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The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1915-07-29
The Need of ORGANIZATION

be found in the ignorance, weakness
and impotency of their unorganized
and helpless workers who are depend
ent upon them for employment.
The task before US, therefore, is the
economic and political organization,
with all the education, enlightenment,
discipline, and selfrestraint this i'm
plies, Of the working class.
The recruiting, awakening and co.
originating of the workers in their
own Industrial Grand Army, where
they stand elbow to elbow in class
conscious array, feeling themselves
multiplied many times by the magic
touch of solidarity; and their spirits
rising within them and finding express
sion in boundless enthusiasm in anti
cipation of the fulfillment of their age
long dream of emancipation, is the
greatest work in which any human
being ever engaged since the world
was born.
To give ones self wholly and un-
reservedly to this cause is to be born
again and to feel the new life bound
ing in ones veins and swelling into
hope, courage, and self-reliance such
as forever defy disappointment and de-
feat and stand unafraid before all the
world. To the extent that the work
ers are rightly organized and fitted
to take their places in the new order
as free and self-governing citizens of
the collective commonwealth, the revo-
luton will come in peace instead Of
the deluge of blood which has accom-
panied all the upheavals of the past.
We need not worry as to how to get
rid of our exploiters once we know
how to get along with ourselves.
With the workers organized as an
industrial and political army, they
could walk peacefully into their own,
and all the power that now rules and
curses the world would dissolve and
fade at their conquering approach.
Let us study the ~ "A how 10 unite
for our common good, and stop fight
ing among ourselves for orr common
destruction!
Let us bend all our energies to or
ganize the workers industrially and
politically and let minor differences
take care of themselves!
The industrial evolution is compell-
ing the industrial organization of the
workers, and we have but to watch it's
progress and adapt our methods to
the changing conditions.
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1915-07-29
BY EUGENE v. DEBs

The subject here discussed is a
trite one, but it is nevertheless of per
ennial interest to the workers.
The substantial progress of the So
cialist movement and the successful
outcome Of the social revolution are
wholly dependent upon the thorough
and efficient organization of the work.
ing class. The impending social trans.
formation involving the change from
capitalism to Socialism is, therefore
in a word, matter Of organization.
But the fact should not be lost sight
OF that organization itself is subject to
continuous change, especially in this
evolutionary epoch, and that the forms
and methods of decade ago, or even
less, are now outgrown, or at least out
Of date, and that unless organization
adapts itself to the changing condi-
lions under which the class struggle
Is being waged, it's efficiency for good
will be impaired, and in time it will
be discredited and fall into disuse, il
1t does not become actually reaction
airy and hindrance instead of a help
to the workers.
The class struggle is the fact to be
kept uppermost in mind when the mat
ter of organization is considered. It
is this fact that is the bedrock OF mill.
tant Socialism. Build upon this rock,
industrial and political organization
Of the workers cannot fail. The
storms and tempests may assail it, but
1t will stand impregnable and defiant
against them all. But the very hour
it slips from that foundation it is in
the shifting and treacherous quick
sands and it's doom is sealed.
The economic and political organiza-
ton of the working class upon scienti-
fic principles is the most stupendous
challenge to all the future in the name
of all humanity.
1t is precisely because the workers
are not organized efficiently and are
usabie to develop ana assert their in
vincible power that they grovel at the
feet of their petty masters and cry
out impotently against their unhappy
fate.
The ruling masters of capitalism Of
themselves are not strong but pitt
fully weak and contemptibly vulner.
able. The despotic power they have
and exercise, as such power is always
exercised, is not inherent in them
selves or in their class at all, but is to
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1915-07-29
TO sNOHOMISH SECRETARIES

Secretaries are hereby notified that
the dues have been raised to II cents
per stamp. This is in accordance
with the ruling of the state secretary,
who informs US that the extra 2 cents
is to pay for the per diem fund for
state conventions. When ordering
your stamps from the county secretary
in future see that you send in II cents
for each regular and dual stamp. This
works out at the rate of $340 for a
book of regulars and $40 for a book
of duals
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1915-07-29
A DANGEROUS CITIZEN

