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Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1910-09-29

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pay. He's after me, please help me
keep him off. need the money.
]. E. Walker
Barney Dof6ng OF Audubon twp.
was visiting in town last week for
a few days.
Nate Turner and wife visited his
brother at Atlantic last week and
attended the Fair.
Mrs. VIM. Doffing was reported
quite i'll the last of the week at her
home in this town.
Charley Newman and family and
Thaniel Bentons' were Fair visitors
in Atlantic last week.
John Kommes returned Tuesday
from his visit to Canada very much
pleased with the country.
George Fietzmeir was in town
o1seiooy doAsS RooAAy Vtph oh at
tack of rheumatism in his lower
limbs.
VIM. Benton of the Guthrie line
purchased a brand new Buick auto
last week after trading off his first
purchase.
Newell Jobes visited from Wed
nesday until Saturday of last week
out in Guthrie County with his sis
ter, Mre. Guies.
Miss Anna Madsen of Greeley was
in town Saturday doing her chop
ping. She teaches in aamlin town
ship district No.7.
Mr.. Nelson, the new hardware
and furniture proprietor in the
Walker store, is receiving goods
now having made up his mind to
remain here.
Under the new management at
the Feed store and Coal sheds o.
car Fowler who has been in charge
for Mr.. Jensen for sometime, retires
from the Business as salesman.
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1910-08-25
THE PRESENT SYSTEM
MEANS STAGNANCY
Capitaistc Reign of Trusts and Monopolies Destroy
Progress and Makes Social Outcasts and Wage
Slaves of the Toiling Masses.

and rivuIets and united them into one
stream that emptied itself into the
great STAGNANT reservoir of their own
personal monopoly
1t is monopoly that is stagnant, and
whenever the world has come to stage
where u few have monopolized things
essential to life, the socialists of the
past have been destroyed. The reservoirs
of wealth have been filled to Overlooking
while the people starved.
a lamp surcharged with oil will not
burn, and the socialists of the past, like
the lamp, have persisted for want of
proper distribution.
Our present panic and industrial
criscs-periods of stagnancy-will end
only when things readjust themselves
and the people begin again to get sus-
tcnancc.
Today the reservoirs are full, and the
people who have flooded the reservoirs
are not allowed to produce any more
until in some manner the reservoirs
are emptied.
This is capitalism-and stagnancy.
How different the Socialist idea! The
Socialist has no intention of drying up
the little rivulets and of ending them
in the reservoir of monopoly. He in
tends to retain and preserve the millions
of little brooks and strcamlets which re-
fresh the earth, but he wants them
all to have a destiny, great, common
destiny, cooperative in its purpose, uni
fed in it's aim.
Nature does not have dams or reser-
voirs. He's a circle of usefulness. Bill
lions of little springs and brooks empty
themselves into the larger streams and
these into the great. onrushing rivers
AS they move their way to achieve
their destiny they water and refresh the
earth. AND EVERY DROP THAT
COMES FROM THEM is TAKEN UP
and SENT BACK TO THEM to feed and
replenish them so that they may start
their creative and productive work again
This is precisely the end and aim OF
Socialism. 1t is as if the earth drank
of the cooperative labors of all the
millions of individual streamlcts only
for the purpose of rendering back to
every unit the full product of its labor
Robert Hunter.
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1910-08-25
Railway Telegraphers
Have Won Five Points

Washington, D. c., Aug. 3D. The
Order of Railway Telegraphers on the
Southern Railway, win these five points,
according to the final award of the ar,
bitration board just filed in the Supreme
Court of the District of Columbia.
Increase in wages amounting to per
cent.
Fifteen-day vacation each year with pay
for employees in service over two
years.
working day 10 hours where two
telcgraphers are employed.
A working day of hours where three
or more telegraphers are employed.
On Sundays and legal holidays tele
when practical"
Only one objection to the award is
being expressed by the operators and
that is in relation to the failure to recop
nlze station agents as photographers" who
are hereby not entitled to be heard ir
disputed questions with the company.
! The life of the average station agent
is round of mixed duties that lays him
practically open to imposition byt he com
pany and that the commission failed to
give him the benefit of any relief in the
award is pointed out by railroad men as
a certain source of future strife =
Since last March the Order of Railway
| Telegraphers has demanded of the South
ern Railway an increase of rs per cent ir
wages. Facing strike the compan,
finally agreed to arbitration, naming ]. S
3. thompson as their representative or
board of three commissioners John I
Drrmody being chosen by the telegraph
ers and w. R. Vance appearing for the
Interstate Commerce Commission.
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1910-08-25
OUR NEW WEAPON.

