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The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1911-05-25
JEWELER & OPT1CIAN
HendersonviIIe. n. G.
FOB SALE.

~ N&ZH
station & Jones VS. Joe McCrary
station & Jones vs. Dave Walker
$18.O3
Rigby-Morrow Co. VS. VIM. Mintz
1904.
Rigby-Morrow Co, vs. E. w. Constant,
$4.08
Rigby-Morrow Co. VS. Martin Edwards,
Rigby-Morow Co. VS. ElVa Bane,
$3.50
Rigby-Morow Co. VS. Arthur Perry,
1925.
Rigby-Morrow Co. VS. Dave Dogan and
Virginia Dogan, 1881
See e. b. DRAKE
Secretary Retail Merchants Associa-
ton.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1911-05-25
Chairs

ire today unloading a solid car of famous High Paint chairs, all or
free hsHdene chnEy effect hand painting china naes egsrdles of purchase DUR undertake
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1911-06-01
An Interesting Letter on this Great
Subject
Subject

acquired complete ownership of this
continent to the lowest inch of stan
ding room at low tide. Then YOU
need not be surprised that if, in the
name of the sacred right of private
property they serve legal notice upon
you to move off the earth. Why not ?
The capitalist won't need you. they
don't need you now, other than to
make a profit out OF your labor.
Fifty years from now and sixty per
cent Of the wage-workers will be un-
necessary ito the capitalist class as
the result of the Introduction of i'm
proved machinery and the sub-di-
vision of industry, and what then:
Already the private ownership OF
these machines has filled modern
society with a chronic state of hydra
headed woe. 1t has filled our jails
with criminals: our poor houses with
paupers: our asylums with lunatics; /;
our high ways with ramps, our
churches with hypocrits, banking in
stitutions with shylocks: our law
courts with hirelings, and our Iegisla-
tive halls, national, state and muni-
cipal with thieves, grafters and po-
litical demagogues of every shade and
every demention. Now the Socialist
says that all these evils which today
bcset modern society can be traced di
rectly to private ownership of tho
Social Means of Production. Shake
sDere says: you take my house,
when you take the prop that doth
sustain my house, you take my life
when you take the means where by
live This is only another way of
stating absolute fact that, who
ever controls the .S-sans where by
you live, control your life. Now
there is just one very simple point
here the working class want to grasp
and it will be all off with the capital
list class and that is this, whoever
owns the means of life rules. If
Morgan owned all the sources of
wealth, he rules. If ten Morgans
rule. If one million men out of
ninety million owned all the sources
of wealth. they rule. and if the work
ing class as whole owned all the
machinery of production and the
source of wealth. then. they would
rule. And why not? The Morgan
Rockerfellow interests alone contro
over forty millions dollars worth ot
the nations wealth. What does Nor
gan or Rockerfellow do that We
should pay them millions of dollar:
| every year for their service while
! the millions of working-mcn anC
women who do all the work scarce
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1911-06-01
Jack London S
View of Soldiers

Young men: The lowest aim in
your life is to be soldier The good
soldier never tries to distinguish
right from wrong He never thinks;
never reasons; he only obeys II he
is ordered to fire on his fellow citi-
zens, on his friends, on his neighbors
on his relatives, he obeys without
hesitation. If he is ordered to fire
down crowded street when the poor
are clamorng for bread, he obeys. and
sees the gray hairs of age stained
with red and the life tide gushing
from the breasts of women. feeling
neither remorse nor sympathy If
he Is ordered off as one firing squad
to execute a hero or benefactor, he
fires without hesitation, though he
knows the bullet will pierce the mob
lest heart that ever beat in human
breast.
good soldier is blind, heart
less. soulless, murderous machine
He is not a man. He is not even a
brute. for brutes only kill in self de-
fcnsc. All that is human in him.
all that is divine in him, all that con-
stitutcs the man. has been sworn
away when he took the enlistment
roll. Hlis mind, his conscience; aye,
his very soul. are in the keeping of
his officer
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1911-06-01
{ BY ]. w. Brown. }