Surgeon General w. c. Gorgas,
draining Panama marshes and bring
ing health to the men working in a
climate that had decimated the
French, was most estimable citizen.
Many people have been glad to honor
him for his great work. But Major
General w. c. Gorgas, proposing to
add thirteen years to the average of
human life by doubling the wages of
workmen, is in fair way to be de-
nounced as dangerous citizen.
Doubling the wages of workmen can
be done only by taking from the House
of Have and giving to the House of
Want. Destroying insect parasites is
popular; restraining human parasites
is dangerous.-S. c.
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1915-07-29
THE JULY LEAFLETS

July leaflets from the Appeal have
not yet come to hand, SO it looks as
though the order did not reach the
publishers in time. Those locals that
have paid for July leaflets will get
August leaflets in their place. Money
for the September leaflets should be
sent in right away SO that the county
secretary can send away the money
early enough to be sure of their de-
livery All money for leaflets not in
this office by August goth will be held
over till the next months leaflets are
ordered. Snohomish County Secretary
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LECTURES HELD
DURING NEXT WEEK
CARRIE W. ALLEN

CAhHIE w. ALLEN
Fri, 3oth, Sat-, 31st, Aug. list, Mon.
roe; Mon., Aug. End, McMurray;
Tues 3rd, Lyman; Wed, 4th, Sank;
Thurs, 5th, Dewey; Fri, 9th, Lopez;
Sat-, 9TH, eayview; Sum-, 9Th, So. Bel
bingham.
EMIL HERMAN
Aug. list, Hoquiam, 2 p. M, Aber-
deem, 8 p. m; Mon., End, Moclips;
Tues, 3rd, Westport; Wed, 18th, Cos
mopols; Thurs, 5th, South Bend; Fri,
9th, Raymond; Sat-, 9TH, open; SUM-,
9th, IIwaco.
CARL ULONSkA
SUM-, Aug. list, Walla Walla; Mon,
End, WaIlula; Tues, 3rd, kennewick;
Wed, 4th, Richland; Thurs, 5th
Pasco; Fri, 9th, Horse Heaven; Sat-
9TH, Prosser; Sum-, 9Th, 2 p. m, Nab
ton, 8 p. m, Grandview.
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that rather than do honor to the man
who more than any other murdered
whatever there was to American lib
erty. Bernard Shaw when prevailed
upon by American admirers to give a
reason why he would not tour this
country replied that the statute of lib
erty in New York harbor was too
much for even his sense of irony"
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1915-07-29

III is true tnat the TSar seemed one
Of the first to welcome Carnegie's
program, but those who were best in.
formed, the British and German gov.
ernments, did not trust the Tsar, nor
did they trust one another.
Now the question of disarmament
will be decided by the armed conflict.
IL there are any vanquished at the
end of the war, they will be forced by
the victors to agsse to a partial dis
armament. If there should be no vic
tor strong enough to enforce peace
terms, disarmament will be farther
away than ever. In the one case, the
victor will not disarm, in the other
none of the principal nations will dis
arm. They will rather prepare for a
new struggle.
viii U. s. Disarm?
The United States has a much small
Ter army than most European nations,
and navy inferior to that of the great
maritime powers. Disarmament would
be technically easier, and strategeti-
cally less dangerous, for this country
than for most others, provided that
Europe and Asia would also reduce
ornaments to a point where an in
yasion of America would become i'm
possible.
There is no probability of disarma-
ment in this country, however. On
the contrary, in view Of the most
probable outcome of the European war
and Of the situation in Mexico and
China, the American government will
increase it's army and navy.
Even if all the Socialists, labor
unionists and old party pacifists
should join hands in the effort to curb
American militarism, they could not
succeed this year, nor next year, nor
not united, neither in a common CO.
operation nor within their own ranks,
and there is no immediate prospect
that their mutual and internal differ
ences will be settled quickly enough
to make them solid and effective as
force that could prevent an invasion
of Mexico and an armed conflict in
Asiatic regions
Imperialism on the Upgrade
All signs point to the probability
that not only the militarism and i'm
perialism of at least some great Eu-
ropean nations, but also that of the
United States are on the ascending
arc and will continue on it for a gen.
Grafton or longer. In view of this
probability, all programs demanding
an immediate disarmament all over
the world, or an international court bf
arbitration, universal national indie
pendence, ETC., are necessarily vision
airy.
The Socialist party should not ad-
vocate any visionary programs. 1t
should be the one political party that
reads the drift of evolution correctly
and should advocate only such imme-
date programs as seem reasonably
practicable within the compass OF
present-day politics. All foreseen ad-
justments, which must be realized in
more remote period of evolution,
should be advocated only as matters
of fundamental propaganda.
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occurrence.
ITO my way of thinking" comments
comrade Rogers, "it would amount to
very little if true, for certain it is
lie effectually to all our symbols and
formularies of freedom. Another
thing that is told of the bell rs that it
became cracked while tolling the death
of John Marshal. l could very we'll
believe that, for one, l would expect
any self-respecting Liberty Bell to do
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1915-07-29
By ERNEST UNTERMANN

