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The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1917-05-04
WOODROW PEOPLE
RALLY TO CAUSE
IN FOOD BATTLES
LARGE ATTENDANCE AND GREAT
ENTHUSIASM Is MAN
tFESTED.
ABLE SPEAKERS ARE HEARD
Tremendous Enthusiasm For Greater
Preparedness in the Battle for the
Liberation of the World Comes as
Result Of Meeting.

One Of the best attended and most
enthusiastic food preparedness meet
ings held in the county was that at
Woodrow School in the Eighth dis
trict on Sunday afternoon. There
were more than 200 people present
and the enthusiasm was great Music,
the singing of patriotic airs, was one
of the delightful features Of the occa-
sion.
Seemingly the people OF that COM
munity are more thoroughly aroused
over the Importance of food conserva-
zion and of giving whole-hearted sup
port to the efforts of the president
than they are in any other section OF
the county. They were in full sympa-
thy with the speakers and repeatedly
interrupted with prolonged applause.
Mrs. Bryan as usual made a great
speech. With all her virile power
and earnest conservation she drove to
her hearers the seriousness of the sit
uation and the necessity for increas-
ing the food supply of the world in
order that the soldiers of this nation
and our glorious allies, the British and
the French might be fed and also that
the population of those countries
might not suffer.
Mrs. Bryan was followed by Prof.
j. NJ Dean the district agent, who
made 3 telling and. forceful speech
also. DR.. H. NJ Dubose, the distin-
guished Methodist divine, was also
present and made an able address.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1917-05-04
FROM WINTER TO SUMMER.

We all disliked the vampire
At a terrific rate.
And now we have the umpire
To stir up further hate.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1917-05-04

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The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1917-01-04

Just how the William l. Burns In
ternational Detective Agency-you
know what it is-spies on all the &C
tivities Of labor was made plain by a
letter which that strikebreaking de-
tective bureau sent out just before the
convention of the American Fedora
ton of Labor opened in Baltimore. In
it the proposed activities to be taken
by the convention were outlined, and
the employers to whom it was sent
asked to get the reports of Burns
man who was going to attend the con-
vention, the letter said. A daily re-
port was offered for $25 for the entire
sessions. 1t is we'll to remember that
| the convention is open to all, and that
the press sends out the news broad
cast when anything comes up that
interests it. But the letter is illum-
NATIVE of the way the labor spies do
their work.
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1917-01-04
EVEN MOVIES NOT FOR
POOR, SAY COAL BARONS

PRINCETON, Ind.-It's all wrong
Steve. The high cost of living isn't
due to food barons who gouge the
public to the limit 1t is all the re-
suit of the terrible extravaganza of
the workers. They occasionally spend
nickel on the movies.
At least, that is what the coal bar
ons here say.
One of the local coal operators told
this to committee of the Princeton
city council:
IF the people of Princeton spent
less money going to moving picture
shows they would have more money
to buy coal"
He forgot to mention, apparently
that once in while a poor mother
has been known to spread butter on
her children's bread.
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1917-01-04
DANGER

The new year brings with it a great
danger to the Socialist press.
Certain of the business element of
this city feel that this paper should
be out of the way and with that end
in view they are using what influence
they can to keep other merchants
from advertising herein.
Our income from the advertising is
below the cost of production of this
paper and unless our readers take
it upon themselves to influence the
merchants of this city we will be COM
PEELED to suspend.
At the present rate of decline we
will be compelled to either get out
a much smaller paper or suspend.
We have been fighting the battles
of your class and unless you rally to
the support of this paper it will not
be able to weather the storm brought
about by that battle. We cannot force
you to lend your support and if we
could we would not, because if you
do not have enough interest in the
paper to look to its welfare, there
is no reason in the world why we
should over exert ourself by compell-
ing you.
Here are the things which you can
do which will place this paper upon
a safer footing.
/. Write down the names of the
merchants in every line of business
whom you patronize and then look
up our advertisers to see if they carry
ads in this paper. If they do not then
see them personally and find out the
reason why.
,. Keep close tab on our adver-
tisers from week to week. When
their ad is out, then find out why.
This will prove to them that you are
on the job.
3. Act as an advertising agent for
this paper. Visit the store keepers
and solicit their advertising. You
spend the money and money talks
And remember that every time we
give a write-up like this that it has
bad influence on new subscribers
and renewals. The more we hollar
the worse it may get, so we dare not
do much hollering, but we can easily
quit.
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1917-01-04
PATRONIZE
OUR
ADVERTISERS
Northwest Worker
Birthday Celebration
Feb. IL, Seventh Anniversary