When We say that eXploitation of
private ownership of the machinery
OF production what do we mean.
In order to understand this uucs-
hend the difference between tools"
and machinery of production"
When man made hats by hand and
shoes by hand the tools he used were
his own. consequently, the hat or
the pair of shoes he made were his
also. Now there came a time when
both the hat maker and the shoe
maker went into the shop to work.
Yon Will please note here that the
shop" was not Il factory that there
was this difference between the shop
of The boss" and the ''one-horse-
shoe-shop'. that, the boss owned the
tools and the hat-maker and the
shoemaker went to work for wages,
and when the hat and shoes were
complete they belonged to the boss
As time went on these simple tools
were transformed into great ma
chimes driven by steam and electric
ity. and with this transformation the
tools passed entirely out of the
hands of the working class into the
control of the capitalist class. Now
pleas" note again that. when man
made hats by hand and shoes by
hand he consumed mats and he con-
sumcd shoes. but when the machine
became the mode of making hats and
shoes but consumed neither. Unlike
the working man, the machinery has
never acquired any bad habits. For
Instance. 1t has never learned to
chcw tobacco or smoker; it hase'nt
got to pay house rents. no butcher
bills. coal bills. or doctor bills: it
has no wife or children who get sick
and die and to bury them would
hav" to stop work. 1t simply works.
works. works and CRU mbles not. The
profits realized on this new mode
enable the owners Of these machines
to buy up practically all the natural
resources of wealth. They own all
the coal mines: all the oil wells: all
tn" ore deposits: all mineral de-
positS. all the grazing lands of the
great west-thcy stole it: all the
and the cannals: they contrOlc the
timber lanGs-thcy stole these too:
they control all the highways of
commerce. the railways. the ships
and the cannals: they control the
product of the farm because of the
TACT that they control the highways
Of commerce. and mark you. if this
thing is allowed to continue for even
ono more generation they will have
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1911-06-01
Some Pithy Ber-
garisms on City
of Washington

In no other city in the country
maybe in no other city in the world
is real estate speculation SO ram
pant as it is in Washington.
The form of government of the
District of Columbia is absolutely un-
American and undeinocratic
This grotcsuue circumstance (the
payment of half the expenses of Dis
trict government by the United
States). is at the foundation of all
the evils of the District government
Sooner or later the people of the
United States will wake up to the
fact that they are being buncoed out
of six or seven million dollars every
year.
All the other ills of the District
are more or less based upon graft
partnership with the United States
Government.
There are miles of streets and
sidewalks made for the benefit of
real eSttae speculators.
| believe the Government should
spend few million dollars every
year in erecting model dwellings for
its employees and for working peo-
pie.
IT is a notorious fact that in GER
tain sections of tho city the work
ing people are neglected. while the
northwest side. where the rich peo-
pie are living. has most of the i'm
provements
The Commissioners are clean and
honest men. but they are victims of
the system.
All the benefits of Government sup
port go to small crowd of real es-
tate dealers and land owners. while
the great masses have only so much
more to pay.
Except for few land owners and
shoGdy ariStOcratS nobody gets any
benefit out of it-tGovernment sup
port)
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1911-06-01
Socialist Ticket Gains 1000 Per Cent
Old Parties Both Fall OFF
cialist ballots next time.
Light, Vote

L1Snt vote.
Inc vote was very light in view of
the strenuous efforts made by tbe
Haskins machine to get it out. CITY
employees galore were working at the
polls IN his interest. some, it is re-
ported, even going so far as to in
dulse in slugging affrays. following
Haskins' example,
Haskins was elected between G
ana eight O'Clock II the evening. I'm
I'll that time but comparatively few
votes had been cast, and the machine
workers were glum. Finally late in
the afternoon, they decided that
special efforts must be made. and
they scurried far and near for fool
workers. They found enough men
with dinner buckets and run them in
and turned the tide.
Whlc the Socialists elected no can
dldatc, they are elated over the won
derful increase. this coming in spite
OF the fact that every daily paper
not only opposed them but villified
them and lied about them. Thursday
afternoons papers. the Telegraph
ana News. both had stories about the
socialists having fallen down. when
IN both instances the story was writ
ten before noon, when it could not
nave been told whether the Socialist
were Falling down or not.
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1911-06-01
Socialist Victory
In Reichstag

Berlin. May 20--The Alsace-Lor-
rains constitution bill has emerged
from the Reichstag committee more
democratic an instrument than it
was expected it would be. After
protracted negotiations between the
various parties of the government,
RelchSland gets three votes in the
federal council and at the elevnth
hour the government conceded to the
demand of the Socialists for a one
man. one vote principle instead of
the loaded plural voting system.
Another progressive amendment
refers to the freedom of religious be-
lief and freedom of language. Elec-
tions are to be held Sundays and sub
jcct to control of the imperial gov
crnment. French is to be taught in
schools and used in official docu-
ments in all districts where French
is spoken by a majority of the popu-
latiOn. -
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1911-06-01
THE VOTE By WARDS.