Comrades, the Socialist Party of West
Virginia has entered upon a new era.
Our armory is supplied with a new
weapon. The day so earnestly lonped
for has arrived. We have press of
our own. Ours is campaign of edu-
cation, and this campaign is best fought
with written word. With a press, the
working class is no longer voiceless.
The people of this State shall hear our
appeal to their common sense. We
shall carry the gospel of economic liberty
into the homes of the fleeced and
buldgeoned workers of the Little Noun
tain State. With this weapon we shall
Pillory the capitalist grafters and publish
their helnouS crimes against the wronped
and outraged toilers. When through
criminal. carelessness and wolfish greed
they blow our comrades into fragments
blood-stained hands, Our fight in this
State is for political supremacy We
propose to capture the powers of govern
ment, and to use those powers in. the
interest of the working class. We know
that we shall win. Not this year, nor
next year, but in the near future. No
one can tell what moment we NAV be
swept into control. But this is certain,
the patience of the people is almost ex-
hausted. We are tired of the tragedy of
seeing the capitalist masters ride rough
shod over the bodies of the workers who
support them in purpled ease Don't
forget our press. comrades. The COM
rades who are back of the papers are
making heroic effort. 1 pray that
every comrade will do his full duty in
upholding their hands. We would be
recreant to our duty and false to the
greatest cause for which humanity ever
battled if we failed to help and cheer on
the boys who are on the firing line of
social revolution. Comrades, 1 can't be-
ieve that you will fail to do your duty.
Yours for the revolution,
HAROLD w. HOUSTON
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1910-08-25
Illinois Miners.
Continued from page ~

(Contlnued from page 1.
against sustaining the chair. Though
clearly beaten the Lewis adherents call
ed for roll of the house. The roll call
consumed all afternoon, but did not ma
terially affect the results, the final vote
standing 1,2O1 to 927.
The overruling of the chair took the
fight out of the Lewis faction. There
was much fillbustering during the pro-
longed night session, but the "insurgent"
program was put through with but one
modification.
The original substitute contained a
clause requiring the international exec
utive board to levy such assessment as
might be needed to finance existing
strikes-a requirement clearly designed
to put the administration in a hole if, as
was expected, the assessment should not
be paid. Several attempts to have the
convention vote a specific assessment
were defeated by hugh majorities.
An amendment levying 81 per week on
working members was offered by Dis
trict President Howatt of Kansas, and
being seconded by Walker, was carried.
The bitterest pill for Lewis is that
clause in the substitute which directs
the withdrawal of the international or
ganizers. The organizers are appointed
by the president and have always been
used as personal agents in election cam
paigns. The purpose of the resolutions
referred to is, of course, to deprive
Lewis of his machine in the coming cleo
ton. Then with the district officers
| I, eL,o IL
beaten.
Following is summary of the conven-
tons work:
Length. of session, ten days.
Delegates, 1,147.
Cost, approximately, 100000
Action, Upheld Walker, turned down
Lewis, endorsed all strikes, and levied
assessment to support same.
The predictions that the convention
would restore harmony were not verified
President Lewis and his enemies are
now farther apart than ever.
Illinois men say the conventions ac-
ton will greatly aid them by convincing
the operators that they have nothing to
hope for from the international organi.
cation.
Both factions have already made their
states for the approaching election. The
anti-Lewis men have picked John P.
White, district president of Iowa and
former international vice-president, for
president; Vice-President Hayes of Illinois
to succeed himself, and William Green of
Ohio to be secretary-treasurer. Lewis
Supporters are willing to re-nominate
Hayes, though bitter personal enemy
of Lewis. in order to conciliate Hayes.
They will support E. S. McColloch of
Michigan, for secretary.treasurer
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1910-08-25

hangs of the voters The members of
the party must finance the campaign by
voluntary contribution and for that pur-
pose have had cards printed that I will
send any local or comrade on request
The organization is very important
factor in our political life and would adj
wise that every Comrade make it point
to attend his local meetings regularly.
l will further request that the local
secretaries report promptly the last week
in each month to the Secretary Treasurer
of the County Committee, COS Virginia
street, Charleston, w. Va.
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1910-08-25