4 lions or almost everything he ever ad
vocated Free silver, antitrust laws
anti-imperialist rawlings, anti-govern.
ment ownership-and then a com.
promise with Gold democrats, trust
magnates, imperialists and govern.
ment ownership Now he Is a paclfist
who assists lmperialists in Mexico and
in Europe.
| Socialist utopIans.
The Socialist and other radical uto.
plans know that the modern working
class can not adopt NONRESIDENT pol.
Icy. Many Of them also realize that
the ruling classes will not willingly
adopt disarmament program which
would deprive them of the power to
crush rebellious workers at home. Yet
these same utopians imagine that they
can extort from the present-day CAPT
talist governments q disarmament
which would imply voluntary agree
ment of all great governments to re:
duce their militarism and to arbitrate
all international questions of political
or industrial differences.
In support of this visionary idea
these utopians argue that not every
tendency of capitalist evolution is IT.
resistible as fate so long as capitalism
lasts, and that militarism, Imperialism
finance and colonial expansion belong
to those tendencies which can be ar
rested and overcome even within the
capitalist system.
Their forecast of the Immediate fu-
ture reckons with revived and soli-
dified Socialist International, which
shall have enough power to stir pub
lie opinion into an effective .opposi-
ton to the militarist and imperialist
plans. They admit that even this re-
vived Socialist International will rep
resent but minority Of the workers
of the world, but they count upon the
cooperation of the bourgeois pacifists
and hope to secure :. majority in this
way.
1t is certain that this program can
not be realized within any period
which the present active generation
can practically encompass. Whether
these tendencies can be curbed or
overcome in the next generation, with
in the limits Of capitalism, is matter
of theoretical speculation which can
hardly claim any influence over our
present-day policies.
If this utopian anti-militarist pro-
gram can not be realized, say, within
the next five, or at most, ten years,
then it must be evident that our op-
position can not take the shape ofde-
finite immediate programs, but can
be expressed only in the form of
general propaganda of fundamental
principles, like our demand for the
abolition of capitalism.
Carnegie's Failure.
Carnegie and his friend Chamber
lain lost their cause, and it is not
very probable that they will gain in
the near future, no matter how the
present war may end
Even If England and Germany
could have agreed on a common pro-
gram Of reducing their ornaments, its
execution would not have been pos
sible without the consent of Russia.
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1915-07-29
PACIFIST UTOPIAS

