The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1916-02-03
Elect Nominees
BROOKLYN SOCIALISTS
TAKE STRONG STAND
AGAINST WAR
ATTACK PREPAREDNESS" AMI
CALL ON WORKERS TO RE
FUSE TO ENLIST ------
Say Toilers Have No Country to De.
fend--only Enemy Is Capitalism


The Socialists of Brooklyn, New
York, adopted u strong resolution
against all forms of preparedness
at n meeting of the county organiza'
ton held at the Brooklyn Labor Ly-
ceum. $40 Willoughby avenue The
resolution will be spread before all
the Socialist locals in the United
States and an attempt Will be made
to have the position taken by the
Brooklyn Socialists Endorsed by the
New York state organization of the
party and the national organization.
James II. Maurer, president of the
Pennsylvania State Federation of La
Dor, was chosen as the choice of the
local to be Socialist candidate for
president at the national election. He
was chosen by vote of $50. Allan
l.. Benson had only s votes, and Ar.
thur lie Seuer had one vote Geo. II.
Kirkpatrick received 50 ballots for
the place of vice president Kate
Richards O'Hare received 60. About
four hundred persons attended the
meeting, one of the largest in the his.
tory of the local.
The preparedness" resolution, as
adopted in full, follows:
Whereas, All international wars
have been and are combats melted by
the ruling classes for the dominion
of the world and its workers and the
control of the products wrought by
the toll of the workers; and,
Whereas, The ruling or capitalist
class of the United States is prepar
ing to saddle upon the working class
under the name of preparedness" 9
militarism, whose object, according tC
the Presidents message, is to protec
the interests of the capitalist class a
home and abroad and to instill more
reverence for the capitalist state
and,
Whereas, The munitions manufac
turers who have been making vas
fortunes from the sale of guns, pow
der and shells to the belligerent coun
| tries have vital interest in the pro
gram of preparedness" that will con
tinue their gigantic profits after tn
present war; and,
| Whereas, The working class ha
no country to defend and has no in
terest in foreign markets, colonie
and spheres Of influence" which ar
the prizes for which capitalists con
tend and which may lead to war; and
| Whereas, The workers furnish tn
bulk of the victims of all such war
and win nothing for themselves bu
empty glory, disease and death, ant
nothing for their families but miser.
and sorrow; and,
! Whereas, The state under capital
ism is mainly a machine to protec
the property interests of the capital
list class and to perpetuate the op
preston and exploitation of the work
ers; and,
Whereas, All forms of soldiery ant
militia are the instruments by which
the capitalist class prepares agains
the working class; and patriotism
is used as a watchword to blind thu
workers to their own interests; there
fore, be it
Resolved, That we, the member
of Local Kings County, Socialist par
ty, strongly denounce all forms o
preparedness" that we call to thu
working class of America to resis
militarism in all it's forms and to re
fuse to enlist in any military bod!
under control of the capitalist state
we declare that the working class ha
no country to defend; that their onl!
enemy is capitalism. We therefor,
call upon the workers to organize po
litically and industrially to break thu
chains that bind them; to capture
the political power of the nation; tC
overcome the privilege of the capital
list class and to inaugurate collective
ownership and democratic manage
ment of the social means of produc
ton, in the interest of the workers