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Montana news. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1904-191?, 1905-12-27

National Headquarters Socialist
Party, a6o Dearborn ST., Chicago,
ILL.,, Nov. 80, 1905.
Comrades: The phenomenal pres
idential campaign of 1904, showing
the political progress of the Socialist
party with 400, 23o votes recorded
for its candidates, is a part of his
tory.
This year the attention given to
organization, and the campaigns
that were waged amidst the epidem-
ic of reform" movements, steered
by capitalists, involved a heavy
financial burden upon the national
office. The organization, as such,
is in better condition today than
ever before, and the dues paying
members are on the increase.
The high carnival of corruption
in financial, industrial and political
circles makes the toiler ever more
susceptible to the philosophy of So
cialism. There is no other avenue
of escape.
Socialism is the all pervading top
ic of our time. The dreams of to-
day are the realities of tomorrow.
The general discomfort so largely in
evidence, must be nodded into a
constructive force. The present
party me mbership should and can
be increased fourfold, preparatory
to again demonstrate to a doubling
world the assured political triumph
of the working class in the general
congressional election of 1906.
The national executive committee
calls upon all comrades, everywhere,
to earnestly cooperate in a cam
paign of education and organization,
exceeding in scope anything hereto,
fore undertaken. Beginning with
the new year, a larger force of ma
tional organizers are to be sen,
afeld, and stationed fer periods
ranging from three days to three
weeks in a given locality. Larg,
locals, small locals, strong locals,
weeks locals, all are to be reached
and unorganized territory covered.
An edition of six hundred thou
sand Weeks phamplets" is nearl,
Montana news. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1904-191?, 1905-12-27
ON WITH THE REVOLUTION NOW
The Will Working Class the of the LandManesto
of the National Committee

disposed of, supplied mainly to state
committees at half the cost of print
ing. This expense about equalled
the entire contributions to the ma
tional agitation fund" for six months.
Like documents in larger quantities
should follow in rapid succession,
Comrades: To carry into execu-
ton these plans, submitted by your
national executive committee, and
build an organization to vanquish
capitalism, now vulnerable at every
point, a sufficient national agitation
fund must be raised. Not much
from any. a little from each local
and individual. according to their
means, to the end that the age-long
tyranny of capitalism shall end in
the battle royal.
Capitalism will fall before the or
ganized hosts of Socialism, and by
that organization the eclipse can be
timed. Your contribution. large or
small, will light the torch of free
dom, man the watch tower, and
prove a potent factor for the eman-
cipation of mankiud.
Only those blind to facts or the
mentally dead, insist that we will
continue to make millionaires by
the hundreds and paupers by the
millions.
A dollar more or less in the trea-
sury of the local does not count
much for agitation; added to the
national agitation fund" it will ad-
vance our movement all along the
line. Contribute now, that no day
be fruitless in the new year.
Fraternally submitted,
ROBT. BANDLOW,
V, l.. BERGER,
B. BERLYN,
WIN. MAILLY,
S. Nj. REYNOLDS,
II. l.. SLOBODIN,
JOHN NJ. WORK,
National Executive Committee.
Make all remittances payable tc
J. Mahlon Barnes, national secre'
tary.
NoTE. All contributions will be
acknowledged in the Weekly Bulle
tin and the Party Press.
Montana news. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1904-191?, 1905-12-27

