Brance of LOCAUOLNESS,
Socialist Party
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PUBLISHED IN THE INTEREST OF
THE WORKERS OF ALASKA AND
ADVOCATING ' POLITICAL AND
INDUSTRIAL ACTION
“The Working Man’s Friend!” The
Full Dinner Pail.” The first catch-vote
slogan was a contemporary of the Boss |
Tweed Ring-needless to say that it!
worked well those days. The appealing \
“Full Dinner Pail” was a favorite of!
Mark Hanm—maker and uumaker of U. ;
S. presidents; we haven’t forgotten how
successful the Republican National cam- j
paign manager was with it. And, seeing, j
though it seems almost incredible, that j
Tweed’s “The working man’s friend” j
worked like a charm here, in the Fourth
Judicial Division of the Territory of Al
aska, without a doubt we’ll have Mark’s j
old favorite, so alluring--“The Full Din- j
ner Pr.il.” Sufficient is it—also prima
facia evidence that the working man is!
on the job—that the working man al
ways, without fail, votes for the “work- i
ing man’s friend,” else how could lie be •
assured of a job? It should lie the height
of the working man’s ambition to aiways
have a job— or one to look forward tc, '
and to elect “the working man’s friend” I
who’ll see that he, the working man lias J
no thinking of his own to do,' which will
certainly “help some.”
The coal fields of W. Ya., the copper
region of Michigan or the Colorado Fuel !
and Iron Co.—yclept State of Colorado— |
have nothing on the Tanana Valley
when it comes to “working men’s friends :
The Tanana Valley is the natural habit
at of the genus. The working man sure
ly isn’t “ingrate” enough to forget how
the numerous “working man’s friends
so nobly looked out for the working
man’s interests, not very many shortI
years ago. when the working man striv
ed for an amelioration of awful condit
ions in the drifts! And how the working :
man’s friends arose, enmasse, to the ;
emergency! The Tanana working man
has not forgotten. He votes for the
“working man’s friend, early and often!
Those glorious days of Barnette, during •
the reign of Federal Judge Wickersliam, ;
the militant U. S. Marshall Perry (who
culled or. troops at Ft. Gibbon to come
to Fairbanks to see that the working
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NOW OPEN
Uses nothing but the best
tie market affords in
the eating line.
Next to Mendham's Store
Front st. Fairbanks
HiCtiGii & Mill, Props.
HOW THE WORKERS AI TO
EMANCIPATE THEMSELVES
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All that the worker has to do to em
ancipate themselves is to make the joint
-collective ownership of the social!}' used
Iron Tool unanimous. That is, he shall
decree at the ballot box that the private
or collective ownership by the few shall
cease, and that the collective or joint
ownership of the Tools shall pass into
society as a whole.
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But before he so declares at the ballot
box lie must have the industrial organ
ization behind that will assure continuity
of prodution. He must be so organized,
that when he gains a majority of the
ballots cast for this proposition there
will be no demoralization, no anarchy.
Production will proceed along the usual
lines, and the Few will make room for
the many. In this way the multimillion
aire—the man cr woman who owns the
socially used Iron Tool in large degree
will disappear, and with this disappear
ance also will go the extreme of the
multimillionaire—the pauper
The mass expression of pauperism is
the Slums.
The mass expression of private owner
ship of the socially used Iron Tool is
Newport and Fifth avenue.
Both are symptoms of the unhealthy
Watch the old parties fuse as the
‘Menace gf Socialism” shows up.
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growth that capitalism lias-attained in
this country—the cne place in ail the i
world where restraint has been removed
and capitalism has been given full rein.
Reforms granted by the ruling class
are simply intended as breastworks to
keep the working class from storming
the heights of freedom.
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There is no more pitable sight oil
earth, over the earth, or under the earth !
than that of a wage slave hugging his
chains. It is he who is satisfied with his
wages and believes in the right to sell
his labor-power to whom and for ‘ ‘what
soever price he may choose,” that needs
charity and forgiveness.
“SOCIALISM WILL TRIUMPH IN THE
HEAR FUTURE,’’---SO SAYS DEBS.
Many of us who have been long in
service will not be here when the Bells
peal forth the joyous tidings that Social
ism has triumphed and that the people
are free,.but the children that now are
will live to see it and in the day of their
rejoicing the}- will not forget those who
toiled without recompense that tliey
might live without dread of poverty or
fear of want.
Eugune V. Debs.
Subscribe for Alaska Socialist.
Editor Alaska Socialist:
Will you
please publish the unclosed communic
ation and oblige. Yours truly, J. J.
Ruby, Alaska.
March 4 th. 1914.
Dear Comrade:
Since you were so nice
as to mfortn me that you belong to a
Socialist local, and since you always acc
used me of criticizing your political
view.-, you will probably allow me to
do the same. First let me tell you that
yon have made a mistake by starting a
Socialist party local instead of a Social
ist Labor Party local. The Socialist Lab
or Party of America i3 the only party
that teaches to the workers economic
and political organization. The party
owns there own press and literature and
every move of the party is put to a vote
of the members. I could enumerate oth
er things without number to show you
the clear and clean socialistic principle
of the S. L. P., but that is enough for
the present.
Now let us look into the Socialist par
tv of America and see what thev stand
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for. First let us take the Chicago I. W.
W. which belongs to the Socialist party
they stand for Sabotage, which means
destruction of property. Such teaching
will lead the members of such organiz
ation to open conflict with the militia,
and the result will be a slaughter or
massacre of the workers. Second they
do uot believe in political action; their
motto is “strike at the ballot box with
an axe.” Now, I ask you, is that Social
ism ?
Next comes the Iiillquit faction of S.
P. They believe in cheap light, cheap
water, cheap carfare and cheap every
thing else. Is that Socialism? Next
Patfonizethe
Miners Home
Restaurant
———.r-- --l
comes Berger with his state capitalism
do you realize what that means? It
mean's that the state will run the indus- ;
tries and pay the capitalists interest on
the bonds issued to them by the state.
The workers then will be placed under
military rule and in case of a strike
would be shot for mutiny. Now the Ber
gers, the Hillquits, the Hay woods, and
others are at the head of the Socialist
party. They are the National Executive
Committee. Through their machine1?
thev arg self appointed and self elected,
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and the rank and file are requested to
“come through” with the cash to supp
ort the organization, and, in theory, are
supposed to run it but in fact they do
not.
To mv estimation, and the estimation |
of those who understands Socialism, the l
Socialist party is a disgrace t o Socialist j
principles, livery dollar spent tor S. P. '
literature is a dollar wasted, for the sim- ’
pie reason that all newspapers and mag- !
azines are owned and controlled by in- j
dividuals, therefore exponents of indiv
idual ideas, made to conform with their
dollar grabbing schemes. Now Comrade
don’t misunderstand me in this matter
for I do not mean to criticize the rank
and file of the Socialist party for they
are as honest in tlieir opinions as you
and I, but they are misled by the state
of confusion which exists to-day i n the
Socialist party. I do not ask you to take
my word for all this. Study the S. P.
platform and the S. L. P. platform.
Study the literature of both parties com
pare them carefully and I am sure you
will come to the same conclusion as I
have come. I am sure that you and all
the rest of the comrades up there are
looking for the truth, therefore I hope
that you will give the Socialist Labor
Party a fair’hearing. First subscribe for
their official organ The Weekly People
then buy some of their pamphlets and
remember that every dollar spert with
them will be used for propaganda and
will not go into the pocket of some in
dividual Socialist for profit. Address 45
Rose St., New York, P. O. Box 1576.
Hoping to hear from you soon am
your friend.
Joseph Not'd.
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