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Organ of the Social Democracy. LONDON, SATURDAY, OCT. 21, 1893. [P rice O ne P enny.

S o m e E ccentricities o f F a b ia n is m .

CRITICAL CHRONICLE. One of our most distinguished comrades last week aptly characterised the London Fabian as the “ uni­ T h e M u r d e r e r A s q u i t h . versal objector.” This seems certainly to indicate the special role chosen by Messrs. Shaw, Wallas, and Nothing was more satisfactory or sig­ their imitators. There is Mr. Shaw’s great discovery nificant in Sunday’s demonstration than that Marx, with the whole of the classical econo­ the groans which greeted the mention mists, are wrong in their theory of value. There is of the Home Secretary’s name at every Mr. Pease’s (if we remember rightly) denial that platform. The people have evidently commercial crises and over production can possibly made up their minds that this mouth­ exist! There is, most recently, Mr. Graham Wal- ing Whig sycophant shall not hear the las’s attempts to nibble at the great discovery which last of his crime whatever his packed forms the foundation of our modern interpretation Commission may have resolved to say of history. Now, all this intellectual single-stick for him. The blood shed at Feather- practice may be very brilliant and amusing, but the stone has shown the workers clearly question is as to its profitability for instruction. Mr. that Liberals and Tories both wish Graham Wallas recently charged Socialists with nothing better than to have the oppor- regarding everything as known and every question tunity of safely shooting down their as settled. Now there are undoubtedly a great many wage-slaves. Let us prove to both things not known, and a great many questions not factions at an early date that these butcheries of the settled, in this world, but the point is, would it not producers are not quite so safe as they were. The be much more profitable for our Fabian friends to first step in this direction is to drive Asquith out of apply their cleverness to this very wide field of in­ public life. Let a crusade be organised against him vestigation rather than to go on tilting at things that in Fifeshire. Here is a bit both of social and poli­ are known and attempting to reopen questions that tical work which Keir Hardie could do excellently are settled. Are we never to regard any controversy well. Let him call a few meetings in Fifeshire and as closed ? If so, we may one of these days expect to tell the Scotch miners and other workers how this find a Fabian taking up the cudgels for the hypo­ Liberal Home Secretary, with the approval of h is thesis that the earth is flat, maintaining that the Copernican cystem of astronomy is an exploded fallacy, the Ptolemaic Being much nearer the truth, W a n t e d —J u s t i c e . or championing the “ Farbenlehr ” of Goethe against the Newtonian theory of light. To us all To those who would acquit the Home Secretary this sort of thing seems, we confess, very much like of these murders we commend the perusal of his childish waste of time. speech at Glasgow, which even the D aily Chronicle

is compelled to condemn. There, speaking of the M r . L a b o u c h e r e ’s V i r t u o u s I n d ig n a t i o n . Featherstone outrage, he coolly and deliberately declared that he accepted the fu ll responsibility fo r Mr. Labouchere devotes a considerable space in everything that had been done. He thus pleads Truth last week to castigating an " old harridan ” guilty to the murder of these men. That it was a who undertakes the flogging of young ladies for such foul and cruel murder, committed in the most cold- “ parents and guardians ” as can afford to pay for blooded and deliberate manner, all the evidence yet this educational process. He seems, indeed, to adduced goes to prove. If the Commission of spend a considerable portion of bis time in hunting Inquiry which Asquith has himself appointed up isolated practitioners of corporal punishment on acquits him of all blame, as it is intended to do, it is the female sex, and grinds his teeth with indigna­ the duty of the miners themselves to appoint an tion over the iniquity of the rod as applied to girls. independent inquiry, and if the facts are shown to be At the same time that he is rummaging in out of-the as already stated, the perpetrators of this foul crime, way holes and corners for those whom naturally including the man who accepts the full responsibility nobody cares to defend he takes care to pass over for everything that was done, should receive the without protest the infinitely more brutal and dis­ punishment the law awards. gusting floggings of young working boys on board training ships and in industrial homes (not to men­ I n a P o w d e r M a g a z in e . tion the fiendish and brutalising punishments in­ flicted on men in our prisons) with the sanction and It looks very much as if the French were once approval o f public authorities. One could wish that more going mad with Chauvinism and Europe has Mr. Labouchere might spare just a little of his had terrible experience of what that means. The seething indignation and concern respecting the sneers and ridicule which the English capitalist news­ remoter end of an occasional young lady for those papers pour upon the whole of this hysterical jubila­ unfortunate victims of a systematic cruelty for which tion over the coming of the Russian sailors will not the whole nation is responsible, and not, as in the make matters better. The situation is too serious other case, simply a private individual here and fIAT JustITia ruat CCELUM for this sort of talk. Rather let us face the truth there. But it is so much easier and more profitable that peace for the next few weeks or months will be to follow an imbecile and illogical drift of public at the mercy of any hot-headed fire-eating French