scott could never be reelected by
his constituency.
And now here comes the Heinze
organ" with its convulsion because
Alderman Ambrose has had the man
hood to stand up before the hypo-
critical gang whose mal-administra-
tion is a disgrace to civilization,
and unmask their miserable preten-
sions. Every man thatknows which
way his nose is going knows that
gambling is going on in Butte the
same as it ever was. All you have
got to do is to walk along the street
and turn into the NJ & NJ, and you, Il
find it. The game has never made
even a pretense of being closed.
And so jealously are these gambling
rights maintained that we are told
on reliable authority that it is worth
a mans life to oppose gambling in
Butte. The whole thing is simply
a reign of terror over all decency
and morality.
The News expects to send a man
over to Butte to get indisputable
evidence that he can gamble almost
anywhere. The result will be pub
lished and the name of the resorts
given.
1t is the socialist movement that
dares unmask the hypocracy of cap
italism. No matter what the evi-
dence is, no just verdict could ever
be obtained in Heinze ruled court.
But socialists know it and every
body knows it, that gambling is just
as wide open today as it ever was
only it has the added sin of saying
that it isn't, and taking the livery OF
God to serve the devil in.
The enlightened intellects that
run the Butte Evening News" have
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Montana news. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1904-191?, 1905-12-27
Story by
May Beals
The Wheels tn; cheated the Wheels
of the M ! Atrocities on
Helr ! S Children.

little nearer the curve. She knelt
on the track and turned her little
old face with its hopeless eyes to-
ward the clear morning sky.
Dear Lord" she said. Pm
plum beat out. don't want to
work in the mill no more and do
want Janey so bad. I've prayed
and prayed for other things and
none of 'em ever coined, but | won't
pester you any more for nothin' if
you'll let me be with Janey. For
Jesus sake. Amen"
She lay down on the track with
her small hands folded beneath her
and her eyes shut tight that she
might not see it coming. She felt
the rough timbers shuddering be-
meath her and the distant roar of
the train grew louder, more deafen-
ing, more like the machinery that
roared around her all night.
And then the engineer who was
wildly cursing his own powerless-
ness felt the sickening crunch as her
little life was ground out beneath
the wheels, so much more mercifully
than it would otherwise ground out
in the wheels of the mill. As soon
as the train could be stopped the
trainmen ran back to the rear where
the scattered fragments Law. The
engineer laid his hand on the largest
piece of the child and felt that it
was warm and quivering. He
turned on the others furiously, his
hard features drenched with tears.
There's her dinner pail" he
said. She's laid down there and
went to sleep after working all night
in that hell of a mill.
And then he cursed the mill and
fits owner and the civilization that
produced them both with such rare
and savage profanity, that the ladies'
in the rear car who had looked out
at the window to ascertain the cause
of the delay turned away disdain-
fully and summoned the porter to
close the windows. When a little
later they learned the cause of his
outburst they felt sorry of course
for the child, but then-such per-
fectly shocking language could not
help it.
Thew wondered as the train again
moved forward why an inscrutable
providence ever permits such people
to come within earshot of the re-
spectacle and refined.
Montana news. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1904-191?, 1905-12-27
CAPITALIST ATTACKS
ON SOCIALISM

Already the established capitalist
governments of the earth are taking
alarm at the strength the proletar-
ian program is showing in Russia.
The spasm has even struck the faith
full press of Helena, and they have
commenced their campaign of mis-
representation and rancor against
the socialists. A few days ago the
Record gave considerable space in
its editorial columns to the Sunday
night programs of the Workers club.
The speakers were all mentioned,
and comments made on their adj
dresses, with the exception of Mrs.
Hazlett, the editor of the state So
cialist paper. She spoke on the
Social Unrest" and conducted
debate with Rabbi Klein, that at
tracted the largest crowd that has
attended any of the meetings. Mrs,
Hazlett's grasp of economic ques-
tions and her years Of experience as
teacher along such lines entite
her at least to decent consideration
on a program where she appears.
But she is a socialist, aud a hireling
| -Cnntlnnel ON nnnn
Montana news. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1904-191?, 1905-12-27

