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The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1915-12-23

immigration and the Committee
on Labor.
l have devoted almost my en-
tire public life to the promotion of
the interests OF labor and of the
immigrant. AS a Socialist, all
questions affecting labor are of
the deepest concern to me and to
the party which I represent.
If assigned to these two com
mittees I will be able to continue
in congress the work I have until
now been doing outside Of con
gress. In all fairness l should not
be denied that opportunity.
The million Socialists, who, be-
cause of the absence Of proper
tional representation, will have
only one representative, instead
Of thirty-one, in this congress,
should have a spokesman in the
two important committees I have
mentioned
As a result Rep. London, alone il
the House as a Socialist, is now ;
member Of the Committee on Labor
The Committee on Mines and Mining
and the Committee on Expenditure
in the Department of Labor.
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1915-12-23
MILITARY TRAINING DE
FEATED

Los Angeles city board of educa-
ton defeated by a vote of to a
proposal to introduce military train
ing in the high schools
The board adopted the majority
report of the teachers and school
committee of the board, which ex-
pressed opposition to the extension
of the present system of physical
training along the military lines sug-
gested by the minority.
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1915-12-23
SOCIALIST PARTY
DIRECTORY

Cards will be inserted in this col
umn for the sum of fifty cents a
month.
NATIONAL EXECUTIVE sEcRE-
TARY. - Walter Lanfersiek, 800
West Madison ST., Chicago, Ill.
STATE SECRETARY OF WASHING
Toni. E. Katterfield, Box 491,
Everett, Wash. Office 314 Com
merce Bldg, Everett.
SNOHoMlSH COUNTY SEcRE-
TARY.-Carl Ulonska, Room 8, The
Forum, 1912 California Street, Ev-
erett, Wash.
LOCAL EVERETT No. meets every
Friday evening at in The Forum,
1912 California ST., Everett. Frank
Cort, fin.-sec.; Hanna Crosby, rec
sec; F. G. Crosby, organizer
LOCAL EDMONDS meets every Sur
day evening at 8, in Engels' hall,
Edmonds. c. E. Briggs, Edmonds,
recording Sec; B. H. Davis, Ed
monds, financial sec.
LOCAL MONROE meets on the list
and 3rd Fridays in the month at s
p. m. in the st. James hotel. R. w.
Thompson, Monroe, Sec; w. S. KEEL
Ter, Monroe, organizer.
LOCAL CEDAR VALLEY meets Oh
the End and 4th Saturdays in the
month at p. m. in the Cedar Val
ley church. Richard Pape. R. F. D.
Edmonds, sec; J. NJ. HDover, R. F.
D. Edmonds, organizer.
LOCAL LAKEWOOD meets every
Thursday in the month at $50 pm,
in Lakewood hall. Chas. Roth, R.
1 Arlington, fin.-sec.; John Over
void, R. 1 Arlington, organizer.
LOCAL RICHMOND meets every End
and 4th Sunday in the month at 9 p.
m in the homes of members. F.. D.
Hoffer, R. 1 Edmonds, fin.-sec.; Bon
ner Bartlett, Edmonds, rec. sec.
LOCAL GOLD BAR meets every Bird
Sunday in the month at 2 p. m. in
the homes of members. Rufus
Wren, Gold Bar, organizer; Gustus
Fleeder, fin. sec.
LOCAL StLVANA meets every Ord
Sunday afternoon in the months at
pm. in the Silyana Trading Union
hall. Arvid N. Berg, Silvana, fin.
and rec. sec; Ole Larson, silvana,
Organizer
LOCAL BRYANT meets every End
and 4th Sunday in the month at 2
p. m. in the homes of members.
Mike Kronholm, Bryant, fin.-sec.;
Oscar Carlson, RID. 4, Arlington,
organizer.
LOCAL HOME ACRES meets first
Sunday afternoon of each month at
comrade Chas. solie's residence. w.
J. Fortson, rec. Sec; Chas. Sole,
fin. Sec. Chas. Jurgus, organizer
LOCAL MARKHAM, Seattle, meets ev-
cry Thursday at 8 p. m, at 1433
Lakeside Ave. Lalla Rogers, 1433
Lakeside Ave, fin-sec.
LOCAL ARLINGTON meets every
Monday evening at 8 p. m. in the
Labor Temple. Homer CasweIl, rec.
sec. MILFORD Dougherty, Fin. sec.
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1915-12-23
A MEDICATION OF OPPORTIJN-
ISM IN THE LIGHT OF HISTORY
az---r-l by Ernest Untern,ann mu1----rr--r--r