opinion, and maunder of the special vileness of a SPECIAL NOTICE. colonel in Europe or in Asia who chooses to go so sporadic " girl-flogger,” than it is boldly to take a far that his countrymen cannot abandon him without stand against corporal punishment altogether, in­ what they would consider humiliation, or support him cluding that which is not only tolerated by public S.D.F. CENTRAL HALL, without going to war. Having watched these French opinion at large, and constantly practised, but is 337, Strand, W.C. ebullitions close at hand on several occasions we even popular in many influential quarters ! know how very little may suffice to give them an ugly turn. Honour the more, therefore, to those who, “ Some folks will be more interested in the medi­ LECTURE. like Vaillant and a few other Socialists—not we cal evidence than in the inquiry into the circum­ regret to say including our comrade Brousse and stances attending the shooting, as the terrible cha­ SUNDAY, Oct. 22nd. his friends—who refuse to lose their heads at this racter of the wound inflicted by a bullet from the W. G. PEARSON, juncture or to forget that Russia is the worst enemy Lee-Metford rifle on the human body was practically of democracy in Europe. As English Social* illustrated at Featherstone for the first time. It is “ WITH THE RED VAN IN BERKSHIRE." Democrats we offer our sincerest congratulations to pitiful and scandalous that the subjects of the grim these men, and we hope their countrymen will soon experiment should have been English working Doors Open at 7.30. Commence at 8 p.m. recover from their temporary aberration. men.”—Sun. 2 JUSTICE O ctober 21, 1803.

SCOTTISH NOTES. pired afterwards that both of them were present, HELP FOR THE UNEMPLOYED. and formed part of the audience of an I.L.P. At the last annual meeting of the Scottish Labour meeting held at the same hour. Now, conduct of Comrades and fellow citizens,—It is allowed on Party the Rev. Alexander Webster was in the this kind is something more than suspicious, and every hand that the distress arising from lack of chair. Since the I.L.P. have thought proper to ought to be put a stop to at once. I hope this is employment is likely during the coming winter to denounce Champion this rev. gentleman has con­ an isolated case ; if it is not the sooner the branches be of an exceptional and serious character. We sidered it his duty to write to the press pointing out vote whether a member of the I.L.P can also be a are in the midst of one of those crises in trade which that a party which had as members persons guilty of member of the S.D.F. the better will it be for our are the inevitable outcome of the capitalist system. opening other people’s letters had members who organisation. For many winters this question has arisen with ever were as bad as any Pigott, and unless members who increasing gravity, and it looms upon us now with were guilty of acts of this kind, or members who Does every member of the S.D.F. who is in an aspect unknown since the days of’86 and '87. endorsed such acts on the part of others, were put work pay his dues regularly to his branch secre­ Experience has taught the S.D.F. two important outside the pale of the I.L.P. no honest man could tary or treasurer ? If not, why not ? Does every lessons:—(1) That an unemployed agitation ca not associate with them. George Mitchell, writing in branch secretary or treasurer see that every mem­ be efficiently conducted by a large, unwieldy reply to this, after justifying the act in this particular ber in work pays his dues regularly? If not, why delegate body, meeting only at specified intervals, case, and giving instances where Champion has not ? Does every branch secretary or treasurer and (2) that such an agitation can only be carried done far worse, writes:—“ When he (Champion) send up the branch dues every month to London ? on effectively by men who understand the economic found the ordinary methods futile to deprive men of If not, why not ? Is every member who is able forces underlying these periods of industrial dead- their employment he got printed in his paper the going to take up one or more J ustice shares ? If lock. Hence the recent election by the S.D.F. of connection of these men with the labour movement, not, why not? Is every branch which is able going a small committee of determined comrades, each and sent marked copies to their employers ; if this to take up a few J ustice shares ? If not, why not ? of whom has, in past unemployed agitations, gained is not a phase of Pigottry as vile as the original Is every branch of the S.D.F. going to have a con­ invaluable experience. Pigott then there are few who will care to associate cert, the proceeds to be used in buying J ustice The inability of the monopolists to handle the themselves either with individuals or a party that shares? If nor, why not? instruments of production for the benefit of the chooses to ignore such dastardly conduct.” community is becoming every day more apparent. The Glasgow Branch has publicly challenged the Reckless speculation, the rapid consolidation of Now, this charge against Champion is too true, Rev. R. W. Dobbie to affirm in public debate with capital, the improved education and growing dis­ but my opinion is, had it not been for the support a representative of the S.D.F. that drink is a cause content of the workers, the present gigantic labour given to Champion by George Mitchell, Graham, of poverty. I have not yet heard whether the struggles, preliminary skirmishes in the civil war Hardie, Burgess, and others his power for evil parson has accepted the challenge; judging by his between the Haves and the Have-nots; all these would have been gone long ago. At last they tall talk he will only be too glad. If he does we forces are hastening on a condition of industrial appear to have found him out, and are