Devoted to Workers that World, Unitet: You have. World to Gein!
OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE SOCIALIST PROPAGANDA LEAGUE NEW YORK, SATURDAY, JÓNE 2, 1917 cents. Copy Vol. No. Refuse!
The Revolt Against Con ption THE CENSORSHIP. Lols FR. ISA refue hicienie mieule of Ilierty and fraternity. refuse.
drag there ikeals in the nuanto brutal slanghter. refuse nit nuoral and physical surgent to the great cierny of grew and the Jeanner of the race.
In a day when all the forces of rape city and tyranny are organized to crush. the ideals and conscience of the individwl, shall not allow myself to be crushed refuse to fight for a ruling clay that soppresses and kills us in the days of peace, and now insists that we fight an die to protect its interests. recognize no boyalty but the inalty to my class no war but the internatinal war again Capitalism no ideals but the ideals of revidutinary Socialis ho duty but the chaty to my conscience. They are using the lives and air tions, the courage and enthusiasm of our youth as fertilizer for the minister nens interests that promoted this war and which alone will profit by it. shall fight for life and love, beauty and freedom. But shall not fight for death and prots, business and tyranny. refuse to scyuience in the ACUR plished lad of war. refuse to submit to the reaction and to the extinction of freedom. ne noble gjod for odlo For ways that are dark the heathen Chince has nothing on the representatives of law and order in this country.
Here is the proof: An original cartoon by Maurice Becker wus to have appeared in this space a magnificat expression of the couragoous spirit of the Conscientious Objedor.
We were all ready to go topress, when the printer informs us that be dares not print the artoon for four of prosecution by the government!
toantry the past two weeks indicate a spontaneous and powerful movement to resist conscription. This is not Hatement is the nature of the wish be ing father to the thought, bat la fact emphasized by the prey and the for er nrnent dispatch from Washington dated May 30 wid. Government heade koped today, thocicta did not fully believe that they had crushed anti conscription plots Rids like those of divid war days were will begarded as posible.
Thi, statement was preceded by news of arrests throughout the country of men and women active in the fight apaink conscription Socialist party headquarters in Pittsburgh had been raided, no conscription literature reierde and many comrades arrested. In Tan the president of the Farmers and borers Protective Association of Amer la which it is alleged has organired a movement to resist conscription, had been arrested, along with score of other ben. It lomid the government wil demand the death penalty. Araration to this car that the de spicable employing class of Taus wsing the opportunity ay more mentalne Similarly, the police do pot prohibit meetings, but owners of halls are indirectly influenced and they refuse.
It a mere trifle that the Constitution guarantees freedom of speech and assemblage. It mere trifle that no Censorship law has yet been passed.
Three cheers for Democracy in Russia!
my muy coorige Los refuse to shoulder pan, and tramp traur, tramp in the march of destruction shall never we a gun to kill another man; a man whom do not know and with whom have no quarrel; man whom it did know might love for his faults and ideal and his joy in life. shall never kick the cold, sharp steel of the bayonet in the soft, resisting ruts of a human being, we him collapse in any and the warm blood of life urting out of his cring body, hear the wail of the dying and the murmurs of farewell to dear ones who will never see him sain. refuse to feed the runs that spurt out death, as if death were the allabrorbing business of life. refuse to shatter the body of a man that a mother sponied y bring forth for bile and love refuse to shatter the body of a man that has warmed a sweetheart, to cripple hands that have fond! a child, to waste the mouth that has kissid, mother. refuse to blind eyes that have pared lovingly upon life, and hoped for happimen in spite of misery and death. refuse to make corpses that role cripples that suffer, and men and women that Weep You my these things are necessary!
That they are sacrifices for our ideals?
You lie, gentlemen! Your ideals are to pake money, to acquire power, to insure your financial supremacy. The ideals of democracy and civilization that you pretend to fight for are fraud refuse to Asht for these ideale! shall not tolerate compulsion! shall not shed blood in your infamous cause!
You may punishme, you may break me physically. You cannot break my spirit and my conscience!
Others may palter, and acquiesce. er termined to the mascription movement come the arrest of men and woma throughout the country on charge of treason and com Vincy to violate the conscription law.
In New York City, three members of the Collegiate Anti Militarien Lagoe Owen Cattell, Charles Francis Phillips and Eleanor Wilson Parter, were are reated on the charge of conspiring to Tolate the comecription law by advising re not to register.
la Columbus, Ohin charge of trucos were fled by the United States District Attorney gains Ammon Hennacy, a mellege student and Socialist; Harry Towaley, a printer, and Cecil Bailey, a mechanic None of the three charged with treason winord when reminded at their arraignment that conviction on the charge of treason may mean death, Mys the newspaper report. Others are under arrest for investigation In Topeka, Kansas, Dr. Eva Harding and Goldberg, who had attended an unti conscription meeting, were arrested on the charge of conspiring to defeat the draft. Newman, a carpenter, who was chairman of the meeting wu aho are rested. Professor George Kleinere formier. Socialist candidate for Gover, mor, was arrested in Lawrence, so on the charge of conspiracy.
la Kansas City, two men who had appealed to the courts for a la junction. to restrain the operation of the dratt, were arrested after their proceedings were dismissed In New York City and in all sections of the country the police are being or dered to show no mercy. The secret service machinery of the government actively on the job to round up ok.
jectoni. Situegraphic reports are being saade of all speeches to conscription meeting. dominant phase of the movement seems to be the determination hot to register, and recret cotes are being instituted to check up young of conscripthe. Others wid register a conscientious objecton.
The government through Attorney General Gregory, has carried on a regu far propaganda to win mee ol com Kcriptive are of the drastie penalty tached to any acthrity against conscrip tion la spite of the warning, thene men apparently are organitne prepared to hale en lade of the whole thing.
Repeal the Conscription Act!
All our activity and propogande in this particular crisis is to have con Centlemand the Congre, the people demand the repeal of the Com preu repeal the Conscription Ach.
scription Adr The Conscription Ad violates Section of the Thirteenth Amend In the mean hala, al men of conscriptive are conscientiously opposed ment to the constitution, which readas Neither wonery or involuntary loner, my express their convictions by claiming crumption a Cancio, servituds, aceplapumishment for crine her of the party shall have tious Objeclert. So sale in your registration form been dully convicted, shell exist within the United Steles, and place subject to their farisdiction.
Do not we wish anyone: Do not alles anyone to promote you inte e Acht That is precisely what they want We harme a righe to demand that the Comernment live without comes in reporting the proet meeting at Madison Square Garden, the No fundamental lo. We have a right to spitale gained the imusion of York Evening Peel yo: The my dasturbance came from prep of liberty soldiers and melore who set in a body directly opposite the platform and This agitation in mod illegal, but the attempt of the Comernal lo Interrupted the meeting at Internale with yolls and catcalle.
prevent this epilation on illegal.
49 Do not allor them to promote you believe in peace, di The will of the people alone is low in a democi and Congres spponenda pho and violence und erpres the will of the people.
Remember this time problem of the individueel dones se ciel. No me importion of human rights, but of legal rights.
Organise and work for the need of the Conscription full.
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boch Now You ded the center of the or agitation. There Licntiores objector, e protest and to mal the law South, but to the. The city where public me to be restent and the. Kw City, but there are also froupe in Chicago Cleveland, Cie and Milwaukee who will reture. draud New York No.