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The Commonwealth. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1911-1914, 1914-04-09
TEACHERS UNION GROWS.

The International Teachers Union
is steadily srOwing Many Of It's most
yirile members are forced to now curb
their activities owing to the danger
of not being abe to secure a position
for the ensuing year were it known
that they were members of q union.
Union men who are parents can help
out the cause of encouragng the
teachers by having thsir children put
it up to the teacher, as to why they
are not members of a teachers union.
Although the Soc iai.sts. owing to q
con biz at on Of all the foes to human
progress. lost control of the schools In
several localities of the state. there
are still NAVY places that are under
control of Socialist sthOOl directors
Invariably these boards are asking
for union teacher. Ot course they
prefer socialist union teachers
Cone nov Nr Union Nan v,so nur
teachers Gnion a boost We "i:: snore
saan regay yOu by trash:8:Iy present.
ins yoBg side ~ 3pae cas" iN he srhoDl
sooSn. .. M sAf.TER,
Se2y. Treas. 7. T. U.
5ilvanG, Wash
The Commonwealth. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1911-1914, 1914-04-09
SOCIALISTS WIN TN MILWAU-
KEE PRIMARIES OVER
NINE DATLIES,

The fact that every third voter at
the primary In a fOur-cornered contest
cast his vote FOR Emil Seidel, the SO.
cialist nominee for mayor of Milwau-
kee, is all the more notable on account
of the odds against which the So
cialists fought. The Socialists had to
Withstand the solid fire from a bat
terry of nine daily newspapers, in add
tiOn to the power of the money and
influence Of the traction company and
the special interests generally Of the
city. In addition this was the first
election under nOn-partisan law, de-
signed to make it difficult to select
the Socialist candidates.
One daily paper of their own, a
splendid organization and public con.
fidence in the party whose campaign
slogan was, "The public ownership of
public utilities" made the Socialists
Iable to cope successfully with their
enemies. Bading, the present mayor,
who at the previous primaries polied
26 900 votes, was able to muster only
10000 this time. Daniel Hogan, city
attorney and Socialist, ran 5000
ahead of his nearest opponent for re-
election, polling the record in the cam
paign of 24,S54 votes.
Seide! led in l3 out of the 25 wards
OF the city and came through with q
larger vote IN every ward than he
p0lled at the primaries two years ago.
The Commonwealth. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1911-1914, 1914-04-09
MINIMUM WAGE FOR WOMEN
FIXED AT $40.

The minimum wage conference, re-
Gently held In Olympia, voted unani-
mously to recommend to the mini.
mum wage commission a minimum
wage Of $40 for all female employees
in the mercantile industries Of the
state. except apprentices. and voted
to leave the matter OF apprenticeship.
as to length OF term and the wages
to be paid apprentices. to the commits
sion itself, to be acted on later. This
wage is 75 cents higher than the re-
Gently established wage for this class
of work in Oregon.
Want Long Apprenticeship.
j. L. Paine. G. J. Wolff and W. N.
Cuddy, employers on the conference.
contended that it was absolutely nec-
essary for the welfare Of the mercan-
tile industry. and for the protection Of
the employees themselves against being
supplanted. that long period OF ap-
premiership be established. at first
fixing this at eighteen months. but
later agreeing to make it twelve
months. with wages Of Sc to start and
81 for the last six months.
The three women present represent
ing the employees were even more set
in their opposition to this longtime
apprenticeship. opposing it altogether
and standing firm against more than
six months and less than 81 wage at
any time during apprenticeship.
Numerous futile attempts were made
to find some way in which the confer
ence could be assured by the commits
sion that certain apprenticeship regu-
lation would be made by the commits.
sion. in whom the law vests the au-
thority on this point.
Left to Commission.
No way could be found legally. how.
ever. and the emp oyers finally yielded
the additional point and voted for the
$40 minimum wage. leaving 1t with
the commission to fix the regulation IS
to apprentices without formal recon,-
mendation from the conference. The
vote for the $40 was then made unani-
nous.
The Commonwealth. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1911-1914, 1914-04-09
INITIATIVE BILLS MAY BE
KILLED BY JOKER IN LAW.

