The Socialist and labor star. [volume] (Huntington, W. Va.) 1911-1915, 1914-05-29
The Dangers Of Party Growth
b II. Y. Houston.

The phenomenal growth the Socialist Party OF West Viz
gnia has its attendant dangers 1t will be recalled that the last
campaign developed the that the growth Of party this
State greater than any section of the nation During
period Of four had grown in voting strength oyer three
hundred The this wonderful awakening
not hard to find It found in the fact that West Viz
nia GREAT coal bin wherein lie the vast deposits of fuel that
must fire the the nations industries That here
proxmatey seyenyve thousand miners representing large
oron Of the States Voting popuaon the veritabe Slaves of
the Coal Ogrvy The Of this awakening the workers
further found in the fact that the northern portion OF the state
and pItl%a the north Wes:en seSo es wt tf oEn 0
the machine shop Of the Western World Already this section
the geographical Of the American branch of the nterna
tional Socialist Movement.
AS every MARKHAM knows the Machine the prince of
gandists. It the flying shuttle and the whirmg bobbn that
the of the red banner othe Social ReVo
ton All the revolutions of the centuries with all their b m AID
with Ill their violence and destruction dwarf into nSgni
canoe in comparison with the revolution of the Machine 1t
the Machine that snaced the old hand tools from the workers of
other days and tossed them on the scrap heap was the Ma
slave and made his labor mere commodity to be bought
and sold in the open market like the meres junk In the wake of
the Machine there follows OF desperate hun
CRY propeltyeSS proetarlanS.
PRODUCING the fuel for the Mavine West Virginia thus be-
comes child Of the Social Revolutions 1t this that the aWak
enng Of worerfol is due It is to this that the expanding
the Socialist party Of the state to be attributed So today
party has become political factor Of proportions II
has victories in aouS parts of the state 1t has
alarmed the Coal Autoccy such extent that they deemed
expedcnc to raise L large fund ior It's SUPPRESSION
Another element OF small Importance has ostered the
growth OF the party has been the attitude Of the
political philosophy they aided with bullets and bsyones
decisions and busted constitutions thus bndy hoping to stem the
current Of Irresistible lustral evolution.
With our growing political Importance ever bese by
increasing danger That danger seduction from the path
Of revolutionary activity Above all else must never let the
arenens office lessen devotion to revolutionary ideals
The strength and vitality Of the movement depends on unwav
erng LOYALTY Trading and compromise at this period OF our de-
velopcn the introduction OF the of disease and
DEATH Only through faithful devotion give to the move
en that and unQuenchabe spirit Of mltancE that Will I'LL
the hearts of the workers with hope and enthusiasm
Already have the insidous Wsegs OF treason gone thru
our camps Already schemes Of compromise and trading been
hn na
Socialist Many devices being
divert the workers from the real issue and lead them to
the shane of some non-socast party Fayette and Raleigh
counties by these political buccaneers and many Of
these end Of Labor advocating deeoy Labor parties
some trogodyte officials of the United Mine Workers
America and their petty hangerson are playing this crooked
game against the workers.
who classes himself Socialist remember that
death to the working class movement 1t opens
the assimilation by other party that adheres to
the capitalism It the continued enslavaent OF
the workers and the indefinite poponement of the day OF liberia
ton No. be dazzed by the aureents of political