The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1903-04-25

Robert B. Ringler, of Reading, Pa,
writes: Things are moving here. We
have $50 members in the local. Polled
l,149 votes in the municipal election:
249 in spring of 1902" The Union
Seminal, official organ Of the Feder-
ated Trades Council, is edited by So
cialists.
A victory has been won by the So
cialists of Hagsfeld, near Karlsruhe,
in the municipal elections. In the
third class nine Socialists, in the Sec
three-tWenty Socialists in all-were
elected, obtaining a majority in the
common council.
The fair gotten up by the Socialists
and trade unions of New York City to
help swell the fund for daily paper,
to be known as the Daily Globe,
opened on March % with a tremend-
GUS crowd. 1t is expected that nearly
$4,000 will be realized from the fair,
which lasted eight days.
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In Recanati, Italy, two Socialists
Prof. Mariana Patrizi and Edmondo
Gigli, and one Radical were elected to
the common council. In Condigoro,
elections were held for eight common
.councilmen. The Socialists formed no
alliance, and with a majority of 231
votes, won a complete victory.
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Dol Inn ~
office at Washington, is reported to
have issued an edict that "his" en-
ployers must not agitate for Socialism.
The printers threaten to take the mat
ter up and find out whether Palmer
has the right to do their reading and
thinking for them.
A notable victory has been won by
the Socialists of Offenburg, Germany.
Heretofore the Center party had con-
troll and the Socialists had but one
seat. Now the latter have fifteen, the
Democrats nine, Liberals three, and
Ultramontane party one. In Berghau-
sen the Socialists also swept the city.
Eugene V. Debs addressed a big
meeting in Cincinnati on March % on
behalf of the Socialist municipal
ticket. He scored the reform ticket,
headed by M. e. Ingalls,, president of
the Big -Four railroad, who is famous
for his utterance that "$1.12 day is
enough for any workingman to live
on
The city of Catania in Sicily has
carried, by a heavy majority, refer
andum proposed by the Socialists in
favor Of the establishment of municipal
bakeries. The announcement of the
result was celebrated by a great par
/ ade, 10000 persons Z. marching with
torches and red flags: The parade
was followed by public meeting at
which the Socialist Deputy DeFelice
delivered an eloquent address.
Albert e. Hill, editor Of the Nash
vile Labor Advocate and prominent
in union affairs in Tennessee, has been
visiting in England and writes that
1.-The Socialist movement is growing
ly all of the organizations have levied
special assessments for independent
political action" Mr.. Hill also states
the unions and Socialists are working
together to capture the control of gov
eminent.
Why don't the working class enjoy
the things it produces? Why should
| you have to slave forty or fifty years
| in a bitter struggle to get bread? Is
| it necessary that your wife or your
sister should "stitch, stitch, stitch, in
poverty, hunger and dirt" patching old
| clothes year in and year out, and never
from the cradle to the grave knowing
anything of the "sweetness and light
which the labors of our class have
made possible for all, but which a few
only enjoy?
! If you will look about you little
my friend, you can't fail to notice that
| the rich class. with plenty to eat and
plenty to wear, with luxuries and art
and opportunities almost unbounded
for enjoying life, have gained the mas
| terry over some part of the civilization
| which the labors of our class have Gre
ated, or, they are in control Of the in
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between them, by controlling as well
the government Of the country, they
have divorced or separated our class
from the means of producing things
This has been accomplished by every
means known to the black art of cap
italisti cKellers, from pocket picking
to assassination.
Our needs and work and thinking
have led to discoveries and inventions
Have you ever thought about it, thai
civilization is worked out, directed anl
maintained by tools? Tools or me,
chanics-and a man familiar with thu
tools, able to apply mechanics-thest
are the most important things in thi:
world. They may be so in the next
bu tive don't know! What we d.
know is that here and now we cam
get along without them.
! And we know more; we know tina
| whatever class owns the tools of civil