A "joaer" in the initiative law may
prevent the eleven initiative petitions
row being circulated from ever going
to the voters. The legal point raised
l. that the legislature passed an ap.
propriation only to cover the expense
of the state check AS the petitions
must first be checked over by the
different city clerks the city council
will be called OIL to pass deficiency
ordinance appropriating several hun
dred dollars, since the budget for this
year does not include any such esti.
mate.
Such an appropriation cannot be
legally made, it is stated. A large
force would be required to check the
petitions and if the present force We're
to attempt to check them unassisted,
none would be finished by the time of
the fall election.
AS prohibition is one of the prin.
eipal issues IL is stated that We're the
council to appropriate money to hire
deputy clerks to check up the petit
tions, mardamus proceedings might
be brought by anti.prohibitionists
which would tie up indefinitely the
check. and appeals to the highest
courts would require until after the
November election.
City Controller Carroll of Seattle
was the first to object to the city
paying for state work, the city hav.
ing nothing to do with the statewide
initiative. There are 1S5 cities in the
state and about 100000 voters, which
gives an idea of the enormousness or
the yerificatiOn of the petitions. The
bills must be filed by July l, giving
four months for the cities to check up
and prepare duplicate registration
books. On the eleven petitions there
would be doubtless 10000 or more
names, which the city clerks force
could not check up in many months.
The Commonwealth. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1911-1914, 1914-04-09
William Benton.

William Benton was deprived of life
in Mexico by armed men.
There was war IN tho country and
Benton was accused of various acts
forbidden under martial law. lie was
tried and declared guilty on evidence
offered before the court.martial, ut the
age of about so. Benton was q native
OF Great Britain. He had resided In
Mexico for many years, amassed big
fortune there. but had not been a citi-
zen.
He was lord over many thousands
of acres OF Mexican land, over large
herds of Mexican cattle. over thou
sands OF serfs whom they call poems
In Mexico.
He vas abviously hand and glove
with the so.called Cientificos. the band
Of conspirators that robbed the Next
can people systematically for many
years under porfiro Diaz. lie was
charged OF having given aid and COM
fort 20 Huerta, the murderous success
sor Of Diaz. His temper was described
as impulsive. the treatment of his
poems as brutal. reckless and murder
GUS. The rich mans death stirs two
continents. The press is foaming at
the mouth over It.
The president and his cabinet are
up and doing.
Our army and our navy are eager
to take a hand In the affair. to punish
somebody for the death Of Benton, in
'cidentally to grab a slice of Mexican
territory.
Benton was OF the master class.
The Commonwealth. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1911-1914, 1914-04-09
MOTHER JONES IN FILTHY
CELL.
The Attorney General Advises Cover
nor That IL is Illegal to Hold Mill
tary Prisoners IncommunIcado.