The working class in Wheeling is
awakening. Another step forward
was taken Thursday when in the city
election the Socialist candidate for
Board Of Control received 1857
votes, an increase of so per cent over
the city vote in the state election of
l,OOO per cent over the vote in the
l'ooO per cent over the vote / the
city election of two years ago. This
Is remarkable enough in itself, but
IL becomes the more remarkable
when it is realized that the Demo-
cratic vote fell off about so per cent
and the Republican vote about 25
per cent. The Socialist vote is now
Il per cent of the total vote of the
city. Three thousand voters stayed
away from the polls They were to
dlsSuSted to vote at all. These men,
the Socialists believe, will cast So
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1911-06-01

Fellow Workers:-I wish to talk
% Tou strait. | know it hurts to be
'Nl~ed and told of our faults. Man
HInd generally likes to be flattered.
or praised" and likes to be told
Oh now good he is and further he
uh'S 30 be told of his wisdom. his
energy and great capabilities, but 7
S0aI' no; tell you of your goodness.
'"Nr wisdom or Your energy. or
capabilities. On the contrary. [ will
.'H A"n of your meaness. your fool
.~"ooN-. your lack of energy and
'''>'Eht. and your paralyzed capa-
'I"N ~ the present time. We have
.N' "ianket injunction in the non
mon District of this state which
'.' N"rIhrod TO be perpetual. this in
.'h''i'u takes your entire liberty
rem YOU. this Injunction carrys with
''' guard system. the hireinG of
'"N"r'"n and Baldwin detectives.
"i mugs Men have been MUIR
.'lr several at Stamford City in
.,''''-h county. were murdered in
'". ana since that time. men have
'" murdered. beaten into uncon-
th0cs
N'" my fellow worker: who is to
.'"i" Tor this.-you are to blame.
'' f''' hrSt place the judge who is
III" Injunction usurped the pow
'r' ihat is neither here nor
''.. "ho of We have lifted up your
''- IN righteous indignation. and
7' WITH all the vim and viGor
.H.h Eonr power. against this in
ION. and brutal guard system ,
on" of you" Who of We ha Is
'T'' 10 the polls and voted against a
'"IilSh state of affairs? None
' IN" Socialist On the other
F'n have went to the polls and
.''5d Tor it TO continue, When you
.''@ fo' the republfc.a An an afffi Ard "deniocra-
Haf'les you are voting for the
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1911-06-01
An Open Letter From
Comrade J. w. Carroll

parties who are responsible for the
injunction. and guard system. and
it is to their financial welfare that
it continues. and it is perpetuated.
"only by your vote. is 1t not mean
in you, to vote for such a soul de-
stroying system. as the guard sys-
TEN? Is it not mean in you to vote
for continuation of the injunction?
When you should know it deprives
you of the liberty and pursuit of
happiness. The constitution of the
United States declares you are entit-
lie to? You say you don't know
what Socialism Is. so YOU don't in
tend to vote for something you don't
want. Do you want the Injunction
and guard system? Now I have told
you that you were mean in voting
for the injunction and guard sys-
tem Now you are not mean because
YOU wish to be mean: but because
you are ignorant. even if you are
ignorant of what Socialism is. you
surely have brains enough to call
mass meetings in every precinct of
the state and in each city. town.
village, and hamlet. of the state of
West Virginia protesting against the
perputual Injunction. and the damn
able guard system. signing pledge
never to vote for any one for an
officer of the State of West Virginia.
who belongs to the Republican or
the Democrat parties until the
guard system is wiped out. and the
blanket injunction Is withdrawn.
and the people are restored to their
original liberty. l am not asking
YOU to vote for Socialism. for if you
don't understand Socialism do not
vote for it. but if you do understand
Socialism you won't have to be told
to vote for it. for 1t Will force you
TO vote for it. AS soon as you un-
derstand it. But when you let Mr.
Capitalism know that you are, not
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1911-06-01
Union Labor Fighting
For Right and Justice