The Northwest Worker to have another birthday par
y the date having been set for Sunday February 1h
will be remembered that year celebrated in
manner oeltmg the occasion by fancywor bazaar 1t
one OF the most enjoyable affairs Everett Fancy
work received from all parts of the state and nation and
intend to adopt the plan this year.
We want the comrades all Washington Idaho and
Oregon to donate their the Worker for this
little time spent making something fancy to be sold at the
bazaar will help keep the Northwest Worker in the field What
do you say?
The comrades help by sending donations of money
as to help us carry the work of Socialism.
Locals throughout the country might arrange for Social to
be held In their community they did last year. and
turn the proceeds to the Northwest Worker We therefore
ask YOU bring this matter before your local at the next
ing and inform us of the action
This will be the SEVENTH birthday of the paper and many
OF you readers of the struggle that the has had
stay the field of helped time and time
end we hope that more will rally to support this time than have
done before The stand taken by this the Everett
trouble has made lots business
who usually lend support to the by advertising and this
must be offset for the time being by greater support from
readers
Make plans for this affair right away and send your
donations to The Northwest Worker 1912 California St. Everett
Wash
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1917-01-04
STRIKE IN ENGLAND
DELAYS VITAL WORK
IN SHIPBUILDING YARD

LONDON.-A press bureau state
ment says:
"Since Saturday majority of boil
ermakers in the port of Liverpool
have been on strike. The strike fol-
lowed the refusal by the same men
for five weeks to work overtime.
"The grievance of the men arises
from the award given by the commit
tee on production Nov. 3. They ap-
piled for an advance of 10 shillings on
the ground Of increased cost of living,
and the award given was 3 shillings.
Admiralty work Of the most vital
importance is being delayed"
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1917-01-04
DUBB'S SOLILQUOY
BY j. S. Biscay

BY j. S. Biscay
To think or not to think? that's the
question.
Whether it's nobler in. the Dubb to
suffer
In bovine ignorance and superstitious
dread,
Or to take arms against this sea Of
darkness
And through knowledge, end them.
To think; to know,
10 be Dubb no more; and by under
standing end
The ignorance, and thousand and one
ills
Dubbs are heir to; It's the consum-
nation .....
Devoutly to be wished. To think, to
reason;
To reason perchance to rue-aye,
there's the rub;
For in that knowing state what en-
Iightment may come
When we have shuffled off this
ignorant coil,
Must bring Observation-Disclosures.
There's this dread
That makes Dubbs live a servile life,
For who would bear the scorn of
workers wise,
The jibes of thinkers, the insolence of
oVerseers,
The Inconvenience Of an empty head
The tread-mill job, and women with
poodle-dogs,
Of begging work, the robbery, the
toll,
The horrors Of alarmclock awakening;
When he himself might his quietus
make,
With bare application card? Who
would bear
To fret and groan under the masters
yoke,
But the dread of being classed no more
a Dubb-
That mysterious plane from which
No venturer returns, frightens the
boob,
And makes us rather bear the ills we
have
Than fly to understanding we know
not of?
H. s,,,,,,,, .r,,,k ,,,.l,. a., ,, $500 .
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1917-01-04

Are the workers robbed as produc-
ers or consumers? Judging from the
present almost universal yowl about
old II. G. l.. one would infer that we
are robbed as buyers (consumers). If
that be true, stop buying and you
won't be robbed. No sir! Not even
if you keep on working, If the rob
berry is in consumption, then the more
you consume, the more you are rob
bed AS the workers are producers
and the master class the greatest CON
sumers, then the master class suffers
the most from robbery! Poor mil
lionaires! How they must suffer!
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1917-01-04
SOCIALISTS OF
NEW YORK DRAFT
THEIR PROGRAM
Whitehorn and ShiplaCOff Have
Tentative Outlines for
Sessions Work

