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The Commonwealth. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1911-1914, 1913-05-09
Teaching the Teachers

borhood can testify, and particularly
Mr.. Johnson and his son, who have
both had him under them as foreman
of the gang, which gives me HOPE
THAT WITH YOUR GOOD MAN
AGEMENT HE MAY SELL WE'LL,
IF KEPT CLEAN AND TRIMMED UP
A LITTLE WHEN OFFERED FOR
SALE. I shall very cheerfully allow
you the customary commissions on
this affair and must beg the favor of
you Qest he should ATTEMPT TO
ESCAPED TO KEEP HIM HAND
CUFFED till you get to sea, or in the
bay, after which I doubt not but you
may make him useful to you.
I wish you a pleasant and prosper
GUS passage, and a safe and speedy
return.
(Signed) GEORGE WASHINGTON
Now, boys and girls, We will all
sing Mount Vernon Bells" Or shall
we sing the Marseillaise? Get your
pen and write me something I want
to know what you think of George
now Don't you wish they would get
in the schools who did not
have to lie?
]. r. SINCLAIR.
The Commonwealth. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1911-1914, 1913-05-09
LOCAL GOLD BAR.

To President Woodrow Wilson, Wash
ington, d. c.:
This is to certify that we, the mem
bers of Local Gold Bar, part of the
socialist party Of the state and nation,
do hereby protest against the high
handed methods of the coal barons in
casting aside the constitution of our
country, and establishing martial law,
by permitting the persecution of Moth
er Jones and others, by imprisoning
them in a military prison without a
fair trial in open court, which is guar
anteed to every citizen by our consti-
tuition.
Therefore be it resolved, that Local
Gold Bar demand of the president that
he invade the state of West Virginia
and establish civil rule, PEACEABLY
IF POSSIBLE, by force if necessary.
RUFUS WREN,
Secretary.
GEORGE DELANEY,
Chairman.
The Commonwealth. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1911-1914, 1913-05-09

from all of you. 1t beats school COM
position writing all to smash. If you
write real carefully l am going to
have it printed. Let us all begin to
read and study and write about this
great class war and the only thing
that will end it and all war-SOCIAL-
ISM.
r. F. D. No. 4, Tacoma, Wash, May
1, 1918.
My Dear Friends am interested
in the truth; but I am not interested
in the laws that they make at Olym-
pia. Concerning the law compelling
us to buy a license before fishing,
think that we should be entitled to all
the fish that we can catch without
anybody's permission. Any law that
keeps us away from the fish is good
for the capitalists for they can
charge us more then for the fish that
they hire us to catch
There should be liberty and free
dom for all and Justice, too, but there
is no liberty nor justice for Mother
Jones, who is now in jail suffering be-
cause she made speeches to the min
ers of West Virginia. She is eighty
years old and has broken none Of
their foolish laws. yet she is being
slowly killed in that Jail If we have
to salute their flag why don't they
have us tell the truth about it? If we
should say there lis liberty and justice
for all we should be telling a false
hood. ! want no liberty that lis not
given TO Mother Jones.
They tell ms tha, George Washington
never told a lie. Vow they are going
20 make us tell lies by law
lsImedI LENA CARNEY.
What do you think of ir my lirue
comrades Two hundred and t.fry thou
san school children .u Washington
Continued on Page Tw0J
The Commonwealth. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1911-1914, 1913-05-09
Tricks OF Trade
LADIES
We Hate to Tell You Your Lovely silk
Dress Is Made of Tin.

We Hate to Tell You Your Lovely SILK
Dress Is Made of Tin.
Patterson, N. J.--got from the Co
coon of the silk worm, but from the
rusty horse shoes, scrap iron and
empty tomato cans on the city dumps
come the silk that makes milady's
clinging gown and the bright-hued
necktie of her escort, according to the
men who labor in the silk mills of
Paterson.
Rendered desperate by the two
month-old struggle to obtain their de-
mands, the 27,OOO silk strikers today
began a systematic Exposure" of the
secrets of their trade. Led by Will
lam D. Haywood, a group of skilled
silk mill operators today made public
the secret of the "tin dress"
Where Rustic Comes From.
"The silk dress the average woman
takes such pride in," declared Hay
wood, as spokesman, "is not really a
silk dress at all, but tin dress. 1t
is composed of about one part silk
fiber to six parts tin, iron, lead or
zinc. The metal comes from the scrap
heaps back of the factory. 1t is
dumped into watts and treated chemic-
ally to make solutioi4 The raw silk
is dipped in the soi3,3s5sy- and wheG
taken out and dried the fibers have
absorbed from four to six times their
own weight in metal
Why Silk Rots Soon.
"You know what happens to the
regular run of dress silks if you lay a
piece away in a drawer or hang it up
for a few months. 1t rots to pieces.
1t is the effect of the solutions Of old
horse shoes, tin cans and scrap iron
that the raw material has been dipped
in to increase its weight six times"
A dozen striking dye house workers
described the process by which they
claimed the skeins of raw silk were
more than quadrupled in weight by
the absorption of metallic compost
tions so as to appear, when woven, to
be heavy silk.
The Commonwealth. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1911-1914, 1913-05-09
PROFESSIONAL THUGS.

