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PEACE.
Peace! Sweat Peace, with its
prince in toga white! All love peace
Peace, the calmer of men’s minds,
the easier of life's load! Peace,
the mother of love, whose symbol
is the gentle dove! Peace on earth,
good will! Peace, the dream of
dreams!
Peace is more terrible than war.
Its ravage's arc greater; the num
ber of its dsad is larger; its pes
tilence is more widespread; it has
no flare of trumpets, no martial
music to lure its victims to their
fate; it avoids the limelight; it
works in the dark; it lurks every
where. Or_ the wings of the north
wind it rides about giving its com
mands. It hides in the corners of
men’s stomachs to pir.ch and prod
them to their doom.
P"cc? Forty thousand killed e.nd
2,000,000 injured in the factories
and on the railroads cf the United
States in o::r. year! Peace? These
are the victims i of peace! But not
all. They ere merely the ones who
are stricken from without, those
whom the machinery of peace
murders and maims. Of the num
ber who die from the rawages of
disease, the number is many times
greater.
The Cii'id.tn who die from lack
of norishmort which peace with
holds from them; the youths who
g st consumption by their contact
witli the foul factor'es of peace; '
the women whom the wages of!
peace drive to the brothels, whom ■
the long hours and hard labor]
weaken and prepare for the scourge |
of disease; and the men, whom the I
doctors jolly along while theirj
money lasts, ami who, by the hund
red thousand, go back to replenish
the soil of peace each year!
Peace? Give me the rough, rug
ged rattle of the war drum before
such peace! Peace? Mount me on
a war horse, thrust a sword into
my hand, and let me end the vic
tim’s life i:i an instant rather than
see him killed inch by inch on the
torture racks of peace!
WHERE I,\lt()K HAS XO RIGHTS.
Tlic Steel Corporation is the larg
est single employer of labor in the!
world. Its employes have lium-1
bored as high as 25,000, more than j
five times as many as were required i
to dig the Panama Canal. And
this great body of workingmen arc)
completely Russianized. There is I
never anything of mutual bargain
and sale in their labor contracts.
The right of protest, the right of
conference together to better work
ing conditions or even to express
opinions upon them is absolutely
denied the men.
This great corporation, with all
its power, does not allow its em
ployes a word. There are no Gary
dinners in the steel works. The
corporation names the wages and
it names tho conditions. The men
can take both or resign. The bare
right of petition is denied them.
When the men in one of the Na
tional Tube Works plants submit
ted a petition for shorter hours it
was scorned. When the men ot
tlie Edward Thomson Steel Works
circulated .1 petition they wc-re told
it would net be received.
A basic principle of liberty is
the right of a man to ocll the labor
of his hands. The basic principle
of trade unionism is the right of
the workingmen to collectively for
lor the sale of that labor. When
dealing with the vast power of
great employers, if the working
man has no right of collective bar
gaining, he has no right of bargain
ing at all. There is no bargain,
lie is conscripted. His powers are
confiscated, and his employers al
low him what they will. He may
take it, or he may starve. What
chance for even-handed justice has
one pocr Slav, handling pig-iron, or
one puddled or roller or blower
or pourer, against the power ot
that seventcen-billion-dollar dece
lerate? None! Absolutely none! He
is the merest atom, as helpless as
the Hindoo before the juggernaut!
Even the vaunted profit-sharing
and pension plans of the Steel Cor
poration are like bait in traps to
snare away the liberties of the
men.
The tell us that this profit shar
ing plan costs the company $450.
000 a year. After studying this
plan, however, one is compelled to
believe that the corporation gets
value received for it; that this ex
penditure stands on about the same
basis as that for the Hill ore leases,
and the pig-iron purchases. Further
more, it is a profit-sharing plan
only to this extent that the em
ployes are allowed to buy a certain
amount of stock under certain con
ditions, and to pay for it in annual
installments. Those who do buy
such stock will share in the profits
of the corporation to the extent of
their holdings, and to a further
extent, as follows: The corporation
agrees to put sugar on this stock
in the way of a bonus of $5 per
share per year. But—this bonus
will only be paid in case the em
ploye remains continuously in the
employment of the company and
can present annually a letter from
a proper official declaring that he
has ‘shown a proper interest in
its (the corporation's) welfare and
progress.”—Peter Clark Macfarlane
in Metropolitan Magazine.
MODERN INDUSTRIAL
DEVELOPMENT.
East and West, North and South,
as far as the globe is humanly ha
bitable, extends the conquest of mo
dern industrial development. The
remotest regions are penetrated and
the most ancient nations are awak
ened to the new life.
One after another the nations of
the far East, so long dormant un
der the influence of Oriental civili
zation, are being industrialized and
taking their places in the interna
tional procession of modern deve
lopment.
The transformation of Japan into
a modern industrial nation in the
short space of a single generation
is one of the marvels of our age.
Eugene Brieux, the French writer,
has paid a recent visit to Japan
and in writing of what he saw
there ho says: ‘Industrial develop
ment here, as elsewhere, has creat
ed socialism, qnd misery has given
birth to revolt.”
In this terse utterance the fam
ous Frenchman has described the
process of the social revolution.
Capitalism, being based upon explo
itation and the use of modern ma
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chinery, necessarily creates the con
ditions which make socialism ine
vitable, and as a logical sequenco
socialism follows in the wake of ca
pitalism all around the world.
Where capitalism penetrates, so
cialism is bound to follow. The ex
ploited and displaced workers are
forced into misery and finally driv
en to revolt. ^
One after another the nations of
the far East are succumbing to the
conquest of modern industrial de
velopment and one after anotifcr
they are recruiting the internation
al socialist movement.
Modern industrial development
is rapidly paving the way and pre
paring the peoples of all nations
for the International Socialist Re
public.
SPEAK IT OUT
If you’ve anything to offer that will
will aid the cause of right, ^
Speak it out!
If you’ve any truth within you
that will lend the world a light,
Speak it out!
If the fire is in your spirit and the
passion, to create,
'You will feel it, you will know it.
Then to labor. Do not wait.
Speak it out!
The exploiting rich have made it
so that more than a third of the
people of America have to pay rent
on the houses they occupy, and
then hypocritically cry that Social
ism will break up the home.
Capitalism can exist only when it
crushes the spirit of the worker.
He who arouses this spirit is doing
more for the spiritual development
cf the world than all the pulpit es
sayists who defend capitalism.
Socialism finds no fault with the
message of Jesus or with spiritual
development, but it would arouse
the church to a sense of shame for
its defense of a system that delibe
rately robs the worker in profit,
rent and interest. Chattel slavery
:iaver robbed the worker of a third
as much.
About 75 per cent of man’s
thoughts are on making money or
even a living. Not much time spent
on good wholesome thoughts for
the welfare of mankind. Our sy
stem develops the hog nature of
man and will ever be so as long as
the bread and butter question is
the “paramount issue of the coun
try.’
Getting wealth and earning
wealth are two different and near
ly opposite things. Labor has pro
duced all wealth. The capitalist
crowd has a great deal of wealth
that they could not have earned
in a thousand years of incessant
toil. These apostles of capitalism
simple got possession of it; they
stole it; they filched it; they wrung
it from the hides of the toiler. The
incentive was greed for gold and
the love of power. What glorious
results issue from the incentives
which capitalism furnishes!
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