The state executive committee of
the Socialist party of New York met
in the headquarters to outline the
| legislative program for the two So
cialist members of the State assembly,
Abraham |. Shiplacoff and Joseph A.
Whitehorn.
Shiplacoff minated that many of
the bills to be introduced by him and
Whitchorn will be practically dupli-
Gates of measures sponsored by him
last term. The only exception to this
will be proposed laws dealing with
the food crisis, which was not so acute
last year.
The measures contemplated, aside
from the food bills, have been gener-
ally divided into two groups, as fol
lows:
Industrial Measures
/. Prohibiting employment of chill
dren under 18.
2. General compulsory eight-hour
work day bill,
3. Increase in the number of state
factory inspectors.
A. State insurance against old age,
sickness, disability and unempoy-
ment.
5. Extension of the workmen's
compensation act to include all work
ers, and to provide compensation
equal to full loss in wages.
6. Maternity insurance.
7. Pensions for widows, which will
be mandatory upon all municipalities
in the state.
8. Exemption Of labor union funds
from liability to employers.
8. Prohibiting injunctions in labor
disputes
10. Trial by jury in cases of con
tempt of court.
II. Prohibiting importation of
| strike breakers.
~. Suppression Of private police
and strike breaking agencies.
10. Prohibition of home work.
Political Measures
/. Repeal of the Walsh, Slater and
Stivers C'Bloody Five") militarist
laws.
2. Extension of the suffrage to all
who have declared their intention to
become citizens and who have resided
in the country for three years and in
the state for thirty days.
8. Initiative, referendum and pro-
portional representation.
A. Home rule for municipalities.
5. Direct election of city magis-
trates and trial by jury in all offenses
punishable by Imprisonment.
6. Abolition of the right of the
courts to declare unconstitutional any
act passed by the Legislature.
Z. Compulsory school attendance
of all children under IS.
8. Abolition of the death penalty
9. Prohibition of discrimination
against any publication.
10. Permission to municipalities
to engage in any industries or bust
ness relating to foodstuffs or farm
products they may deem necessary.
~. Acquisition and maintenance
of pasteurization plants, milk sta
tions and dairy farms.
10. State ownership and operation
of market terminals for. the market
ing of farm products, coal and ice.
Ia. State owned and operated cold
storage plants.
Is. Creation of a commission to
regulate food prices.
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1917-01-04
RN W. W. rnssngr.

(Writtcn for The Northwest Worker)
The attempts Of American Socialists
in their recent state and national con
ventions to incorporate in their de
mands the needs of the farmer and TO
harmonic Socialism with the idea of
both collective and individual proprie-
torship is movement of great prom
Use and Importance. Socialism cannot
win without the assistance of n con
siderable percentage of the farmer
vote. The wage worker and the OK
plotted farmer must get together. is
there n working basis for the political
and economic unity of these two ex-
| plotted elements of our population?
The Socialist national platforms of
late years have clearly placed farm
ing mainly among the individual oc-
equations, and with good reasons. OF
course it is understood that if govern
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS farms are
y
the workers and for the regulation of
prices of agricultural products, or are
demonstrated to be more efficient,
then certainly there should be, and
will be. no hesitation on the part of n
Socialist regime to establish and oper-
ate farms sufficient for that purpose.
But aside from this purpose, farming
under Socialism, with notifications,
and with vastly better conditions than
at present, may remain an individual
enterprise, provided it proves itself
economically fit to survive.
Wage Farmers Are Market"
The one great, big fact that farmers
have overlooked is that market COM
posed of consumers financially able
to purchase farm products is as nee
essary to their prosperity as is the
possession of land and agricultural
equipment. 1t is true that many of
them have awakened to the necessity
of collectively-owned grain elevators,
government loans on farm securities.
government-owned railroads and 9TH
er public utilities, but still cling to
the Anticipated notion that they must
oppose Socialism and organized labor
because they fear Socialism would
mean confiscation of all farms, and
because organized labor tends to in
crease the price of wage labor and in
cidentally increases the cost of farm
help. Such farmers fail to recognize
the fact that, as compared to COM
merce, mining and manufacture, they
employ a very small proportion of
wage labor; that even though labor
! organization would inc crease the COM
pensation of wage labor generally, the
farmer is always the gamer from the
| fact that the vast number of wage
workers employed in the great indus
tries constitutes his best market
namely, the home market. Suppose
wages were doubled. The difference
between the increased price the farm
er would pay for his comparatively
small amount of hired help would be
much more than offset by the in
creased price received for his products
sold to the masses Of well-paid indus
trial workers.
Here, then, is the common ground
for political and economic unity of
the working farmers and the indus
trial workers, or at least working
basis" for such a combination.
1t goes without saying that pros
porous industrial workers make pros
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1917-01-04
DO YOU DRINK COFFEE?