The strike-breaking agencies know
what the bosses want in case Of
trouble and appeal to them in their
letter as follows, sent wherever any
trouble is threatening:
I'VE arrange to furnish guards, big,
strong and powerful men under the di-
rection of our chief guard, Mr.. Chas
Costello, a man well known all over
the country"
1t is time labor organizations learned
through their past experiences the eff
feet of allowing the bosses a handicap
in the way of informing them months
ahead that if they did not accede to
their demands by such a time there
would be trouble.
If the conditions Justify a strike, do
it Immediately and win.
The Commonwealth. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1911-1914, 1913-05-09
PROTESTS
LOCAL MIDLAND.

Whereas, Mother" Jones, a citizen
of the United States and a resident of
West Virginia, has been arrested, tried
by an illegal court martial, and i'm
prisoned for supporting the cause of
the striking miners in West Virginia;
and
Whereas, said Mother" Jones has
spoken no words in violation of the
constitution of the United States and
has simply exercised her right of free
speech guaranteed her by that consti-
tuition; and
Whereas, Mother" Jones is an aged
woman and is unable to stand the ply
steal strain of being thus imprisoned;
and
Whereas, brutalities of the most
frightful nature have been committed
against other prisoners confined with
Mother" Jones because of participa-
ton in said strike; therefore, be it
Resolved, by Local Midland, social
ist party of washington, that we de-
mand the immediate freedom of
Mother" Jones; and further be it
Resolved, that if said Mother"
Jones has committed an offense that
we demand for her a trial by jury of
her peers and none other, and pledge
her our united support in obtaining
for her a fair an open trial; and furth-
er be it
Resolved, that copies of this resolu-
ton be mailed to the president of the
United States, the governor of Vir-
ginia, Senator Miles Poindexter, the
press and Mother" Jones.
Adopted by Local Midland Sunday
April 27, 1913.
HARRY LANE,
Chairman.
BERLE FOLTZ,
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State Convention Echoes
TWO VIEWS
Continued from Last Week.

amount of labor contained in the total
crop produced, even though some may
fail to raise a crop in some sections
while other sections fare better. The
labor expended under average condi-
tions will receive its reward under so
cial production for use. But then we
would not raise wheat except where
wheat would grow and where the best
machinery could be utilized.
When opposing interests unite to
bring about a change they begin to
fight each other just as soon as the
goal is in their grasp. We can prove
this by history Therefore the class
that is to be most benefited and is
best fitted to bring the change about
must unite their power and leave op-
posing interests out of the reckoning,
as that is the force that must be con-
tested. That is why we should under
stand the science of economic deter
minism. Peoples actions are only
reflex of the method by which they
get their living. That has been proven
a scientific fact. Read Marks and
EngePs works.
When we workers elect lawyer to
represent us in planning our actions,
he will throw us down. He cannot
represent our interests because he
does not get his living the way we do.
He is social parasite and we are the
victims of all the social parasites. We
can say the same about the preach
ers, the doctors Ito some extent), the
real estate shark and some of the
small traders.
When we elect an employer of labor
to represent us wage-slaves we only
show our stupidity. We have always
done that and we are trying to quit it
forever. He does not get his living
by being a slave and his mental pro-
,cesses are naturally opposed to ours
as are his interests. We can point
out a number of very striking ex-
amples of the above mentioned phe-
nomena that have occurred in the So
cialist party in this state alone.
Some of these utopians tell us they
have been in the socialist movement
twenty years. Crowd them right close
and they will admit that they included
their activities in the populist. move
ment in the twenty years" If that
is all they know about the difference
between socialism and populism, how
do you expect such a class, who are
mentally and organically untitled, to
lead a slave class out of industrial
servitude? We hope they will study
their Marx and inform themselves on
industrial subjects. They will then be
enabled to render great assistance in
the socialist movement
WORKERS OF THE WORLD
UNITE"
c. w. GARRETT.
The Commonwealth. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1911-1914, 1913-05-09
BULLETIN OF THE SOCIALIST
EDUCATIONAL BUREAU.

