The Commonwealth. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1911-1914, 1913-02-21

see forming in the mists and dews of
the morning of the new day give me
the ardent passion of youth and the
fine frenzy of devoted maidenhood.
Let me inject the spirit of revolt into
a gamin and he becomes a god. Com
rades, our work is just begun. A new
literature, a new propaganda, a new
system of proslyting must be devel-
oped.
Encouraging indeed has been the
willingness of the party press to print
matter pertaining to the work of the
bureau. Without such service the
work would be badly crippled.
The one great draw back is the
slowness with which comrades get
round with information concerning va
cancies. They little realize that
whether they control the board or not
it is imperative that they get word to
me when any change is likely to occur
in their schools. This spring many
socialist teachers will be discharged
because of their devotion to the cause
and each notice of vacancy is Just
another cllnce1 for t}Fen4 and n II be
appreciated
<In closing I wish to say that the as
sistance rendered by the state office
has been prompt and invaluable.
Your comrade,
J. e. SINCLAIR.
Motion for state referendum;
Local Seattle No. 2 (Finnish) in it's
regular meeting January g. 1913, made
the following motion: amend Sec
ton 8, state constitution, of the socia-
list party of Washington to read, that
hoI IN,
their due stamps from their national
translators at price of Is cents, 3
cents of which shall be retained by
such translators. Such foreign speak
ing locals shall belong to their own
language federation to the socialist
party. Foreign speaking locals hav-
ing no national translator shall pay
their dues through state translator,
appointed by the state committee"
PETER HEINO, Chairman
LEO LEINO, Secretary.
Comment: Section g. as it reads,
now leaves an opportunity for foreign
speaking locals to receive service from
the language federation and transla-
tor, without belonging to their langu-
age federation, thereby escaping duties
demanded from local by their langu
age federation.
PETER HEINO, Chairman,
LEO LEINO, Secretary.
Motion for state committee refer
endum:
81 move that the state party organi-
cation of Washington initiate the fol-
lowing for a national party referen-
dunn:
"Motion l. Shall national referen-
dunn 80" 1912, for the recall of w. d.
Haywood from the national executive
committee, be annulled?
Motion 2. That from the date this
motion is carried, motions for national
party referendums shall consist of a
straight question or proposal, without
argument, whereas, comment or APP
peal, but may be commented upon in
the bulletin when proposed, by the
mover, by locals, not to exceed two
hundred words, or by the national
secretary not to exceed two hundred
words, to point out infractions of the
constitution and technical defects"
Comment: The motion to annul
national referendum %" is based on
the grounds that the preamble on the
ballot to recall Haywood contains a
falsehood and a conviction.
The falsehood consists of the some
what distorted statement, which in
substance is, that che Haywood
never advocated the use of the ballot
by the workers" We have only to
refer TO numerous public utterances
from Haywood to disproYe such an
assertion in whatever guise it may
appear. The conviction consists of
the mere statement that Haywood
had advocated certain things and Vio-
lated section 6, Art 2, national con-
stitution. To the member voting there
is presented on the ballot no evidence
either for or against but a ready
made conviction.
q. W. GARRETT.
State Committeeman Puyallup.
Motion for state referendum:
Moved that the following matter be
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