Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1911-08-10
entire Socialist Press.
A Course Of Socialist lectures.

S4ttlS O0Etd4ket g TESS.
A Course OF Socialist lectures,
a course of i've Socialist lectures
is planned. These will not be mere
agitation talks, but carefully prepared
addresses. Each one will follow out
of the other, so that together they will
give q logical presentation of the. So
cialist position. They will lead the
audience step by step through an un-
derstanding of our philosophy to the
Inevitable Notwithstanding in
the Socialist Party. These lectures
will be delivered by the most impress
siVe lecturers that the Socialist move
ment can produce.
Free to Locals.
This lecture course costs you no
money, nothing but some work.
Merely sell $4,000 worth of subscrip-
tions to Socialist papers and books.
We pay the lecturers and their ex-
penses, furnish all the necessary ad-
yertising, and a special organizer to
explain the details of the plan. The
Local only pays the hall rent. The
Local gets all collections and profits
from the book sales at the meetings,
and commission of forty per cent on
all subscriptions sold above the $500
requirement. Any live Local in a
town of five thousand or more can
make good with this undertaking and
realize a good profit for its treasury.
Subscription cards will be issued
by the National Office, good for ANY
Socialist paper OR BOOK. Every
worker can hustle for the paper that
he likes best and every subscriber can
take the paper or book of his choice
and receive a lecture ticket free with
it. A ticket to one lecture will be
given with each rs cent subscription,
and with a dollar subscription comes a
ticket to all the lectures.
Why You Should Take It.
I. OF course this will mean work for
your organization. That is the pur-
pose of the whole project. No organi-
cation can build itself up except
through active systematic work.
Through the very doing of this work
you will develop the power to do more
you will build the EFFICIENT or
ganization, the TRAINED Fighting
Machine, that you MUST have before
you can capture your community.
This is worth while, Comrades. I'm
der our plan you can do more toward
this end than through years of ordin-
airy propaganda effort. 1t is labor
saving device. In it we have many
different factors working together
without waste of energy, toward the
common goal.
The printed page and the spoken
work REINFORCE each other and to-
gether make the most effectiv pro-
paganda.
The plan brings back into the har-
ness every old war horse of your To-
cal. 1t puts to use all the enthusiastic
energy Of every new convert.
Through it, Comrades learn to do
their work not as mere individuals,
but as an organization. ~
This plan furnishes the Local a list
of nearly all the Socialists in the
community, and the names and ad-
dresses of ALL those that are workers
for the Cause.
It makes use of all the Socialist
publications to directly build up the
party organization. On the other
hand 1t uses the full power Of the
whole Party Machinery, from the Ma
tional Office down through the State
and Local organizations, to build an
even larger circulation for our Social
ist Press. This in turn win give our
whole Movement added strength and
power. t.ss,
Thus every factor helps the other.
In this plan all Cthe different elements
are moulded together with one Mighty
Engine to FIT THE WORKING
CLASS FOR VICTORY.
This is what you are organized to-
do. It is THE purpose of your exist
ence as Local.
Fill in the application card which is
enclosed and full particulars will be
supplied. W.
Fraternally yours,
Hs ]. MAHLON BARNES,
.. National Secretary.