FIGHTING The Trust! THE SMASHING ANTI-TRUST FIGHT NOW ON! Trust Prices Eclipsed at Last! An absolutely first-class high grade watch at a price within the reach of the people-the Burlington Special No-Trust Watch. The World's Masterpiece of watch manufacture-the BURLINGTON SPECIAL-now sold direct to the public at its rock-bottom, no-trust price (and besides without middlemen's profits.) We do not care what it costs we will uphold our independent line and so we are making the most sweeping, baffling offer ever made on watches. Some trusts are legal and some are not. We do not say that the watch trust is illegal, but we do say that the methods of the giant factories in making "contracts" with dealers to uphold double prices on watches are very unfair-unfair to us and unfair to you. Hence our direct offer in the Burlington at the very same price the Wholesale Jeweler must pay. This is your opportunity-NOW while this great no-trust offer lasts get the best watch made anywhere at one-third the price of other highgrade watches. Furthermore, to fight trust methods, we even allow terms of $2.50 a month on our finest watch-easiest possible payments at the rock-bottom price, the identical price the Wholesale Jeweler must pay. Watch Book Free on Request. Now do not miss this opportunity. At least we want you to know about trust and no-trust prices on watches. Write today. BE POSTED. Send a postal or letter, saying-"Gentlemen: Send me your free watch book." BURLINGTON WATCH CO., Dept. 2891 Millard Station, CHICAGO, ILL. NEWS & VIEW VOTE-CATCHING OR EDUCATION? -One of the other socialist periodicals returned this article to me not long ago and ever since, I have been wondering whether the Jimmie Higginses of the party are to be frozen out of the press. For one, I am not at all pleased with the election returns and if there is not a change made in the party before long many a Jimmie Higgins will see a great light. Ernest Poole strikes the key-note in one of his stories, when he asks one of our shining lights if his words are "Marxian." "No," came the reply, "but they catch votes." But now, right after election I want to say that they didn't. The election returns fail to show it and a little more of this kind of a game will let me out of the party. I want a Marxian program. It is not my intention to pave the way for a seat in Congress for any theological graduate if I can help it. I firmly believe that the day of Marxian socialism will be delayed if we spend our energies putting up men for office outside of President, for a number of years to come. What we want is education and not officeholders-education and organization. Let the votecatching (?) (as per election returns in our large cities) phrasemaker-the college graduate- fight the game shoulder to shoulder with men like me and take his pay in socialism, when every worker's pay is due him. Let us have a democratic organization in which each duespaying member can feel that its officers are the servants and not the bosses of the organization. Give us Marxian so cialism. This is wanted by the intelli- SHAW-Com GEORGE BERNARD rade Fred Shaw of Huddersfield, England, sends us another interesting letter upon the situation in England. He also encloses the following, written by George Bernard Shaw for the New Age, of which Victor Grayson is now political editor: "It was proved that what John Stuart Mill's patient reasoning, high character and admitted authority as a political theorist had failed to do for women's political rights, could be done by a handful of women who resolved to be unreasonable, disorderly, unladylike and even personally violent. "I have always thought it a pity that though the French governments of the eighteenth century would not allow their attention to be diverted from Marie Antoinette's gambling debts to the poverty of the common people by the reasonings of Turgot, Montesquieu, Condorcet, Voltaire, Rousseau and the Encyclopedists, they forgot them at once when the Bastile was pulled down and the country houses burnt about their ears by people with no manners and less sense. I have often wondered why Mr. Gladstone did not undertake his Irish legislation (all wrong as it mostly was from beginning to end) on its merits, instead of waiting until some mischievous person irrelevantly blew up Clerkenwell Prison. "Carlyle and Ruskin and Dickens appealed to the consciences of our "lords and masters" and got nothing from them but 'sympathetic interest,' invitations to dinner, and offers of knighthood. 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HOWE, Advertising Manager, International Socialist Review 140 Dearborn Street, Chicago, Illinois. vious ruffian bold enough to destroy any good thing that he does not share and assault every man who does not buy him off, has always been able to count on their prompt and terrified attention. "When the House of Commons says to Mr. Grayson. 