The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1916-06-08


Dear Comradc; Having been in
structed by the City Executive Com
mitteeof Seattle to send to the Social
list press of this state facts concern
ing the return of the Seattle Herald
to the Socialist Ranks"
Having regard for the limited space
of any Socialist publication and also
knowing that most of the readers are
acquainted with some of the history
of the Herald, shall omit it, at least
for the present.
II is, however, absolutely necessary
to briefly, at least, describe the adj
venture Of the Herald in strange
fields, in order that the readers and
those who may be trapped financially
or otherwise by it's return to the So
cialist ranks" may intelligently Judge
for themselves.
At the mass meeting held by the
Socialist Party of Seattle last Deem
Der, for the nomination of candidates
for municipal election, the entire per-
sonnet of the Herald from the chair
man of the board of directors, the
manager, the editors (they had sever
al them, the printers, down to the
scrubber, attempted to stampede the
majority of the membership of the
party and prevent them from making
nominations. Tearfully they urged
the nomination of only one candidate
for city council and absolutely opposed
the nomination of any more. The
reason for it was according to the
best information obtainable) n pre-
arrangement with number of politi-
cal reformers, some of whom received
the support of the Herald at the last
election. The scheme as originally
concocted, whereby the vote of the
Socialist Party and the vote of the
membership were to be traded, went
by default.
They managed to delay matters and
postpone the convention for the fol-
lowing Sunday, when, much to their
disappointment and disgust, they were
routed by an overwhelming majority.
Beaten and discouraged at the fail
ure of their treacherous scheme to
betray the working class political or
ganization, they left the meeting one
by one.
The following day a meeting of the
manager, editors and advisers was
held and dastardly attack upon the
party and candidates was planned.
Using the past troubles that had
occurred in the party, for which they
are guilty in order to bias the minds
of the members, they bitterly assaulted
and maligned the party and its candi-
dates in the Herald in the issue fol-
lowing the mass meeting and kept on
till recently.
At the annual meeting of the stock
holders, held in January last, all of
the present board of directors, the
manager Joseph o. Golden, the editor,
o. L. Anderson, and Joseph Gilbert,
its former editor and manager, fore
swore and repudiated the Socialist
Party not only of Seattle, the state of
Washington and America, but the
whole world"
Losing all the support of the mem
bership and drifting around without
an organization back of them, where
they could harbor the select and re-
ceive succor for its maintenance and
support, and encouraged by the much
talked about N. P. League of North
Dakota which has been germanating
in their mind for some time, the
scheme for organizing a Non-Partisan
League with at least 10000 members
and dollar for each member for the
Herald, dawned upon them.
The league, however, proved fl
asco from the very beginning.
Politicians of daring and great
ability took hold of it. Members did
not join it as was expected. The re-
suit was the resignation of the secre-
tary and no doubt, obscurity.
With claimed deficit of over $500
incurred during the wandering, and
over hundred dollars each month,
following them as a German submar-
inc follows an enemy ship, ready and
about to be sunk, the vision of the So
cialist party haven reoccurred to them.
A notice was sent out to all stock
holders announcing the holding of a
special meeting and informing them
that several matters of great impor-
lance will have to be decided, espec-
tally the future policy of our paper,
and whether our institution shall con-
tinue to live or die"
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