Denver. Colo--(Special.)-The Col
orado hell hounds of privilege, some
times called the militia, reached the
climax in their fiendish war OF ter
rorism on the striking coal miners
when they kidnapped Mother Jones
and placed her in damp filthy cell
in the Waisenburg jail. She is being
held there incommunicado a military
prisoner.
The Colorado militiamen have rob
led and destroyed miners homes. have
dragged future mothers through snow
covered alleys, shave moved down and
MANNED women and children, but these
fiendish cruelties are nothing com
pared with Mother Jones' illegal In
generation in this verminlad hole.
It was in this cold damp cell that
Gus Martinez. healthy young Greek,
contracted rheumatism OF the heart
ard died.
Dr.. Abdun.Nur has advised the mil.
itia that the cell is absolutely unfit
for any person to live in, but the he'll
hounds refuse TO move her, and It is q
grave question as to how long the aged
woman can survive confinement.
Although the attorney general has
advised the spineless governor that
the militia has no right to hold mill
tary prisoners incommunicado, Adju.
tant General Chase continues to do so.
Attorney General Farrar has also
told the corporation owned executives
that they had no right to tear down
the miners tents at Forbes. To show
him they were obeying the orders of
the coal operators and not following
his advice. Ammons and Chase had
the miners homes destroyed again.
Officials of the United Mine Work
ers have announced that "when they
again erect these homes. they hope to
be in position to protect their prop
erty rights against all trespassers."
After robbing Colorado taxpayers of
$175,O0O to use the militia to terrorize
ard intimidate the strikers, Governor
Ammons has announced that he will
withdraw all uniformed scab-herders.
This statement has been made be.
fore. and resulted in nothing. About
the time the militia are to be with
drawn, the hired assassins of the op.
orators will start another reign of ter
ror. blame it on the strikers, and the
lickspittle governor will have another
excuse to keep the militia in the strike
zone.
The Commonwealth. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1911-1914, 1914-04-09
Two MODERN CASES
Mother Jones.

Mother Jones Is deprived In Colo
rado Of her liberty by armed men.
There Is no war In Colorado, only u
strike Of miners. Mother Jones Is not
accused of any acts forbidden by civil
or martial law.
She has had no trial before any
court. She Is an old white-haired
woman OF S2.
Mother Jones Is a native American.
She has lived here all her life. She
has not amassed any fortune.
She has not iorded 1t over anybody.
She has given her sympathies and her
services to her brothers and sisters
bent under the yoke OF wage slavery.
She is dearly beloved by them.
She was never hand and glove with
the exploiting master class. They al
ways hated and feared her because Of
her unselfish devotion to the workers.
She has for years given hid and com.
fort to the oppressed In all parts OF our
SounIEy
Tier temper is gentle and loving. Her
fiery eioquence Is poured out against
evil and evil-doers. Her courage is
.subiime.
Mother Jones' unlawful imprIson-
ment creates no stir. She Is poor.
The press does not foam at the
mouth over 1t.
The president and his cabinet are
not in the least concerned about the
outraged rights Of citizenship.
Our armed forces never for a
moment dream OF a campaign to free
our imprisoned citizen in Colorado.
Mother Jones is Of the working
class.-N Y Call.
The Commonwealth. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1911-1914, 1914-04-09
AN EXAMPLE IN POINT,

lehn D., lr.'s, Conscience Aequits Him.
I After witnessing three performances
! "she Gail Of Conscience" n friend
al the author. who is u church mem'
Der, said that hc was very much
pleased with tho play In every respect
excepting one. namely. he didn't like
the idea OF making of &. II. Deacon.
father Of the heroine. a religious man,
Despite his violation OF Cverp prin-
clple OF the Four Gospels said the
eomrade, "yoo never once intimate
that the old rascal was a hypocrite.
and that he wore religion merely as
a cloak to hide his deviItry."
The fact OF the matter is. simply
that C. H. Deacon was genuinely re-
ngious man, believed every word in
the Bible, and was not = hypocrite.
The character was drawn from life.
The author was one OF Deaeon's wage
slakes, in real life. There is not one
linA Of exageeraion ID the entire de-
inzAton Of his character. There Is
no Essential relation between morals
and religion; that Is the lesson that
both history and character study teach.
c. =. Deacon is a common type OF
boilreeoise Christian gentleman" and
"philanthropist." There Is nothing ex-
ceptional about him. His type Is to be
found 10 every large church IN the
United States. yes, and everywhere
else, for that matter.
AS an example in point, we quote
the following from the daily press Of
April :. which illustrates both for sou
and sanctimonious father the wide
chasm between essential goodness and
religiosity:
Son of weaithlest Man Is Griiied BY
Congressional Industrial IN
vestigators.
The Commonwealth. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1911-1914, 1914-04-09
JOHN D. owns 90 PER CENT
or STOCK OF COLORADO MINE
He, in Part. Responsible for the In
dustriai Conditions and
Recent Turmoil.