| The various pacifist, anti-militaris
and anti-imperialist programs advocat
ed by sentimentalists of all classes
arise from different motives, but are
essentially alike in their utopian disre
gard of fundamental facts. All o.
them are impractical, because they ad
vance as immediate demands certain
adjustments which can be realized
only in the course of a long evolution
Tolstoy, Carnegie, Bryan and Other
non-resistants start from different
practical premises, but arrive at the
same impractical conclusion, by com
pletely ignoring the essential facts Of
present-day capitalist life.
The sentimentalists from the differ
ent radical and revolutionist camps
who champion a pure pacifism, dis
agree with the bourgeois non-resist
ants in matters OF the class struggle
but agree with them in making de
mands upon the capitalist state which
can be realized only by Socialist ma
jority.
A political cooperation between the
bourgeois and revolutionist represen
tatives in the parliaments can not
overcome the dominant capitalist ma
jorities, because the increase in So
cialist representatives weakens the
very elements in the old parties that
advocate a pacifist program, so that
the issue narrows down to struggle
between imperialist capitalists and
democratic Socialists.
The bourgeois pacifists who pose as
radicals are invariably Missionaries and
|reactionaries at heart. Tolstoy's non.
resistant ideas are latter-day copy
of primitive Christian teachings. Car
negie's pacifism is dictated by utter
blindness to the drift of social evolu-
ton.
The primitive Christian non-resist-
ant practiced resignation as matter
of religious conviction, hoping for help
from above and awaiting the millen-
ilnm. Conditions in the ancient Roman
empire left no other alternative to
the lowly, but to resort to violence
against overwhelming odds, or to drag
out a life of resigned submission. Toll
stoy copied this last program at a
time when social conditions make an
economic Ind political resistance in
escapable for the modern working
class, and when the capitalist govern
ments are victims of militarist poll
cies, from which neither they nor the
working class can be emancipated
within the frame of capitalist environ
ment.
Carnegie's pacifism is of British
parentage. Influential circles of Eng
lish finance and industry have for
years attempted an approach Of the
English government to the German, in
order to avoid the other alternative, a
war of determination, which would en-.
danger the interests of these English
men while attempting to strengthen
the position of their domestic rivals
in the imperialist camp. These Brit
ish pacifists failed to change the con-
ditions which enforced the alternative
dreaded by them.
Bryan's political career is a series
of reactionary programs and recanta-
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1915-07-29
Socialist BalderdaSh

: tific Socialism is based, Is to be aban-
doned and the DEGREES of the world
government are to be carried out
WITHOUT RESORT TO ARMS. This
is pure philosophic anarchy and
comes from big heart and q small
brain. Gentle persuasion will create
brotherly love. The powers that be
will undoubtedly listen to our advice
and mend their ways, WITHOUT
COMPULSION. And II they don't we
can point with pride to the fact that
we have expostulated with them in
resolutions and manifestos and thus
done all that could reasonably be ex-
pected from us. This will entitle us
to the votes of all NUTS.
1t did not seem to strike the national
committee that II war breaks out, the
Organization will be paralyzed by mar
tial law; that, as in Europe, the lead
patriotic, or their backbones and be-
come towards. That therefore no pro-
posal to stop war is practical or even
honest, which does not prepare the in
dividual for the dilemma Of being
shot as traitor or become a murderer
of his fellows. The Quakers have that
much sense.
Do we want to abolish war before
we have gained our freedom? Are
we to follow in the footsteps of the
meek Nazarene? Or the eccentric Toll
stoy? If war is one of the many evils
of capitalism, why should we waste
time and energy to trim the branches
and leave the root untouched? What
more can we do than advise our COM
rades to leave the war alone and to
fervently hope that as many NUTS
may be killed as possible In order that
the standard Of average intelligence
may rise correspondinsIy?
A SERIOUS SITUATION
While the committee INDUCED in
hot-air Quixotisms and phrase gym
nastics, the party, the only organiza-
tion that even attempts to. do some
thing for emancipation, is slowly but
surely heading for the rocks, poorly
differed, crew mutinous, and leaking
in every joint. The Socialist party
is revolutionary or it is fraud. 1t
would be unreasonable to expect a
national committee, the great major
ity of which is composed Of incorri-
gible opportunists, to correct the
blunders of national convention, by
giving the party program that would
give it some semblance of excuse for
existence; for the committee has not
the constitutional power to do SO, even
if it were inclined, which it is not.
But we might have expected that it
could have elected more capable ma
tional secretary and have left out of
the national executive committee the
three members who from their past
services have proven their incompet-
ency for so important an office. In
ternicine strife is perhaps inevitable
in the party, but it is not SO necessary
that those who like to fan the flame
of hatred and dissension should be
given encouragement. True, their
term is short, but the committee has
fixed it so that Berger, the fusionist,
will be elected next winter, by a men,
bership which does not know that he
and the Kaiser stand for the same
thing.
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1915-07-29
BY FRANs BosTRoM

