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The Co-operative news. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1917-1918, 1917-11-15
LABOR WANTS REVOLUTION IN
ENGLAND

LONDON. - Predicting revolution
and urging confiscation of natural
wealth, John Wadsworth, representa-
tive of the radical miners unions in
parliament, denounced the British
house of lords as greedy and
grasping aristocracy.
Wadsworth said:
There is only one thing for it,
so far as l can see, and that is
for the government to take over the
land and the minerals, and every
thing that belongs to them, and use
them for the benefit of the great
majority. We can do very well, in
my opinion, without the landowners.
They are only burden to the whole
country and to the community, and
they have never been anything else.
They have always stood in the way
of the march of democracy.
Talk about revolution! Isn't
it time we had revolution? Of
course, l am not talking, like lot
of men, about revolution of blood,
because the democracy, in the event
of revolution of blood, would
in all probability suffer a great
deal more than the aristocracy |
am talking about a real revolution
i am talking about a change or
alteration of the system that we
have in operation at the present
time, revolution that will give to
the people that which is their due,
and will take from the aristocracy
that which they have stolen from
the people hundreds of years ago"
The Co-operative news. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1917-1918, 1917-11-15
LABOR BACKS
MISS STRONG
Central Labor Council Passes Reso-
buttons Upholding School Board
Member Who Is Under Fire

DR.. Anna Louise Strong. organized
labor's choice for the school board at
the last election, is still labor's choice
for that position. and the question
ing Of her patriotism has not blinded
labor to the real intent behind the
move to recall her. Wednesday night
the Central Labor Council passed by
unanimous vote resolution uphold
ing Miss Strong against her malign-
ers and promising her every possible
sopport in case the threatened recall
gains sufficient Roadway to merit
serious attention.
The resolution, which was publish
ed in the previous issue Of this
paper, calls attention to the excellent
service Miss Strong has rendered the
community in her work on the school
board, reaffirms organized labor's
faith in her patriotism, integrity and
ability, and denounces the attempt
to recall her as the work of enemies
of organized labor. The resolution
originated in Steam and Operating
Engineers Local No. 40, and was
sent by them to the council for en-
dorsement.
The Co-operative news. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1917-1918, 1917-11-15
CO-OPS OF COUNTY
HAVE MEETING

Representative of the various Co.
operative Societies and unions in
Snohomish County, and some from
King County, held their second meet
ing in Marysville, Wash, last Sum
day. 1t is the purpose of the organ
ization to coordinate the work and
activities of the various bodies rep
resented, and to render mutual as
sistance respecting any problem that
may come up or may have come up
already: also to make business more
efficient, in buying, distribution, and
so forth. Exchange of ideas and
methods it is calculated will be for
the benefit of each and all the as
ISOLATION represented.
The special order of business was
the discussion of the proposed Con-
stitution and Bylaws. The secretary
was instructed to notify the consitu-
tent associations to send three dele
gates, preferably the President, Sec
rotary, and Manager to the next
meeting to be held on the End Sun
day in December.
The Co-operative news. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1917-1918, 1917-11-15
FRANS BOSTROM
in JAIL 3 HOURS
The Former State Secretary
Writes of His Experience

Tacoma, Wn., Nov. 8, 1917.
"The expected has at last happen
cd. For six months | have dis
played an enlared copy of The New
Freedom cartoon from The
Masses, in my front window.
placed it there to find out how
much liberty | had. Today, some
member of the Everett Rotary Club
took exception to it and after try
ing to get up row with me, filed
information with -the. police. / was
arrested, spent more than three
hours in the city Jail, taken before
the United States commissioner and
discharged, with the understanding
of course that the fearful cartoon
would not again appear in the win
dow. The Scrip Northcliffe- McRae
sheet got up horrible story about
Pro-German activities, etc, that the
police had closed up the place and
would clean it out entirely and that
They may ask that Bostrom be
informed for the period of the war"
"'Comrade J. A. Falconer, yell
low Socialist of the DR.. Brown stripe
who is captain of the police, swore
to the warrant for my arrest and
seemed to be very proud of the dis
tinction.
81 found the commissioner, Mr..
Mcmillan very fair and decent man
and he made short work of the
farce. told him that l was not
opposed to the war because it had al
ready given us free Russia and
might yet repeat it's blessing on
some other nations, but insisted on
free speech and press under any
circumstances.
II honestly believe that he agreed
with me.
GRAMS BOSTROM."
The Co-operative news. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1917-1918, 1917-11-15
SOCIALIST GAINS
Incomplete Returns Show Vote
of ID Where There Were
Only 1872 Last Year