washington, D. C.. April 6.-John
d. Rockefeller, Jr, was handed with
out gloves here today by the congress
sional subcommittee which has been
investigating Industrial conditions IN
the Colorado coai fields.
. He was called on the strength of in-
formation in the committees hands
that the Rockefeller interests dOmi-
mated these fields and were back Of a
determined campaign to keep union
ism ont of them. What ne told
amounted to very little, for he had
never been close enough to the de-
tails Of the management OF the mines
with which he was connected to be
we'll informed, he said. concerning
them This. however, did not prevent
the committeeman from asking some
very pointed questions.
His father, the junior Rockefeller
said. owned 40 per cent Of the stock
in, the Colorado Fuel e Iron Go. He
himself holds only Just enough to
q;!alify as director. He did not know
mi Ech Of the company's methods or
policies.
Asked il he ever wrote, as reported,
fs Manager Bower of the Colorado
corporation, that he would stand by
the latter whatever he did, Rockefel-
ler admitted it. He denied. however.
that he was 'a dummy director"
Some Pertinent Questions.
"tT0w many directors meetings have
you attended in ten years." asked
Chairman Foster.
"Haye you assumed any active part
in the management of the Colorado
Fuel & Iron Coz" went on the con-
gressman.
ave knew through correspondence
what was going on" was the answer.
"Didn't you consider this strike of
l0.000 men of sufficient interest or
Importance to attend directors meet
ing last October?"
''|o."
80 You are connected with a civic
welfare movement, are you not?"
q aes."
Net yOu have taken no steps i'm
Ghls 4natgee invogyiMg several Thousand
raa.sp''
His Coincidence Aesggts Him.
T 2e,t that ] could 3e A0 more tham
1 have told yOu about"
"As chairman of the white slave
sran1 Jury 3n New York you did con-
siderable investigating? suggested
roster ''lSOuldn't you have under-
taken a !itlle personal investigating in
Colorado?"
II wish to say" replied Rockefeller.
that in the white slave cases I did
no personal investigating.
Don't you think your responsibility
toward the miner strikers in Colorado
went further than this?"
81 do not think anything more could
have been done"
The Commonwealth. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1911-1914, 1914-04-09
LOCAL EVERETT NO. 1 EN-
DORsEs sHIPLEY's PLAY.
Everett. Wash, Apr,l s. 191,

Everett, Wash April 5, 1914
Be it resolved by Local Everett No.
1, in regular meeting assembled, that
We give our unqualified endorsement
to Comrade Maynard Shipleys pay,
The Call of Conscience and recon-
n end 1t to the national office for the IL
consideration, be it further
Resolved. that We believe il TO be
the greatest piece of propaganda ever
produced ON the stage IA this country
c. p. MORRISON,
Charm an or Session.
PETER HUSBY,
Secretary OF Local
The Commonwealth. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1911-1914, 1914-04-09
NO FEAR.

David Starr Jordan, president of the
Leland Stanford university. said Of a
state that is notorious for underpaying G
its school teachers:
"a Young lady in this state went TO
the bank to get her monthly check
cashed. The paying teller, as he
counted the cash deity. said:
I'm sorry not to- be able to give
you clean. new bills. miss. I hope you
are not afraid of microbes
"'Oh. no. I'm not afraid of them
said the young lady, cheerfully. NO
microbe could live on my salary"
The Commonwealth. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1911-1914, 1914-04-09
MOTHER JONES
(By Eugene V. Debs)