by Ernest Untermann

opment, nationally and international.
~, we cannot hope for the assistance
of other voters, and our demands act
merely as propaganda, which remains
more or less utopian.
If the Socialist party desires to en-.
gage in practical politics, it must be
content to realize demands which cor
respond to the form and speed of the
most probable next development. and
which can secure the support of vot-
ers who are not yet Socialists. This
Is the only way in which majority
or plurality can be secured for such
demands, in the law-making bodies
of present society. The Socialist par
ty can act with full independence on
~ in those places, in which it has
secured the lawmaking plurality or
majority. But even then we can real
ize only those demands which cor
respond to the prevailing national and
international development. Such de.
mands will always benefit other
classes as well as the workers, and
will often benefit other classes more
than the workers. Even the most in.
dependent Socialist party, under a
capitalist environment, will often
have TO work into the hands of a por-
ton Of the ruling class and to solve
problems of the ruling class. And it
is generally the ultra-radcal attitude
Of uncompromising negation, so often
praised as the true Socialist attitude.
which works most effectively into the
hands Of the most reactionary Sec
tons of the ruling class.
Now it is true that Marx-Engels
very frequently realized and proclaim
ed this same fact, but at the same
time they also very often permitted
far-seeing wishes to assume he shape
of Immediately practicable working
class demands They very frequently
advocated tactic that could not lead
to any progressive results under the
prevailing economic and political CON
ditions. And a sober survey of the
most probable form and speed of the
capitalist development of the next
years could have shown that neither
a mass action nor a political represen-
tation of the workers could have en-
forced such demands.
When international politics compli-
Gated such difficulties of the national
politics, and when even the most rad
ical found themselves face to face
with social problems which compelled
them to take sides for or against GER
tain nationalities or races, in spite of
all international feeling, then it be-
came clearly evident that a general
foresight of the general drift of CAPT.
talist development as a whole, with
out an approximately correct esti-
mate of the form and speed of the
more immediate future evolution. was
a very insufficient and unreliable
guide in present-day problems These
difficulties have not been solved to
the present day. From them arise
most of the internal schisms and con
troversies among those who strive for
the international qualification of the
revolutionary workers. Let US now
examine, in our next letter, what hap
pened in the old International.
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1915-12-23
REMEMBERED

Mother, you must have known our
principal when you went to school
why, yes, I guess l did
He seemed to remember you to-
day. He told me what a bright girl
was, and then he said, 1T doesn't
seem possible that you can be Amy
Jones' daughter cleveland Plain
Dealer.
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1915-12-23

Serious domestic disturbances in
Russia have caused lne interruption
of all private telegraphic communica-
ton, according to the Stockholm cor
respondent of The Frankfurter Zei-
tung.
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1915-12-23

Have your fruit trees and shrubbery
properly sprayed, pruned and ferti.
Lied. Chicken houses sprayed and
dislnfected. Have had many years
experience. Phone evenings, Ind.
12o5X.
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1915-12-23

On sale. at the office of The North
west Worker - Murphy's Lightning
Razor Hone (strop honey Paste. Try
a box, 25c.
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1915-12-23

RED HOT If you want for self or
friends, paper that combats all re-
igious dogma. Send SOC for each
subscriber and get the hottest paper
published - AGN0STIC. Don't de
lay Send today THE CRUCIBLE,
H. 1880 1st Ave, Seattle PAPER
so cents.
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1915-12-23

What has he been doing since he
graduated from college?'
He's been trying to find out what
he learned. Life.
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1915-12-23

Help US make a sIedge-hammer blow
at the system next year by wipng out
the deficit on the paper right away.
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1915-12-23
PREMATURE DEMANDS

