The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1916-09-28
THE CLASS STRUGGLE

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The defense furnished enough evid-
ence to prove that someone else ex-
ploded the bomb and also that Billings
was nowhere near the parade on the
occasion. The prosecution ignored all
this evidence and even went so far as
to have some of it suppressed with the
result that Billings has been found
guilty and sentenced to life imprison-
met.
Nearly every bomb plot or outrage
that has been discovered" during
the past years has been eventually
proven to be part of the Vaccinations
of Capital against Labor. The San
Francisco affair proves conelusivly
that it is nothing else than part of the
great fight to discredit labor. All the
men and women that are on trial are
prominent in labor affairs. In every
city of the United States, Capital is
using its tools to prejudice the mas
ses against politically and industrially
organized labor. In Everett the same
game is being played. Fires of sup
posedly incendiary origin have been
placed as the doings of labor. Assaults
by strike breakers have been twisted
to represent the doings of Single
Weavers or l. W. VS.. The lying cap
italist press glom onto these affairs
and in fiendish delight publish the
faxed up charges in big headlines.
Anybody with a grain of common
sense can see through these actions
of the press, yet the great mass of
readers of the capitalist press never
get the true facts unless they happen
to have first hand knowledge of the
affairs.
Capital is out to crush labor and
that is all there is to it. And capital
can get the support of little tin pot
business men at all times. Capital
is strongly entrenched behind the bat
Elements of fools and takers. Capital
has only to pull the strings and cring-
ing spawns of the money bags dance.
And in the meantime what about
labor. Labor finds itself infested with
fools and traitors. Dividing the work
ers on every hand. Kow towing to
the friends of labor" wolves in
Sleeps clothing. Wolves, ever on the
alert, for the few crumbs or votes
that labor can hand to them. Wolves
that divide and rule. Year in and year
out, faker after faker, smilingly ap-
proach labor for its support, and labor
blind to its own interests, meekly
hands over the power to further ex-
plot and enslave.
We care not what party these pol
iticians belong to, they cannot serve
the interests of the working class I'M
less they be selected to run for that
office by the working class. If these
politicians have not brains enough to
join the revolutionary movement and
preach the revolutionary doctrines
then they have not brains enough to
represent an enslaved class in any of
flee, Labor can only be freed from the
calling chains of wage slavery by la
Dor and there is not reform or a
measure that can be devised that will
free these slaves from the hell of the
capitalist form of production. Adolf
ton and total abolition of this form of
wealth production is the only means
that will raise labor from the cata-
CORY of commodities and wage slaves.
There can be no true friends of La
Dor" if that friend upholds wage slav-
cry. Politicians can do absolutely
nothing for the working class as long
as men, women and children have to
ask for work in order to live. No
capitalist news rag can further the
cause Of emancipation by helping to
discredit and jail the emancipators
No merchant or manufacturer can be
a "friend" who Yields a club to abuse
ANY workingman or woman, no mat
ter what creed or calling that man or
woman may follow. AZ through the
ages slaves have had to use all kinds
of weapons to repel the attacks of
the brutal ruling class and we care
not what weapon the slaves of today
use as long as the object of those
slaves be emancipation.
So there is only one thing for labor
to do. Line up with it's class on every
occasion and in every battle. Spit
in the proffered hand Of all polite
ians no matter what label they are
tagged with. Boycott every merchant
that talks against you. Learn to CO.
operate. Learn to refuse the sops
that are dealt out to appease your
hunger for bigger things. And always
remember that there is a string tied
TO every law that is made in the ain
terest of labor" If every law on the
statute books today were abolished,
labor would be free. Laws are made
today to bind the masses to the CAPT
talist machinery. And until labor