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The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1916-04-27
WOMEN AND
ORIENTALS TO
DO THE WORK

The employers of British Columbia
introduced Orientals into this province
more than quarter of century ago.
The mine owners of South Africa,
after the war, did the same thing.
Some of the coal mine owners on Van
couver island recently replaced the
employees who enlisted for overseas
service with Orientals. Now read this
Paris dispatch from the daily press of
Tuesday. Owing to the lack of labor
in the agricultural and industrial
fields, an organization has been eff
fected in France for trying Chinese
labor 1t is expected the 5000 Chi
nese laborers will arrive in that coun-
try within few months. Twenty
Chinese are now preparing themselves
as interpreters for the latter arrivals"
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1916-04-27
ENGLAND IS BRANDED AUTOCRATIC

lntolerable oppressive measures
aimed to repress free speach and cur
tail individual freedom generally are
being put into effect by the English
Government, according to a letter
which Prof. Scott Nearing recently re
ceived from London. The name of
the writer is withheld as he is in the
government employ. The letter in
part follows:
GAS you will have gathered, things
are at their worst here. The civil lib
erty that we are supposed to be fight
ing for is absolutely lost, and there is
no doubt that autocratic Germany
could give us no worse a political sys-
TEN TO live under. We may not strike,
we may not say anything calculated to
prejudice recruiting for the army or
to impede the production of munitions
of war, and you can we'll imagine the
use which employers are making Of
this last fact; we may not even leave
our jobs if we do not like them, and
many of US must become traitors to
our religion and conscience in taking
up arms.
Workers Being Aroused
"The suppression of newspapers
which dare to give correct accounts of
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1916-04-27
WAR BREAKING
UP HOMES OF GREAT
BRITAIN'S WORKINGMEN

LONDON.-More moving is being
done in England today than ever be-
fore in the country's history. The
movers are the families of married
men who expect to leave shortly for
one of the wal fronts. This is the end
of the quarter" and as few middle
class Englishmen can keep up their
home in their absence, they are break
ing them up.
Furniture movers are hopelessely
swamped. Not only has the unprece-
dented amount of business over
whelmed them, but, like everybody
else, they have already given most of
their able-bodied men to the colors.
The elderly, extremely youthful or
weakly laborers they are compelled to
rely on are unable to handle the work
expeditiously.
In London the big boarding house
centers like Bloomsbury and South
Kensington are gathering in enormous
numbers of refugees.
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1916-04-27
MORE SOCIALISM (?)

The Senate has adopted an amend
ment to the army appropriations bill
after big scrap lin which it was OPP
posed because of it's "Socialistic" ma
ture) that authorizes the President in
his discretion to designate a water
power site upon any navigable stream
to be used for the exclusive use of the
government, and the site thus with
drawn may be used by the Secretary
of War for the generation of electri-
cal or other power and for the produc-
ton of nitrate or other products need
ed for munitions of war and useful in
the manufacture of fertilizer and other
useful products"
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1916-04-27
FINNISH SOCIALIST PARTY
THRIVES IN SPITE OF WAR
Russian Government Report Shows
Membership of $3.50, Divided
Into 1854 Locals

Observation-Disclosures to a
statement issued by the Finlanskaya
Gasota, the official organof the Rus
sian government in Helsingfors, the
Finnish Socialist Party has practically
held its own in spite of the war.
In June, 1914, the number of party
members was the same as in June,
1913, but at the end of the year 1914,
the party had lost about 1900 mem
bers and numbered ST. 500. One-fifth
of these members were women.
The membership list, made up by
locals, show that three-fourths, or
37,70S Socialists lived in rural dis
tricts, only one-fourth or 1892 in
cities.
The biggest local is in the election
district of Nyuland and has S,906
members; the second place is held by
Viborg with 1910 members. Owing
to lack of employment, 1900 members
were exempted from the payment of
party dues.
In 1914 the party had 1,554 locals
The party worked in unison with 637
labor unions, which have 1888 politi-
cally organized members and only
ABA non-political members. The So
cialist Party had also connections with
40 unions of small farmers, 95 young
peoples organizations, 101 women's
clubs and 80 other societies.
The party locals owned 800 houses
in 1914, valued at $2,500,O0O. Besides,
it had about 100000 in cash funds,
but had liabilities of about $1,00O,00O.
The occupations of party members
are shown by the following classified
ton: 1855 industrial workers, 6,358
building trades workers, 1904 agri-
cultural laborers and small farm ten
ants, 1852 other workers, such as
forest workers, dock hands, railroad
employees, and artisans. There were
also 1926 members without any pro-
fession.
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1916-04-27
OLD PARTIES
WILL AGAIN DODGE
REAL ISSUES