The Germans in 1864 did not have
even a legal foundation for the most
important Lassallean demands, which
fell considerably below those of
MarX-Engels Lassalle himself en-
countered the violent opposition of
the leading German radicals of the
bourgeoisie and working class.
A sober survey of the then prevail
ing economic and political conditions
of Central Europe might very we'll
have disclosed by the help of the ma
terialist conception of history, that
even a petty bourgeois republic could
not arise under such circumstances,
let alone a real Democratic republic.
From the forties to the sixties Of the
nineteenth century, the petty bour-
geoisie of Central Europe was econom.
ically too incoherent and powerless
to overcome the feudal nobility and
the great capitalists. The working
people were mostly dominated by
agrarian feudalism and artisan dis
ordinations. Neither the national
nor the international politics could
produce anything else but victory
of the reactionaries.
After 1849, Germany's external pol-
itics offered nothing but a choice be-
tween different more or less feudal
governments. The best that the
bourgeois democracy and the radical
workers could hope for was a victory
Of that government which would, by
its predominance in Central Furope.
bring most probably and most speed
lily certain political rights for the
mass of the people. The German
Democrats could not hope for any
thing from Russia. The predominance
of France signified a loss of large
slices of German territory inhabited
by the most advanced sections of the
petty bourgeoisie and working class.
A choice between the governments of
Prussia and Austria might have been
difficult at first sight, but if one
judged more by the existing balance
Of powers than by vague sympathies.
the majority must decide in favor of
Prussia. The Prussian government
found itself in a similar quandary as
Napoleon the Third after his stroke
of diplomacy in December, 1851. The
Prussian government, unless it wished
to deliver itself helplessly to the feu-
dal nobility, had to grant some poIit,
cal rights to the petty boureeoisie and
to the working class The Austrian
government on the other hand. was
still so situated that it could hold it.
self against all other classes by the
help Of the feudal aristocracy.
The international politics of Ger
many were dominated by the question.
whether slesyigHolstein, Poland and.
Italy should become free and auto
nomous, or whether they should be
dominated, or annexed, by one of the
leading powers. If Austria retained
the leadership of Central Europe.
Italy and Poland could not be freed
from Austria and Russia. If Prussia
gained the ascendency, SIesvig-ITol-
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1915-12-23

C. E. ogrosky, Glove and shoe Re.
pairing, POOL Hewitt Avenue.
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1915-12-23

SilVerware at reduced prices at Cur
ran Hardware Co.
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1915-12-23

Bargreen's Golden Drip Coffee. I'M
periaI Tea Co., 1907 Hewitt Avenue.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1915-10-15
WHALER BELVEDERE
BACK FROM ARCTIC

Ending a perilous seven months
cruise In the Arctic. the stear1
whaling bark Belyedere. Capt. A. p.
JochImsen. Is in port here Friday
with furs, walrus hides. ivory End
whale oil, but with four OF the crew
missing at the price Of success.
In a heavy storm In Kamchatka
bay during the summer she came
near laundering George Tabester.
Antonio Roderick. John Domingo
and an unknown Russian. we're
swept out 10 sea IN an open boat
and lost
Olaf Swenson. second officer. and
Chief Engineer J. r Clayton swan
ashore and reported their comrndea
drowned
AZ member ~ tho Stefansaon
exploring expedition. the Belvedere
carried supplies from Nome to
Herschel island In l912-14 Her
master was IN charge Of the achoon-
or King and Winge, which rescued
the survivors Of the Stefansson OK.
petition on Wrangel island.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1915-10-15

.at. n cast ~ sbt
BABY" seeesmp representative Sc
attic people will take part in the
snow
The circus will be given every
evening during tho week.
In the afternoon there will be
card parties and other social fune.
tons. while In the early evening
there will DO suppcrs under the
auspices % various Seattle
churches.
The circus program will be- fol.
lowed by vaudeville acts and other
Ike features. and thcsr. In turn.
will be followed by dancing
Tho charity TO receive the net
proceeds Of tho show will De deter.
mined BY means Of voting contest
Each perron entering tho biz tent
will be required TO vote for his or
her favorite charity The result of
the contest each day viii DO kept
secret until Saturday night. when
he winner will be announced.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1915-10-15
W.C.T.U. Ministering Angel
Tells Star Man of Her Work
She Guides Countless Hands in Performance of Deeds
Of Mercy and Charity

