The Commonwealth. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1911-1914, 1912-08-16
PLATFORM OF THE SOCIAL.
IST PARTY OF FERRY co.
WASHINGTON.


ional socialism rs expressed in national
and state platforms. and at this time
invites the careful consideration OF all
men and women of Ferry county, who
are possessed of the right to vote. We
urge you to read the following dccaro
tion then study your own interests
carefully. thcn act
General Principles.
In order Co exist human beings must
have food, clothing and shelter 10 oh.
tain food clothing and shelter il is neccs-
sary to have access to the natural re.
sources OF the earth and the means of
production and distribution.
Due to the modern development of
industry present day society has be
como divided into two classes, master
class few in numbers, which owns and
controls the natural resources of the
earth and the means of production and
distribution and a producing or work
ing class, comprising the majority Of
mankind, which creates all wealth by
its labor power.
The workers in order to live are com
PEELED TO sell their labor power to the
master class. BY bitter and ceaseless
struggle with the master the workers
receive barely sufficient to keep them
in working condition and enable them to
rear another generation to take their
places after they are worn out and use
less to the master class.
For the reason that the working class
receives but a small portion of the values
it creates it cannot buy back the com
modities it has produced. in conse-
quence of this a surplus of products ac-
cumulates which finally reaches a point
at which the master class stops industry
until this surplus has been absorbed
In the meantime the workers must
suffer want and deprivation until the
masters again find it profitable to start
industry.
! As the master class has the power
to stop industry and thereby deny the
workers an opportunity to live, the mas
ters hold the very destinies and lives
of the workers and the continual sup
planting of labor by machinery tends
steadily to make the condition of the
workers more distressing and intolera,-
! BILE.
Under the present system of class
ownership and control of the means of
life the workers must inevitably re-
main in helpless slavery to the master
class. 1t is plain that reform measures
are powerloss to deal with this problem
and that the only hope for the workers
it to do away with the present system
of conducting industry for the benefit
of the few at the expense of the many
and substitute a system which will be
conducted in the interests of all.
There can be no identity of interests
between the class which strives to buy
labor cheaply and the class which strives
to sell labor dearly. And as political
parties are merely the expressions of
material interests it follows that it is
impossible for any political party to
represent all of the people. We must
either have master class government in
the interest of the masters or working
government in the interest of the work
ers. The socialist party does not repre-
sent all of the people. 1t is partisan to
the working class because it is composed
of the working class. The socialist
party will remain partisan until the
working class gets in return for its
labor the full product of their labor
Its mission and object is to obtain pos
session of the natural resources of the
earth and the means of production and
distribution and administer the same in
the interests of all mankind. The So
called non bipartisan movement is utterly
wrong in principle, is intended to mis-
lead the workers, and can only result
disastrously to the people, since the
problems that torment them most can
not be solved apart from city, county,
state and national organizations work
ing our fighting to that end
Our Attitude Toward Organized Labor.
The socialist party recognizes the fact
that the organized wage worker and
farmer have done much to resist the en-
croachments of the capitalist class; that
they have done much to advance the
producing class, morally, mentally and
physically. Therefore the socialist party
consistently fosters and encourages these
organizations.
Our Candidates.
The socialist party of Ferry county
has chosen its candidates, because they
are producers who are conscious of the
interests of their class They will oppose
all other interests.
Platform.
Section 1. Self assessment in taxation
the state reseving the right to purchase
the assessed property at 10 per cent
above assessed valuation
See = Taxation ON land haI for