We frequently hear it said that So
cialism will destroy all progress and
end society in stagnant pool.
OF course, the critics of Socialism
who makes such prophecies know moth
ing whatever about it. They say such
things TO brighten people, just as some
persons brighten children by telling
them of hobgoblins and witches which
never existed and never will exist.
Socialism, to one who knows So
cialism, has no intention of taking the
great stream of life and directing it
into a vast, stagnant pool That would
be the end of the human order, while
Socialism is the beginning of a human
order.
For centuries upon centuries we have
fought each other tooth and nail. AS
nomads, savages, cannibals and bar
barians, we often depended for existence
upon the destruction of our fellow hu-
man beings. We had to live, and to live
we fought and destroyed each other.
We sometimes look back at those old
days with horror. And yet are we very
far from this old slavery?
Do we not today fight and destroy
each other? Is not the merchant proud
when he bankrupts and sends to ruin his
fellow merchant Is not that capitalist
greatest who is most successful in bank
rupting and destroying his fellow
capitalist? Is not that magnate greatest
who adds field to field, house to house,
factory to factory, leaving multitudes
landIess, unemployed and starving?
Is not the workman today pitted
against the capitalist and the capital
list against the workman. And do we
not approve and adopt for our own
use that organization which most sue,
ccssfuy ovcrpowcrs and destroys other
organizations?
Are not those whom we emulate the
most successful in impovcrishing other
men?
And what does all this competitive
and combative effort mean? Are We
not all of us fighting with might and
main to reach a position in which we
shall be independent and free, in which
we shall have guaranteed to us and tc
our children the ncccssarics of life, and
in which we shall dominate the lives OF
other men instead of having them dom
mate our life?
And have You not observed that this
competitive struggle has always ended
in monopoly? In the civilizations of the
past the victors in this struggle have
invariably gotten into their own hands
the land, the wealth and the govern.
ment. Have they not taken the brooks
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1910-08-25

by the solidarity of organized labor and
the Socialist movement, revealed the cx
1stence of far-reaching and un
scrupulous conspiracy by the ruling class
against the organizations of labor.
In their efforts to take the lives of
the leaders of the miners the con.
spirators violated the state laws and the
federal constitution in manner seldom
equaled even in country SO completely
dominated by the profit-seeking class ms
is the United States.
The congress of the United States has
shown its contempt for the interests of
labor as plainly and Enthusiastically ms
have the other branches of government.
The laws for which the labor ORGANIZE.
lions have continually petitioned have
failed to pass. Laws ostensibly enacted
for the benefit of labor have been dis
torted against labor.
The working class of the United States
cannot expect any remedy for its
wrongs from the dominant parties. So
long as small number of individuals
are permitted to control the sources of
the nations wealth for their private
profit in competition with each other
and for the exploration of their fellow.
men, industrial depressions are bound to
occur at certain intervals No currency
reforms or other legislative measure pro-
posed by capitalist reformers can avail
against these fatal results of utter
anarchy in production.
Individual competition leads inevi-
tably to combinations and trusts. No
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1910-08-25

amounts of government regulation, or of
publicity, or of restrictive legislation,
will arrest the natural course of modern
industrial development.
While our courts, legislatures and cx-
ccutive offices remain in the hands of
the ruling classes and their agents, the
government will be used in the interests
of these classes as against the toilers.
Political parties are but the express
sion of economic class interests. The
Republican and Democratic and the So
called Independence" parties, and all
parties other than the Socialist party,
are financed, directed and controlled by
the representatives of different groups
of the ruling class.
In the maintenance of class govern
mcnt both the Democratic and Repub-
lican parties have been equally guilty.
The Republican party has had control
of the national government and has been
directly and actively responsible for these
wrongs. The Democratic party while
saved from direct responsibility by its
political impotence, has shown itself
equally subservicnt to the aims of the
capitalist class whenever and wherever
it has been in power. The old chattel
slave owning aristrocracy of the South,
which was the backbone of the Demo-
cratic party, has been supplanted by a
child slave plutocracy. In the great
cities or our country the Democratic
party is allied with the criminal elc-
ment of the siums, as the Republican
party is allied with the predatory
criminals of the palace, in maintaining
the interest of the possessing class
The various "rcform" movements and
parties which have sprung up within
recent years are but the clumsy express
sion of widespread popular discomfort.
a 70 NO has s,,{ nIl.
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1910-08-25
GENERAL DEMANDS.

l. The immediate government relief for
the unemployed workers by building
schools. by reforesting of cut-ovcr and
waste lands. by reclamation of arid tracts
and the building of canals, and by ex-
tending all other useful. public works.
All persons employed on such works
shall be employed directly by the gov
ernment under an eight-hour work day
and Mt the prevailing union wages. The
government shall also loan money to
states and municipalities without in
tercst for the purpose of carving on
public works. 1t shall contribute to
the funds of labor organization for the
purpose of assisting their unemployed
members, and shall take such other
measures within it's power as will lessen
the widespread misery of the workers
caused by the misrule of the capitalist
class.
2. The collective ownership of rail
roads, telegraphs, telephones. steamship
lines and all other means of social trans.
portation and communication of all land
There can be no absolute title to land
All private titles, whether called fee
simple or otherwise, are ana must he
subordinate to the public title. The so-
clallst party strives to prevent land from
being used for the purpose OF exploita-
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1910-08-25
THE WORKING PROGRAM
Of the National Party Adopted i'm
Nineteen Hundred and Eight.

