The Commonwealth. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1911-1914, 1912-08-23

Carr recording secretary
Comment by local: Counties with
fewer members should have greater
percentage of members ot-argc than the
counties with many members, because
the population Ia more scattered in the
former than in the latter consequently
there would be q greater percentage OF
socialists who would reside too far from
a local 10 attend its meetings
Therefore by making this change in
our state constitution we viii enable
counties with fewer members TO gather
in these scattered socialists. Thus the
counties with a scaut population will be
more able to keep the percentage of mem
hership to total population to correspond
with percentage of membership in other
counties.
Motion for State Committee Referendum.
Everett, Wash, July 10, 1919.
I submit a state committee referendum
TO read as follows;
Shall the action of the S. T.. c. in de-
claring NJ. j. Kennedy expelled from the
party. by the action of Local Seattle
Fifth Ward, be sustained
A. O HAUGEN,
State Committeeman from Local Everett
Fourth Ward.
Comment by state secrctory Com
rade Haugen made comments to the mo-
ton, but it would be waste to print
them, since the local is in bad standing,
not having reported for July. The mo-
ton Is therefore out of order.
Motion of State Committee Referendum.
Everett, Wash, July %, 1912.
To the state committee, comrades:
Question is up to you'll Shall the so
cialist party stop to prosecute Federal
District Judge c. II. Hanford of the
state of Washington?
Comments: | read the news in the
daily paper that our Comrade Berger in
will stop the prosecution Of
Judge Hanfond. Comrades, our duty is
to show up the rottenness of our federal
court system.
State Committeeman, Everett Third
Ward.
Motion for State Committee Referendum
"That the state executive committee
conduct a referendum of King county
and the city of Seattle relative to the
election of a county and city committee
JAS. II. ROSS,
Committeeman Local Bremerton
Comments by the state secretary: The
motion is unconstitutional, since such a
referendum cannot be taken in any but
ANONYMOUSLY organized counties and
then only when applied for by not less
than two locals and not less than
twenty-five per cent of the membership
in good standing when the controversy
arose. 1t is out of order as Local Brem-
erton did not report for July. The state
cannot be set aside by the
state committee.
Motion for State Committee Referendum.
Resolved, that the state secretary pub
fish in the monthly bulletin all the evil
dence that was submitted in writing in
the appeal of M. j. Kennedy in his eX-
pulsion from the socialist party by Local
Fifth Ward, Seattle.
Also Kennedy's written statements in
his defense submitted to the S. e. G.,
Comments: The mere statement APP
pearing in the bulletin, that the S, e. G.
had sustained the action of Local Fifth
Ward in the expulsion of Kennedy,
throws no light upon the reasons for
the expulsion and does not give the
members an opportunity to hear or know
Kennedy's side of the question. 1t is only
fair to both sides to know upon what
evidence the S. E. G. based its decision
to expel Kennedy from the S. P. after
twelve years work as speaker and or
ganizer for it.
Seattle, August l6, 1912. Oscar Nc
Gill. state committeeman, Local Ravena.
The motion for referendum proposed
by Local Spokane Third Ward to amend
section 60 of the state constitution, hav
ing received five seconds, was sent out
to the locals as State Referendum 3D."
on August IA, 1912. It was seconded by
Locals Spokane First Ward No. 2, Spo-
kane Second Ward, Spokane Fourth
Ward, Pomery and Dunlap.
The motion by Spokane Third Ward
to amend section IS received the seconds
from all locals named above except Pom
eroy.
Locals Anacortes, Olympia and Free
land second the motion made by Everett
Sixth Ward, pertaining to making state
office employees members large.
Local Fernwood rescinds its action of
seconding the same motion. This leaves
the motion seconded by only four locals,
and as stated above, the state secretary
is ordered to take up with the local the
proposition to change the motion so that
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Locals Sequim and Seattle Tenth Ward
seconded the motion made by Local Sc
attic Fourth Ward to the recall of Sam
and Kate Sadler.
Local Bryn Mawr endorsed the same
motion, but the local was not in good
standing at the time the action was
taken in the local and report received in
this office, the local having neglected to
report for the month of June.
Local Spokane Third Ward seconds
motion by Sedro-Woolley relating to de-
tachable coupons on referendum ballots
Everett Sixth Ward seconds the same
motion, but being in bad standing, it
doesn't count.
Carria Bell Sutton laboring under the
impression that state committeeman can
endorse motion for state referendum,
seconds the same motion. The endorse
ment is of course not valid. She also
endorses motion of Local Dunlap with
the same result.
The three motions made by Comrade
Hutchinson of Seattle Fourth Ward have
been endorsed by the following state
committeeman: Caria Bell Sutton. Ma
drona; Geo NJ. Cronk, Seattle Tenth
Ward; Herbert Wait, Rainier Beach;
w. II. Hazen, Seattle Thirteenth Ward