| WASHINGTON.-With Roosevelt
practically settled on as the candidate
of Big Business, with Wilson already
as good as nominated for the small
business man, and with Allan L. Ben
son running in behalf of the working
people of the United States, politicians
| here are settling down to one of the
hardest presidential campaigns in
years. The tissue" may be prepared
ness-if Roosevelt has his way-or it
may be my administration"- Will
son has his-but the powers that be
will not let the real issue be discussed
poverty, wages, cost of living, con-
troll of government by the people.
The candidate of the working people
will have to fight for every vote he
gets. According to old time political
dopesters here, money is going to flow
like water into the campaign chests of
the old parties. Just who will con-
tribute to whose campaign is not yet
NNSiNSNJ anu IIOfil iiOW I'LL IIlt COnN6n-
lions in June the secret agents of the
Republican, Democratic and moribund
Progressive outfits are lowering
around in the offings of the bankers,
financiers and corporation presidents
playing for position.
Every indication points to coolies Of
cash for the Roosevelt war chest.
Roosevelt as the champion of prepar-
edness will have the enthusiastic sup
port of the munitions millionaires
who, with the close of the European
war, must turn to the United States
for steady market for their products.
Roosevelt will also have the endorse
ment of many of the great New York
financial houses who have been anger
ed by the stupidity of the Wilson ad-
ministration, by it's failure to inter-
vene intellectually in Mexico, by its
habit of writing diplomatic notes, and
by its distinctly reactionary tenden-
cies. 1t is probable, however, that
the great capitalists will not all flock
to Roosevelt, for Wilson has connec-
lions too important to be overlooked.
Every possible and plausible at
tempt will be made by the managers
OF the old party campaigns to make
out that the honor if not the security
of the nation is at stake, and while
Roosevelt is said to be planning to
inject little social and industrial
justice into the fray, the soft pedal
will be put on the labor question. Pa
triotism, America first, defense
against European aggression, Mexican
reform-anything but the real issues,
poverty and low wages and the grow
ing power of wealth.-America So
cialist.
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1916-04-27
SECURITY LEAGUE
DODGES SOCIALISM
Declines Debate With kirkpat-
rick for Fear of Furnishing
Fun for Audience

BUTTE.-William Cults, secretary
of the National Security league, has
refused to accept the challenge of
George r, kirkpatrick, candidate of
the Socialist party for vice president
of the United States, to debate the
subject of preparedness.
In a letter addressed to Albert F..
Meissner, secretary of the Montana
Socialist party, Cults declares that the
National Security league is not com
mitted to any military program, Gin
volving either the regular army or tn,
state militia in strike disturbances or
any other purpose other than national
defense"
For his own part, Cults believes the
militia should be augmented, reorgan-
ICED as a defense reserve, restrained
from participation in intercine or do
nestle troubles and made part of
the federal army. If this constitutes
a crime against the welfare of your
comrades in arms | must plead guilty
along with millions of other thinking
citizens of this country.
while we are not afraid of our po-
sition and have no fear as to the out
come of the military and naval meas
ures now being urged upon our con-
syraSsmeO we muSt decline to furnish
the entertainment for your little fam
lily gathering at the Auditorium next
week"
The Socialists have offered to give
the National Security league time till
next year for the preparation Of the
debate, hoping that in the meantime
the league will be prepared" to meet
a Socialist debater.
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1916-04-27

