Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1906-10-04

to their creators and users; that
all production shall be for the di-
rect use of the producers; that the
making of goods for profit shall
come to an end that we shall all
be workers together; and that all
opportunities shall be open and
equal to all men.
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To the%nd that the workers may
seize every possible advantage that
may strengthen them to gain COM
pletc control OF the pc wers of gov
eminent, and thereby the sooner
establish the cooperative common
wealth, the Socialist Party pledges
itself to watch and work, in both
the economic and the political strug-
gle, for each successive immediate
interest of the working class; for
shortened days of labor and in
creascs of wages; for the insur-
ance of the workers against acct
dent, sickness and lack of employ
ment; for pensions for aged and
exhausted workers; for the public
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portation, communication and
exchange; for the graduated taxa
ton of incomes, inhcritances, fran
chises and land values, the pro-
cecds to be applied to the public
employment and. improvement of
the conditions of the workers; for
the complete education of children,
and their freedom from the work
shop; for the prevention of the
use, of the military against labor
in the settlement of strikes; for
the free administration of justice !;
for popular government, including
initiative, referendum, proportion
men and women, municipal home
rule, and the recall of officers by
their constituents; and for every
gain or advantage for the workers
that may be wrested from the
capitalist system, and that may re-
lieve the suffering and strengthen
the hands of labor. We lay upon
every man elected to any execu-
tive or legislative office the first
duty of striving to procure whatever
is for the workers most immedi-
ate interest, and for whatever will
lessen the economic and political
powers of the capitalist, and in
crease the like powers of the work
err.
But, in so doing, we are using
these remedial measures means to
the one great end of the co-opcrat-
i've commonwealth. Such measures
of relief as we may be able to force
from capitalism are but a prepara-
ton of the workers to seize the
whole powers of government, in
order that they may thereby lay
hold of the whole system of indus
try, land thus come into their right
flu inheritance.
To this end we pledge ourselves,
as the party of the working class,
to use all political power as fast as
it shall be entrusted to us by ou1
fellow workers, both for their inn
mediate interests and for their vi.
innate and complete emancipation
To this end we appeal to all ths
workers of America, and to all wht
will lend their lives to the service
OF the workers in their struggle t.
gain their own, and to all whS
will nobly and disinterestedly give
their days and energies unto the
workers. cause to cast in their 10
and faith with the socialist party
J Our appeal for the trust and suf
frages of our fellow-workers is a
once an appeal for their common
good and freedom, and for the free
; dom and poisoning of our common
humanity. In plcdging ourselves
and those we represent, to b,
faithful to the appeal which w,
; make, we believe that we are bu
preparing the soil of that economic
freedom from which will sprins
, the freedom. of the whole man.
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