NIAGARA, N. Y.-Incomplete re-
turns from Niagara County show a
phenomenal increase in the Socialist
vote. In 1916 the Socialists polled
1872 votes in the county. Tuesdays
election shows a total of 1868 with
two districts to be heard from in
Tonawanda and two in the county.
The Town of Wheatfield cast four
Socialist votes in 1916. On Tuesday,
Bewley, Republican Assembly candi-
date for reelection, polled 121, Brant,
Democrat, SO, and Till, Socialist,
1873.
The Village of Pendleton gave Till
So votes on Tuesday. Last year
there was one Socialist vote-Till's
own.
The election of an alderman and
supervisor is indicated in the Fifth
Ward of Tonawanda which Till car
ried strong.
The Co-operative news. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1917-1918, 1917-11-15
FINLAND DECLARES
INDEPENDENCE

HELSINGFORS, FinGland. A
state of war has been declared in
Finland. The provisional soldiers
committee has appointed a sailor
named Schiecks as commisary of
Finland in place of Gov. Gen. Ne
krasoff.
The diet is in session and Rus
sian representation in it has been
completely ignored 1t has voted to
elect a state directorate with SUI
preme power.
Prof. Won Wendt, a delegate of
the diet, has telegraphed President
Wilson that owing to the poor harv-
est, the country faces starvation,
unless food can be obtained in the
United States.
The Co-operative news. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1917-1918, 1917-11-15
KERENSKY
HAS FALLEN

AS a result, new government
holds sway, set up by the Council
of Workmen's and Soldiers Deputies.
Maximalists, BOlsheviki, extremists,
radicals-all these factions united
under the banner of the council,
only a small minority, the minimal-
lists, standing alo0f. The council is
tonight in full possession and con-
troll of this capital.
Summing up it's aims in procla-
nation to the troops at the front, the
new regime says in. its pr0clama-
ton:
Soldiers, for peace, fo.s1 bread, for
land, and for the power of the peo-
ple."
To the peasants, the immediate
handing over of all prOprietorial
lands is promised.
(From London Dispatch)
The Bolsheviki, and other radicals
who are in sympathy with them,
seem to be in control of Petrograd.
If they should maintain their power,
what will be the result and outcome
of their rule? 1t is a nice question.
They have outlined their program.
One of their chief planps is "divid-
ing up" of the land. This is of
course, calculated to mape strong
appeal to the peasants. Yet it is
doubtful if that is in line with econ
omic and agricultural evolution; it
does not lead to the Cooperative
Commonwealth directly. At the
same time it is perhaps the best step
for the Russian peasants to take,
as they have been kept in a very
illeterate and inexperienced condi-
ton, and prevented from taking part
in business and intellectual life, such
as is necessary to qualify people
for a real democratic self govern
ment.
The Co-operative news. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1917-1918, 1917-11-15
REVOLUTION NOW
THREATENS IN ITALY

MILAN, Italy,-With 100000 of
their men prisoners in the hands
of the Austro-G Germans and Gorilla
and Cividale lost, the Italians con-
tinue their retreat which is afford
ing the Teutons a possible chance of
sweeping over the plains of Italy.
The whole country is in frenzy
the people are murmuring, and it is
feared that serious uprising
against the reactionary government
al elements may soon follow.
According to some rumors, the
italian debacle is attributed to
lack of canons and ammunition. The
fact is, however, that, according to
an official communique which uses
the word cowardice in connection
with the behavior of soldiers, entire
units of the second army have re-
fused to fight, and preferred to
surrender to the enemy.
Evidently the men are tired of
the butchery. They have had enough
of it. And the growing hatred
against militarism and everything
connected with it is quite evident
among them. The Austro- Germans
attack the Italians, carrying in their
hand banners with the word "Peace"
written on them
The cries of peace which resound-
ed only a few days ago in the
halls of the Italian Pertinent; the
injunction of the Socialists that
peace must come before winter, and
the hatred of the Italian masses
against the plutocrats of the coun-
try, whom they now begin to brand
as traitors, seem to have seized the
whole people by their very soul and
awakened them to the realization
that a radical political change is the
only salvation of the country.
Reports state that Orlando, minis
ter of the interior in the late minis
try, has been called upon by the
King to form a new cabinet.
The Co-operative news. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1917-1918, 1917-11-15
GUSTAVE HERVE MAY
BE EXPELLED FROM
SOCIALIST PARTY

