The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1917-03-29
WORKERS MUST
ALL KEEP COOL
Neither Property Nor Rights Of
Workers Are Involved in
Present Crisis
The exploiters have won.

America is to be dragged into the
seething cauldron of war.
The country is not being invaded,
so it will not be a defensive war.
The unrestricted U-boat warfare
of Germany has eaten into the prof
it's of the eXploiters and the exploit
ers are determined to put a stop to
it,
President Wilson has not had back
bone enough to tell the American
patriots for profit that their war
supplies leave this country only at
their own risk and he has failed to
prevent those individuals from going
abroad who have foolishly and brag-
adociously took the risk.
Socialists, however, must keep cool
in the present situation. Let those
who are fools enough to fight 90 to
it. We have explained the causes Of
war and the results of war and if
our message has not changed the
minds Of these war mad fools then
we are not to blame.
"Let those who want war 20 to
war" and may they get their belly
full of it.
There is no great danger confront
ing the intelligent workers yet.
The government is calling upon
those who want to go.
When the government calls upon
those who don't want to 60, then
it will be time for us to act. And
then we must act as one. WE MUST
ABSOLUTELY REFUSE TO FIGHT.
JAIL aye death, is far better than to
be branded as legalized murderer
of people with whom you have no
quarrel.
IF the masters want blood, let
them cut their own throats," and
may they make good job of it.
We as Socialists have nothing to
fight for. The land, the mills, the
mines, the railroads and all the ma
chinery of wealth production, all the
ara srgr1e+ff s,0c1teCy IS the property Of
a useless parasite capitalist class. It
is their property that is in danger,
not ours. The few measly rags that
we wear and the delapidated furni-
ture in our shacks is not worth spill
ing any blood over. SO we must re-
fuse to fight.
We MUST keep cool.
There is no great danger to us at
present. The only danger that Will
beset US is the danger of conscrip-
ton. When that comes we must fight
and fight hard AGAINST 1T. There
are millions of us who will REFUSE
TO FIGHT, so take heart
Let the war mad fools go to the
slaughter of a mythical enemy.
Our enemies are right at home.
They are the exploiters of the
working class. They are the trust
magnates, the child exploiters, the
profit mongers, the editors of the
Stars, Herald's and Tribune's, the
preachers and teachers of the glories
CD of war and the benefits GU of
capitalism.
The workers as class have moth
ing to fight for, other than the aboli-
ton of the wage system of exploit
alton.
So again we say, keep cool.
When society as a whole own and
control the things which we must
have access to in order to live and
danger to that ownership confronts
us WE WILL FIGHT. Under those
conditions we will be fighting for
OUR property. The mills, mines,
factories, railroads, etc, will be the
common property of society as a
whole. Ours to do with as we will
and ours to defend if we have to.
So at present we must keep cool
for it is not our property that is in
danger. The war will not be a popu-
lar one. We have been ruled, fooled
and robbed too much lately by the
profit hungry patriots to make the
war popular one.
Armies, navies and organized vio-
lence have been the mainstay of OPP
preston, exploitation, tyranny and
injustice. That is not Americanism.
And being .strenuously opposed to
militarism in all it's forms we show
the only patriotic American spirit
that it is possible to show
Keep cool, fight for your rights
when you get them, but not for the
rights of patriotic profit mongering
/ eXploiters.
| SOCIALIST SUPERVISOR