denouncing can do a good piece of propaganda. If *he does anarchy with which the governing classes, whether him. For this all Social-Democrats ought to be not our position will be a good deal stronger in the through reluctance or ignorance, appear absolutely thankful, but I would like to point out to the eyes of the general public. unable to cope. members of the I.L.P. that mere denunciation of It is necessary then that the workers should know Champion is no proof that you have got clear of Speaking about “ tall talk” reminds me that to whom they can turn for practical suggestions him. If you have really got clear of him and his Social-Democrats are often served this way until and vigorous action. The prospects of a bona fide agents—and let me tell you this is no easy matter, the tall talkers are asked to toe the line, and then agitation were never more favourable than at for he is a man of vast resources—it is just possible —well, then they are not there. Here, for example, present. The government, reactionary though it that you have still men in your ranks who are pre- is J. Paul, the single-taxer. He at one time be, finds itself with a small and hence “ squeezable ” pared to play the same game as Champion if a seemed ready to explode unless an opportunity was majority, and, sufficient pressure being applied, favourable opportunity presents itself. If you really given him to affirm “ that the single tax would cannot much longer ignore the fact that at the mean to go straight keep your eyes open and look solve the labour problem.” When an opportunity present moment many thousands of men and around you. was given him he did not take advantage of i t ; women able, and willing, to produce the necessaries perhaps he thought the best thing for him to do was of life, are debarred from utilising their labour force, I said some time ago that the time might arrive to imitate nearly all our adversaries—bark from a either for the benefit of themselves or of society. when it would be necessary for the S.D .F. to con­ distance. Again is heard the wail of their starving little ones sider its relationship with the various I.L. parties. S a n d y M a c f a r l a n e . crying for food. Again are seen the pallid faces At that time I wrote as if the I.L. parties would last and drooping forms of wives and mothers suffering until the first general election. W ith the fighting for want of the bare necessaries of life in the midst and disputing as to who is going to “ lead,” I don’t TOPICAL TATTLE. of wealth in boundless profusion. think now that they will last that time. There are, Who, then, comes to the rescue ? so far as I have been able to judge, a large number No, “ Place aux Dames," "Ladies First," “ Clarice,” Presently n o doubt, we shall hear of the “ sym­ of decent, honest, well-meaning fellows in the ‘Eunice,” “ Eugenie,” “ Isabella,” “ Arabella,” “ Alice,” pathy ” of the callous and well-fed plutocrats, who various I.L. parties. These men, in a definite “ Florrie,” “ Annie,” “ Katie,” “ Jeanie,” and the rest, of their plenitude will, in the sacred but much-abused Social st organisation such as ours is, would be a it is impossible. I really dare not again venture upon name of “ charity,” dole out a few crumbs to the power for good. But being surrounded by a number this great woman question. You have had your innings famished workers on whose misery they batten —I hope that isn’t vulgar, I don’t think it is, because of Liberal and Tory spongers; being influenced by women do play cricket now, don’t you know. Anyway while denouncing them as “ loafers, drunkards, or a lot of literary, scientific, and labour sharps, and I cannot give you any more attention. I have done the thieves.” not knowing exactly where they are; not being best I can for you, and now—as a believer in women The new unions, whilst having undoubtedly intelligent enough yet to begin to think for them­ suffrage—I must ask you to settle it among yourselves. changed the whole tone of the trade union move­ selves, instead of being a power for good they are To woman the things that are woman’s and to man the ment, are already feeling the stress of the coming likely to be a power for evil, in so far as their things that are man’s. In things that are manly man­ storm. How many will live through the tempest liness, in things womanly womanliness, and m all things actions through the influence of their “ leaders ” is —charity. none may tell. In any case the power of supporting likely to bring the labour movement into contempt. or organising their unemployed members has This in turn affecting Socialism, will help to head It may be “ ladies first,” but I don’t think it should slipped from their hands, and, indeed, few of the back the revolutionary movement, at least to some be ladies first, second, third, and fourth, right away to new societies could survive even a levy for that extent. The men in the I.L. movement to-day the end of the chapter. purpose. who mean business in earnest we must get hold of. No! I think it is about time the boys had a turn. Recognising these facts, is it not time that Social- But there is another section in the I.L. party’s The number of youths and lads who are coming into Democrats made a strenuous effort to force from ranks, these being men who at one time were mem­ the Socialist movement is most encouraging. While the unwilling powers an immediate measure of jus­ bers of the S.D.F. Some of them left the S.D.F. encouraging to us, however, it appears to be not less tice for the workless ones. We despise their because in that body very little room was left for annoying to our opponents. degrading charity; we denounce the criminal tasks intrigue. The S.D.F. are all the better and They do not like to see the coming generation of of their workhouse prisons: and we demand that stronger to-day without these men. citizens