PARASITIC Socialist organiza-
ton of the Seine district, with only
two dissenting votes, adopted a reso-
luton to move at the national con-
vention at Bordeaux the expulsion
of Gustave Herve from member
ship. The resolution characterizes
him as a traitor to the working class.
The executive committee of the
Socialist party of Italy elected its
general secretary, Lazzari, a frater-
nal delegate to the national conven-
ton of the French Socialists, to
bring greetings and the purposes of
the Italian Socialists to the atten-
ton of the French an dto further
the mutual relations in favor of the
International
The Co-operative news. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1917-1918, 1917-11-15
CORPORATIONS
OPPORTUNITY

This new outlook is of peculiar in
terest to co-operators, who believe
that what is done for the workers
must be done by and through them
selves. The war has tested Good
GRAFTON, and the movement has been
quickened by new ideals. A great op-
portunity has fallen to the move
ment to construct a programme of
reform. We have to challenge the
absolute failure of capitalism to give
expression to the fundamental prin-
ciples of human life, and to show
that cooperation is a great con-
structive organization of production
and distribution, of education, and
of social betterment. It is the
making Of commonwealth in which
mankind shall live bravely and peace
fully, for our pioneers had a lofty
faith that they could so ARRANGE
the powers of government" that a
social life would be created in
which it would be impossible for a
man to be depraved or poor, and
though we cannot prophesy the end,
cooperation is today moving forward
under new inspiration towards the
definite goal of cooperative COM
monwealth. This country is being
saved by the sacrifices and the de-
votion of the common people, and
after the war it will be the quality
of the people and not the quantity
of wealth which will establish the
New Democraey.-The Cooperative
News (England).
The Co-operative news. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1917-1918, 1917-11-15
Rustic A SUB OR TWO FOR
THE NEWS.

nations expect and insist upon"
Finland is already a state, with
its own state institutions. The
Finnish people is not only a nation
atty among the nationalities in the
Russian empire, it is a nation with
all the peculiarities which charac-
terize people.
Why should it not plead for the
right to live its own life and decide
its own affairs?
An international organization is,
of course, needed The small peo-
pies know it best, and they await the
time to come when they will be de-
pendent only on international law,
and not the pleasure of their big
neighbors
The Finnish people hope that the
free peoples of the earth will pave its
way to progress, culture and lib
erty.
The Co-operative news. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1917-1918, 1917-11-15
CARMEN GET EIGHT HOURS

"Again does Oregon lead the coun-
try" is the boast of the Portland
Street Car Mems Union which has
secured an agreement with the local
traction company which provides that
$50 far as practicable the working
time of all train men shall be made
eight hours per day"
Wages are increased, arbitration
agreed to and the company pledges
itself to reinstate any employee with
pay for time lost where it has been
proven, after a joint investigation
by the union and the company, that
he has been wrongfully discharged.
The Co-operative news. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1917-1918, 1917-11-15
Lena Morrow Lewis
Will Speak in Everett

Lena Morrow Lewis has been by the lecture
mtee OF Local NO to speak in The Forum Sunday evening"
November 25th, at o'clock.
Comrade Lewis has spent the past five years in Alaska
where she has been actively engaged the labor
men During this period she edited different
times the meantime conducting campaign education
through her speeches.
The title of Corade Lewis lecture "Capasns
rbuton to Civilization" In addition the regular speech
she will discuss her experiences and snow
Any questions will be gladly answered
Set this date aside for this interesting lecture Comrade
Lewis has yet been known dsappon audience
your friends
The Co-operative news. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1917-1918, 1917-11-15
GOVERNMENT OWNERSHIP OF
FLOUR MILLS