II 90 happens that every time
Ohio flood waters break loose. or q
tidal wave sweeps Galveston, or an
/ earthquake levels San Francisco
Miss Leila NJ sewsll. OF Brookline
Mass. touches button.
one IL just as inevitable Rs the
other.
And almost before she releases
the pressure OF her finger. the
mighty wheels OF the Womans
I Christian Temperance union relief
machine are set In motion.
Instantly. in every city in tho
country. ~ the disaster is great
enough. countless hands begin a
search for clothing. flour. medicines
everything that is necessary for
the rescue. protection and comfort
Of human life
She Gets Quick Action
Two years ago. said Miss
sewall. when the Ohio floods
came. sent out call for supplies
aud clothing In Boston then ex.
tended the call 10 other parts OF the
state and ordered all the supplies
sent TO n Depot in Boston had
scarcely sent out the last OF my
messages when Boston wired me
that II didn't come and move the
goods already collected in that city.
there would be no room for more
from the rest OF the state
But supplying relief for the -if.
ferers in great disasters Ia n small
part OF the work performed by Miss
Sewall and the department OF which
she IS superintendent flower
mission and relief work department.
In Touch With Poor
Her greatest task Is keeping in
touch with the condition OF poor
families In America.
There is not city in which there
are not women and children. and
men as we'll. who have not felt the
kindly touch OF Miss Sewalls hand.
figuratively speaking
In BOSTON alone there are Christ.
mas. New Years and Thanksgiving
dinners for 500 needy families .v-
cry year. These dinners are pre-.
pared and delivered by the Won.
ans Christian Temperance union OF
that city
Wants 20 Reach All
In Seattle the same system OF re.
| lief prevails. and Miss Sewall says
she intends 10 extend the work still
l further. until there is no city in
America. Alaska included. where
tho W. c. r. L, hand OF charity does
not reach.
Flowers, always n message OF
happiness to the III and unfortun
ate. find their way into myriads OF
homes and hospitals thru Miss
Sewall and her state lieutenants.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1915-10-15

ton. W. c. r T.. which closed
here Thursday night. will leave Sc
attic by special White Ribbon"
train Saturday for California expo.
sItions
One OF the most remarkable side.
lights OF the convention WAS the
dry prayer uttered Wednesday
by the entire body in behalf OF
Richland county. Montana. Which
was voting on local option. The
prayer was answered. Richland is
the only dry" county IN that state
today.
After indorslng the Alternately
bin suppressing liquor advertising
IN newspapers. and electing Miss
Mary r. w. Anderson OF Boston
general secretary OF the young PEG.
pies branch. w G. r. L.. the con.
vention closed with 1000 persons
singing God BE With You TIL We
Meet Again"
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1915-10-15
AUTOS
IF We co TO WAR
Volunteers Offer Cars: ANA
teur Aviators Also Offer
Services; Physicians. Too
U. S. KEEPS RECORD

WASHINGTON. u. G.. Oct Is
In event OF war the government
would have 20 depend on private
individuals 70 furnish automobiles
for transportation % troops and
supplies. Therefore the depart
ment Is in touch with tho sources
and has on file offers from private
individuals and firms Of cars 10 be
so used. A man writing from Chi.
cago tenders 1000 cars. a Detroit
club informs the department that
5000 cars can be had there.
Individual amateur ayiators have
written the department rendering
their aeroplanes and services.
The surgeon generals office has
a record % 55s physicians and sur.
geons In private practice who have
never been in the military service.
who have volunteered in case Of
necessity. This IL exclusive OF the
400 officers o. the medical reserve
corps not on actual duty who would
be available for service In the event
OF necessity.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1915-10-15
HEAD STUFFED FROM
CATARRH OR A COLD
Says Cream Applied in Nos
triIs Opens Air Passages
Right Up.

600 .>.<.s . go. $50 .. .. !.
Instant relief-no waiting. Your
clogged nostrils open right up. the
air passages OF your head clear and
you can breathe freely. No more
hawking. snuffing. blowing. head
ache. dryness. No struggling for
breath at night your cold or
cstsrrh disappears.
Get a small bottle Of Ely's Cream
Balm from your druggist now Ap-
ply little Of this fragrant. anti.
septic, healing cream In your nos
trils II penetrates through every
air passage Of the head. soothes
the inflamed or swollen mucous
membrane and relief comes In
stsntly.
It's just fine. Don't stay stuffed
up with a cold or nasty catarrh.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1915-10-15
DELEGATES Leave
FOR ExPOSITIONS

The executive committee Of the
w. c. T. T., at a meeting Friday.
decided to hold the 1916 convention
at Indianapolis. in either November
or December.
lmbued with a determination to
see national constitutional prohibi
ton n reality before the close Of
the next session OF congress. 700
delegates to the national conven.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1915-10-15

