Montana news. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1904-191?, 1906-09-13
ShOShOne
County Ticket
Idaho Convention Records Its Belief
That Meyer, Haywood and Petit.
bone Are Innocent

may have no only their masters com.
mand. The Socialist party now calls
upon the workers to demand the in.
dustrial freedom of setting their own
hours Of labor instead of being die
tated TO by few industrial lords.
As the wage-workers in the mines
of this county are compelled to join
tho accident and life insurance asso.
Citations owned and controlled by the
mine owners so that there may be no
employers liability laws, we call upon
the working class TO condemn this in
suit to injury by electing members Of
their own class as lawmakers.
Assessing Mines.
When assessing the mines OF any
privately owned industry for the pur-
pose of taxation, the Socialists stand
pledged TO base sucn assessment upon
the actual selling value Of the indus
tries in the open market.
The Socialists stand pledged TO de-
stroy the contract system on all public
works to the end that labor may be
employed direct, and at the highest
wages and shortest hours possible.
We demand that the system of
teaching in our public schools, where
it only serves for capitalistic training
as in class history, in the military
despotism of the master class, and in
political economy, be changed so as to
teach the true economical source with
the industrial development and the So
cial struggles of the human race to the
brotherhood of man,
The republican party with its deter
mination to down all efforts of organ
lied labor. and the democratic party
with it's fake war cry of "Damn the
Mormons," are both appealing to tn
workers to vote themselves again int
legislation without representation, but
as "taxation without representation
was the revolutionary cry of our for
fathers, so the socialist party calls
upon the working class, the producers
of all taxation, to vote for its own rep
resentation and through the initiative
and referendum and imperative man
date, make our public officials our pub
lie servants.
Believe Them Innocent.
Whereas, The illegal arresting, kid
naping and incarcerating of our com
rades, Charles Meyer, William ID. Hay
wood and George A. Pettibone, without
bail or trial as prescribed by law, is
one Of the most fragrant violations of
the letter and spirit of law of even
this alphabetically ruled government
yet perpetrated upon the working class,
for the purpose of disrupting an or
ganization which stands at all times
for the uplifting Of the working 81
and
Whereas, We believe these men to
be absolutely innocent of any such
heinous crime as that charged. Know.
ing that the principles for which they
stand are diametrically opposed to any
such methods; therefore, be IL
Resolved, BY the Socialists Of Sho.
shone county, in county convention as.
sembled, that we pledge ourselves Ia
do everything in our power TO over.
throw a government which demands
the liberty and lives Of men who arc
true TO the interests Of the wealth pro.
ducers of the world, and establish a
government Of equai opportunities to
all in its stead And be IL further
Resolved, That we demand an i'm.
mediate and impartial trial, or that
they be allowed their liberty on bail
until time set for trial.
Signed by committee on platform.
Pete johnson, Burke.
J. w. Glass, Government Gulch.
George M, Turner, Wallace.
Wallace, Idaho, Sept. 9, 1906.