Sitting in her prison pen in the
strike zone of Colorado Mother Jones
in the silence of her cell. broken only
by the tread of the beetle browed de-
generates that serve as the dogs Of
,the plutocratic scoundrels who have
in prisoned her, is writing chapter
in the history Of the American Re
public for which the children Of the
future will weave garlands for her
grave and rear monuments to her
memory.
Long after the Welborns, Osgoods
and Browns have gone the way of
kindred pirates and been swallowed
up in oblivion, or are remembered
only to excite loathing and execra-
tion, the name and fame of Mother
Jones will inspire the gratitude and
reverence of the people she fought for
With such intrepid yaior and suffered
with such unfiinching fortitude to set
free.
Brave, defiant, battle breathing
Mother Jones!
She is the flaming incarnation Of
the worlds prOletarian revolt against
capitalism's bloody misrule!
The Madame Breschovsky of the
American social revolution!
Prison and prosecution cannot
quench. but only fan into fiercer
flame the inextinsuishable fire of her
unconquerable soul.
Like the Maid of Orleans, this
snow crowded old warrior of the work.
ing class, too, heard voices, but not
the mystic voices heard in dreams.
The voices she heard came up out of
the pits; the choking, s0bbing, ago
nizing voices of the abysmal hell of
wage slavery, and these voices of toll
ers mangled and robbed, insulted and
despised. and their children crying for
bread, filled her soul with unutterable
hate for wage slavery and fired her
Va'orons spirit, as that Of the sublime
old fanatic, John Brown, had been
fired half century ago, into the flam-
ing fuse of an ayensine, destroying
ard emanC!pating revolution.
Mother Jones in a soabherdng mi
litia prison PEN
Governor Ammons in the states inn
perial capitol!
Behold fhem both, the one the in
spirad liberator of the masses, the
naitaP 9ha aeryile lackey of the prin-
gee Of pIundep and assassination; the
nne as glorious in her guarded cell as
the 0dher is despicable in his guarded
sano9um?
Here you see the living impersOna-
iion of the lofty revolutionary char
acler, and the low reactiOnary crea-
iures that are face to face today in
;h@ migh5iest struggle that ever
shocked this earth
! The cruel, outrageous infamous an
carceTati0n 09 a woman Of eighty
three, wigh no shadow of accusation
resting upon her fair name. would dis
grace the beast 0f the Jungle, but IL
cannot Dlackeu thc man.euslayine,
The Commonwealth. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1911-1914, 1914-04-09
SOCIALIST POLLS
BIG VOTE.

On Tuesday, April Z, five thousand
one hundred and ten PERSONS voted
for Gordon Demarest, Socialist. tor
congress, in the Seventh New Jersey
district. The Progressive candidate
pOiled only 500 votes. The Democratic
nominee heat C0mcade Gordon by only
33 votes G)ne DrukkeF, backed by
th@ money pOwers, was elected. 10, 4fa
5aJ90ae being caa. 3n his favor.
The Commonwealth. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1911-1914, 1914-04-09
WILL YOU HELP MOTHER
JONES?
National Executive Committee Calls
for Prompt Action.