George Washington did not write the
following letter II was written by a
little girl I'm the fifth grade i'm the Mid
land schools She handed il 10 me
rather bashmlly one morning. ] did
not even know that she was a socialist
girl until . read il. Then I knew
She came into the office and we talked
it over like old friends ] suggested
some changes in the letter and She
took ir home that night and here it is.
Now. boys and girls. / want 20 hear
The Commonwealth. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1911-1914, 1913-05-09
LABOR ARGUS CoNFIscATED.
adlter MerrIek JaIIed.

An OIL antiquated, outgrown Nir-
ginia sItute-the Red Mans Act
had to l. unearthed by Governor Hat
field IN her which to arrest Fritz Mer-
rick. aid seize the only working-olass
organ the workers have in Charleston.
This law was made to prevent the
Indians from oonspiring against the
white man. and it was passed over a
hundred years ago, to fit different
times and conditions. It was meant
to be used only by the civilized men
against the savages-and not vice
versa.
Merrick and Ramsey, who were ar
rested at the same time, are charged
with publishing inflammatory articles,
to incite the miners where Governor
Hatfield's peace proposition had Just
been accepted, ending the strike
The Commonwealth. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1911-1914, 1913-05-09
Paterson Strike

That being less than thirtyfour
cubic feet to a person It is like look
ing up a man for twenty-four hours in
a box two feet wide, two feet seven
inches high and six feet long. Where
was the health department of Pater-
son?
1--WE got no food" he said, "and for
hours we begged and yelled for water.
The air got so thick and bad that
some howled like wild beasts" And
yet there was no charge against these
men and women This happened in
the year of our Lord 1913iil
The Commonwealth. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1911-1914, 1913-05-09
EIGHT WEEKS OLD.

The workers in Paterson, New Jer-
sey, have now been out over eight
weeks and from present indications
the fight is far from won,
1t is an heroic struggle. Nothing
could show the solidarity of our move
meut more than a worthy eontribu-
ton to the strikers of Paterson.
The demands made by them includ-
ed minimum wage of twelve dollars
per week, eight hours per day with
one-half day off on Saturdays or Forty
four hours per week and recognition
of the union. over twenty-five thou
sand men, women and children are out
i'm support of these demands.
There is yet no indication of a
weakening in the ranks. The enthu-
siasm seems to burn as hot as on the
first day of the strike; but from the
eyes Of many one can read a mute
confession of suffering and despair
And what is the wonder? Have not
these men and women pitted the liv-
ing and gnawing stomachs of theirs
and their loved ones against the fat
tened, inanimate purses of their heart
less masters? 1t is an altogether too
unequal contest, such as only the most
greedy of cowardly tyrants would ac-
cept.
The police arrested so many strik-
ers that the cells were literally
damned" and high school building
had to be converted into a prison.
There is humor in that. Said one of
the arrested after he had been freed,
"It is the first time in my life that l
ever got a chance to go to high
school," The strikers do not fear ar
rest. While the hundreds were being
taken to the lookup, thousands were
following crying to share the fate of
their brothers and sisters. When in
the jails they would chant airs of re-
volt. Down and almost out as they
were, jails and prisons held no terror
for them. A dangerous mood to drive
a people into How long can an in
dustry live with it's workers locked up
in jails?
What to do with the prisoners?
The authorities were at their wits
end. They have lost their heads COM
pletely. After keeping them in Gus
tody twenty-four hours most of them
were rleased. There was no charge
that could be brought against them
that would hold in court
And how were those treated that
were jailed. Said one of them after
his release: "They locked US up
without any charge against u.s. We
were not taken before any judge. In
my cell were five of us. I measured
the place. 1t was eighty-two inches
high, seventy-one inches long and less
than fifty inches wide"
The Commonwealth. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1911-1914, 1913-05-09
SOLDIER DISAPPEARS.
Was Active in Politics-Reward for
Discovery.

