The Kalispell bee. [volume] (Kalispell, Mont.) 1900-192?, 1902-10-17

the instruments or producing and dis
tributing wealth being owned and
controlled by the holders of capital.
z. There is only one weapon with
which the working class can success
fully oppose the capitalist class-and
that is the ballot.
s. This fact demands as an inev-
liable conclusion the organization in
to a political party that shall be ev-
erywhere and always distinct and
from and opposed to every political
party not founded entirely upon the
interests of the working class. The
socialist party is organized to meet
this demand, and is therefore the
party of the working class.
8. In conclusion we appeal to all
to study the principles of socialism,
to vote with the party of their class
at all elections until they control the
machinery of government, abolish in
dustrial classes in society, terminate
forever the class struggle, and inau-
gurate the cooperative people for the
purpose of making the commonwealth
based on this fundamental principles
of justice:
To every worker the full product
of his labor.
The convention adopted what
was termed immediate demands,
which follow:
F'irst-Eight hour law: To effectu-
ally secure the permanency of an g.
hour law for smeltermen and miners,
we declare ourselves in favor of the
submission of constitutional amend
ment to the maximum eight-hour law
part of the constitutional amendment
of this state, and we pledge our can
didate, if elected, to work and vote
for the submission of said amend
ment to the people.
Second-Direct legislation: We de-
clare ourselves in favor of the init1a-
tive and referendum as the peoples
greatest weapon against veniality in
legislation and courts The initiative
to be based on petition of 5 per
cent of the voters, and the questions
to be submitted on a separate ballot.
Third--Woman suffrage: We fav-
or placing the ballot in the hands of
men and women alike without prop
erty qualification.
Fourth-Trades unions: We de-
clare ourselves in favor of trades
unions as economic schools for~athe
working class, and urge upon every
socialist to DIN the union of his
craft for the purpose of further edu-
cation and for the general betterment
of his own condition.
Fifth-Blacklist We denounce the
blacklisting by corporations and en-
ployers in this state of workingmen
courageous enough to take up the
| fight of their class as an outrage on
humanity and demand the submits
sion to the people of constitutional
amendment prohibiting blacklisting
or the demanding of personal records
by employers; also the passage of a
law making both penitentiary of
lenses, and we hereby pledge our rep
resentatives, If elected, to support
such amendment and state law
Employers liability act: We
demand the passage of an employers
| liability act which will make the en-
ployer responsible for injuries re-
sponsible for injuries received by the
employee while acting under the or
ders of a subordinate in the service
of said employer.
While we demand these things as
means to an end, our ultimate OBJ
iect is the transferance of the con
troll of all the machinery of govern
4 ment to the hands of the working
class and the substitution by them
of collective ownership of the means
of production and distribution in the
place of our present system of indus
trial anarchy. Then and not until
then, will we have system under
which there will be no hungry
tramps, no sordid millionaires, nc
hungry babies, and no ruined lives
and under which every human being
will have an. opportunity of happiness
and the free development of theil
own Individuality.
Workingmen of all countries unite!
You have nothing to lose but your
| chains, and the world to gain
i Labor Platform.