occupations lower in Los Angeles
than any other city Il the state.
workers found they could 70 no
farther west. neither could they re-
Cross the desert for the east Can
ltsIlsts naturally took full advantage
Oh TINS situation and bought their
iapor in the cheapest market. The
depths of depravity brought about
ny these conditions can find no pIaca
IN print. Virtue and honor have
Deen sacrificed by desperate work
ers. These conditions forced men to
organize to defend themselves and
hSht for better conditions in wages
sanitation and hours. At the pres
ent time 500 carpenters are on a
strike for 81 day for g hours work
lhat is the standard everywhere but.
IN Los Angeles and in North Caro-
INA carpenters received from $3.50
10 5000 per day. When the strike
was called a rev weeks ago nearly
as many non-union men came out as
union men and most of them have
Joined the union. Many contractors
nave yielded but builders who are
bers of the Master Builders AS
sociation have been forbidden tn ON
ter any compact with the men on
pain of $1,000 fine Labor has
fought its way out of the terrible
conditions that once existed here a
1e" years ago when skilled carpen-
ters We're working for S15O day
up to So day of nine hours: iron
workers. machinists % cents an
hour 10 hours labor. In June 1910
strike was declared in nearly every
one OF the metal trades in the city
structural iron workers walked out
IN DodE. About the same time sew
eral thousand Brewery workers
went on strike Within a few months
pofh the brewers ad the employers
OF the iron workers wanted to yield
put they We're prevented from doing
so by the Steel Trust which had taxi
en- hand in affairs and the AIor-
chants and Manufacturers Associa-
tion which is dominated by n. G..
Otis and his cohorts The strikers
We're winning tn cir point and an ap-
peal was made to the socalled Good
Government administration. A law
was passed making it a misdemean-
or to picket the vicinity of works
whore a strike was in progress So
sweeping and drastic was this law
that the Unions determined to try to
demonstrate its invalidity in court
But the upper courts are owned and
operated by the same power that the
lower courts are and the law stood
the test Over 400 strikers have
been arrested on the strength of the
law and bur five convictions have
come ont of the prosecution of the
men Seeing the futiIitv of the law
as it stood strong effort was made
to get through the recent legislature
a law making it possible for nine
jurors to convict in all cases excep-
tion where a death penalty could be
applied. But the Socialist Legisla-
tive Publicity Bureau at Sacramento
turned the spotlight on the atrocious
measure and it was killed.
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1911-06-01
The Oluners of the
Tools and Machinery

ly receive enough to keep body and
soul together. What does Morgan
know about mines, railways, factor
les or mills? Absolutely nothing
Who does know about them? Why
the working class themselves. If
Morgan can hire superintendents to
direct the manufacture and transpor-
tatlon of the products of labor as he
claims. for the benefit OF society.
why cannot society hire the super
lntendents and thus save to itself
the millions it is pllling up for the
Morgans. Why not? Now, | antisi-
pate your next question. You want
to know how society is going to get
possession of these material resour-
ces- Let me answer your question
by asking another one. How did
Morgan get possession of his person
al ten millions, to say nothing Of
the fifteen or twenty more that he
controls? He got them through
subsidys, through bounties and priv
iliges secured through legislative
enactment; through protective tariffs
debauchery and fraud yet, his every
act has been legaiizcd. How? BY
having laws passed that allowed him
to do just this very thing. Now the
only come through an organized po-
litical movement. When the working
class takes possession of the political
power OF the state they will then
make laws that will fully legaliZe
the socialization of industry. In
conclusion let me recommend that
you read and study the platform of
the Socialist party. If 1t convienceS
you that this is our only way out.
Then join the party and help along
the good cause. And don't fool your
self into the, belief that Socialism has
something to give away. You want
to go to the old parties for these
boquets. Socialism has nothing to
give. The question is how much are
Scu going to give to bring about So
cialism where every man will have a
right to work, and where every
worker will receive the realativc
value of his social product.
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1911-06-01
Victory No1u Near
Wheeling Workers

