The Commonwealth. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1911-1914, 1913-07-31

SIZZLERS
By ban Hogan. Editor Southern
Worker Huntington. Arlf
God eiyc us organizers. a time
Ike this demands etc.-dammit, .
where are they9
DO YOUR work before. you com
plain about your comrades lazlness. /.
Maybe his lethargy Is inspired by
yours.
Count one in the movement
Get right with the party and the
party will be right with YOU
Train your members to become or.
ganzers That's the great work.
Perfect the organization. The votes
will come as soon as we deserve them.
The fellow who is busy hunting
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important to be doing anything worth
while.
The labor market is sexless, and the
repository of political power is COM
ing to be. Thus, in our movement, we
are not men and women, but com
rades.
Don't be afraid to discuss questions
of party tactics-rather fear not tol
discuss them. Discussion prevents
groundless assumption.
Democrats don't pay dues and after
the election there is nothing due
them. They expect nothing and they
are never disappointed.
The time of the hot-air Socialist is !
past. We cannot build the Co-opera-
tive Commonwealth on super-heated
atmosphere. 1t takes work
Subordinate everything to organiza-
ton.
Team work is the thing and the
larger the team the stronger and the
better its work.
It's almost as easy to get reason
able workingman to vote the Socialist
ticket as it is to sell a clout
| fitch of bacon when he's hungry; but
sometimes it's as hard to get him to
join the party as it is to sell woman
hat she doesn't want.
If the men of your vicinity won't
| join the party give extra time and at
tention to the women. There are u
562,S23 reasons why working men
should be party members, but there
are twice that many reasons why
working women should join.
It's easy to get working man to
refuse to become his own assassin by
getting him to vote right, but to get
him into the party of his class where
he counts one in its government is
quite another thing; and the painful
thing about it is that so few of us APP
preciate the importance of the matter
Our propaganda work has been
wonderfully successful, but our Or
ganization work is fearfully wanting,
painfully weak, alarmingly fruitless.
Wake up, comrades.
Patience is one requisite in the
makeup of the effective Socialist
worker. That Rome was not built in
day is a thousand times truer of
the Workers Commonwealth.
Misinformed or poorly informed So
cialists often do more harm than good.
Study up. Read standard books.
Every worker is needed. But make
your work count in the right direction.
Often the best organized local is
the self-organized local. Self reliance
is the most needed thing in a working
class organization. The suggestion
applies to each member as well as
the organization. An organization is
strong if it's individual members are
strong.
A school teacher gets good results
by repetition. Emphasis is also an
essential. We want to repeat and we
want to emphasize the lesson of sol
idarity taught in the simple story of
the bundle of sticks-how strong
when bound together-how weak and
easily broken the single stick. So with
the workers. Our interests being
identical, why not unite and show this