88 THE CLASS STRUGGLE THE CLASS STRUGGLE 89 Current Affairs CONSCRIPTION In the name of our war for democracy, freedom, and the national honor of America we have plucked the first fruit from the tree of American militarism: selective conscription. And so, whatever the outcome of this war for cult...

94 THE CLASS STRUGGLE THE CLASS STRUGGLE 95 cause of complaint she paid for our food in good current cash, and being strictly neutral English money is as good as German money.
Then came the German submarine, which really threatened our trade. Not in the way the British blockade did by making us t...

96 THE CLASS STRUGGLE THE CLASS STRUGGLE 97 And Representative McCulloch (Republican, Ohio) thus expressed our war aims in the House. believe that we should enter this war merely for the purpose of protecting our rights, and when we succeed in forcing Germany, if we should so succeed, in recogniz...

98 THE CLASS STRUGGLE THE CLASS STRUGGLE 99 There are others; there will be more. And it is our task, it is the task of the socialists and the workers to get into the fight against reaction, and to defend their own. No faltering! On with the struggle against Capitalism!
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102 THE CLASS STRUGGLE THE CLASS STRUGGLE 103 to disregard those safeguards which the law and trade union rules have established for the protection of their lives, health and efficiency.
The super patriotic effusions of some of our labor leaders in offering to sacrifice their safeguard on the alt...

105 THE CLASS STRUGGLE 104 THE CLASS STRUGGLE the Vorwaerts at a time when the Russian proletariat has not only swept away the Czarish regime, but dares to carry on the fight for a Socialist republic, over the heads of the capitalist revolutionary government.
This statement, in favor of monarchis...

110 THE CLASS STRUGGLE THE CLASS STRUGGLE 111 THE FIRST APPEAL OF THE INDEPENDENT SOCIALDEMOCRACY OF GERMANY The German Social Democratic Party opposition, which united at a Conference held at Easter in the city of Gotha as the Independent Social Democratic Party of Germany, has published the fol...

7 THE CLASS STRUGGLE TO MAKE THE WORLD SAFE police court to ninety days in the workhouse. In his pleading Assistant District Attorney Hatting stated that the intent of the defendant in distributing this circular seemed to be to incite revolution. He insisted that, while the circular ostensibly co...

9 THE CLASS STRUGGLE War and Public Opinion By AUSTIN LEWIS masses.
person (a) to limit the facilities for transporting, producing, manufacturing, supplying, storing or dealing in any necessaries. b) to restrict the supply of any necessary. d) to prevent, limit or lessen the manufacture or produc...

14 THE CLASS STRUGGLE WAR AND PUBLIC OPINION 15 public by the instruments of publicity, all of which are in the hands of the government group. These have heretofore been the press, the pulpit and the speeches of statesmen and politicians. To them the British government at least has added during t...

16 THE CLASS STRUGGLE SOCIALIST POLICY IN PEACE AND WAR 17 Such ideas cannot be formulated by the dominant classes, for they are not in accordance with their interests. The new catchwords must of necessity be democratic. Among them the word solidarity, whose significance was only beginning to be ...

SOCIALISTS AND WAR 173 72 THE CLASS STRUGGLE were admonished not to disapprove of it on the plea of neutrality. When Germany inaugurated a peace propaganda in this country our party entered upon a peace agitation which was not essentially different in character from that of Germany official and u...

31 SOCIALIST POLICY IN PEACE AND WAR 30 THE CLASS STRUGGLE from the industry to the economic entity, called the nation.
Mind you, not the racial or cultural nation, but the economic one. Or, to be more exact, it is not a question of the nation at all, but of the political entity, the state, repre...

36 THE CLASS STRUGGLE WAR LEGISLATURE 37 War Legislature By JOSEPH WHITEBORN Socialist Member of State Assembly In observing and judging the New York Assembly, it is not only profitable but proper to note the physical surroundings.
The Assembly Chamber is a tremendously large room, about two hund...

48 THE CLASS STRUGGLE POLITICAL MAJORITIES 49 axioms were overthrown by this new factor, which was puzzling not merely because of its newness, but equally, because it seemed to contradict and nullify the accumulated unvarying experience of years.
The market had collapsed in 1907, but as a direct ...

5 THE CLASS STRUGGLE POLITICAL MAJORITIES 55 no antagonisms and if it took care of all by satisfying the interests and needs of each, then law and order would be inherent in the harmony of industry. The co ordinated action of the various industrial spheres would be about the extent of government ...

94 THE CLASS STRUGGLE SOCIALISTS AND WAR 95 agree with La Monte that political liberty and representative institutions are not empty worthless baubles not worth fighting to retain. The preservation and extension of democracy are cardinal features of the revolutionary program of Socialism: the lar...

100 THE CLASS STRUGGLE PHILIPP SCHEIDEMANN 101 Philipp Scheidemann PEN PICTURE Philipp Scheidemann, erstwhile compositor, a good public school education to which he has added considerably, an open head, clever, mentally very active. born agitator, familiar with all the tricks of a demagogue. He k...

102 THE CLASS STRUGGLE ACCUSE 103 accuse!
Friedrich Adler Address in Court In the first place must oppose the legend that has been woven about my person. recognized from the beginning that my act would be attributed to a temporary state of mental abberation. was prepared for the cry of the whole ...

108 THE CLASS STRUGGLE ACCUSE 109 But in the course of developments this war has evolved a change of functions in the conception of Fatherland.
In former times there were no fatherlands, but simply nations which had to be governed. Since the 70 the ideal of a Lational state has come to life in th...

J ACCUSE THE CLASS STRUGGLE 110 111 It is the state lack of principle that has bred in me a hatred, not against Austria as a country, but against Austria as an immoral entity, against its lying spirit. This Austrian spirit exists in all of its parts and in all of its nations; all are degraded by ...

86 THE CLASS STRUGGLE SOCIALISTS AND WAR 87 Socialist majority have been compelled to acquiesce in the brutal acts of their government. The government is dominant and the government directs things its own way when there is no independent and aggressive waging of the class struggle.
But the most t...

68 THE CLASS STRUGGLE THE CLASS STRUGGLE 69 that added taxation would reduce the standard of living of the working class even more than before. But they forget that the standard of living is not fixed, that it is determined by that which the worker is in a position to demand, and to win from the ...

70 THE CLASS STRUGGLE THE CLASS STRUGGLE 71 flood has risen to the throats of the ruling class; and in order to save their valuable lives, and their still more valuable property, they are lending a hand, to a lying and rotten compromise.
First there came, on April 8, the famous Order of the Kaise...

72 73 THE CLASS STRUGGLE THE CLASS STRUGGLE at once with your subordinate bureaus and to call their attention to the exceedingly critical conditions under which the urban population, and particularly the ammunition industry, are suffering at the present time. The food commission must, through tho...