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WORKERS Qf ALASKA
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Suicide Or Fight?
“An epidemic of snhyde, ’ ’ savs the
daily press commenting upon thy alar
ming number of persons who have .ch
osen the short route out of an. indus
trial hell during the past few wee
ks throughout Western Canada.
But after all, it is not more strange
or certain than an epidemic of fever
where no sewerage system obtains or
the first principles of sanitation • not
adhered to" as in railway construction
camps.
As a matter ol fact there are thou
sands of unfortunate men ami,, women
seeking _r> >t>^, penniless and , in
many eases in a strange land.and bei
ng without money are, needless to say.
without friends.
After being turned cut by the landlo
rd or boarding !iov.se mistress, arc ha
ving made a day-ait. r-c.r.y diligent sear
ch for a chance to sell themselves to a
boss on the iusvilhnent plan, the
outlook becomes giooniv.
An attack of the “blues,” sometimes
referred to by juries as “temporary in
sanity,” follows, and tilt victims men
tally ask thcmse!yes: “What’s the use?
To the men it ofttimes resolves itse
If into a choice of sudden' death or a s
low process of starvation with all that
that implies.
To the woman it may mean a ch
oice between becoming a plaything
for rich young bloods in a house prov
ided by society for the selling of their
bodies, or death.
Who can know the mental agony suf
fered by the suicide previous to the ti
bie whe-n they resolve to end it all?
How many of us would be too epwar
rdly to face such a situation?
In a world dominated by hitman hy
enas and grasping corporations, seeking
only to enslave men, women and child
ren, is it any wonder there are suicides?
On the contrary, is it not a seventh
wonder there are not more of them?
If it were not the bulldog tenacity of
the race perpetuation instinct within our
kind, especially among the working
class, fewer persons would stay with the
bitter struggle fol existence,
Capitalism breeds all sorts of meth
ods of securing a living, as every police
court and social institution on earth am
ply testifies.
Almost every married wage-worker
in feVery industrial center nowadays is
compelled 10 resort to all manner of m
eans to make ends meet, from taking
in the proverbial “roomer” to washing
'dirty linen.
And what the single then and women,
do to earn a living is well known to ev
ry tenant of a modern boarding house
or apartment,
A society thit is fairly rotten to the
core, a social system that breaks up the
home and destroys the best intentions
and strongest desires to live like hum
an beings can beget nothing but the
everyday stories of ‘he daily press.
The fount from which it alt springs is
the labor market, and so long as men
and wometi coo sent to make a commo
dity out of their very life force—ability
U> work, labor power— the sad story
will be a continued one,
The organized labor movement is the
Ot»e butress against the grinding forces
of capitalism, and upon its growth and
education depends a good deal of what
the future has in store for mankind.
None can save the working class but
the working class.
If ever there was £ time for unionists
to take a fresh grip and determinedly
fulfil their age long mission that time is
sow. *
Be a live one.
Ibefuse to suicide!
fright'--B C. Pederationist.
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POLITICAL EDITOR
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Goy, Strong’s
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■The readers of the Commonef \vho p
! or change may happen to see a copy of
the Juneatf Empire, iheyeV,np;lper rece
ntly established at Juneau bv Gov. Str
ong, will obsefve that at the top of
the editorial column appears the
Uatne of John Troy .formerly of Clal
Ivmi county, Washington. Trov, for
the last few years, has been secretary
of the Seattle Arctic club, an ‘ ‘insidious
lobby” founded in Seattle for the: pur-,
pose of exploiting Alaska. Notwithsta
nding the fact that Stroup shipped
this tool of Ballinger* Clark, Hoggett,
Shackelford and others of their political
ilk, back to Alaska to run his newspa
per, Ills Excellency is how pefambat
arourni the Territory at government
i expense, pleading for “h trmmiy” \yith
Troy, ‘ 'Exuni” ,Erwin ‘‘Cbeny’* an.d
the Seattle ‘‘insidious > kv.” What
a sweet scented concoction that would
| be to be dubbed by the Socialists in the
j next campaign as the ‘‘Pempcratic
| Party!’’--Omigod,
! TUo above item is from the Ccnuin
i cute'-, Valde*. attd speaks for itself.