If you are coffee drinker you can
help the cause of Socialism by pur-
chasing your coffee at the Socialist
Headquarters, 1912 California st.
Tickets are sold which entities the
holder to one pound of Manning's
Coffee The ticket is worth 30c and
the whole of the proceeds goes to the
Socialist Party. If you want ticket
ring up Ind. 478Z or SAB.
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1917-01-04
SOME HOT SHOTS
TOLD IN BRIEF

MILWAUKEE,. = Alderman Emil
Seidel, the Socialist who has many
times made things hum here, has
launched move for municipal gas
plant in this city. He introduced a
resolution directing the city attorney
to prepare legislative bill to so
amend the public utilities law as to
permit this action by the city.
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1917-01-04
BRIDGEPORT, Com

BRIDGEPORT, Conn. = Striking
iron molders report continued success.
They have not become discouraged
because their homes have been seized
before judgment was rendered, and it
is whispered that employers who
were party to this procedure have
been discussing settlement with their
employees. At the present time the
four largest and most important of
the shops have reached an agreement
with their employees and in some cases
wages have been increased 81 a day.
There yet remains four shops outside
the fold.
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1917-01-04

COLUMBUS, Ohio.-The state in
dustrial commission reports that pick
miners employed in Ohio coal mines
averaged 1853 working days each dur
ing 1915. The average rate of wage
per day was $2.72 or total of $45696
for the entire year. Of 2,430 en-
ployes in the sandstone industry re-
ported on, it is stated that 296 receive
under $40 per week; 1876 under $12,
and 794 under SIS.
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1917-01-04

Science tells US we come from an
cestors of a lower type. Theologians
object, but | would rather trace my
lineage back through an honest old
ape who lived his own life by his own
efforts than to boast relationship with
the Everett gunner and other Chris
tians who manufacture and use am
munition to increase the heavenly
host.
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1917-01-04
Can the Farmers and
Industrial Workers Unite?

