The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1916-05-11
BREAD AND
BROTHERHOOD"

A big audience greeted Comrade
Anna Maley in The Forum, Sunday
afternoon TO hear her lecture on
Bread and brotherhood" Comrade
Maley has still got the fire Of the
revolution in he, speech, although it
physically, as she was when cam
paigr'ng in this state four years ago.
Her lecture, however, is hum
dinEer and just the kind that could he
expected from Comrade who is as
well yersed in Socialism as she is. In
her speech she said:
"Not only does life depend upon
bread, but most of the people spend
most of their time in bread-getting.
In a controlling sense, labor, the bread
getting process, constitutes life.
Theoretically, the worlds desire
for many centuries has been toward
brotherhood. The battlefields of Eu-
rope today and the wars of all time
are the acutest manifestations of the
fact that the worlds desire has not
been realized.
as it too much to say that we must
look to the workshop, where most of
the people spend most of their lives,
for an explanation of all those things
that defeat the practice of brother
hood?
Industry is now carried on by
means of improved tools which make
labor ever more productive. Machines
compete with man for jobs, forcing
men to compete with one another.
Competition among workers means
lower wages-lower wages means less
power to buy. The less American
workers can buy, the more American
goods must be sold abroad. The same
is true Of Germany, Of England, of
France.
"The necessity to control trade
routes has been and is behind the con-
flict in Europe.
'In short, the motto of industrial
masters everywhere, Buy labor on the
cheapest market and sell it's products
on the dearest markets. defeats
brotherhood.
"The United States steel trust has
waged relentless war upon labor I'M
ions in its effort to buy labor on a
cheap market. 1t now takes advan-
tage of Europe's misfortunes to sell
it's products on a dear market. I'm
der guise of Preparedness it seeks
to whip the United States into pur-
chasing it's products. 1t is not con-
tent with making men like Senator
Penrose it's statesmen in congress-it
must needs put salesman's grip in
the hands of our President and send
him out to scare the people into buy
ing. All this is not strange in view
of the fact that our government pays
$3.50 each for schrapnel that can be
had for 1912, and $4,000 a ton for
armor plate that all estimates place
at not more than $247.00 a ton.
Socialism holds that every city as
a city, should engage in every line of
business that affects the common life
of the city, and that the state and the
nation should do ever so. A city that
can run a school can run milk depot.
A state that can build roads can oper-
ate coal mines. A nation that can
build Panama Canal can build a
railroad.
'The governments of Europe, to
carry on a war for the profit of the
masters Of the bread in Europe, have
gone into many lines of business. If
England as a nation can manufacture
coats for purposes of murder, cannot
a peoples government manufacture
coats for purposes of life?
"The point is just here-we must
have peoples government, a govern
ment pledged to put society into bust
ness for itself, to carry on production
for use and not for profit, to give the
people, not free bread, but the free
opportunity to get bread.
"Public schools mean, not free edu-
cation, but the free opportunity to get
education. If the child must go to
the factory instead of to the school,
that is not because the people own the
school, it is because they do not own
the factory. 1t is not because we
have some Socialism, but because we
have not enough Socialism. Private
control of personal use goods, social
control of social use goods-this is