The Commonwealth. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1911-1914, 1912-11-15
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(By a Class Conscious Wage-Slave1
Let ms quit our scnhbIug! Especial
~ the forms of scabhiug that hurt
most The capitalist press is used by
the master class for the purpose OF
keeping the toilcrs i'm Ignorance, and
also to mould pblic opinion against the
political aud industrial movements of
the working class For instance, LET
MS not forget the nationwide efforts
OF the capitalist press to influence
public opinion against unionism in
connection with the Mcnamara case,
that great "dynamting' case. Every
body heard or read of it in the CAPT
talist newspapers.
Yo have got that, haven't yo?
Well, now, why don't the same CAPT.
talist papers make as big a sensation
out of the "Dynamiting Conspiracy
of Lawrence, Massachusetts? Why
are these papers as silent as they can
conveniently be, concerning the latter
conspiracy and so noisy about the for
mer? Simply because the men impli-
Gated in the former case belong to the
working class and those connected
with the latter are capitalists.
You notice that the capitalist papers
as a rule did not give the whole truth
about the outrages at San Diego, Cali.
fornia, nor about the massacre of UNI
ion men by capitalists at Grabow, La.
These papers engage in a conspiracy
of silence, or else they distort the
news, when the criminals belong to
the capitalist class. But when any
member of the working class makes a
false step, the masters papers make
sure that every one in the country
knows of it.
To get reliable news that concern
our own class, my brothers, we must
read socialist and labor publications.
You will always find ads for scabs
and strike-breakers in the capitalist
newspapers; but never in the socialist
to read clear and authentic accounts
of the rottenness OF capitalistic pub
LEGATIONS, their sly trickery, and the
means they use to strangle the cause
of labor, let me refer you to pamph-
let entitled "Tricks of the Press" 1Oc
a single copy, by the National Rip
Saw, Saint Louis, Mo.
Of cours in the capitalist press
there are some rare exceptions, but
they only emphasize the rule.
In the present strike of the Guggen-
helm employees at Bingham, Utah, and
Ely, Nevada, the capitalist papers are
following out their usual plan to in
fluence public sentiment against the
strikers.
Now, brothers, WHY, OH WHY, do
you support the masters press, when
you know it is used as a weapon to
injure our own class interests? WHY
DO YOU DO IT?
Some people (who are not well post
ed on the class struggle) say 1--WE
must take the capitalist papers to get
the news! To you who think this
way, let me say, are you going to con-
tinue to take papers just to get the
news that is misleading? After read
ing the capitalist dailies, you don't
know what you have got so far as the
truth is concerned, for you have too
often learned afterwards that the
news you read was contradicted later
by the facts of the case, so what do
you gain by reading news of the va
riety on which you cannot depend? If
you would give the same amount of
support to the socialist and labor pa
pers they would soon be able to give
as much news as the present capitalist
dailies and far more reliable.
Whenever you subscribe to a capt.
talist paper you simply furnish the
ammunition with which the enemy
brushes the cause of labor. And thus
you act the part of a traitor to the
cause of your own class In effect,
your action of supporting the capital
list press does more injury to you and
your own class than the act of taking
strikers place, which is commonly
called scabbing. Remember that the
class struggle is continuous, and will
continue as long as you furnish the
ammunition to your enemy and, until
the profit system is overthrown and
replaced by a COOPERATIVE COM
MONWEALTH.
It is, therefore, quite plain and logi-
cal that any member of the working
class who supports the capitalist pa
pers acts the part of a scab and traitor
to himself and his own class. That
is next to voting the capitalist tick.
ets) the worst kind of scabbing.
Brothers, let US all discontinue such
actions. Take our support away from
the enemy's press and give it to the so.
eialist and labor papers. By that
aotion We down our foe and at the