United labor bulletin., 1911-10-12
Socialist Party Department.

meetings every Sunday at 2:3O p. m. and
have lecture at 8. Last Sunday your
assistant editor had the pleasure of be.
ing the speaker. They are taking in new
members at every meeting, and the town
itself is beginning to sit up and take
notice. Last Sunday Mrs. w. p Collins
announced the organization of woman's
committee and asked for recognition as
part of the local work, which recogni-
ton was freely granted. When the
women come to the front there is al
ways something doing.
Comrades of the various ward branches,
haven't you forgotten something? Haven't
you forgotten to send us postal card
telling what you are doing? Our col
umn is not as newsy in local way as it
might have been ii you had not for
gotten. There are plenty of things do
ing, and if you will just send in the
items, even postal card length, we will
have good newsy column every week
Comrade Brunson, our weather fore
caster makes the following cheerful
prediction for the coming winter:
THE winter will be very long, even
and severe; there will be considerable
wind and lots of snow. l warn all peo
pie, especially coal men, to lay in
good supply of coal"
This is a timely warning and good
advice, and yet, in spite of it, there is
no doubt but many a working mans
family will suffer from cold this win
ter. Why? Because working men and
women are too shiftless to look ahead
and lay in supply of coal? Because
thtey spend their abundant earnings in
they spend their abundant earnings in
do not care whether or not their families
are provided for? These are the an
swers the well-fed have been giving us
all along the years of our past suffering,
but, like the pups that are ten days
old, we now have our eyes open and are
able to see the colossal falsehoods that
have been doped out to us during the
days of our blindness. Now we see that
while our incomes are not even sufficient
to cover the actual living expenses of
today it is absolutely impossible for us
to lay in coal for the winter. And we
also see now that the trouble is not
with us at all, but WHOLLY with the
system that makes our incomes too small
and too uncertain to provide for the
necessities of either today or tomorrow.
And now as we look pack don't 1t look
like we had been cold enough to be
ready for chance? There is only one
place to say so effectively and that is
at the polls next election day; SO, what
shall we do? speak up, or continue to
shiver?
Mr. Taft breathes easier now. He
says that the supreme court decisions
in the Standard Oil and Tobacco cases
have saved the day and that state
socialism has been arerted. He does
not state just what he means by state
socialism," or socialism of any kind; but
anyhow he gives us to understand that
it was awful and that it has been averted
by that shrewd stroke of the supreme
court. Well, maybe the trusts are now
curbed; maybe they will
never smile again; but-not many years
ago the Standard had little flne of
100000 to pay when 1t was caught
poisoning the glucose that went into the
candy that was fed to the children of
the nation, and some folks thought that
would be jolt, but pshaw, 1t never
touched them; they just put up the
price of oil about a quarter of cent a
gallon and we all payed it without a
murmur and tthe Standard soon retrieved
its fallen fortunes and went right along
at the old stand and-bui up a bigger
fortune than ever. Yes. perhaps, Mr..
Taft has reason to rejoice and be exceed
ingly glad that Socialism has been
avertpd