porous farmers. Granted that indus
trial workers are not prosperous be
cause privately owned industry ex-
ploits them of large part of the
value of their products; granted that
this surplus goes into the hands of
capitalist eXploiters who do not pro
duce it and are physically unable to
consume it, and are, therefore, of
comparatively insignificant value to
the farmer as purchasing consumers:
granted that the employment of in
dustrial workers is limited by the fact
that natural resources and industrial
equipment under private ownership
are not developed to their full capac-
ity so as to absorb the idle workers.
granted that this defect in the profit
system not only paralyzes the pur-
chasing power of the unemployed in
dustrial workers, but also confines the
earnings and purchasing power of the
employed workers to the bare exist
ence for which they must exchange
their labor power;- granted all this,
as we must if we honestly face the
facts, and here we have a vicious cir
Gle, but one which, most unfortunate
ly, neither the exploited industrial
workers nor the equally exploited
farmers have been able to see.
The problem, therefore, is to con-
vince both these groups that the para
mount essential is to rejuvenate and
reconstruct the home market on an
enduring basis of unhampered access
to all the means of employment, lead
ing to purchasing power on the part
of the industrial workers without ar
tificial limitation.
Let us suppose that the government
assumes the business of conducting
the great industries and public utili-
ties; of developing the undeveloped
natural resources of all kinds for the
purpose of employing everybody who
desires such employment, and of fur
nishing everybody with the products
and services of these government en-
terprises at labor cost. The income,
and consequently the purchasing and
consuming power of the industrial
workers, is doubled.
Suppose, for example, that we were
to place the oil industry in the hands
Of federal department, paying the
head of it $4,000 a year instead of
paying Mr.. Rockefeller $4O,000,0 900
per year as we are doing at the pres
ent time. There would be saving
of $39,990000, part of which would
go to the workers in increased COM
pensation and part would remain in
the pockets of the oil consumers, both
classes thus being provided with more
funds to purchase farm products.
What could be done with the oil in
dustry could be done, with approx
nately the same results, with all the
industries should the government as
sumo their conduct
Combine, then, this resurrection of
the home market with the accompany
ing fact that the farmer would get
the service of all public utilities
transportation, storage, intercom-
munication, pasteurization, distribu-
ton, banking, etc.-also at labor cost,
and presto! farming becomes what
opulent nature evidently intended it
to be, namely, the most fruitful of all
occupations furnishing a certain eco
nomic basis for abundance, individual
liberty, human fellowship, and social
welfare.
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1917-01-04

Think it over and square it, Henry.
Get this straight, Hy, you are
robbed as a SELLER of labor power,
not as a buyer of commodities, if you
are wage Garner. If you are a
farmer you lose out because your in
dividual hand tool method of produc-
ton cannot compete with the modern
collectivist machine.
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1917-01-04

The railroads are after compulsory
arbitration. Arbitration is compro-
mise. In connection with the labor
question it is clever pitfall. An ar
bitration board must consist of an odd
number, three or more, one to repre-
sent labor, one capital and one to rep
resent the public AS the ruling ideas
of every age are the ideas of the rul-
ing class, and the capitalist class is
the ruling class today, this makes a
two to one shot against labor.
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1917-01-04

"Christianity did not stop the war
in Europe where Christianity has had
the greatest time to develop. 1t seems
to me that the mission of Christianity
is to make people better, not neces-
sarily perfect. While we are making
them better with Christianity we
must protect them with guns" Hen
ny A. Wise Wood.
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1917-01-04

Plans for mass picketing were
formed at thirty meetings of the New
York Amalgamated Clothing Workers
of America. A call was issued for all
the $4,000 workers still on strike to
participate. Nearly 5000 women are
included in the ranks of the strikers.
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1917-01-04

FITCHBURG, Mass.-A protest
against the proposal to establish in
this State mounted police force,
similar to the "Black Cossack" force
in Pennsylvania, has been sent by the
Socialist local here to the legislature
"a menace to workers." is the way
the resolution terms the proposed
state police force.
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1917-01-04

UphOlstering and Furniture Repair.
ing neatly done by Svarrer Bros. 28ll
Wetmore, rear of Robbins Transfer
office.
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1917-01-04

NEW YORK-American people are
overworked and are approaching a
national breakdown, was the predic-
ton made here by Miss Josephine
Goldmark of the National Consumers
League. Shorter working days are
necessary to the workers to preserve
their health and ideals, she said.
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1917-01-04
GJEANlNGS FROM THE
LOG or AGITATOIS


Boob Democracy to rule % tn.
world That is the ultimate Of an
educated political propaganda.
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1917-01-04

If ignorance is our greatest foe,
why, then, try to harmonic science
and superstition
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1917-01-04

Who pays the taxes? The same
class that spends the dividends, for
the taxes are paid out Of dividends.
The working class have nothing to
pay taxes on-or with.
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1917-01-04

Get it straight, Henry. The worker
does. NOT pay the taxes. Taxes are
levied upon property and the working
class is property
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1917-01-04

Evolution is a hard Jolt for those
who have nothing to be proud of but
their ancestry.
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1917-01-04

My idea of a joke is the fool VIII
would tell hungry slave to be gooc