adopting the principles of Social-Democracy— our brothers and sisters shall be treated as human yet it is perfectly evident that this is but the natural result beings, and organised on useful and productive There is another section to be found in the I.L. P. of extended education. It is certain that as the chil­ dren of the workers learn more they will become less work. Men and women who are both members of the In this spirit the Social Democratic Federation content with the lot in life which has satisfied their S.D.F. and members of the I.L.P. These mem­ fathers. has once more decided to undertake the organisa­ bers, as a rule, joined the I.L.P. for the purpose of tion of London’s unemployed. assisting it, also for the purpose of keeping it Some people resent this, and finding it difficult to Never, friends and comrades, has it been so straight. To this section I would say, Is there no meet our Socialist boys in argument, they fall to ridi- necessary for us to move promptly and energeti­ danger of the I.L.P. being run into a mud bank culing them on account of their youth. “ Beardless cally. Never have we had greater hopes of Boys ” they call them, as if it were as great a crime to and brought into disgrace through the intriguing or be without a beard as it is to wear your hair long. realising some of the fruits of the persistent revolu­ jealousy of the hundred and one “ leaders ” in that tionary propaganda of the last twelve years. We party ? Have you seen any evidence of wire- I have just come back from the country—What ? have educated the workers on this great question, pulling with either Tories or Liberals ? If so, your You don’t want to know anything about my visit to the country? Well, just wait while I tell you. I have and now, as employment fails them, they turn to duty is clear. Have you taken any means to ascer­ us for aid and advice. We earnestly appeal to been having a nice time down in one of the loveliest tain who the men and women are that you are spots in Devonshire. Did you ever spend a holiday in you, then, for funds to assist us in one of the most associating with. Have you been at any trouble responsible undertakings in which Social-Demo­ the country at this time of year ? Well, it is simply to inquire as to the past histories of a large number lovely. The air is redolent with the perfume of ripe crats could possibly be engaged. Organisers are of the most prominent members of the I.L.P. ? If fruit and dying leaves; the woods radiant with all the needed, capable, honest men, whom we can trust not, don't you think you ought to do so? In this varied tints of Autumn. I love the country in the and who must be adequately paid for such impor­ last-named section is a number—how large or small Spring and the Summer, but I think it is richer in tant work. The time is ripe, the men are ready, sweet perfumes in the Autumn than at any other I can’t say—who appear to use all their influence period. Strange how little notice people take of the the agitation only lags tor want of the indispensable for the purpose of bringing the S.D.F. into con­ funds. pleasure to be derived through the sense of smell. tempt. For example, I know a branch of the Zola is the only novelist I know who appears to appre­ For the S.D.F. Unemployed Committee, S.D.F. has for its lecture secretary a secretary of a ciate the effect of sweet scents on the senses. J. E. D obson, Secretary. branch of the I.L.P. The other Sunday he had S.D.F. Central Hall. 337, Strand, W.C., No, that is not intended as a pun. But I do heartily arranged that a somewhat prominent member of wish more care was given to the lighter pleasures of Oct. 14, 1893. the I.L.P. was to lecture for the branch. The life. That sounds a bit mixed, but if everyone tried to N.B.— Contributions should be forwarded to the people arrived at the appointed time, but no lec- make life happier and pleasanter all round for every- above-signed, and will be acknowledged in J ustice. turer or lecture secretary was to be found. It trans- body—well, we should not have so many concluding October 21, 1893. JUSTICE 3

that life is not worth living. W hat has all this to do competition between capitalists as sellers, and not by there are thousands homeless and hungry, and the with the boys ? Now, I was just going to tell you when the strength and activity of the workers in combination, battle for free speech before them. The people, how­ you interrupted me. When I got back I was handed a or by unionism. ever, are awaking as never before, and we have more letter signed Joseph Schulze, and headed “ Wanted a In this we do not agree with him. But let us consider. reason than ever to hope that the beginning of the end Hair Restorer.” The capitalist enters the market as a buyer and seller. of the class war is here. He buys in order to sell. A buyer does his best to beat Respectfully your comrade, This letter appears to have been written by one of down the price of that which he wishes to purchase, G e o . A s p d e n . the beardless boys aforesaid, who seems to be some­ and a seller tries to enhance the price of that which San Francisco, Cal., U.S.A. what incensed at having been chaffed on his beardless h e wishes to sell. Competition between sellers favour condition. It was handed to me, I presume, because the buyers and prices fall. Thus far the worker is so The following is an extract from the circular referred I happen to be one of the beardless ones myself. to. which was issued by General Allen, and with the much the better off. The purchasing power of his consent of the Governor of the State :— But I have got used to it. Once on a time it annoyed wages is increased. He wins as a buyer, but he fares “ What is the condition of the arms in your regiment ? me somewhat when the ubiquitous small boy alternated badly as a seller. Entering as a competitor in an