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Show v-J-X-W-W-I-I-H-X-i :-:-X--'.--X-:-'--:- KI-rH-H-l-r-H-H-t-f-l-I-M" T f Marxian Club Socialists I Y - V I T JL .(. EDITORIAL COMMITTEE: j- Kate S. Hllliard, ) Eugene A. Battell, A Howard Hall. v CJiM'.-uions roncornlns Socialism j. I answered. Ad.Iross all coinuiunica- y tions to Howard Hall, 2T8IJ raclflc avenue. A ............. . . . i . . . . . I r n-.5iisc Will never P'eari upon tli-; staze of liNiory, Where. In ihe masses' turmoil, man 1 Known P.ut his armor an d Jev.co. !.ass:.llc. We, we are not tfrnkcrfl, tiiiker of the koltle cracked and broke. Tailors nqunttod cross-loKj-'ed. pjtch- tnc at the greasy, w urn-out "cloak! We are those that faced mad Fortune, For-tune, cried: "Tho Truth and only she! Onward, upward! If we pi-rlsh we at least will parish frf,-:" Francis Adams. FEEDING WORN-OUTS. Karl M;trx nearly half a century , oco forecasted the time when tin- cap- j 1 tali st class, for their own protni tlon, would bo compelled to feed the'r old. wornout. and Invalid wajze slaves. ' That time has arrived in Australia Tho capitalist aybteni throws kuch a Kreat niimlx r of workers annually on the human ecrap heap. U-yides forclnj; th bulk of waKC-earners din-In din-In their working term down ti the point of subsistence, that In orcb r to : af-ciard their fitoln prop ity and , Immediate interests. It Is d'oiii' d prudent pru-dent to throw a sop to lh- working cla.s3, and toiiay wo have It ban. led j out In a charitable dole naively te-m-(1 Old-Ajzo and Invalids' l'fnslons. That this "proat" boon Is now n-joyed n-joyed by tho working class both Liberal Lib-eral and "Labor" polltlclann claim cre-rlit ns pponsors. liut seeing that it beht thoo "penislonv gnniifd 'o worn-out workers represent onlv a ziilrroscopieal portion of tho soHnl uteallncs taken by the capital. st class from the working clasa, and thit It Is grudgingly given lo facllllate the continuance con-tinuance of tho social robbery, small thanks Is due to either of these capitalist capi-talist politicians. And when one Investigates tho conditions con-ditions under which the dole Ik dispensed, dis-pensed, the workers have even los3 to be graieful for! Every means -In usd to Impress It-? recipients with the good, kind charitable spirit of their I earthly masters, A case In point came within our knowledge In connection with the In-alida" In-alida" Tensions, when, not satisfied with the medical officers' certificate a6 to the Incapacvlty of th? applicant, the affidavits made as to having been j born, and regarding character, and a thousand and one petilfosizin details. de-tails. Inspectors interview neighbors with a view of ascertaining th- worthiness worth-iness or otherwise of the applicant, making searching investigation as to the financial position of parents and relatives. After nil these charitable acts of spying and pryint? Into tho innermost privacy of tho life of tho.JC whoe misfortune is not their fault, but the result of capitalist conditions, the munificent sum of 10s. a week Is doled dol-ed out in the good old charitable fashion. Likewise with old age pensions An age of sixty-five years has to "be reached before the worker qualifies I for Ihe miserable lus per week, allowed al-lowed to a single individual, or the Kifl. per week allotted to a married couple living together. What n mean, contempt I bio gang the capitalists are The chances of the average uorl.or j teaching that ago is remoie, and should It so happen that here and there a worker succeeds in surlin'? the 11 or 2."i jears he Is "scrap piled," pil-ed," the beneudeni capitalist calculates calcu-lates well that he (tho worker) has not long tn live to enjoy the bounty! Under Socialism the aged and infirm in-firm will be maintained and cared fcr by society a3 a maltor of Right and Justice. Production being cair'cd on for the USE of Humanity Instead cf. us now, for the Profit of a section, i and a small section at that, and the labor power now running to waste organized or-ganized and directed in useful and , productive channels, there will bo plenty and to paro to feed, clothe. . house every unit In the community . decently and healthily, besides securing secur-ing them in amusement and