MINNEAPOLIS - The autocratic
arrogance of the czars of the Min
neapolis flour mills was answered
at the Trades and Labor Assembly's
meeting Wednesday evening, when
that body requested President f. G.
Hall of the State Federation of La
Dor to carry a resolution, adopted
by the Assembly, to the American
Federation of Labor convention, call
ing upon the government to take
over the flour mills. The Assem-
bly, also requested the National Non
partisan League to take up the cam
paign for government owned flour
mills.
The Co-operative news. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1917-1918, 1917-11-15
FRAME-UP INVESTIGATION
TO BE HELD IN SECRET

SAN FRANCISCO,-The utmost
secrecy will be maintained in the
investigation proceedings and find
ings of the commission appointed
by President Wilson to probe the
Mooney case, and the public will be
kept in ignorance as to the results
until after the report has been turn
ed in to President Wilson.
The commission has been instruct
ed to do their work as unobstrusive-
ly and efficiently as possible.
The Co-operative news. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1917-1918, 1917-11-15
NO SOCIALIST BALLOTS
IN ARMY CAMPS

NEW YORK-The French CORE
spondent of the New York Sun re-
ports that the New York troops in
France were not allowed to vote for
Hillquit in the recent elections. The
names of all the other candidates
were run on the ballots but Hill
quits and in order to vote for him
it was necessary to write in his
name.
The Co-operative news. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1917-1918, 1917-11-15
OWNERSHIP
AND DEMOCRACY
by Scott Nearingl


The present system of land own
ership in the United States was
justified on the ground that it would
serve as the economic background for
true democracy. The very foun-
dation of the American Common
wealth was to be every man a
farm and every farm man." There
was to be no citizen who could not
avail himself of this opportunity.
The land was abundant Exhaust
less,"-the colonists said. AS late
as 1882 Henry Clay could say in a
discussion on the Public Lands
eve should rejoice that this bounti-
full resource (public land) possessed
by our country, remains in almost
undiminished quantity, notwithstand-
ing so many new and flourishing
states have sprung up in the wilder
ness and so many thousands of fam
lilies have been Accommodated" Later
in the same speech he said, regard
ing the public lands, 'They are lib
orally offered-in exhaustless guam
titles, and at moderate prices, en-
riching individuals and tending to
the rapid improvement of the coun-
try"
The land seemed exhaustless. Who
could dream that the primitive end
less forests would one day disap-
pear? That the stream Of human
life would overflow the continent
from shore to shore?
All history was back of the idea
of individual land ownership. When
ever nation grew, in which each
man owned his piece of the earth,
these individual job owners had been
able to bid defiance to tyranny and
oppression. Democracy flourishes
wherever there is an economic basis
for the independence rhich each
man feels that he has right to
demand, but which he cannot hope
to assert so long as another man
owns his job.
European Feudalism concentrated
the ownership of practically all Of
the land in the hands of the ruling
class. The pope, the king, the
duke, the prince-the whole earthly
hierarchy of Church and State was
built in a way that was calculated
to place the economic opportunities
which the ownership of agricultural
land afforded, in the hands of
small ruling clique. Democracy was
impossible under that plan, so our
forefathers moved to the United
States.
Today, in the United States, the
frontier has been reached, and anew,
we are creating small group that
owns the economic advantages-the
jobs of the country. If that sys-
tenn prevails in the United States,
democracy is doomed. 1t is i'm
possible to maintain democracy in
the absence of it's economic basis.
Before America can be made safe
for democracy, Americans must own
the jobs at which they work. De-
mocracy can survive on no other
foundation
The Co-operative news. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1917-1918, 1917-11-15
REQUISITIONS FACTORIES

WASHINGTON, D. C.-In France
a ministerial decree requisitioning all
the shoe factories in France, effec-
tive November 18th. has been an
nounced. 1t is stated that it be-
came necessary to take this action
because of the Discrimination of the
manufacturers to make shoes in the
quantities demanded by the govern
ment. 1t appears that the govern
ment had ordered 100000 pairs
monthly, but has only been receiv-
ing a small portion Of their order.
The Co-operative news. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1917-1918, 1917-11-15
LABOR NEWS
WANT GUN MEN DISARMED

SAN FRANCISCO. - Wives of
striking United Railroads motormen
and conductors, and wives of other
trade unionists are circulating petit
lions asking for the immediate en-
forcement of laws against armed
strikebreakers and gun men and the
enforcement of the state housing
law in the company's car barns.
The Co-operative news. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1917-1918, 1917-11-15
ALARM SPREADS AT
SOCIALIST INCREASE

NEW YORK.-The political world
is intensely upheaved as the resul
of the 500 per cent increase in the
Socialist vote in the New York cleo
tons. The politicians are having
a hard time explaining it.
The Co-operative news. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1917-1918, 1917-11-15
Langley, Wash.

