The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1910-08-18
The Socialist Advance.

The Socialist Advance.
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( general and oTgani7edi labor IN particular: H.AS
mate I 5n S 81 s1eai Iasnl is i beginning ginning n n tn in BE- eG }eoEed Upon The less gs as
e a5e ~ide OF e shs }ssi It i i5 eo mGFs a ao be q T RsastIaz{ n t6st fhy only ~
Of systenatized cooperative production for the present Of
chaotic aad fG n1f ea'y IS 3 9Rs s tfszt5fsd deal %aPfe gaining in popularity,
; Retio a5s fb 55s 2it fhe S Soeiia1ist P psrty: the idea Of political
We, II pf RS; idea eas of working il gs elf bss5 Pq }Iid as ss5ie end is ,a aothi NJ no no
after city and in state after state. Whenever the incessant
ST e5ri ihfs 1siTse and d1 @Ren aaa c Eabor 7 fouad !ts sa unusual IN an d essep:
5 f msans Of d pre5sure faiE Redii df fhei so e dbat tf the ue oqsan Geeao and
3 HnGTganizsd w vsHTks5SS s Of this country instinctivel55 resorted to
cry { &9Sh { TsS s the e indl ia tsf a !afsE s% s y ties s e4ssn; the 6 5se ~
@ gFeaa f Hehfy cs saes' b agaje; T tbs the bes fss Of in I the later ig t Gigh tics
; R R5s5d }S5 Gd aow 4 "a 5a SasSI IS I RsinE %ads oveT sga5P On he (
Every one of the earlier attempts ultimately ended in de
i n sa' ce aasanse and a%eRRff51 tRes s1 ioesi poit HeTe oTgan nR!saasa;
Of the workers, but on the contrary fastened their dissolu-
nine The Ej iegl OF fSsss end s3t was ins s{ ;ndsn from the mo xsEy begin s}g5zs
: P1 sef Of e sefIon T hbmed the at ele zsnasfy of pe S9me Pe5tie Waa le eyl
s fo5is, msds w eaSc t55z5tso sSa the tSu5 !at ds5ri tssGu the t moTe RSz55{c al
it's tbu reason aSfor fe5 b exi fasT were And nnsni ayen when ;hedet the concessions 4Pzs ions
introduced into the movement an element of doubt and un:
i6Ss, noSsn a Gf fal : { to I o attfscf iafae n ana e11f frofn the A sfsr t.
So,Cnal n CAPITALISTS could ignore 1T With contempt, there re-
suited a general discouragement and apathy and a more or
8 less protracted process of dissolution.
The corrupting and corroding force of capitalistic bi-
de grace.
The present experiments in independent working class
lar end. Particularly in San Francisco, where a so-called la
Dor administration is in power, the end is bound to be even
5 m ndnoin dffeH6agi fbst than baad H!5T II sebm; The d;f first S9G al E 1 s5s
of corruption that undoubtedly would have been the end of
the movement but for the fact that one of the two capitalist
5 Of the labor Element en- 'i'e thus t y m nv e ams was Was re rev GTe n and
it trumphed a SECOND time. But this triumph of a capitalist
labor coalition will of necessity be short lived. The day on
come to terms will be last day of the socaued independent
labor administration in San Francisco.
The readiness Of the independent labor party in Arizona
workers are no longer to be frightened away by the Socialist
bugaboo. Even where they are not yet socialists, the work
friends and allies. And the recent action of our national ex-
ecut1ve committee, prohibiting the cooperation of the Arizo-
ma Socialists with this newly formed labor party, will not, we
contrary, in view of the fact that the Socialist campaign in
the territory, soon to be transformed into a state, will have
behind it the experience and the resources of the national
elements OF the local labor party will be drawn into the So
ciallst movement.
But a much more pronounced expression of the growing
confidence of the workers in the Socialist party is found in
the referendum proposed by the Chicago Federation of Labor
the central organization of the trade unions, to it's constituent
organizations. The referendum is to decide on the momen-
tous question whether the organized workers of Chicago shall
form an independent labor party or endorse and co-orerate"
with the SOCIALIST party. len year ago no such alternative
proposal could have been put forward by any central labor
body in any. considerable city of this country before its con
strikes lost, of the conternptuous ignoring of the most press
ing demands of labor by every legislative body, the successive
eInGroac g n Of tinz courts s. upon the most fundamental
trusts, the never-ceaSlng Socialist agitation and the creation