Il United Press STAFF Correspondent
LONDON. Sept. 20. thy Maii1
The open season for spies Is on.
/ Presumably on account OF the ri.
gantic preparations OF both eoun.
tries for the longdelayed big
push" In Flanders. never since the
war began have anti-espionage ae.
tivitics by England and Germany
been 80 thoro.
Every traveller TO or from Ilol.
land Is watched lilo In guilty until
he proves himself innocent.
/ suppose YOU were spy. How
would you 30 about Il. and what
would be your chances OF getting
away with IT,
/ Here ia tho story of make-he.
liove spy. who recently made the
round trip from London to Berlin.
An American newspaper man. he
was going on perfectly legitimate
mission. lie was properly neutral
hut that Il precisely tho role spies
Assume.
They fake an american accent -
travel with n forged American pass
port. and make noise like a real
journalist.
A Potential Spy
Potentially he was spy lie
didn't carry any discriminating doc
uments Neither does a clever spy
But no had lot OF Information
mentally bottled that would un.
douhtedly have bcen ot aid and com.
fort 20 the Germans
lie didn't advertise tho fact that
I hts destination vas nerlin When
he applied at tho British home %.
flee for bis permit TO depart ere.
Iquired OF all travellers 20 tho cont.
nent these daysl. he said he was
going TO The Hague
This Was true-but not all the
truth
lie was thoroly questioned ~ the
home Office as 20 why he wanted TO
40 20 The Hague lie told the
truth. Apparently they seemed sat.
isfied
At Tilbury. whence sail daily
steamers for FushinE. came the
real inquisltion.
He was questioned and cross.
questioned separately by six off.
ciais. inspectors OF aliens. Scotland
Yard bulls and an army colonel.
After a long wait he was sent 10
the custom house for baggage CT.
ANIMATION.
Ills story had apparently held
water. II was true-hut Il might
not have been
Luggage Uresamlred
Then tho luggage" inspector
Same questions. Same replica
Tho traveller started To get out
his keys. Tho Inspector gave him
the onceovcr.
Never mind: fancy you're all
right" and ehalkcd his initials on
the bags
Not only that. but he carried
them 10 the gangplAnk himself
The traveller had successfully
played his role 81 potential German
spy Neither his baggage nor his
person had been examined.
Others were not so successful.
These sleuths have made some fine
hauls iu toe last few weeks.
Dropping his imaginative charac.
ter Of pro-German spy. tho traveller.
as the steamer started across the
mine.strcwu North sea. shamrlessiy
switched his allegiance and pre-.
tended himself a prO.British spy,
Just 10 see how the Germans would
handle him
(Tomorrow. BREAKING INTO
GERMANY.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1915-10-15
CHAMBERLAIN FOR IT

PORTLAND. Ore. oct. t5.-Thaf
he is heartily I'm favor Of Secretary
Of War Garrison plan TO Increase
the army was the declaration today
OF Senator Chamberlain. chairman
OF tho senate military affairs com.
mittee.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1915-10-15
TO PROTEST CENSOR

The Seattle Chamber OF Com.
merce has beon asked by the San
Francisco Chamber OF Commerce 10
join with II In protesting TO Secre-
tary Of state Lansing against Brit.
ish ccnaoring OF cable messages
from the United States to foreign
countries.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1915-10-15
PIONEER 80 YEARS OLD

Mrs. Elizabeth W p. Guye. who
used 20 walk thru a forest trail from
her homo at 1927 nth ave. when
she first came here. and who now
rides from her home over paved
streets in her sons automobile. has
Just passed her seth birthday.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1915-10-15

PETROGRAD. Oct IS Nine.
Breskovskaya. the we'll known revo-
lutionary leader who was banished
TO Northern Siberia two years after
a sensational escape In mans cloth
ing from Klrcnsk down tho frozen
Lena river. has been allowed to
leave Yakutsky and settle Mt any
point in the Irkutsk government
outside Of lrkutsk city
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1915-10-15
DELEGATE MISSING

+ NJ. Lawrence. delegate TO the
w. G. 7. L. convention from Port
land. Ne. reported TO the police
at midnight that Mrs Mabel 4. An
drcws. 50. also OF Portland. Me.
vas missing.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1915-10-15
SOME ApPIES. THESE

A nine ear-old tree on Ice Gard.
ners place. at 5242 Rainier ave. Is
the proud parent OF an apple weigh.
Ing 20 ounces II took Just "a OF
these apples to fill a box.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1915-10-15
AZ KING LEAVES ssy "a,

Ah King. Chinese seattle mer.
chant. who died recently. left an Is.
tate valued at t67.tsi.aa. according
to the inventory and Rppraisement
OF tho estate jus filed in probate
court