recreation. recrea-tion. Workers Just look at the Insults your Masters heap upon you and yours whenever circumstances compel com-pel them to disgorge the minutest fraction of Lhelr stealings! Kemeui-ber, Kemeui-ber, In your Industrial associations, you tho workers produce the world's wealth. Remember, too, that the working class possess three times or more the numerical strength of the capitalist class- that no power on earch can prevent the work'ng class from winning th? economic mastery mas-tery of the world and its own emancipation eman-cipation whenever thc majority of it-i members are Intelligently organized and determined to do so. The workers work-ers must own that which they produce pro-duce by their labor. To do thls they must tie organized Industrially as well as politically and fight out th capitalist capital-ist claxs from both ihese fields of human activities. Sydney People. CRAFT "UNION SCABS." ' There are three kinds of scabs; the professional, the amateur uud the craft union scab. Tho profeasional scab Is usually a hfghly-pald, highly-skilled worker In the omploy of strikebreaking and detective de-tective agencies. Mia position Is that of a jxtty ofOcer In the regular scab army. The- amateur scab brigade Is composed com-posed of bums. rlfT-rafT, slum dwellers, dwel-lers, rubes, tramps. Imbeciles, college students and other undesirable citizens. citi-zens. The lafct. and by far the most Important Im-portant clas Is the craft union scab. Professional scabs are few and efficient, ef-ficient, and craft unltn scabii both numerous nu-merous and capable. Tho professional cab knows what he Is doing, does It well and for the sake of the long gren only. Tho amateur scab, posing as a free-born free-born American citizen, who scorns to be fettered by union rules and regulations, regula-tions, gets much slory (?), little pay and when tho strik Is over he Is given an honorable discharge In the region where Darwin searched for the missing link. The craft union scab receives eSs pay than the professional scab, works better than the amsteur cab and doesn't fully realize that he U a scab. , He will take a patt. ru from a gcab I pattern maker, cat It in a union mold hand the caning to as vile a senb a-s ' rver walked In shoe leather, an.) then proudly pruiliice a paid-up union card in fe-silrnony of his unionism. Way ilotvn in hi.-! bojit be se-tus to have a lurking suspicion that there is .-omeibin not altogether rlzht in hlx action, ami it Is characteristic of the crnft union man who co-operates w th scabs that he Is ever ready to flash a union caid in the face of Innocent bystanders. lie doesn't understand that helping to run the shop while other workers bond all their energies to close the shop Is scabbing. He rellea on the name and seeks re-fugo behind a little I pasteboard card Wheu a strike is declared It becomes be-comes the chief duty of I h organization organiza-tion to effect a complete shutdown of the plant. For that purpose warnings are mailed, or wired, to other places, to prevent worklncnien from moving to the afflicted locality. Pickets are stationed around the plant or factory, or harbor, to stop woikeis from taking the places of the strikers. Amateur scabs are coaxed, coax-ed, persuaded, or bullied away from the scat of the strike. Persuasion having no effect rn the profess'onal strikebreaker, he Is sometimes treated treat-ed to b shower of brickbats. Shut clown that plant, shut It down completely, com-pletely, i3 thc watchword of the strik or. Now while all these things are going go-ing on and men are stopped lu ones and twos, a steady stream of other workers carrying their dinner ifLs pours through tho factory gate Why are they not molested? Oh! they are union mn. belonging to a different craft from the one on strike. Instead of brick-bats ami Insults it s "Il'llo. John; hello, Jim; howdy. Jack," and other expressions of good fellowship. You see, this Is a carriage factory, and It's only the Amalgamated Association Asso-ciation Of Hrim Stone and Kmery Polishers Pol-ishers that Is striking, the Rrother-hood Rrother-hood of Oil flag Wipers, the Fraternal Society of White Lead Daubers, the Undivided Sons of Varn'sh Spreaders, tho Benevolent Compilation of Wood Work dliiers. the Iron