. Bulletin. Economics and political science series. of The Miners Magazine appears everymonth the slogan: Lahor produces all wealth, wealth belongs to the producerthereof. It should be said that the annual conventions refused to pa&sresolutions of extremely Socialistic nature, always simply en-dorsing the general tenets of Socialism: demanding further eco-nomic education, and advising the class-conscious use of the bal-lot to right labors wrongs.^^ But couple the extreme utter- ^^Ihid., 1905, pp. 2! and 24. The resolution of the .Tnne, lOO.^, convention was as follows :No. the Thirteen
. Bulletin. Economics and political science series. of The Miners Magazine appears everymonth the slogan: Lahor produces all wealth, wealth belongs to the producerthereof. It should be said that the annual conventions refused to pa&sresolutions of extremely Socialistic nature, always simply en-dorsing the general tenets of Socialism: demanding further eco-nomic education, and advising the class-conscious use of the bal-lot to right labors wrongs.^^ But couple the extreme utter- ^^Ihid., 1905, pp. 2! and 24. The resolution of the .Tnne, lOO.^, convention was as follows :No. the Thirteenth Annual Convention of the Western Federation of Miners : We, your Committee on Resolutions, hereby submit the following- resolution : Whereas, Economic evolution and the oppression of the capitalist classthrough its ownership of the means of production and exchange have forced onthe workers the consciousness of the necessity of the abolition of craft divisionson the industrial field and their alignment as members of one general economic [68]. EASTALL HISTOKY OF THE CRIPPLE CKEEK STEIKi: 69 ances of the radicals, with the general misapprehension of So-cialism as something essentially connected with revolution andanarchy, and the effect upon the extreme conservative party ofthe state, represented by Governor Peabody, himself a banker,can well be imagined. The party which stood for the gold stand-ard when Bryan as the champion of silver swept the state, andwhich represented the large business and corporate interestsof the conmionwealth, would have little tolerance for such here-sies, and would lose no opportunity to root them out. organization, based on the class struggle, as a more effective method of resistingthe encroachment of the capitalist class; and, Whereas, We believe that action on the economic field alone will not solvethe problem of industrial emancipation unless accompanied by class-conscious,independent political action at the ballot l)ox, by which we can capture t
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