over­ stocked labour market, he has to forego all advantages How much ammunition is on hand ? State the num­ bis yell of “ git yer hair cut,” with the derisive shout, ber of rounds. What is the cost of S. R. cartridges, “ Yab, schoolboy, why don’t you grow a beard ?” But gained by the low price ofcommodities. As a seller to the capitalist of his commodity—labour-force—the worker calibre 45, in your locality, and of revolver cartridges I have got over all that now. I don’t grow a beard, same calibre ? What are the standard weights, pow. firstly, because I think it is more cleanly not to wear is bound to lower bis price to the lowest point of sub­ sistence unless something comes to his aid. This some­ der and ball, rifle cartridges ? Has the regiment one, and cleanliness is next to godliness. In the second reloading tools ? How many men are qualified for im­ place I don't grow a beard because I am an admirer of thing does come to his aid, namely, trade unionism. Now, if by combination or unionism the worker main­ mediate service ? What is needed ? Reply promptly." the heroes of classic mythology. Fancy Apollo or “ The trouble will not come until next January, after Adonis with a beard ! Only that drunken old reprobate tains the price of his commodity, labour-power, in face of the capitalist’s opposition, surely by no stretch of the fruit, grain, and bop crops have been gathered, Silenus and his satyrs bad beards, and I would rather when an army of men will be out of employment.” be Adonis than a satyr anyway. imagination can it be assumed that the price of labour- power is maintained by the capitalist in competition as My final reason for not growing a beard is, because a seller of commodities, which Leatham would have us WOMEN AND SOCIALISM. I can’t. I have been beardless from my youth, ever believe. To the Editor of J u s t i c e . since I can remember, in fact before. I think I’ll Unionism has certainly a fair claim to argue manage without now. But Schulze, my dear fellow, that it has maintained and increased the value of D ear Comrade,—This question is now undergoing a thou may’st not be in like parlous case. It may be labour-power, while the competition of the market has searching examination, and I have been very pleased at its that the smoothness of thy bonny smiling face is due to lowered prices. appearance in J ustice. Like S. Gardner, I am the wife of a The pamphlet will do good work, and we heartily Social-Democrat. I also should love to help, but the thy youthfulness. Youth, my dear Joseph, is a thing children, Oh dear, the children. Well, my husband and not to be despised, even though it lacks hair. It will recommend it to our comrades to distribute among myself have talked this over, and in order for us both to disappear all too soon, and to be “ bearded like the trade unionists. work for Social-Democracy we have made up our minds to pard ” is small recompense for the loss of one’s youth. It can be obtained (price one penny) of the Twentieth have no more children, and yet it would appear that Socialists For, as our French friends say, “ Il n'y a q'une jeunesse.” Century Press, Limited, 37A, Clerkenwell Green, E.C.; should have large families that we could bring up our So take heart of grace, Joseph, and comport and of H. W. Lee, 337, Strand, W. C. children to be enthusiasts like ourselves. Really it is a great thyself cheerfully; thou wilt find thyself growing old question, greater than Home Rule, and yet Home Rule is quite soon enough ; and if silly old greybeards sneer at greatly wanted, very much I think. Really, Social- thy possession of the priceless boon of youth, remind Democrats as a rule, are not domesticated. I have in my them that “ out of the mouths of babes and suck- CORRESPONDENCE. mind's eye, a typical case, a Social-Democrat, an enthusiast. lings,” &c. It is only requisite to suggest that something be done, this man will offer to do it. Socialism stands first—as I believe it So Tom Mann is thinking of entering the Church. FROM CALIFORNIA. should, but to the neglect of oneself, wife and home ! Really I wonder what next. Tom has gone a pretty good it is a great question. What can be done to get the women ? round. When I first knew him as a Social-Democrat, To the Editor of J u s t i c e . I know good Socialists but they are not good husbands, you there was scarcely one more revolutionary in the move­ know. He is out every night in the week, Sundays never home ment. Then he conceived the idea that the Social Dear Comrade,—My respects to S. D. Shallard, one to dinner (when he is on the lecture list). Even if one should problem was to be solved by the Eight Hours move- of the very few Socialists with whom I became ac­ have company, and some Socialists do, he must go to see quainted during my very brief stay in London two years how the meetings are going on, everything would go wrong ment. Nothing was needed, in Tom’s opinion, to put if it were not for this man, so he thinks, and the company everything right, but the passing of an Eight Hours ago. I was sorry to have to leave a number of men so thinks how unsociable the Socialists are. Of course, it is Law. Later—1889—it was Trade Unionism. Later, devoted in good work in my native land. I had no wrong, he should stop at home, and yet we want more men again, when he began to see signs of the decadence of choice in the matter, however. I paid £ 5 for shares in like this, for the good of the cause. Really the question the New Unions, Tom was sweet on Municipal Work­ the Twentieth Century Press Limited, and would gets greater. What’s to be done ? Convert the wives. Yes, shops as harbours of refuge for the unemployed. About have responded to the call for help since if I had been but how ? Not by everlasting jaw, you know, Socialism mad, this time, too, he promulgated a scheme for “ dockising ” able. I am pleased