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WORKERS OF ALASKA
AND ADVOCATING
POLITICAL AND INDUSTRIAL ACTION ,
He ls Now A
Syndicalist
Used To Work
The Comrades
Gaylord Wilshire was once known
in America as the ‘Millionaire Social
ist’
Men and women in the socialist party
once looked upon Wilshire as sincere
and earnest, and a number of mem
bers of the socialist party, with rubber
for spinal columns, pandered to the
gentleman whose questionable methods
furnished him ducats to cut a swath on
‘‘Iiasy street.”
Wilshire was proclaimed by a number
of socialist publications as a wonderful
man and as one of those unflinching
champions of human rights, who was
making history for the cause of labor.
The publications that paid glowing
tributes to Wilshire, made it less diffic
ult for the trickster to sell his gold
bricks.
Wilshire, according to his own state
ments and advertisements that appeared
in his magazine, had a great bonanza in
California, and this generous and
big hearted socialist yearned to share
his bonanza with the struggling millions
of poverty stricken wretches, whose ho
vels were menaced by hunger and want.
Wilshire heralded to the world that
his mines in California contained moun
tains of gold, and that he would gener
ously permit his poorer brothers and
sisters to purchase stock in mines,
whose product in the near future, would
demonetize gold.
Wilshire was so generous, that he even
made donations to struggling socialist
publications, because he felt that contri
butions to journals that were dying for
lack of nourishment, would have a whol
esome effect on editors whose salaries
were more priceless than their conscien
tious scruples.
For a few years the “millionaire soc
ialist” had a mint, and was coining
money out of the gullible, who swallow
ed the bait of the confidence artist who
wore the mask of Socialism while skinn
ing his dupes.
The Miners Magazine punctured the
get-ricli- quick schemes of
the “millionaire socialist”
and when the gold demonetizer gazed
at the page of the magazine that reflect
ed on the honesty of the socialist wild
cat promoter, there was an earthquake
in the headquarters of the Wilshire job
bing department.
The editor of the Miners Magazine
was notified that he must retract 01 face
an action for criminal libel, but the edit
or refused to retract, and then the soc
ialist bluffer sent a wThine to all the local
unions of the Western Federation of Mi
eurs, complaining of the slander, and
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TO THE LOCAL SECRETARIES
OF THE SOCIALIST PARTY.
DEAR COMRADES:
Suffrage has
been granted to the women of four
states during the past year. Do you
know why?
Organized capital wishes to use the
conservatism of women to offset the
advance of labor on the political field.
We have bern so busy building a work
ing class political party that we have
overlooked the women, or at least one
half of that class which we would
emancipate. We have been so close to
the situation that we did not see it in '
all its phases, but the enemy, ever'
watchful, ever alert, saw it.
Skillfully, adroitly, they have plann
ed their nation-wide campaign for the
woman vote. By their advocacy o f j
woman suffrage they have enlisted the
active ‘support of thousands of earnest
women. These women do not know
that they are becoming the p o 1 i t i cal \
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serfs of a corrupt and retrogressive
organization whose sole purpose is to
check the forward march of labor, to j
pit sister against brother, wife against
husband, female worker against male
worker at the ballot box, as they have
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done in shop, mill and factory.
The crisis is upon us —we are about
to reap the seeds of our o wn fojly
and ignorance.
The situation we are facing is not
child’s play, neither is it “old woman’s
folly”— it is a most vital problem,
one which menaces the workers at
every point, which jeopardizes our ev
ery victory, and threatens the growth
and progress of the Socialist Party.
What are you going to do about it,
comrade?
How can you stand idly by and see
the deception of millions of inexperi
enced women voters.
You comrades of the North and
West, who consider no punishment too
severe for the deceivers of women,
you chivalrous comrades of the East
and South, who would burn at the
stake the debaucliers of our sex, what
will you do about the deception and
political enslavement of our women by
a corrupt and prostitute political par
ty?
No—it is not too late, if you act now.
While the old parties are tossing bouq
uets of remedial messages and subtle
flatter}- to the potential voter, we will
carry her the message of real liberty
and freedom—freedom from the sor
I didness and drudgery of endless toil
I —Industrial freedom as well as political
freedom, without the hope of which
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the ballot is like a child’s bauble.
We must carry this message to ev
ery woman in America. Can we depend
upon your local to do its share? If so,
instruct the secretary to write us for
special instructions and plan of work
for women. Give us an opportunity to
assist you.
Elect a woman’s Propaganda Committ
ee to take charge of special work am
ong women. Keep this committee
supplied with our special leaflets. They
will do the rest,
If there is a live wire in your local,
i he will recognize the importance of
this educational work and will see to it
that I receive a reply to this letter.
Fraternally yours,
WINNIE E. BRANSTETTER,
; General Correspondent, Woman’s Na
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tional Committee.
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Nike And ike
Said Mike to Ike : “You dirty Jew,
I’ll whale the stuffin’s out of you! You
blatherin’, unbaptized galoot, I’ve dan
ged good moind to smash your snoot! ’ ’
Said Ike to Mike: “You Christian dog,
you r-rotten beast vot lives on hog, ven
dot church r-rings dot ol* church bell,
I dells der pope to go to belli” And
then the blood and whiskers flew
between the Christian and the Jew.
Now, both these lobsters worked all
day for the self-same boss at blamed
small pay ; and devil a bit did this
boss care for the bleeding mugs and
gobs of hair. “If I,” said he, “can
keep these two—Mike, the Christian,
and Ike, the Jew— scrappin’ about
their creeds and such, I can skin ’em
both to beat the Dutch ; but if they
lose their myths and creeds, their go
blins, ghosts and strings of beads, and
find their interests are one, the two
would liave me on the run! ’ ’
And the boss lay back and smole a
smile and dreamed of next year’s go
odly pile that he would swipe from
wealth that grew from sweat of Chri
stian and of Jew. And he blessed
the ghosts with all his heart that kept
poor alike and Ike apart.
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Overfield Is Now In
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San Francisco.
Accoording to the daily press, Pete
Overfield, late occupant of a judicial
i seat in Alaska, has betaken himself
to the sunny shores of California, to
expound there his peculiar views on
law.
It is not supposed that any evil fate
will overtake the people of Alaska on
account of Pete’s -departure from these
shores.
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On The Trail
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Of The Would
be Assassin
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The alleged shots, said to have been
fired at one of our most prominint cit
izens, was, it is asserted, at least one
hundred and eighteen proof, and it is
supposed was a product of one of the .
famous valleys in the south of Mary-j
land.
It could not be ascertained, at the
time of going to press, which of our loc
al bartenders is suspected of being the
guilty party.
What The Alas
ka Legislature
Did for The
Workers
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