The Commonwealth. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1911-1914, 1912-10-04

walk They had been married but
short time, and the young wife had been
working with her husband in the laun-
dry, and that, together with the care of
the household, she said was too much
for her. Still the old party politicians
exclaim, socialism will destroy the
home.
The colored women of Decatur, ILL.,,
wives of union men, have organized an
independent women's union label league.
London, England-One hundred and
thirty boys employed in the Bank of
England printing department struck for
more pay. They created so much com
motion about the bank that the police
had to scatter them.
A general strike is tieing up all fac
tories and paper mills in Tolasa, Spain.
Paris.-Dr Wolf challenged NJ. Res
Classy, socialist, to a duel. Violating
the socialist creed, Resassy accepted. On
the field twenty-five socialists awaited
the combatants and chased them in OPP
posite directions. No duel.
A socialist paper has been established
in the Holy Land, to enlighten the po-
litical heather in that neck of the desert.
There are six socialists in the Turkish
parliament. In the United States we
have one.
Philadelphia socialists challenged
President Taft to debate with Eugene ".
Debs, socialist presidential candidate,
when the latter speaks in that city on
September rs in the new convention hall.
Thomas Brittwhisle, secretary of the
local socialist party, received the fol-
lowing telegram from Taft's executive
clerk, Rudolph Foster: president re-
grets that he cannot accept invitation
extended, as he is taking no active part
in the campaign. Rudolph Foster"
Eight thousand men employed at the
colleries of the Lehigh Coal and Navi-
CATION company are on strike to deter
mine whether the mines will be operated
as closed or open shops.
Over three thousand people were
turned away from the largest hall in
San Antonio, Texas, when Eugene ".
Debs, socialist candidate for president,
spoke there September 10, 1912.
A Chinese newspaper advocating So
cialism and industrial unionism has been
established in British Columbia.
Boy Scouts aided and urged on by
men and boys from the Young Mems
Christian association of Wichita, Kan,
egged socialist organizer speaking upon
the streets there recently. Again the
usefulness of these scab-herding institu-
lions to the capitalist class is proven.
The seventh annual convention of the
Industrial Workers of the World held at
Chicago last week resulted in the ANAL
gamation of the Brotherhood of Timber
Workers of the South, embracing about
10000 members, and the National Union
of Forest and Lumber Workers of the
Northwest, an organization of about TO-
900 members. Vincent st. John of Chi
cago was reelected national secretary.
Ten thousand piano makers of New
York are on strike asking for Is per
cent increase in wages.
In spite Of an unusually heavy rain
fall 1000 persons packed the convention
hall in Kansas City, Mo, to hear Eugene
V. Debs. When Debs appeared upon the
platform he was overwhelmed by an
ovation that lasted fifteen minutes.
The old party politicians of Bayou,
Cheat county, Arkansas, are seeing red
or feeling it. In the recent election for.
governor the vote in Bayou stood: Dem
ocrats 81, republicans 10, socialist 40.
While Oscar Strauss, the New York
millionaire was being nominated by ac-
clamation for governor of New York by
the bull moose party, the band played
Onward, Christian Soldiers" Strauss
is a Hebrew. But the word STRAUSS"
is the German name for ostrich, and an
ostrich, it is said, can swallow anything.
A straw vote taken among the EN-
|ployes Of the American Press associa
ton gave Debs 49, Roosevelt 10, Wilson
Is. Chafin 7 and the good-natured one
only 6.
Comrades Patronize the mer-
chants that natrOuiZe VOur Daper