The socialist party, in national conven-
ton assembled, again declares itself as
the party of the working class, and APP
peals for the support of all workers
of the United States and of all citizens
who sympathize with the great and just
cause of labor.
We are at this moment in the midst of
one of those industrial breakdowns that
periodically paralyze the life of the
nation. The much-boastcd era of our
national prosperity has been followed by
one of general misery. Factories, mills
and mines are closed. Millions of men,
ready, willing and able to provide the
nation with all the necessaries and COM
forts of life, are forced into idleness and
starvation. Within recent times the
enormous and menacing development
They have acquired the power to dictate
the terms upon which we shall be al
lowed to live. The trusts fix the price
OF our bread, meat and sugar, of our
coal, oil and clothing, of our raw
material and machinery, of all the
necessities of life.
The present desperate condition of the
workers has been made the opportunity
for a renewed onslaught on organized
labor The highest courts of the country
have within the last year rendered de-
elslon after decision depriving the work
ers of rights which they had won by>
generations of struggle
The attempt to destroy the Western.
Federation of Miners, although defeated
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1910-08-25
NOTICE OF TRUSTEES SALE.

deed OF trust bearing date on theT2Ist day of
september. 1908. executed by b. X. Brotherton, to
secure to GeorEe Fisher and A. truth, doing bust,
certain eEotiablc promissory notes therein de.
SScr6ed and recorded in the clerks office of the
trust Deed Book No. 80. at page 472. the under
signed VIII offer for sale at public auction to the
nlHheSt bidder at the east front door of Court
House OF kanawha County, West Virginia. on the
Isl DAY OF September. 1910. at II O'Clock. a. M.
the following described personal property:
Al the PeTsonal property contained in a certain
STORE az 5os Court street in the City of Cha on
snop. machinery. etc. and wagon. together with
therein. 10000 ~' >o'''i'iieo
Said sale will be made upon the follow in g terms
lash IN hand on the day of the sale. provided
EfiE.! ROBERTSON
Trustee.
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1910-08-25
THE MASSES IN SUBSECTION.

In proportion the number of such
machine owners compare to all other
classes decreases, their power in the ma
ton and in the world increases. They
bring ever larger masses of working PEG
pie under their control, reducing them to
the point where muscle and brain are
their only productive property. Millions
of formerly seif-cmploying workers thus
become the helpless wage slaves of the
Industrial masters.
The more the economic power of the
ruling class grows, the less useful does
it become in the life of the nation. The
overwhelming bulk of the useful work
OF the nation falls upon the shoulders
of the classes that either have no other
productive property but their manual
and mental labor power the wage work
crs-or that have but little land and
little machinery outside of their labor
power-thc small traders and small
farmers. The ruling minority is steadily
becoming useless and parasitic.
A bitter struggle over the division of
the products of labor is waged between
the exploiting propertied class on the
one hand and the exploited, propertyless
class on the other. In this struggle the
wage working class cannot expect
adequate relief from any reform of the
present order from the dominant class
of society.
| The wage workers are therefore
the most determined and irreconcilable
antagonists of the ruling class. They
are also the class which suffers most
from the curse of class rule. The fact
that Il small number of capitalists is
permitted to use all the country's re-
sources and social tools for their in
dividual profit, and to make the produc-
ton of the necessaries of our lives the
object of their competitive private en-
terprise and speculatlons, is at the bot
tom of all the social evils of our time.
MODERN INDUSTRY PAINLESS.
Tn spite of the organization of trusts,
pools and combinations, the capitalists
are powerlcss to regulate production for
social ends. Industries are largely con-
Quoted in n painless manner. Through
periods of feverish activity the strength
and health of the workers are merci-
lessly undermined, and during periods
of enforced idleness the workers are fire..
qucntly reduced to starvation.
The climax of this chaotic system of
production are the regularly recurring
| industrial deprcssions and crises which
para1yze the nation every fifteen or
twenty years.
In its mad and reckless race for profits
the capitalist class is bound to exploit
the workers to the very limit of their
endurance and to sacrifice their physical,
moral and mental welfare to its own in
satlable greed. Capitalism keeps the
masses of workingmcn in poverty,
destitution, physical exhaustion and
ignorance. 1t drags their wives from
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1910-08-25
Appeal Danbury Hat Case

A transcript of the famous suit known
as that of D. F. Loewe & Co., of Dan
bury, against Martain Lawler and others
IN which the plaintiffs alleged that two
hundred members of the Hatters Union
consplred to injuse their trade under the
Sherman antitrust law, on appeal to the
supreme Court has been made. 1t makes
five volumes of 2,76O pages.