by TRANS BOSTROM
1t makes a fellow tired to read such
rubbish as is contained in the Anti
War Manifesto and Peace Program
prepared by the national committee at
its May meeting and which Is now be-
ing voted upon by the membership as
National Referendum b, 1915. Moth.
ing can better Illustrate the prepos.
terousness of the Socialist claim to
scientificness than the average resolu-
ton, platform or manifesto drawn up
by the idiotic bunch of opportunists,
who, because of their skill in plati-
tudes, have succeeded in gaining as
tendency in the national affairs of
the party.
That Socialism is scientific con-
clusion drawn from known sociological
facts is undeniable: but that does not
make the rainbow chasings Of barn
storming political revivalists scienti-
fic, or even tolerably sensible.
Just think for minute of what this
piece of childishness says, this great
manifesto. Let us begin with the be-
ginning sentence: THE supreme
crisis in human history is upon u.s."
Let me ask the national committee
if this means that We are to abandon
the law of Economic Determinism?
We have been taught that the great
epochs in history have been the USE
full discoveries and inventions, that
the social history of mankind was
mere corollary of these Industrial ad-
vancements, mere re-adjustments in
order to make the social structure fit
the needs of modern machinery. But
now our national sages tell us to put
the cart before the horse. Let us read
further: European civilization is en-
quilted. /. The future of the hui
man race is imperilled" Does the
committee mean that in this war we
are to lose track of our sciences, the
arts of making fire, melting iron, build
ing houses, machines, ships and air.
crafts, or does it really believe that
the world would lose anything by hav-
ing all it's old mossgrown institu-
tons overthrown and destroyed? Par
don me my opportunist comrades for
stating frankly that you are exceed
ingly poor stuff to make Socialists
out of, if you are so devoid of optim-
ism that you think that the world can
move backward or the human race can
be imperilled by anything that can
happen through human agency
1915 UTOPIANISM
Space forbids treating the subject
in detail Suffice it, however, to point
out that after an explanation of how
capitalism naturally leads to war, and
reminder of the strenuous efforts of
the Socialists to prevent it, the COM
mittee admits that capitalism has
created Frankenstein that will de-
stroy it's creator and that the party
has been engaged in fighting wind
mills. But never more. After this
manifesto has been ratified, We will
have a program that will settle the
question. We are going to tell the
governments of the world how we
want the world governed We want
United States of the world. But the
ancient law of force, upon which all
hitherto existing society has been
based, and upon which in fact scien-
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1t Is disgrace and a reflection on
the intelligence of the race to have
to be always looking out to see that
the poor are fed
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A chance on fifty dollar diamond
ring for every dollars worth of subs
sent in by you.
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No man is good enough to be an.
other mans Observation-Disclosures
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A D YER TISER s
ARE SPENDING THEIR GOOD MONEY ON

ARE SPENDING THEIR GOOD MONEY ON
YOUR PAPER
They do this in order to spend your good money
In their stores We should not have you that
you ought TO do this your material advantage de-
mands that do it, The competitive system has within
itself the seed of its destruction only
those that advertise in this you help to survive
in the struggle for existence, which turn helps your
paper to survive.
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CARRIE w. ALLEN WILL LECTURE

On the Cause and Cure of War Hope to all
Socialists in the surrounding district there that date
early in the morning enjoy the whole days
dongs.
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MONROE PICNIC


The Socialists of Monroe will hold picnic Kruses
Grove, mile from Monroe, Sunday. There will
something doing all day Sports, music, refreshments