The Commonwealth. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1911-1914, 1913-01-31

/ preachers aud business mon We also
noticed that these worthy citizens
were running the machine. Tut In,
poor working man Reomod 10 be upper
most In their minds The mconsisten
cy of it was SO glaring that Il was
noticeable to some of ia wage slave
dupes one Of the young lawyers TINT
figured in the above seanco In 1896
was no less Il person than the honor
able a. Z. Pujo, now very prominent
member of congress. Have | dlsproyed
the assertion above made by the com
rade?
Here 10 another from Comrade
Shookley: II believe III majority rule.
and am willing to accept the will OF
the majority any time, regardless OF
whether 1t meets with my way OF
thinking or not" Il am I'm fav.
or OF striking out the section already
added to the constitution which dis
eliminates against certain offices In
the party"
wish to ask the oomrade II he
does not think it was majority of
those who were interested enough to
vote that put that section (76) in the
constitution? That section was voted
in when large locals that have since
been expelled were fighting and vot-
ing against 1t. And they were consist
ent, as their action in fighting that
section was right in line with the ac-
ton that caused them to be expelled
from the party.
Do not speak to us about INSULT
ING" these people whose class inter-
ests are opposed to ours, even If they
do bear the same relation to us that
lawyer Pujo did. We have been in
suited by the upper classes for ages,
yet you do not mention tit is so
big.
Another quotation and we will sum
up briefly: 81 do not lean towards the
so-called conservative element nor the
so-called radical element in the party
In other words that compares with
a post sticking straight up in the
ground between the two fractions. Or
is it straddle? Anyhow it is a
very awkward position because you
are in danger of being kicked by the
reds" over into the camp of the "yel-
lows" or the "yellows" may kick you
into the "reds," or again, both the
reds and yellows may hoist you clear
out of the arena. We are inclined to
think that you do lean. If you are
leaning in the direction of your class
interests we can excuse you, which
ever way it is.
If Marx was correct when he said
that "the emancipation of the work
ers must be accomplished by the work
ers themselves'-then 76 was
move in the right direction for the
working class.
Did you ever hear of capitalist class
ethics and code of right and wrong?
Did it ever occur that since working
class interests are opposed to the cap
italist class interests that so also
working class ethics and code of right
and wrong are opposed to capitalist
ethics, right and wrong?
When Marx wrote ''Workers of the
World Unite" he had no intention of
writing "workers and parasites unite"
To be brief no intelligent worker
will long submit to having parasites
clambering to mix their conceptions
based upon their class interests with
ours. You cannot make scientific So
cialists out of persons to whose class
interests it does not appeal. When
you see such persons becoming scien-
tific you will find that they have sue
ceeded in fitting some part of Marx
ism to their own class interests with
their own homespun Interpretation.
In closing, I want to thank Com
rade Shockley for the able manner
in which he handled the "yellow"
side Of the question. He was working
on solid ground there, but I cannot
find a single argument he advanced
against the "reds" that will bear
scrutiny.
Note-The A. P. Pujo above referred
to is the gentleman who prosecuted
and strove to send to the gallows
some sixty odd rebellious timber
workers at Lake Charles, Louisiana
last fall, on a trumped up charge of
riot and murder. These men were
all acquitted, thanks to the solidar-
ity of the class conscious workers.
Possibly some of the workers with
whom Pujo worked politically are still