The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1903-05-13
The Voice of
The People
MISSION OF THE soCIALIsT-LABoR
PARTY.

MISSION OF THE soCIALIsT-LABoR
PARTY.
Editor Providence News:
Thirteen years ago the mission OF the
Socialist Labor party began II Is not
to obtain old age pensions the s-hour uay
law or municipal ownership OF puple
utilities, but to abolish wage slavery, ana
! IL seeks 10 obtain an intelligent, conscious
working class that will bring about its
emancipation by means of the ballot.
From the first IL has plainly declared
that il was a revolutionary not a reform
party, and has always maintained IL was
a rebel movement
No one has ever accused IL OF com
promising or fusion with any other party.
IL has said from the outset that II rep
resented the class that tolls for wages
and no other, and the party demands the
unconditional surrender oy the capitalist
class OF all the means or production
which they legally hold, but which of
right belongs 10 society that has pro-
duced IL, and from whom IL has been
stolen. and that Is not conflscation, but
restitution.
1t is often requested by our opponents
that a prospectus OF the cooperative
commonwealth be furnished to them. We
make answer that we cannot arrange all
the details for the Socialist republic.
when II is realized Il VIII be just what
the people make of IL.
Society has been through many changes
and has many more TO encounter in the
future, and Socialists do not pretend TO
ern people I'm the period To come.
Neither do Socialists evade the issue
before them any more than did the reVo-
| lutionary fathers when they were asked
what kind of a government they proposed
| To Institute if they were successful In
| the war they were about to engage In.
They made this answer: The kind OF
/ government we shall establish is sec
ondary consideration; the matter OF su-
preme Importance now is TO rid these col
onies OF King George and his parasites;
I - t.rt Ia Of
| forts to secure political and religious
/ freedom2
! The Socialist-Labor party insist that
/ the wage workers have nothing TO arbi-
trate, that they are the only class III
I TO survive and the only one that Will
! eventually survive, because they perform
the worlds work with brain and hands,
end they do not ask quarter from the
! capitalist class, nor will they give any.
Fellow workers. the question is not
whether In the future society proposed
by the Sociaist-Labor party. the prod
I uct of the cooperative labor shall be dis
tributed to each according to this deed
or each according to his needs. but shall
the land and tools OF production be col
lective instead OF private property, as al
present. II collective the equivalent OF
the full product OF their labor will be as
ent sort of free fight called competition
will continue. and you Will remain wag'
slaves.
The matter that should most interes
you hS NbSt NoI hcIS II lHlSs DO YOU wan
10 longer carry the capitalist class. will
its servants, lackeys and menials on you
| back?
You have gone down on your knees AM
! allowed them To put a saddle on you
back and bride with bits In your moutl
and there they are riding anu they WI,
not dismount until you oblige them L
do 40.
With the magnificent tools OF toda,
placed I'm collective hands there can h
abundance produced for every one with
out making slaves of anyone. and tina
by working very few hours each day
leaving ample time for rest, study an
enjoyment which are not realized i'm pres
ent society
Fellow workers read the literature pub
lshed by the Socialist Labor party. tn
paper which Is the official organ OF IN
T party, the Daily. Weekly or Monthly Peo
- pie. and also the platform OF the part.
printed I'm this article.
THOMAS Il. IIERRICK