The police have been notified of the
mysterious disappearance of Theodore
Roosevelt, an old veteran. He has not
been seen or heard from since Novem-
ber 5, 1912. It is feared that he was
showed under during the cold politi-
cal weather of that date. He is said
to have been active in politics at one
time
When last seen he was standing on
the private road leading from Wall
street to Armagedeon and he was bat
Ting for the Lord knows what. At
that time he had several planks in
his possession which he is alleged to
have stolen. For information as to
his whereabouts his friends offer a re-
ward of 80 cents.-National Socialist.
The Commonwealth. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1911-1914, 1913-05-09
BROAD UTOPIAN YELLOW
AND NARROW SCIEN-
TIFIC RED.

When all of us wage slaves work
for wages under this system we are
exploited out of the larger part Of the
wealth that we produce as a class,
while the individual producer is not
exploited. This wage system being
the root of the capitalist system, it is
that thing that must be abolished in
order to get production for use; and
those directly concerned in it as slaves
are the ones with the collective po-
tential power to abolish 1t, and con-
tinue socialized production for use in
stead of profit.
Your individual producer we have
always had. It was from these indi-
vidual producers as we'll as feudal re-
tainers that the capitalists began to
develop in feudaI times when they be-
gan to use machinery and employ
wage-slaves in the production Of COM
modities. Enough of them did this
that they began to form a powerful
economic class, though numerically
small and thereby were enabled to
overthrow the feuda1 system, based
upon serfdom, as we'll as the power Of
the nobility as the ruling class.
Likewise, in order to overthrow the
capitalist system, based upon wage
slavery, the slaves of capital are SO
situated that they begin to form an
other still more powerful economic
class, when they unite their labor
power, which will eliminate in the
overthrow of the profit system and
bring production for use in the indus
trial cooperative commonwealth, and
abolish economic classes.
In the process of evolution the indi-
vidual producer is either capitalist
sprout or a partially formed machine
slave; and you can no more expect
such an organically disorganized class
composed of individualists to jump
past the capitalist stage of develop
ment (socialized production) and
LEAD the way to socialism, than you
can expect to see full grown beard
on a 1O-year-old boy; because society
is a growth measured by the tools it
uses in production-hand tools by the
early producer and socially used ma
chimes by the modern wage-slaves,
who are already drilled in social pro-
duction. They (the individual produc-
ers) may want socialism but their
experience gives them no clue as to
what is going to bring it about. II
such people want to help make the
change, let them educate themselves
on the science (as it is simple) and
then they will discover what class of
people are best fitted to lead the way.
Then they will not be utopians max
ing a nuisance of themselves and will
not be hindering in the real work of
the revolution.
The individual producer will certain
ly be benefited under socialism as
they will then be enabled to enter
freely into social production for use.
All who raise wheat will contribute
labor to the entire crop and in return
receive full value of the labor con-
tributed based upon the average
The Commonwealth. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1911-1914, 1913-05-09
Mother Jones
HYPoCRITE HATFIELD TALKS
HOLY HUMBUG.

Believing that the greatest of all
words is Mother" and that all walks
of life are ever ready to pay due hon.
age to their mothers;
I, Henry D. Hatfield, governor of
the state of West Virginia, do here
by designate Sunday, May II, 1913, a
day to be commemorated throughout
the state as Mothers Day May its
proper observance by churches or
other organizations, in the homes, and
elsewhere, and the memories it oc-
casions, serve to make us stronger
and better men and women.
In testimony whereof 1 have here
unto signed my name and caused the
less seal of the state to be affixed.
Done at the capitol in the city of
Charleston, this twenty-fifth day of
April, in the year of our Lord, one
thousand, nine hundred and thirteen,
ard of the state the fiftieth
HENRY D. HATFIELD,
By the governor:
STUART F. REED,
Secretary of State.
If this is what you really think, Hat
field, then why the Dickens did you
let the brutal militia lock up MOTH
Err" Jones?
The Commonwealth. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1911-1914, 1913-05-09
MOTION PICTURE WORKERS
Conditions Bad.