Langley, Wash.
The stockholders of the new CO.
operative store met in Langley, No
vember 18th, and adopted Consti-
tuition and Bylaws. The farmers
of Langley and other Island points
have already established the WILDLY
Cooperative Egg-farms; and they
have now launched this store to be
operated on the Rochdale plan.
Mr.. John Worswick of the Everett
Coop. gave an appreciated talk on
cooperation.
The Co-operative news. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1917-1918, 1917-11-15
SCOTT NEARING
ON NY. ELECTION
Mr.. Mitchell Ran on a War Phtform
and Received Less Than One.
fourth Of Total Vote

NEW YORK-The fact that Mayor
Mitchell making his campaign upon
pro-war issue received less than
one-fourth of the votes polled in the
mayoralty contest and that huge
gains were made in the Socialist
vote everywhere, means that the peo-
pie of the United States are against
the continuance of the war and de-
mand the maintenance of the right
Of free discussion, says Scott Near
ing, chairman of the national execu-
tive committee of the Peoples Coun-
Gil in statement issued today. It
also means, in DR.. Nearing's opinion,
that the administration has been
called upon to restore American
liberties" The statement reads:
"The Peoples Council is a non
partisan organization. 1t therefore
took no part in the campaign in the
recent election.
The issues at stake in that cleo
ton, however, were the issues that
the Peoples Council has been try
ing to get before the people. In
New York the campaign made by
Mr.. Mitchell placed the question
squarely before the voters-"Are you
for militarism and the continuance
Of this war;" Mr.. Mitchell and
all of the leading representatives of
big business that could be sum-
moned to his aid answered the
question in the affirmative, Mr.. Hy-
Ian, indirectly, and Mr.. Hillquit, d.
rectly, answered it in the negative.
The count shows that Mr.. Mitchell
received less than one-fourth of the
total vote, while Mr.. Hillquit re-
ceived nearly five times as many
votes as the Socialists normally poll
in New York.
The returns from other cities are
so incomplete that it is not vet DOS
sible to draw any conclusions from
them. All of the figures at hand
indicate that there has been an i'm
mense increase in the Socialist yota.
This increase we regard as q pro-
test against the continuance Of the
war and as demand that the rights
OF free iscussion be maintained by
our public servants. The figures
also show that the war-profiteer
have been severely rebuked. This
we regard as an Endorsement Of the
democracy and peace" slogan upon
which we have waged our campaign
of education during the past four
months.
We feel confident that the princi-
pie of democracy at home" re-
ceived the endorsement of the Amer
lean people in this election. We
feel equally confidant that the idea
OF peoples peace has the backing
of the electorate. We therefore re-
iterate our conviction that the first
thing before the Federal Administra-
ton is the re-establishment of
American liberties; that the second
thing is the opening of negotiations
that will lead to the speedy conven-
ton Of the peace conference, and that
the third thing is reorganization
OF our economic and political life
that will give the people an op-
portunity to manage their own af-
fairs"
The Co-operative news. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1917-1918, 1917-11-15
2 SOCIALISTS WIN
IN INDIANA CITIES

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. - Socialists
elected two mayors in Indiana cities
returns showed that John G. Lewis,
socialist, was elected mayor of FL
wood, and Frank Leninaux, socialist,
mayor of Gas City.
The Co-operative news. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1917-1918, 1917-11-15
DULUTH LABOR LEADER
is STRANGLED

The Labor Leader, a Socialist
weekly established at Duluth early
last spring, has been declared non
mailable by Americas new thought
controller, Postmaster General Burle-
son.
The Co-operative news. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1917-1918, 1917-11-15
UPHOLSTERERS GAIN

TACOMA, Wash. - Upholsterers
employed by two large concerns in
this city have raised wages as the
result of strike.
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