It saysa.gObd deal. It is ashamed of
the concoction it speaks about and
i is afraid p£ the Socialists dabbing it the
Democratic party.
Why should the Socialists wait for next
campaign to dub the concoction? why
net dub it now?
Excellency, perambulating at gover
I limcnt expense pleading for harmony
! with Cheay and Co., Empire, Democr
atic.
These be high sou tiding names and
! phrases and what the bunch of profes
j sional, political office hum rs styling
themselves Democratic party, and rep
i resenting the left wing of the capitalist
class lias to do with Democracy none but
; one who lirs kissed, the democratic mule
! can explain, ■
i Is there anything strange or new
: about th.e Democrats travelling around
i at government expense?
| If you want to find out the truth
! about it just look up the record of the
i Democratic Party and you will find
: that, wherever they have been in power
j City, Town, County;-, State or National,
; getting on the government payroll and
I travelling ghoutul at government expe
1 hse lias beeh its long suit.
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A Democrat Hisses
A Mule
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[A Democrat dowii at Fort Worth, j
| Texas, was arrested and fined $33 for ;
; kissing a mule.
I The culprit clained that he was kissing ]
the mule in reverence of the emblem
of the Democratic party, but his plea
failed to save him from the wtath of
j the court.
—Miners Magazine.
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It is repotted, that cue of the disap
o.nted old party (office seekers remarked
receutly that it was better uosv-a-days
to be a Canadian than an American
and expressed his indention of mig
rating to Canada.
I If lii« failure to make connections
i with the politicians • of the . Democr
' atic party has killed his patriotism it is
: a patriotism well worth being rid of.
■ Socialism will give jobs to all, Atn
I erica 11 as well as Canadian. It wifi
1 provide jobs for all and make all so
| secure in their jobs that no poli
' tician, Democrat or other, will be
j able to take them away. Economic
j security is what Socialism standi
j for.
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There is incarcerated in the Federal
jail, awaiting the acting of the Grand
Jury, a poor, unfortunate, friendless,
workingman who took it upon himself
to collect his wages ig another way t
han that prescribed by the politicians of
Alaska.
Provoked beyond endurance by hun
ger, and thinking, go doubt, that he
was Ix-iing buncoed, and being unacq
uainted with the Wickerslinm Lien Law
and other measures for the enforeeme
of the rights of workingmen of Alaska,
fie, probably, listened to the wild rav
ings and loud-mouthed talk pf some di
rect action anarchists, who, as soon as
their pernicious doctrines are embraced
by some unsophisticated rubes, generally
retire to a safe distance leaving the vie- j
tints of their vicious teachings to their i
fate.
The Socialist Party declares itself to
be the party of the working class in a
11 i£s battles agaiiist capitalism.
Not, however, by thought, word or
deed has any representative of the local i
organization of the Socialist Party, so
far as known offered to render any as
sistance to him i>i the way of procur-,
ing counsel, although he is destitute.
How any of the local politicians ofj
the Socialist Party could represent the
workers at Juneau, when they are in
different to a case like this, is h myste
ry which we would be very pleased to
have some magician unravel for us.
The local organization has considera
ble resources at its command, so mil,
eh so, tlut at a recent meeting, it is j
reported, with a membership in good
standing of in the neighborhood of fifty 1
atul little more than a quorum present
they voted one of their number a pre
sent of a goodly sum without any valid i
reason.
The only conclusion we can draw is
that the politicians in the Socialist Pa
rty are too busy looking after their ind
ividual interests tc bother about the in
terests of their class or extend a little
financial assistance to a worker in distr
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Carl Berg and George Hicks, two So-- \
cialist Comrades, left a few days ago;
in their motor boat The Fly Away, for
the Upper ’banana and Chisana. The}- j
took with them a good supply of soun- i
d Socialist literature an,d left behind a 1
number of time checks and labor aceo- j
unts, they not having faith enough in i
any laws passed by any of the capitali- j
st legislators to warrant them in tarry- j
ing longer to try to, collect them.
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WISE TO THEIR GAME
First Old Patty Politician:. “I tell vou ;
it is no use to waste your time on tko- j
se Socialists for they won’t stand for a-1
liy of our bunk. They are wist to us. ’ ’
Second Q. P, P.: “Why, how is that3”
First O. P. P.: “Do you see that fell
ow just going around the corner that y- j
ou shook bauds with?”