to see that the object has been everything used in the interests of our cause. The column the river Thames—and now he’s going to be a parson ! attained. I felt sure it would be, for it was in the hands in J ustice for women, as suggested by comrade Gardner, I of men earnest, intelligent, kind, and educated. should like to see increased to a page, and yet what is sauce Ob, Tom ! I am sorry. Fancy the Rev. Tom Mann, In this City of the far west we have all the evils of for the goose is sauce for the gander ; what is good for men Curate of All Saints, with a long black coat, a broad England's great Babylon. Fruit is almost thrown away. should be good for us, but the women dearly love a continued felt hat and a white choker—neckcloth, I suppose I Sixteen large juicy Bartlett pears, for 5. cents.; a box of tale. They enjoy the suspense between the issues. It was a should have said, but I can’t get rid of-my vulgarity p lu m s capacity about one cubic foot for 35 cents continued tale in the Workman's Times that first got me to read farm crops spoiling, because neither farmer nor fruit- a Socialist paper, now I read that and J ustice and the Weekly I do not think Mann has done any good with any of Times and Echo. A good Socialist story in JUSTICE might packer could get money from the banks on any security. encourage the women to read it. A good penny pamphlet, bis various schemes, except the Eight Hours. I was a Several banks have burst, even in this mint city, member of the Democratic Federation when the Eight “ Socialism and Women,” I think, would go well. Then adjacent to the great gold mines. Tenantless bouses again, the way to Socialism is Sociability. Socialists, must be Hours was added to its programme, long before Mann by thousands gaze in vacant wonderment on passing good men, even in the ordinary acceptation of the term, and became a member, and knowing the history of the tramps, who dare not use them for shelter. Firms try to make their homes better and brighter, places worth movement as well as anyone, I have no hesitation in are becoming bankrupt every day; you can get a place calling homes, for the economic slaves they call wives, this saying that there is no individual in the kingdom has for business almost anywhere, but no business. The will react on the world, and some will think there is some- done so much for the Eight Hours' movement as Tom city’s unemployed have been undiminished through thing in Socialism after all, for a believe it is the principles Mann. the summer, and the coming winter will see them that make the men, which is only half true. I hope this largely multiplied. question will be throughly discussed, and that more women With all his good work, however, Tom always had an will give their help towards its solution. eye to the main chance, and if he does enter the church The contemplated Mid W inter Fair will bring thou­ sands here, as was the case in Chicago, and the only A Social-Democrat' s W ife . ministry, it is certain that this will have more to do with provision made for them, or likely to be made, you will it than the lofty motives with which he has been find in the enclosed circular. credited in some quarters. To the Editor of J u s t i c e . About two months ago an unemployed agitation was T a t t l e r . begun by men outside the Socialist ranks. A short time Sir,—Why women are not Socialists seems a question of previously interference had been instituted by the chief considerable interest. As our women friends have already of police with Socialist or unemployed meetings, which shown, men must begin at home, and show some little interest REVIEW. caused this new movement to seek the right of meeting there, and not look with indifference and contempt as they somewhere. The leaders secured for a small sum a do upon everything that brings any comfort into a woman’s “ A SOCIALIST VIEW OF THE NEW TRADE large lot bought some time ago as a site for a‘ post- life. They must know women think more of home than men UNIONISM. ' office. An organisation was formed—“ The United do, as we have to be so much there and it is equally as much Brotherhood of Labour,” and the Initiative, Referendum to benefit the men as ourselves, when we do so, and they also Under the above title comrade Leatham has issued and Imperative Mandate adopted as a constitution know women cannot have the change of scene and society a very instructive pamphlet on the new trade unionism. He who proposed this constitution was the first to find and amusements outside that men do. If men would but It is written in that interesting, light, airy, and self- give a little more thought to these things, probably the that it does not consort with the will of a tyrant. women who had no time for Socialism themselves would not conscious style which must be now familiar to all our Without authority of the society he bought himself, as be an hindrance to the men doing what they could. But readers, and we may say that the present work main­ boss of the soup kitchen they established, a gold pen, instead of advising young men to convert their sweathearts, tains the reputation of the author as a pamphleteer. a badge bearing his name and a mimeograph. These I would rather advise them not to think of marrying at all, Our comrade, in a prefatory note, declares at once things the Brotherhood thought were not the things then they could work for the good cause without hindrance. the position he takes up towards unionism by stating to feed the hungry upon, so they have got a warrant Socialists as I understand them, believe in removing the he cannot see ‘‘ that there is any harmonious contact for his arrest for misappropriating their funds. This, cause of evils. Let them do so where women are concerned and between Trade Unionism and Socialism,” because however, was not the inciting cause. He had been talk a little