All night she had W; 9 back
and forth between hyi % ldles.
The roar of the machinery was still
numbing her tired brain as she sat
down by the road to rest a minute
for the long walk homeward. She
was very little girl-one of those
who are tremendously bundled out
of the mill while the inspector is be-
ing entertained in the office; one of
those whose pitiful and well proven
wrongs would take many men from
legislative halls and the pews of
of fashionable churches to spend
long terms behind prison bars if our
laws were enforced against the rich
as they are enforced against the
poor. But the child knew nothing
of this. She could not understand,
she could only feel, the injustice
that was crushing the life from her
frail little body. Her blindness
and ignorance caused the worst of
her suffering.
For she was not yet past suffering
the sharp mental anguish that is so
much worse than any physical pain.
You can work a child until it
grows incapable of thought-in-
capable of any feeling save ply
sical sensations. She had not
worked long enough for that.
The sun had risen more than an
hour before she had been freed from
the machines. She basked in its
rays for a moment, stretched out on
the hard ground. then taking up her
tiny dinner pail she started down
the long, red road between the rows
of box-like shanties where many of
the mill operatives lived. Her home
was in the country, three miles out
across low. red hills. She had not
been used to walking alone. Her
older sister had walked with her
and worked beside her in the mill,
but one day her sister had been too
sick to work, and few days after
wards they had put her down in the
ground and had told the child she
was in heaven. The child could
not understand, but then all grown
up people are hard to understand.
They told her in Sunday-school-
these strange, grown-up people, that
God loves little children and that he
had put it into the good capitalist
to build the cotton mill so that they
have work. The child accepted il
all with a child's faith, doubling
nothing, but it was like some strange
puzzle to her mind. If God loves
little girls why does he want then
to work in the mill? He know:
everything, so of course he knows
how it hurts.
The child was not rebellious, she
was only puzzled-and tired, sc
tired. She heard the far off whistl,
of the morning train as she nearec
the crossing and thought of how
careful her sister had always beer
to keep her off the track when the
train rushed past them. There wa.
a sharp curve in the track JUS
above the crossing so near that the
man could not stop the train, SO he,
sister had said, even if he saw then
on the track. The child remem
bered il now and the memory tore
her heart for she had loved he
sister better than anything in the
world.
She stood on the track and looked
at the intermiuable red hills stretched
out between her and her home. Sh,
was tired, so tired DO you know
what il is to be So tired that eacI
step YOU take is torture and eacI
breath a long drawn out agony
The child stood still for a momen
with bent head, then she turned an,
walked deliberately up the track
Montana news. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1904-191?, 1905-12-27

National Committee SOCIALIST
Party,
Dear Comrades:-As your repre-
sentative on the International So
cialist Bureau | herewith respectfully
submit my first report of the activity
and proceedings of said bureau.
The International Socialist Bu-
reau has not had any sessions since
the adjournment of the Amsterdam
Congress. Whatever business was
transacted by the bureau since that
time, was transacted by correspond
ence in a manner similar to that in
which the business of our national
committee is being conducted.
Aside from some necessary routine
work of the bureau, the following
three matters of general interest to
the international socialist move
ment we're acted upon by the bu-
reau:
The Revolutionary movement
in Russia.
When it became apparent early
in the year that the revolutionary
movement in Russia had assumed
an acute and critical character, the
bureau promptly decided to take
energetic steps for the support of
our valiant comrades in Russia, as
much as such support lies in the
power of organizations outside of
Russia. The Socialist parties of all
countries were called upon to mani
fest their sympathy and solidarity
with the struggles of Russian social
lists by meetings, demonstrations,
resolutions, ond above all, by the
collection of funds, and the interna-
tional socialist movement respond
ed to the calls spontaneously and
generously. The incessant agita-
tation of socialists outside of Russia
has certainly had a powerful inhu-
ence on the formation of the gen
eral public sympathy for the Rus
sian revolutionists in Europe and
America, and no doubt had a de-
terren, effect upon any inchnations
of foreign powers to intercede in
the internal affairs of Russia in fa-
vor of the tottering autocracy; and
if our comrades in Russia needed
any stimulus for their heroic strug-
gle, they certainly found it in the
sympathy of their brethren all over
the world.
The material support which the
socialists of the world gave to their
comrades in Russia was of probably
still greater importance than the
moral support. The International
Socialist Bureau as such has within
the last few months distributed
among the various revolutionary
parties in Russia, impartially, a
very considerable sum of money,
and almost every socialist organ
ization on both hemispheres has con-
tributed to the war fund of the Rus
sian socialists, repeatedly and liber-
ally.
OF course, the needs of a move
ment so immense and intense as that
of the Russian socialists under pre-
sent conditions, are such that nc
amonnt of money is sufficient. The
contributions of socialists for the
imminent victory of their cause in
Russia have therefore not abated.
On the contrary, they are on the in
crease, and the American socialists
snould make it point of ambition
not to be the last on the list of the
supporters of the great cause. The
present struggles of the Russian
socialists are the most important
and sublime of those ever waged by
our party, and the victory of oul
comrades in Russia will signify q
victory of socialism in every Other
country.
The International Socialist Blu
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Continued on page 4.
The San Francisco call., 1905-03-28
To FREE LABOR
FROM POLITICS
-