Conditions in the factory are said
to be bad. Men working ten and
twelve hours receive from $3.50 to
$1.75 a day, without extra pay for
overtime. Girls were recently hired
to supplant men who had been receiv-
ing about $3.50 a day. The girls get
$125 for the same work.
The factory of the Edison company
turns out monographs, records, films
and other articles used in the manu-
facture of Edison inventions.
The Commonwealth. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1911-1914, 1913-05-09
Program
MARIUS HANsoRE.
What Some Say of His Lecture.
llKaan Hansnma I'm the

goods Send him TO us again If you can. -
Nil, Oserbcre Darlington
tComrade Ha8some delivered "a very
clear lecture on Organization and made
good impression. Mrs T. j.. Hawley,
Frayrl
"IIau-omr presented 70 dry subject IN an
interesting manner and we were all
pleased May Wright Auacortes
We advise every party member every
union man and al that are interested to
attend this lecture and r.aeIv. fundamen-
taI instruction upon the most important
questions of Organization
ADMISSION FREE
The Commonwealth. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1911-1914, 1913-05-09
HOW THEY SKIN EN-.

Did you get your pay for the two
days work?"
you bet I did"
Hove"
"They took out one dollar for hos
pital fees, deducted one-eighty for two
days board at the mess-house, gave
me twenty cents, and / walked into
town"
The Commonwealth. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1911-1914, 1913-05-09
DEPARTMENT STORE STRIKE

Buffalo, May 1.-The department
stores of the city are completely tied
up by strike of $500 men, women
and girls. The demands include a
minimum wage for women and girls of
$S, for men SIS, boys So, and drivers
SIS. The strikers also demand a work.
day of eight and one-half hours and
Saturday half holiday from June to
October.
The Commonwealth. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1911-1914, 1913-05-09

Hobo-I've eaten nothing but snow
balls for three days.
Lady-You poor man! What would
you have done had it been summer
Orleans Times-Democrat.
The Commonwealth. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1911-1914, 1913-05-09
In q u S t ri al
UpheavalS
WOMEN WITH BABES
BEATEN.

Burlington, n 1.-THE Devlin Iron
Manufacturing company's plant 10
wholly crippled, the workers are out
for a 1914 per cent increase in wages.
The police and deputies brutally at
tackled strikers and their wives Wom-
en- with babies in their arms were as
saulted.
The Commonwealth. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1911-1914, 1913-05-09

Syracuse, N. Y.-Building operations
are tied up, 1000 are idle. Building
laborers demand 26 to 32A per cent
increase, and carpenters ask As to so
cents an hour.
The Commonwealth. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1911-1914, 1913-05-09

Cattle imported into the United
States numbered 1887 in 1904, 159,-
9O2 in 1909, and 325,717 in 1912-Con-
sular and Trade Reports.
The Commonwealth. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1911-1914, 1913-05-09
PILCHUCK.

Parker Bell company has raised the
mems wages 25 cents per day all
around. No agreement has yet been
arrived at between the I. w. w. and
this company.
The Commonwealth. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1911-1914, 1913-05-09

In the Lawrence strike the
socialists contributed 100000,
the local unions of the A. f. of
L. $4,000 and the I. w. w.
$1,000.
The Commonwealth. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1911-1914, 1913-05-09
BALLARD.

The strike is not yet won, as W,
were wrongly informed last week.
The Commonwealth. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1911-1914, 1913-05-09
DON'T READ THIS
If YOU WANT TO MISS PLEASANT EVENLNG 5 EMF
TAINMENT AND AN INSTRUCTIVE LECTURE
EVERETT.

On sunday MAY H. at s p m, Liberty Hail. the following
r has been arranged wish to listen
eonav GOOD music and singing and those who wish to hear
rood lecture ON ORGANIZATION:
Program
soprano Soo"The Garden of Roses ma Mamgren
Piano Meditation Miss Ilma Weoefg
Iectur-The Power of the Workers Combined Marlu 9some
Jnapita - Misses Ilima Wesberg and lma Mamgren
General discussion Organization
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c. w. GARRETT.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1913-08-08

sNrA ~
8 This continuous VIZ fars althouell
til joke ron the sviis~ point IS .
Ireal army, = getting % tho point
where il s rather annoying. Occas-
ionally stray bullet hits someone,
and thu Americans, : mile or o
away, are often the targets.
1T IS very seldom that the combat
ants ara injured, as they stand off Ct
a formidable distance, and have target
practice. would much prefer not
to be noncombatant, as he seems TO b
in greater danger than the armies.
The battles COME of according to =
schedule, and whenever the courier
arrives, announcing . battle Ct GER
tain time, the Americans ride ont to
see the fun. -.:.. $3.50 = j. III. q.
ut is fun but it is rather hard to
do any successfuh mining under such
conditions. 90: - s.> IL. : :, :