Ministerial blunders, the prosecution
OF trade union officials and members
for various ordinary trade union acti-
vltles, the monstrous abuse of the Mu-
nltlons Act and the Military Service
Act-all these occur in such profusion
that we become almost hardened to
them. The newspapers are not allow
ed by the censor to publish accounts of
strikes (of which there are few, even
IN these days., so that the public real
ly thinks the Ministry of Munitions is
fulfilling its function effectively,
whereas it has caused at least as
much industrial unrest as the employ
ers themselves.
81 gather that trouble is anticipated
among the United States miners. Is
the United Mine Workers. Union the
main organization? l suppose the
miners are pretty strongly organized
with you. Here they are among the
best organized, and, if the new triple
Alliance" between the miners, the
transport workers and the railway
men uses its inherent power of labor
monopoly l do not see why a revolu-
tionary appropriation of che capitalist
in these industries should not come
about after the war"
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1916-04-27
JAIL TERMS GIVEN MEN
WHO AIDED CLYDE STRIKE

EDINBURGH men were
sentenced to prison for their connec-
ton with the recent strike of munition
workers on the Clyde. On a charge
of publishing "seditious" articles, Will
liam Gallagher, chairman of the Clyde
Workers committee, and John W.
MAR, editor of the Worker, the maya
zine of the committee, each received
one year in prison. Walter Bell, bust
ness manager Of the magazine, was
sentenced to three months in prison.
A sentence of three years penal
servitude was imposed yesterday on
John Maclean, a former teacher, who
was convicted of similar offenses.
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1916-04-27
By G. Stephenson

The Socialist Philosophy is monistic
in it's nature, because it recognizes the
unity, the oneness, of society. Despite
the differences existing between the
social units it realizes their intercOn-
nection and interdependence upon
each other in all their activities as
well as the social nature of the pro-
ducts of their labor. The warp and
wool of it, the basic principle, is the
social concept.
In opposition to this, bourgeois phil
osophy is individualistic.
"Freedom of the individual" was it's
watchword during it's struggle against
feudalism, regardless of the fact that
the individual, in himself, is nothing,
but is what he is, as a product of So
cial effort and of the society in which
he lives and moves.
Individual man, in the political
sense, is nonresident; man is a social
being.
For any philosophy to be practical
it must be built upon actualities.
However, we know today that this
watchword freedom" found a genu-
inc response in the minds of dreamers,
and utopian thinkers; also the unedu-
Gated proletariat to whom it appeared
that change could not make their con-
dition worse but might better it.
Among the bourgeoisie, the mer-
chant and manufacturing class, the
utopian concept of freedom" though
useful in the political field, was re-
garded with contempt and considered
wholly ridiculous.
The freedom" they desired was a
reflex of their material interests;
Freedom of trade unhampered by
feudal ties whether of the monarchy
landed aristocracy, the guilds of cor
porate interests.
Freedom of trade routes and mar
kets. Freedom of science from the
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1916-04-27
THE SOCIALIST PHILOSOPHY

sitting hand of the Roman church,
because the knowledge gained by the
cultivation of astronomy, mechanics,
physics, and other natural sciences,
became necessary to them in the pro-
duction and distribution of cOmmOdi-
ties for world market.
Freedom of the serfs, because pro-
ducing for worlds market, whose
demands were fluctuating, the rising
trading class desired class of work.
ers who could be discharged when not
required and who could move from
place to place according to the varying
needs of different industries.
So! the hope Of the enslaved of all
the ages, the vision which inspired
their poets and seers, was turned to
the practical uses Of the bourgeoisie.
And their PHILOSOPHY which must
stand or fall with their form of So
ciety perforce justifies, in the light of
their class interests, their application
of the term freedom" But what
freedom ?" All! is it capitalism ?
Methinks | can hear martyrs turning
in their graves, Sanctified and blest
is the concept that the cunning and
the powerful may lay hold of the
earth's resources and the means of
production, and compel the rest of hu-
man kind to yield up the fruits of
their labor.
"Buy cheap and sell dear" is the
bourgeois battle cry and it measures
success in life by the difference in the
quantity contributed to the social
treasury, and that which the grasping
hand can abstract from it.
It's basic and active principle is,
"the race to the swift and the battle
to the strong"
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1916-04-27
TOO TAME