San Francisco Typographical Union
No. 21 has taken a decided stand
against the officers of the union be-
coming active in politics. 1t Is main
tained that the safety of trades
unions lies in complete elimination of
the political influences in State as we'll
as local bodies.
At a regular meeting Of San Fran
cisco Typographical Union No. 21, held
last Sunday, the following letter and
proposed amendment to the constitu-
tion of the State Federation of Labor
was reported by a committee and
unanimously adopted:
mo person shall hold Office in the
California State Federation of Labor
who occupies any political position,
whether elective or appointive."
Several reasons are offered why pol
itics should not be mixed with trades
unionism. History has shown that
where unions have taken an active
part in politics disagreeable results
have followed. While the enacement
of a law such as may prevent politi-
cal inclinations might work hardships
on some the benefits the union would
derive therefrom would make the ex-
ceptions unworthy of consideration.
The Milk Wagon Drivers Local
Union No. 226 is not satisfied with the
recent decision given by the board of
arbitration of the Labor Council in it's
trouble with the Workingmens CO.
operative Commercial Company. In a
lengthy circular issued by this union
many reasons are set forth why the
union should not abide by the recent
decision. 1t is probable that the mat
ter will again be brought before the
council for settlement. The union al
leges that the Workingmens Cooper
ative Company, which is a company
selling milk imposes hardships on the
drivers and forces them to work many
hours longer than the unions rules
call for. The circular states that the
milk company can come to a speedy
settlement If it wishes to abide by the
constitution and bylaws of the union.
The District Council of Carpenters
adopted a rule at its last meeting
compelling members to refrain from
working during the noonhour, also
that no member shall accept work at
a wage under the fixed schedule; vio-
laters will be penalized $780,
The Broommakers' Union is loudly
protesting against convict-made
brooms being brought into this State
from Eastern penitentiaries. It Is
claimed that convict-made brooms are
sold at a price so low that it makes
the broom industry Improbable.
The ire of the members of the Box
makers and Sawyers Union has been
aroused by the number of Japanese
that are being employed in the north
ern States in the boxmaking industry.
The union will work energetically to
have an act passed excluding Japanese
from the United States.
The following committee of Labor
ers' Protective Union No. Se44 which
was appointed on the May picnic re-
ported progress: John F. Vera, Frank
Donnigan, John Murphy, John G. Hen
ming, Joseph O'Donnen, ]. j. Boyce,
d. L. Long, Joseph Kelly, G. Eisenhut
John McManus and Michael Fox.
The San Francisco call., 1905-03-28
LOSES LARGE SUM OF MONEY
TRYING TO BEAT POOLROOMS
p. v. Finch Takes Advantage OF ''Wire
Tapping Came" Loses $1,000
and Wants Revenge