less about the evil itself but set themselves to unionism assumes the rightness and permanence of attempting to suppress free speech, and, instead of work to remove the cause of it. If women are to become capital. He, in effect, argues from the standpoint that aiming for Government employment, which was the Socialists men must become less selfish and make some little unionism merely concerns itself with maintaining the object with which they set out, to turn the movement into sacrifice themselves besides telling other folks what to do. price of labour-power as a commodity, and does not a perpetual soup charity. At their next meeting they W oman. seek emancipation from the thraldom of capital. Our [This correspondence must now close. We think it has struck his name from the roll of membership, but he demonstrated that there are a large number of women author seems to think that the new unionism is falling refuses to be discharged, and has procured the services interested in Socialism, and we hope it will have the effect of into the rear with the old unionism, and that its leaders of a few politicians and policemen; hence the arrest. increasing their number. Ed.] do not lay so much stress upon the support of the legis­ There is a high board fence round the lot, and this lature as they did at first. fellow, instead of using the ground for all unemployed Comrade Leatham is rather pronounced in bis views to freely express themselves, appointed deputies to close “ What are the working classes of every nation but as to the political action of the new unionism. He is the gates, and let in through a small door only such as beasts of burden, without hearts and without souls, dissatisfied with many of the labour leaders because of were receiving soup, and those likely to support him in whose doom it is to labour and to die! Has not every their backwardness in urging upon their respective office. If he had sense, he would gracefully vacate, epithet of scorn and hate, which brainless pride could unions the necessity of seeking the aid of the legislature. and let those elected to take his place assume call to mind, been heaped upon them ? What is the He also argues on the inconsistency of the new union- their duties. garb of labour but a sign of ignorance or infamy, or ists declaring war against a number of political pro­ Thus, briefly, you have data from which to infer the political nonentity ? If taxes are to be levied, the posals which have long been in the front rank of Social- exact condition of this city and State. Capitalism has worker must pay them ; if a war be undertaken, they Democratic programmes. Our comrade seems sweet here strained the bonds which bind society together must go out to fight; if unjust laws be enacted, they on Home Rule, and as a matter of “ political sequence ” almost to breaking. must obey without murmuring; if they complain . of would place it in front of the proposal for an eight-hour The Mid-Winter Fair is an attempt to advance the tyranny, and dare to resist, they are slaughtered like day. In this he will find many dissentients. price of real estate and to benefit the classes who are wild beasts! The very marrow of their bones, and the In depreciating the power of trade unionists, he living on the work of others. This State could easily life-blood of their children is consumed with excessive argues that the standard of comfort of unionists is support half the population of all the states in the toil.— J. F. Bray, in “ Labour's Wrongs and Labour's maintained through depression in prices caused by Union, yet with a population of a little over a million Remedy.” 1839. 4 JUSTICE October 21, 1893.

TO CONTRIBUTORS. ballot-box to the bomb ; from organised voting TELL-TALE STRAWS. All co m munications for insertion to be addressed to the to organised revolt; from Parliamentary con­ Editor, and to be authenticated by name and address of the At the meeting of the Marylebone Vestry last week writer, not necessarily for publication. tests to political assassination—which oppor­ Dr. A. W. Blyth presented a report on the housing No notice will be taken of anonymous communications. tunity offers, and which will help on the end of the poor. In Marylebone there are 11.296 one- roomed tenements, and 8,929 two-roomed tenements TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTIONS we have in view. (including postage). Let this be understood. We have absolutely occupied by a population of 58,627. In Westminster Thirteen weeks ...... 1s. 8d. ten per cent of the population live in one-roomed Six months ...... 3s. 3d. no scruples as to the means to be employed. tenements. Twelve months ...... 6s. 6d. Justice is our end, but expediency must dictate Subscribers who receive their copies by post will please notice the number written on their address label, as it is the the means. It may be that political methods There are 35,000 carmen in London, 30,000 of number of the paper to which their subscription is paid. If are not the best. As a matter of fact, we our­ whom work on an average fourteen hours a day, not renewed promptly the paper will be stopped without and this includes the men employed by those firms further notice. If the number does not correspond with the selves do not think-they are, we would prefer who contract to carry Her Majesty’s Mails. subscription sent we should be notified a t once in order that other and more speedy, if more violent, methods. the error may be corrected. We are impatient of the horrible condition of Sir John Gorst has been putting forward his views things we witness every day. But, fortunately on the unemployed question. He would make such SCALE OF CHARGES FOR ADVERTISEMENTS. attractions for the investment of any savings that or unfortunately, political means are the only £ s. d. people would come to the towns, not to stay, but Single insertion...... per inch 5 o ones that are at present open to us, and it is our to amass a little capital and then return to invest it 6 insertions...... per inch per insertion 4 6 duty to render these as perfect as possible. in a small holding. and so end their days on the 13 insertions ...... » ,, 4 0 26 insertions ...... „ ,, „ 3 0 When opportunity presents other means we land from which they sprung. Quarter column, one insertion...... 