The Comparisons" have about eX-
hausted the possibilities of waving the
flag and proclaiming themselves to be
the only genuine Americans in Mil
waukee. 1t gets them no votes, and
it's votes that they are after.
If Milwaukee is to be saved from
the curse and blight of municipal own
ership, if the menace of Socialism
shall be averted, the -partisans"
will have to produce a more robust
breed of Milwaukee Leader.
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1916-04-27
FRENCH SOCIALISTS VOTE
TO SUPPORT GOVERNMENT

PARIS-A resolution in favor of the
continuance of the strongest support
of the government in national defense
was passed at meeting of the Ma
tional Council of the French Socialist
party.
The renewal of relations with the
international Socialist Bureau was
voted down by LOO to 1000.
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1916-04-27
ROOSEVELT NON-PARTISAN
LEAGUE ASKS FOR MEN

The Roosevelt Non-Partisan League,
"A Union of Patriotic Citizens of All
PARTIES" opened New York offices to
send out invitations to the citizens of
this community to lay aside their poll
teal affiliations for the purpose of
waiting Oyster Bays most disting-
uished resident into the White House
on a wave of popular enthusiasm for
"Americanism."
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1916-04-27

Milwaukee is again being ruled by
a Socialist mayor. Comrade Hoan
took office Tuesday, April IS. One of
the big things that the administration
will take hold of is the construction
of city owned electric light plant.
The harbor is to be greatly improved
and the street car company will be
forced to come to time.
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1916-04-27
LECTURES HELD
DURING NEXT WEEK
l.. E. katterfeld.

l.. E. katterfeld.
Sunday, April 80 g p.m.)-Monroe.
Monday, May Spokane.
Tuesday, May Deer Park.
Wednesday, May 3-Denison.
Thursday, May VALLEY.
Friday, May 5-Addy.
Saturday, April 6-Chewelah.
Sunday, May 7 e. p. m.)-Colville.
Sunday, May 7 6 p. INFORM.
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1916-04-27
SOCIALIST WOMAN is
IN RACE FOR CONGRESS

PHILADELPHIA, Pa.-The first
woman in this state to file nomination
papers for the office of representative
to congress-at-large is doctor and a
Socialist. She is DR.. Elizabeth M.
Baer.
81 think it is proper for women to
aspire to public office. | have always
been a suffragist and a Socialist" she
said. 81 consider Socialism as a ques-
ton of larger import than votes for
women"
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1916-04-27
Shadows of Dawn
BY Courtesy of Life"
(By Hudson Maxim)

IBy HuuSOn MaXIm)
whir of dust is sweeping the hill,
Between the gray dawn and the huge black mill.
There's drift of rags and of skinny bones,
With skeleton feet on the ruthless stones
What specters these in the witching light
This ghostly rear-guard of the night,
YEARLY treadng the trail of the dark,
Accusing the morn before the lark?
What wights are they, so gaunt and lean,
With tagging pace and drowsy mien,
Who under the dim lamps Pickering glow
Wind into the cavernOus mill below?
sOrtie of ghOuls acose from the tomb,
Or a rabble of wraiths begot of the gloom?
NO-gOblins and ghouls such task would shirk-
1t is only the children going to work.
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1916-04-27
NOW BE GOOD

Predicting that at the end of the
war, the United States will undergo
an industrial setback, James j. Hill
urges workingmen to be content with
the wages they have been getting and
to cease embarrassing capitalists by
demanding more.
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1916-04-27

Nearly all small leaseholders in
France have ceased to pay rent. So
many people have been unable to pay
rent that the government has been
forced to exempt all families whose
income is less than 600 francs a year
from paying rent or arrears of rent,
during the war or for a period of six
months after the war. What the peo-
pie and the government will do when
the six months is up remains to be
seen, but when thousands of people
have been living rent free for a year
or two, we can feel assured that there
will be Something doing" when the
rent moratorium is lifted.
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1916-04-27
THE HEATHEN'S PRAYER
BY THE RIP-SAW POET