Second O. P. P.: “Yes.”
First O. PP.: “Well, he is a Social--,
ist> ’ ’
Second O. P. P.: “What if he is? W
'hat does that matter?'y
First O. P. P.: 1 ‘What does that ma- !
tter? Why-, didn't you stee him counting
his fingers after the shake?”.
Another gunpowder plot is reported [
in the daily press with old man Otis, :
the union hater, in the leading role.
At first it was suspicioned that an 1
Industrial was. the sender of the i
package, but now it is supposed |
that a Democrat may be the guilty |
party on account of the last plot
centering in Dos Angeles having
disclosed the fact that the conspi
rators were Democrats.
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IMMIGRATION
Iv?.pltiel, the Puritan,
Thus lifts his protestation.
“By gingef, I’m American
And don’t like immigration,
N'ar-w I just guess I got here fust
And know what I’n about
When I declar’ we’ll all go bust
Or keep them aliens out.”
Max Hiedleberg, the German, says:
Jail, also. Right, mein frandt,
If ve dot foreign trash admit
Our woes will nefer endt,
I am Americans as you,
Und villing to go shout:
“Hurray mit red und vite und plue,
"Und keep those aliens oudt!”
Ike Diamondstein, the Jew, exclaims:
“All, Izzy, ain’t dot grandt!
Ve Yangkees haf such noble aims
Undt vill together standt,
We’ve got der goods, ve’re naturalized
Vat hinders us from sliouttn
Americavich is civilized
Uud keep dose aliens oudten!
Pietro Garibaldi says:
“Here ever-r-ry man is king,
I catcha dar fun, I maka da mon,,
1 iik-a ever-r-ryt’ing,
American he gentanian—
Watch a da Dago shout,
‘Sell a da fruit, shin a da boot,
Keep-a da alien out.’ ”
J,he Irishman vociferates:
“Sure, Mike, its sahtt as jelly,
i’ll take a siitick and crack the pates ^
Of ivery foreign Kelly.
If its the call of polyticks,
Then I’n the la’ad to shout:
Down with the Dagoes, an’ th’ Micks,
An’ keep th’ aliens out!’’
But.covered with ancestral tan
Reside his wigwam door,
The only true American
Counts idle talk a bore.
“Ugh! Pale face he mighty thief,
Much medicine talk about—
it heap too late fur Injun
To keep the alien out.’’
i. u. News
READ THE DISCUSSION ON
THE RECALL OF JUDGES AND
FIND OUT WHY THE LAWYERS
ARE OPPOSED TO THE RECALL,
COMMENCING IN NExT ISSUE.
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THE REACTIONARY LAWYtft
Lawyers, &s a class, are the most i>.
actiouary elements, in Society to-day.
There was a time when the lefcul
professi on stood for progress —wair, in
fact, revolutionary. During the *£t6u
Tgeois revolution or the
of capitalism and the -"’par...
ng of feudalism, the lawyer occupied
the central position and around him ra
llied all the revolutionary forces of th‘
time.
To-day, however, they, as a class,
are, not only not progressive but, pos
itivelv reactionary. They want to go
backward instead of forward. In proot
of this they are continually quoting pi
ecedents from the dhrkagds and trying
to fit the- rulings and decisions of feud
al times to Twentieth Century civilizstl
on; the age of the mail clad fcuron and
wooden plow to the era of flying much
ines and electricity.
When capitalism passes, and the ne«
social system (Socialism) is ushered in
the lawyer and his twin brother, the por
itician, being no longer necessary, will
also have to go.
Next issue we will commence an arti
cle Recall of Judges, a discussion that t
ook place before the Illinois State Bar
Association, and although the Recall is
not a Socialist measure hut a capitalist,
yet it is an improvement Over the pres
ent method of removing crooked judges
ffrom office, and it will show better th
an anything else liow reactionary lawy
ers actually are.
It is reported that a s^bqtager visited
the newspaper Pacts and sabotaged
the type. Rouse mit im!
Houses for sale and rent I
Real Estate j
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