The Commonwealth. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1911-1914, 1914-01-29
SOCIALISTS AND SOCIALISTS.
Which Kind Are You?
(By Katherine II. Hodgins.)

Are you that type of Socialist that
always votes the ticket" but who
thinks il is not necessary to be a
dues-paying member? Or do you
labor under the delusion that by mere
ly paying up your dues occasionally
you have done your duty?
Perhaps you belong to that numer-
GUS class which thinks that there Is
nothing more to be expected after you
have kept a seat warm once week
during business meetings.
Not being one of any of these do you
| firmly believe that the cooperative
commonwealth will be brought about
by free, generous dispensation of hot
air? Or by consuming valuable time
upon all occasions, expressing your
views" to the exclusion of matters of
real Importance?
Serve upon a committee? Let the
other fellow do that.
Do an hours useful work to help the
organization? Sorry, but l promised
to meet a man at 5 o'clock. Yes, l
would like to help distribute litera-
ture, but my wife is sick. Anyhow, |
sprained my wrist yesterday and it
hurts me to walk. Here's two-bits.
Get kid to do it.
If you belong to any of these classes
come out of it! The movement needs
workers, willing workers, who will do
anything to advance the cause ever
so little, who make the work of the
organization a business and not a
mere incident.
There is nothing too hard or too dis
agreeable for the REAL rebel. He
spends no time in fabricating excuses.
He is always Johnnie on the spot, no
matter what kind of work is on tap.
He will build the fires or attend a
convention; make a speech or wait on
table, just as the occasion requires.
He never stays at home on account of
the weather, all brands of which are
alike to him so long as the movement
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Socialists personally, but he conceals
his antipathy, for he constantly re-
minds himself that they are all work
! ing for economic emancipation, and
that personal dislikes block the road
leading thereto. He knows that the
greatest tragedy of the ages is that
the workers have always been pitted
against each other over trivial diff
culties to the great advantage of their
exploiters.
He does not become discouraged be-
cause perchance the membership is
falling off; or because Milwaukee, or
Schenectady, lost out. He should
worry-while package of literature
lies awaiting distribution; and that
propaganda letter to his cousin back
East, in which he intends to clear up
that "diyiding-up" delusion, remains
unanswered. Besides which, the meet
ing place hasn't been swept out for
two weeks and the wood box is empty.
This type of rebel may not be what
certain quibblers in the organization
term scientific; but to an individual
they know one thing which is, that
they are sick and tired of wage
slavery, and that every ray of light
regarding the monstrosity of the sys-
TEN that penetrates through the skull
of a fellow-slave, is step toward free
dom. A short step, perhaps, but
step. He knows that the greatest foe
of the revolutionary movement is the
contentment of a large class of work.
ers-that, as a class, they have so
little because a majority of them do
not demand more. Therefore, he
works day and night to counterfeit
this indifference, doing always the
thing that lies next at hand, never for
a moment forgetting thGt all of this
endeayor is but a means to the end
the goal for which we are all striving
the cooperative commonwealth.
SO line up with this class of brother
rebels, men and women 1t is they
who make the organization possible
Without them it could not exist for
one month. They are the real reyo-
lutionists, and on them the success Of.
our Organization depends. Get into
the band wagon
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