The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1916-09-21

State Secretary.
Voting on National Referendum &C"
(a) Closes September oath. If you
want your ballots counted you must
have them in this office on or before
that date.
Picnic Mt Kuna.
A very nice little picnic was arrang-
ed by the comrades of the Kuna local
at the Russell ranch, three miles west
of kuna, last Sunday. Comrade w.
r. Snow, National organizer for the
Socialist party and Prof Morris, or
ganizer for the Farmers Society of
Equity were the speakers. Basket
lunch was spread and all present did
it justice.
Weiser Picnic.
Local Weiser is to hold Picnic in
the Oregon Trail Park at Weiser on
September 22nd. Comrade Snow will
lecture in the afternoon and evening.
Inc campaign.
Last week we sent out number of
letters asking for contributions to the
State Campaign fund. This is the first
call this office has issued for funds
for this purpose. We are hoping that
the comrades are not overlooking their
own state in making donations for
campaign purposes. If every member
in the state would send us SOC we could
put on campaign that would make
the old parties wonder what had hap
pened. Some of the comrades have
already given a dollar. We are only
asking SOC, so those that give dollar
will make up for those that fail en-
tirely. We are waiting anxiously to
paign this fall. 1t will all depend on
you.
Leaflets.
Comrade FELTON, of Boise has taken
it upon himself to have thousand
copies of the Benson leaflets distrib-
uted there, each week.
A Request For Help.
| The comrades of the state have be-
gun to look to the Northwest Worker
for news of the movement in Idaho
We have been trying our best to make
the Idaho column worth reading. II
keeps US guessing to find enough te
fill it up, and all because the comrades
do not tell US what they are doing. We
want to ask the various locals to ap
point some comrade in their local tt
keep this office posted on the news
of interest to Socialists, from theil
community. 1t will be great help tt
US and will help US to keep in closer
touch with the movement. Do this a
your next meeting. Appoint some
one to act as correspondent to thi!
office and have them send in the news
County Candidates.
SO far we have received notification
of candidates being nominated in The
following counties. Ada, Canyon, Ben
ewah, Shoshone, Bonner and Gem
Others have made nominations bu
have not reported. They should do 81
at once as we must send resignation
blanks to each candidate nominated.
Straw Vote.
Comrade Perry of st. Maries write!
US that straw vote was taken at on,
of the saw mills there recently which
showed 1870 Socialists.
Are You Wearing Your Button?
Comrade Max Schied, member a
large who is travelling in Arizona
writes us that Governor Hunt ha!
openly associated himself with the /
w. w. element and has been scoring
the corporations to the full extent o.
his power.
Canyon County.
The comrades of Canyon County
have nominated full county tickle
and expect to put on lively campaign
this fall. A full ticket, all of good tim
Der, with a solid organization back o.
them is what the old party politicians
fear.
Farmers Society of Equity.
One of the strongest cooperative
institutions in the state or for tina
matter in the nation today is tn,
Farmers Society of Equity. 1t hai
been in eXistance in Idaho only abou
four years and at present they have
something like thirty clearing houses
The central clearing house is at Poe
atello, which clears for all of South
ern Idaho. 1t looks as if the people
were beginning to understand that co
operation can be reality if they wan
it to be so.