Montana news. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1904-191?, 1905-08-23

and energy. In common justice,
and in order to keep in a good man,
the secretary's salary should be
doubled. | know of no reason why
the Socialist party should compel
its workers to scab rather than any
other line of industry. Colorado
pays its secretary $50 a month, and
they do not begin to do the work
there that Montana is doing, nor
have they anything like so large a
party.
Organization and system are alb
solutely essential to the success of
the industrial cooperative move
ment, and it requires a sound finan-
cial policy to make either possible
The series of meetings we have
been holding at Livingston, testify
to the life and influene, there is in
movement, where there are a num-
Der of members who consider that
they have a personal interest in the
revolution. The Livingston COM
rades are on hand when a meeting
is to be held. They brought seats
for the ladies. When il comes to
selling literature, one comrade after
another takes the books from the
hands of the speaker and passes
through the crowd with them. They
are brave band fighting a hard
battle of education and protest.
The woman's meeting on Saturday
afternoon, consider one of the
most important features of the So
cIalist work, and the most fruitful
in results for the future of the move
ment. Some party women were ont
to learn what Socialism holds for
them and their class. The voice for
woman's emancipation from the
monstrous sex conditions that are
vitiating the race, can only speak
along the lines of economic freedom.
Mrs. James Graham presided, and
introduced the speaker in a most ex-
cellent speech, she is the intelligent,
earnest, and helpful wife of the
state secretary. Would that more
of our comrades had such earnest
cooperation in their homes.
Mrs. John Beard of Fridley is a
most inspiring factor in the Social
ist work in this section of the country
She is the wife of the operator, and
they are now out on strike. They
are too well posted on Socialism to
put any reliance on the strike as a
solution of the labor problem, but
they take loyal stand with the re-
sistance of labor, however blindly
it may be expressed. When Com
rade Beard lived in Livingston, it
was said that every woman on her
street was Socialist. She talks it
necessarily in her hearty, intelligent
way, and her strength puts courage
,, in the weak ones. She came down
to Livingston to help out with the
meeting there. She is making a
speciality of selling the May Beals'
book because she recognizes its
value to our cause among women.
By the way, there is a movement
among a number of comrades to try
and get May Beals into Montana.
The energetic and bright little south
ern girl will do a world of good
among both the women and men of
this restless northern state.
The meeting at Fridley was one
of the banner meetings in the state.
Comrade Mabie, and the Comrades
Beard had been busy. There we're
good arrangements, packed hall,
good collection of So. 90, and con-
siderable literature sold. Grandpa
Lyons, who made an effort to debate
Mills, took the floor to oppose So
cialism or the grounds that it favor
ed confscation, and the change of
the constitution. The speaker re-
piled in a rapid fire overthrow of
the objections that must have struck
responsive chord in the audience