Then the Goo Coos held con-
ference and decided to arrest work.
ers on charge of conspiring to COM
NIT a crime pickettlug. The ghast-
~ JOKE Is that picketting Is not a
crime but misdemeanor. They
called 1t crime to try to commit a
nlsdemeanor and again made a
ridiculous proposition stick. Thirty
h'e striking iron workers were ar
rested on this outrageous charge and
the bail was placed at $500 despite
tne ract the maximum fine for pick
citing Is $50. The defense pointed
to the fact that this act would re-
SUIT In the men being punished be-
fore trial and conviction. The Judge
persisted and a number of the men
were held in jail. The jury in the
case disagreed after trial lasting
three weeks and the case will, in all
PROBABILITY be abondoned The
striking Brewers scored a clean vic
tory and all of them have been taken
back at the increased wage and re-
duced hours for which they struck.
All strike breakers were discharged.
Despite this fact there are about so
cases pending against individual
brewery workers charged with break
ing the anti-picketting law. The
brewery workers strike was a mag
innocent exhibition OF solidarity and
attendant success. The splendid sup
port rendered by unions all over +ha
country and the class conscious
spirit shown by the workers were
the things that went far to make n
success of the strike. There was
something heroic in the way the men
held out under the most adverse
circumstances. The struggle was
characteristic also as showing the
length to which the capitalist class
VIII go to secure its ends. The M.
&, NJ pledged itself to recoup the
brewers for the financial losses re-
sultant from the struggle. Thev
tried to starve the workers into line
but 1t wouldn't work. The week
when the Breweries were to yield
and grant the demands of the men
the explosion occurred in the Los
angeles Times. In desperation the
brewers held out thinking public
sentiment would swing in their di-
rections. Ten months experience
showed them their error and the
yielded much to the disgust of the
NJ. and NJ. and Los Angeles Times.
The plot of capitalism is to crush
organized labor in Los Angeles then
move onward to Portland where the
second battlewill be fought: winning
thero the triumphant march will be-
continued to San Francisco. TAX
ing advantage of the gas explosion
which destroyed the Times a great
conspiracy has been hatched bv
capitalism. Harry Orchard has been
found, the Haywood case paralelled
to the minutes details, even to the
lake confessions and identifcations
following the kidnapping. =
organized and unorganized labor
IN Los Angeles is Joining hands with
the Socialists in the political action
that started today by the nomiation
of full Socialist-Union Labor tick
ct Tor the Municipal election next
fall
The workers must win on the poll
tlcai held as we'll as on the indus
trlal held-that is the determination
and the battle cry is Los Angeles for
the workers.
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1911-06-01
tBy National Socialist Press


N''Seies' Sai. May Z2-Caii-
~, 80" - lie Slo'h center IN the
WI !" IooaS' Inc arrest OF the
"o->aln ara hrothers and the kidnap-
!"S Vi 'onn j. Mc-\amarara from
i'uia'ia polis Is tragic incident
.ha' SHOWS the direction and intens-
i'S ci the storm. The Mayor. Hay
"oou fetuoohe case is universally
.''e" aS d dlrect parallel and this
outrage mas dohe more to de-
'ciop Grass CONSCIOUSNESS among
tne workers or the state than all
the eHorts OF aSitators of the prev
'ouS necade. workers OF Califor-
MA leel that capitalistic tyranny
reached its zenith when it laid it's
oloodstalned nand on the secretary
OF the Structural 1ronworkers Union
and repeated the infamous crime
prepertatcd few years ago in Col
orado Labor here realizes that the
stealing OF this man by force and
fraud is a greater menace to it's lib
critics than any act ever before at
tempted. Clarence Darrow is ex-
pected to arrive in Los Angeles
WITHIN a few days. He will have
scarcely week to confer with Job
Hartman and the other attorneys
associated with him in the defense
before the men are forced to go be-
tore the court and plead on the nine
teen indictments for murder which
hang over them. The true condi-
ton Of things in Southern Califor-
MIA cannot be clearly understood un-
less one reviews the situation some
years back to find the cause prim-
airy in the action and see who is re-
sponsible for the warfare that exists
today. During the past decade
Southern California has developed
wonderfully and Los Angeles. its
metropolis. which embraces a pop
nlation greater than all the rest of