To All Socialist Locals, Labor Organi-
cations and Lovers of Liberty:
The Socialist party will always be at
hand when labor's battle RACES fierc-
est
We gave what we could OF money,
and used our influence in West Vir-
ginia, where labor had been crushed
and lay bleeding. Our efforts there
were not in vain.
We aided the copper miners Of
Michigan to the extent OF our ability
with money and clothing, and were
instrumental in bringing about a con.
gressional investigation OF that har.
rowing war.
Such actions prove your power;
they prove the growing solidarity Of
labor.
Now, once again the party calls.
Not FOR money, although this is need
ed always in time OF strike
Simply speak as only labor can
speak.
There is war In Colorado-war OF
the coal barons against men asking
for bread. against women asking for
decent homes, against children who
ask but a chance in life.
In order to defeat our brothers the
writ OF habeas corpus has been sus-
nanf1ed In Colorado
In order to defeat them there have
been wholesale arrests Of strikers,
who have been held incommunicado
and denied the most common rights
guaranteed by the constitution.
| In order to defeat them the militia
was called out, and It was allowed to
rob and plunder the poor and assault
defenseless women and children with
out protest from the authorities.
In order to defeat them the servile
militia arrested Mother Jones ard fin
ally deported her to Denver, with the
threat that If she, returned to the
strike region she would be rearrested.
In order to defeat them they denied
Mother Jones the risht to testify to
the brutality OF the mine owners and
the militia before the congressional
committee.
In order to defeat them the mine
owners will descend to any depth of
infamy or crime. They will use the
militia. with its high powered rifles
and machine guns; criminals, gun
men, and thugs all for the protection
o. holy profits on one side against
human welfare on the other.
Shall they defeat them: They will
not, If you speak and demand justice.
Call meetings Immediately, and let
every gathering. OF few or many, send
its protest to the governor, Denver,
Colorado.
Draft resolutions in stern and mean
ingful language, and send them to the
president, to the congressman of your
district. and the senators of the Unit
ed States.
Let them hear again the voice of
labor. They are listening. They dare
not deny you. Speak! In the name of
the thousands who have suffered and
died In order that labor might have a
little more bread. We bid you. speak,
The National Executive Committee
OF the Socialist Party, by Walter Ian.
fersiek, Executive Secretary.
The Commonwealth. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1911-1914, 1914-04-09
LOCAL EVERETT NO. 8 WANTS
THE NATIONAL OFFICE TO
STAGE THE CALL OF CON-
SCIENCE"

Everett, Wash, April 5, 1914.
BE 1t resolved, by Local Everett.
Third Ward, that We recommend to
the national office that they put on
the road plays and motion picture $
instead of SO many speakers: be 1t
further
Resolved. that We especially recon-
mend Conrade Maynard Shipley's
drama The Call OF Conscience.
The Commonwealth. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1911-1914, 1914-04-09
SOCIALIST ELECTED.

st. John, Ore, April 7.-Dr. A. w.
Vincent. Socialist, was elected mayor
over Charles Bredeson, Republican,
Democrat, who sousht reelection. ac.
cording to the official count Of yes
terday's municipal election.
The Commonwealth. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1911-1914, 1914-04-09

womau-deoasing, 2hild-devoWiug mis-
Eula oi the Moloch d tho twentieth
ceutugy-capitalism
Arouse ye Plundereu Toilers Of the
Nation in Unyanquishable lost ard
Strike for Industrial Freedom and So.
cia' Justice!
The Commonwealth. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1911-1914, 1914-04-09

Competition slUts our markets. en-
ablas tho ricn TO take advantage Of
the necessities Of the poor. makes each
man snatch the bread out OF his
neighb0T's mouth, converts a nation OF
bTthrea into a mass Of hostile, iso-
iated units. and finally involves CAPT
talists and laborers in one common
Tlim-Greg
The Commonwealth. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1911-1914, 1914-04-09
LIKES THE COMMONWEALTH

"fc my way Of thinking, the Com.
monVealta is getting oet,ar evary
week / think all party members
should subscribe.
(Signed) WEBSTER SEAL.
"-Oi Caroliaa, Gellingham, Wash"
The Commonwealth. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1911-1914, 1914-04-09
SOCIALISM AT PANAMA.

Actual Socialism has a fOothold in
the canal zone A straw vote was
recentaly taken at the club houses
there with the following result Pro-
sressives, 1917. Democrat. 7s4; So.
oialist. 4io; Republican, 1o6, Prohib
tion, II Soc ialist Labor, 5.
The Commonwealth. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1911-1914, 1914-04-09

My heart NETS at human wretthed
ness,
Aud With severe. though uravaiIins
sighs,
view the helpless children oS 1as-
tFesc.
With tears indignant neha.d ahg OF.
DGesspS
Rejoicing IN 3he homes, mans dastrrc.
aaoB.
@hOes ugGu3mi,,ilg heaft vas all his
crime Robert Burns.