Renders' Sick and Death Benefit I'nion. the Oakdale Ixm'cc of Coil Shovelers, the Martha Washington Lodge of Arh Wheelers, the Amalgamated Brotherhood of Oilers, Oil-ers, the Engineers' Protective IxJgc. the Stationary Firemen the Portable Firemen, the F. O O L.. the A. S. S. U.S. Societies have nothing to do wif'i the Amalgamated Association of Brimstone and Kmery Pol shers. At the regular meeting of those societies, ringing resolutions endorsing endors-ing the strike of the Algmuated Association As-sociation of Brimstone and Emery Polishers will be passed. Moral sip-port sip-port will be pledged and five dedlars' worth ef tickets will be purchased for the dance glven by the Ladles' Volunteer and Auxiliary Chore for. the ben "lit of the Amalgamated Association Asso-ciation of Brimstone and Kmery Polishers. Pol-ishers. Tho whole thing Is like beating a man's brains out and then handing him a headache tablet During a very bitter fought mold-crs" mold-crs" strike In a northern titv the writer noticed one f the prettwst Illustrations Il-lustrations of tlii- workings of plain soalifdng and craft , scrabbing ever witnessed. A dense mas of strikers and sympathizers sym-pathizers had assembled in front of the factory awaiting the xlt of tho strike-breakers. Out the came scalm and i raft unionists in one dark mass. Then stones rotten eggs and other missiles began to n"v, when one of the strike-breakers leaped on a store Imx and shouted frantically: "Stop it. st(.p it. for (i 's sake, stop It, you are hitting more unionists than scabs; you can't fell the difference." That's It. Wherever scabs and union men work harmonlouslv In t1" strike breaking industry the devil himself can't tell the difference. To the murky conception of a union scai), scabbing Is only wrong when practiced by a non-union man. To him the union card Is a kind of scab permit that guarantees him immunity from Insults, brickbats and rotteu eggs. After having instructed a green bunch nf amateur scabs in the art of I brimstone and emery iKilishlng all day, he meets a striking brother in the evening and forthwith demonstrates demon-strates his unionism by setting up the drinks for th latter. Craft union scaUblng is the legitimate legiti-mate offspring of craft organisation. It Is begotten by ignorance, born of I imbecility and nourished 'by Infamy. My dear brother, I am sorry to be I under contract to hang ou. but I i know It will please you to hear that thc scaffold is built by union car-lunters, car-lunters, the rope bears tho label, and here Is my card." Address by J. IL Arnold at Louisville. CHRISTIAN COMPETITION. Sweet competition! Heavenly maid! Nowadays huined alike by pen-ny-a liner and philosopher as the ground of all society the only real preserver of the enrth! Why not of Heaven, b? Peihaps there is competition com-petition ajnong the angels, and Gabriel Ga-briel ami Raphael have won their rank by doing the maximum of worship wor-ship on the minimum of grace! We shall know some day. In the meanwhile mean-while "there are thy works, thou parent of all good!" Man eating man, eaten by man. In every variety of j degree and method. Charles Kings-ley. Kings-ley. THE TEST OF PROGRESS. Tho oeltlon of any class Is always measured solely by lis relation to that of other classes at the same time. If. therefore. It were ever so certain that the oy,d of the neces- I sary conditions of existence had risen In different ages, that satisfaction formerly unknown had ibeen recognized recogniz-ed by cntom as necessaries and that with them had Intervened In consequence con-sequence privations and sufferings formerly unknown, yet your position as men has In these different ages always remained the same oscillating oscillat-ing on the lowebl margin of what custom at any time demands as necessary ne-cessary for existence, now going a little beyond It. now receding a llttlo below It Your position a tm-n has thus remained the same, for U Is measured not by Its relation to that ef beasts In Primeval forests, or that of African negroes, or that of n-rfs Id the Middle Ages, or of workers work-ers of 2i0 or Sl ears ago, but solely by Its relation to that of your fellow rnvn, lo that of the other contemporary contempor-ary clasaea. Ferdinand Lasnlle. |