! The President la or-lining or-lining his heads of departments to "cut deeper" than a Jl 4.000,000 r-trenrhm- ru in i-xperit-CH. The cut will not ci;tr the flesh of the favorites of Capital who are bonused with fat Jobs Not they are to bleed. The cut, and the deeper cut will slash the flesh of wage slaves to the bone. Capitalist government Is government for capitalists. Industrial Uuionlsm was lorn to tatters, tat-ters, to verv raes at the S:. lyiuls convention of the A. F. of I.k by James O'Cormell of the Machinists. ''Don't go industrial mad!" "Don't go Industrial In-dustrial crazy!" cried the worthy. James O'Connell of the Machinists evidently evi-dently knows that Industrial Unionism hurts his Civic, Federation rnanters with whom he has Identity of interests. inter-ests. From tho People. WICKERSHAM OFF HIS TROLLEY. Attorney Geueral Wkkershani Is reported re-ported In Washington despatches to be Indignant over tho action of the Imperial Window Gloss company of Pittsburg, Pa., the officers of which have decided to shut down, throwing between 70o and 800 men out of em ployment in Lafayette county, unless the men accept a reduction of HO per cent in the scale of wasee, the reduction re-duction being Intended to pay ihe fines recently imposed on that Trust by the United States Court at Pittsburg Pitts-burg for crass violations of the Anti-Trust Anti-Trust law. What is the Attorney General indignant indig-nant aliout? The conduct of the Window Win-dow Glass Trust is strictly in keeping with the economic and soclolnglc teachings which the Attorney General himself has repeatedly set" forth in political gatherings and at banquets. Attorney General Wlckersham teaches that "the employer and the employe are partners." Need the legal le-gal branch or the Federal administration adminis-tration be informed that parUiors must share ono anolhers' fate? What sort of a partnership la that In which tho bolt that smites one leaves the other partner untouched? Attorney General Wlckersham teaches tut "the prosperity of the employer spells prosperity for his employe?" em-ploye?" If partner Employe receives according: to our Attomev"General at least a sprinkling of the beneQci'ent shower of prosperity that befalls partner part-ner Employer, what harm is there in expecting of partner Employe that he H J. (wet as a ducked hen and oulle crestfallen 1 No. thank you. The starch is taken clean out of my "equality before the law." I1. S. Now you may be able to un-flerstaiid un-flerstaiid ' what Socialists mean by "clas.srs." The thing to look at is Hie material condition of man. According Ac-cording as his material conditions bh will his aspirations and needs be. The men who own huge capital con si ii ute a class that needs not work. They can live upon the work of others oth-ers who do not own any capital because be-cause -without land or the machinery with which t lalior man can not exercise ex-ercise his functions as a worker. Thus we have Iwo classes: 1, The idle capitalist capi-talist cla;s that has sponged up the nations wealth, an, 2ud. the working 1 lass, or proletariat, who alone does all the work and produces all the wealth but lives In poverty. In between be-tween there two yen have the middl? class. Ir consists of people who have little property, just enough to keep them from working for others, but not enough to t compete with the big fellows This middle chiss I going by the board fast. Catch on? It. J. I begin to see. l S.- Ail p. 'Itical struggles are conducted upon the hues of the class Interests of these three. The big class want to preserve thelr stoku goods; ihp mid lie cl.s; wants to pre. vnt the big fellows from swallowing them no. hut want to pre?i.rve Ihv ! power of th:nseve..; fl- rlng t ie wor'.c r-r-H. The werkors . aat to preect all the.se vampires fiom flei cln thcrn. Hcnco tlx- Hiss K'rug.e i.f the proletariat prole-tariat is and niii-i be cond'toted upon lines of abo'ishiti i.it. private own- |