MumbO Jumbo god of kneel
Save, man!
Save from kaiser king and
T. r.! We sit in darkness they Mumbo
pray The only thing may
here Hold back these
from their bloody They'd doom
all to lives of TOLL the they
they'd have in their debit and blooming
belong John Dand
heather shot to HI Good MumbO jumbo
Christians leave alone Amen.
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The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1916-04-27
TO CONGRESS

Eugene V. Debs is going to be elect
ed to Congress next fall. The biggest
meetings in the history of Indiana are
being held and much enthusiasm pre-
walls.
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1916-04-27

Millions of the workers children are
born into the world destined to life
If misery in slums and factories. 9th
er children are millionaires at birth.
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1916-04-27

All laws hitherto made by landlords
and capitalists are class laws-laws
to enable few to live upon the toll
of others.
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1916-04-27

The United States Steel corporation
drew total earnings of $726,683, 589
last year, 168,268,65 more than the
previous year. This was gain of 80
per cent. Of these millions, labor, in
GLIDING all the high priced salaried
employees, received $176,8OO,864. La
boris gain over the previous year was
only 1.35 per cent, although labor pro-
duced 80 per cent increase in earn
ings.
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1916-04-27

Poverty and capitalism are INSOFAR
able. Abolish capitalism and poverty
will disappear.
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1916-04-27

Have you done any trading with oul
new advertisers yet?
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1916-04-27
NEWS IN BRIEF

The u. S. Senate has been forced
INTO having the Industrial Relations
Commission report printed. 100000
copies of the report and 10000 of the
testimony was ordered printed Send
in for your copies right away. Ad-
dress the senators at Washington.
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1916-04-27
POORLY PAID PAY-TRIOT

Lady Colebrook and a number of
female parasites tried to set an exam
pie to the women of England by sign
ing up for six months service in a
munition factory. They We're put to
work finishing gun parts and shells
and worked eight hours a day for
which they were paid wage of about
SO cents per day. Most of them quit
before the six months was up, whether
because Of the low pay or the hard
graft is hard to say, but it is our opin-
ion that "work" was the chief cause.
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1916-04-27

JEFF DAVIS, King of the Hoboes,
is now wealthy man, it is said. Sew
eral months ago one of his millionair
friends on Wall Street whispered the
name of certain war stock to him.
Jeff took the hint. He plunged with
the savings of years and as a result
he has $4,000 to his credit
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1916-04-27

The worker tolls and endures a iv-
ing death in order that a privileged
class may live in luxury.
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1916-04-27

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina
Complete returns from the election
of April 2 for half the total member
ship of the Chamber of Deputies show
a victory for the Radicals. Twenty
seven Radicals have been elected, sew
enteen Conservatives, ten Democrats,
four NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. and three So
cialists.
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1916-04-27

WASHINGTON.-An army reor-
ganization bill that would produce
regular army and reserve military
forces in the United States aggregat-
ing 100000 men, passed by the SEN
ate without record vote.
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1916-04-27

How many sub cards do you want +?
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1916-04-27

Local Monroe will hold a basket
social Saturday, May 10. The net re-
ceipts will go to the County office to
start the county campaign. The local
also starts new motion for county au-
tonomy. See that your local seconds
the motion.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1916-02-18
BRIDGEPORT BOXING
CLUB SEEN IN. MOVIE
SHOWN AT THE PLAZA


Bridgeport is getting an unexpected
and entirely unsolicited bit of public
ity that will place it in the 1imelight
before moving picture audiences
throughout the country in Ills Pic
ture in the Papers a Triangle pro-
duction with Douglas Fairbanks show
ing at the Plaza this week. l. -.
Much of the actions in the piece is
centered around boxing bout sup
posed to be held at one of Bridge
ports boxing clubs while Fairbanks
gets many a laugh in the scenes where
he is on his way to the Park City to
engage in a bout. The boxing bout
is staged in the picture and Terry
McGovern is introduced as the ref
cree, but the audience is unable to
connect any of the settings with To-
calities in their home town.
At any rate Bridgeport gets the
publicity even though the scenes are
not really laid here.