'We shall do nothing unless you intimidate us; and we know you are too much of a gentleman to do that,' it is open to Mr. Grayson to reply, 'Gentlemen be blowed! I want to get something DONE,' just as much as it is open to the Labour party to murmur a polite assurance that the horny-handed, reefer-jacketed representative of Labour can be depended on to behave himself as genteelly in the face of starvation as the flower of Eton and Oxford. One cannot but wonder gloomily whether Mr. Grayson's action will be sufficient, or whether the unemployed problem will be ignored until an English city is burnt and half the inhabitants stoned and beaten to upset order and the other half shot and sabered to restore it." Comrade Fred Shaw desires to make the following explanation regarding a paragraph by him which appeared on page 396 of the November Review. He is a member of the Social Democratic party, and wishes it understood that when he said "we" are now running ten candidates he referred in a general way to English socialists, and did not mean to imply that his own party indorses the tactics of the I. L. P. or Labor party. The relations between the parties are strained almost to the breaking point, as indicated in the cartoon from the Manchester "Dispatch" which Comrade Shaw sends us and which we reproduce on this page. JAIL TERMS GIVEN TO LABOR'S BIG MEN-This is the heading of a Washington Dispatch in the Chicago. Tribune of December 23, just as we are going to press with the last pages of the Review. We quote a few paragraphs giving the most important facts in the case. "Samuel Gompers, president; John Mitchell, vice-president, and Frank Morrison, secretary of the American Federation of Labor, today were adjudged to be guilty of contempt by the Supreme court of the District of Columbia, a regular branch of the federal judiciary, for violating an injunction forbidding the publication of a boycott notice against the Buck Stove and Range Company of St. Louis. Gompers was sentenced to serve one year, Mitchell nine months, and Morrison six months in the district jail. The defendants have appealed, and now are out on bail pending a decision by the District Court of Appeals, first as to the legality of the injunction itself, and, when that is decided, as to the question of contempt. By these proceedings, which have created a profound sensation here in Washington, the most famous labor case in the history of the United States courts has been brought to a crisis. It was within the power of Judge Wright, who handed down the decision, to send the men to jail at once, but he tempered justice with mercy on the understanding that they were not of the character of people who would run away, and that they, too, were fighting for what they conceived to be a principle, although, in the opinion of the court, they were guilty of an organized attempt to break down all the courts of the country. * Now, the three defendants have been sentenced to jail, and from that sentence they have also appealed. This being a contempt case, the appeal is extremely limited. In point of fact, the question at issue is a simple one. The Buck Stove and Range Company of St. Louis was what is known as an "open shop." In August, 1906, the metal polishers' union struck. The men had been working ten hours a day at piece rates. They struck for a nine hour day, although that would have involved less money for each man, the object of the union being to employ more men. The stove company refused to acIcede to the demand. The men remained out, but the strike was a failure because there was a plentiful supply of nonunion men to take the places of the strikers. Then came the application of the boycott. About two months after the declaration of the strike the products of the stove company were publicly boycotted, and in the American Federationist of July, 1907,. they were included in the unfair list of that publication. On December 17, Justice Gould of the federal court here in Washington granted a temporary injunction restraining the American Federation of Labor, its officers and members from prosecuting a boycott against the products of the stove company and from publishing its name as unfair or placing it on the "we don't patronize" list in the American Federationist. This temporary injunction was made permanent on March 22 of the present year. In the opinion of good lawyers there is no possible question as to the outcome of the present case. They say that the District Court of Appeals and the United States Supreme Court will, beyond all question, decide that the lower tribunal had jurisdicion and that the decree of injunction was rightfully issued. The same courts, it is said, will without hesitation uphold the sentence of Judge Wright for contempt, so that the three labor leaders in the long run will have to go to jail unless Judge Wright himself mitigates the sentence, because the president has no pardoning power to cover contempt proceedings, which are strictly within the process of the judicial branch of the government and are entirely free from interference, either by congress or by the executive." We believe that the decision of the court was strictly logical, and we hope that the jail sentences will have a salutary effect on the officers of the A. F. of L. They have for years been acting on the theory that the interests of capital and labor were identical, that no revolution was necessary to protect the interests of the workers. They were practical men with a sublime contempt for socialist theories. They needed a practical object lesson. Now they have it. What are they going to do about it? What are the rank and file of the American Federation of Labor going to do about it? They are at the parting of the ways. They can back down and agree to run their unions hereafter in the way the capitalist courts direct. Or they can recognize the class struggle with the same intelligence as the capitalists who |