p. v. Finch of 217 Post street,
sometimes known among the sporting
fraternity as Doc" Smith, has been
taught, to his sorrow, that it does not
always pay to put up money for an
other mans revenge. Two weeks ago
Finch was approached by a man Civ
ing the name of Harry Howard, but
who was subsequently learned TO be
the race track habitue, Bud" Hau-
ser, and was asked to put up the
money for a scheme to do the pool
rooms of the city.
Hauser was accompanied by James
Reynolds, and both pretended to be
Postal Telegraph operators. Hauser
declared that he was sore on the
sporting fraternity and would hold
back the racing reports a few min
utes IL Finch would lend him money
to bet on the horses, and the three
were to share the winnings The first
move was to mulct Finch of $50 for
a peculiar electrical instrument that
would hold back the messages, the
bunko men alleging that without it
the accumulated reports would over
heat the wire and cause an explosion
Finch visited a poolroom on Mar
ket street and there claims to
have lost nearly $1,000 in three
separate bettings on reports tele-
phoned by the conspirators. He al
legged that the poolroom took one bet
after the race was run, but the chart
disproved the allegation. Finch de-
clares that his suspicion was aroused
by seeing Hauser in conversation with
one of the poolroom partners, but
there is no evidence to show that
the poolroom owners were connected
with the swindle.
Finch swore out warrants for the
arrest of Reynolds and Hauser under
the name of Howard. and yesterday
Detective Coleman arrested Reynolds.
The police are looking for Hauser.
Finch now declares that he considers
the money gone, but would pay an
equal amount to get even with his
bilkers. He says he would like to hear
from any persons bunkoed by them.
The San Francisco call., 1905-03-28
NANCE'S CLASS
DEFIES ORDERS
Storm Breaks Over Heads OF
Non Commissioned Off
GERS at the University
RIOT ON THE CAMPUS
Privates Try to Show Con-
tempt for Captain STAN
lev and Become EmbrOiled

BERKELEY, March 27.-Unless the
non-commissioned officers of Captain
Stanley's company of university ca
diets yield up information to Captain
j. T. Nance regarding misdeeds OF prl-
Yates their designations will be de-
manded and a new set of officers VIII
be installed, according to the dtctum
of the United States army officer at
the State University.
The ultimatum from Captain Nance
to this effect followed a sensational
scene on the university campus to-
day when the military officer caught
the cadets in StanleyS company hoot-
ing and bowling and otherwise dis
obeying military regulations while fol-
lowing out an order to march in dou-
ble-quick time. The company in ques-
tion is composed of sophomoreS. They
received the order from Captain Stan
ley, who is unpopular with many OF
them, and at once began fake charge
on a fake enemy's ramparts, accom-
panying the movement with cheers and
catcalls. The sophomores did not
know that Nance was in their imme-
diate vicinity. They were Mortified
when he appeared quickly and de-
manded the names of the men guilty
of the infraction of military discipline.
Non-commissioned officers of the
company were at once summoned and
required to give the names of offend
ing privates. With visions before
them of what happened to offenders
during the famous students riot on the
campus last term. when Nance's au-
thority was defied and wholesale pun
ishment followed, the non-commis-
stoned officers trembled. but traditional
"class loyalty" inspired them TO re-
fuse obedience to Captain Nance's COM
mand. They declined to give the
names of the offenders. They were
then informed of Captain Nance's pur-
pose to demand their designations II
they continued to refuse to obey.
There the conflict was allowed to rest.
Captain Nance, under somewhat sim
liar circumstances last term, soon after
his career as military instructor had
begun, did not treat with offending
students, but called President Wheel
er's attention to delinquencies and set
in motion the college machinery that
is intended to discipline refractory
university men.
1t is supposed that Captain Nance
will act in this instance as he did last
term and that the on-commissioned
officers will be called upon to surren-
der their commissions and then answer
for disobedience to their military in
structor's orders.