12 6 shall be ready and willing to adopt these—nay, H alf column, ,, „ ...... 1. . 1 o o We suppose Sir John takes his cue from Lord One Column, „ „ ...... x 10 o we are willing to try and make the oppor­ Salisbury, who declared at Hastings a year or so ago tunity if our anti-political friends will show us that he advocated small holdings, not because he Orders for Subscriptions, Copies of the Paper, and Special Advertisements should be sent to H. Quelch,37A, Clerkenwell how this is to be done. Are the locked-out considered them the most economical method of Green, E.C , who will also receive payment for the same. miners prepared to take up arms, and, by sheer settling the land question, but because they would be Stamps should not be sent for amounts over one shilling. the means of creating a strong conservative back­ Copies for distribution will be supplied on special terms. force, take possession of the mines ? We wish bone in the country, which would be a bulwark The columns of J u st ice are open to contributions from all they were. We would be there with our against revolutionary change. friends of the cause. Though we can by no means under- musket to help. But we know that a smile of take to publish all we may receive, everything, by whomso­ Of course, the agricultural labourers who migrate ever written, will receive careful attention. derision is the only answer such a question to the towns, always manage fo save sufficient to would receive at the present time. We know enable them to purchase a small holding, did they JUSTICE. perfectly well that a great deal has yet to be desire to do so ! done in the way of educating the workers S a t u r d a y , O cto ber 21ST 1893. “ Socialism and Social questions are everywhere in before they will understand that they are being the air. The trial of a German officer for Socialism robbed, how the process is carried on, and that shows that Social-Democracy is making converts in SOCIALISM AND THE SUFFRAGE. it is no less their duty than their right to take the army as well as in the workshop and the factory” Morning Advertiser. The decision of the Social-Democratic Fede­ possession of the means of production and the ration to give an impetus to its agitation for results of their own labour. Charles Baker was crushed to death beneath a political liberty, by organising a demonstration Our agitation, even our political agitation, heavy steam crane which capsized on Saturday, at in favour of Universal Suffrage, has excited will help on this educational work. This is the Collis and Stace’s engineering works at Rochester hardest part of all, to know that economic Bridge. This is one of the workman’s everyday hostile criticism from the most unexpected risks,—a risk which the capitalist never takes. quarters. Yet the action of the organisation in forms are ripe for Socialism, and that popular this respect is not only its duty, but is in entire education is so far behind the economic develop­ A child was born in Whitechapel last week in a accord with its whole history and policy. The ment. It is our duty to alter this by any and room, the entrance to which was through a trap door S.D.F. is no less a political than a revolutionary every means in our power. Apart from the under the bed. When Dr Clark visited the place abstract justice of complete political equality, water was running down the back wall. The mother body. It is now nearly ten years aero that some was absolutely destitute, having been unable to of our ultra-revolutionary friends quarrelled apart from the fact that the political machinery obtain work during the past three weeks, and there with us for being too parliamentary. Most of may be a means to secure economic freedom - was nothing in the room except a few crusts of dry these have since come to see that we were the political oampaign offers a means of educa­ bread. right, and are back again working steadily in tion which it would be criminal on our part to neglect. There have been gazetted in England and Wales our ranks. Since then we have been over and up to date this year 293 more failures than there over again adjured by our Fabian friends to To those, then, who may urge us to abandon were during the same period last year. abandon revolutionary methods altogether, and all talk of force and all idea of violence, we point to Featherstone and say, “ que messieurs les Mr. Asquith, we read, has been staying with Mr. now we have other friends who once more Haldane, Q.C., M.P. for the past two or three assassins commencent to those who appeal to us imagine we are in danger of attaching too much weeks at his place in Scotland. The legal cronies, importance to political measures. To both we to forswear politics and cease political agitation, we doubt not, have already put the report of say, that, nature having endowed us with two we say, “ Yes, when our enemies cease to use the Bogus Commission into a satisfactory shape. the political machinery for their own social Now Lord Belial Bowen, and Sir Reaction Roll:t hands to fight with, we absolutely refuse to sign away ! fasten either of our two hands to our side and advancement and their own economic domi- fight only with one, at the bidding of either nance, then we will abandon politics, but not We hear that Mr. Cowey, of the Yorkshire politicians or faddists. We are in for a big before. We are all for constitutional means, Miners, who made such an excellent speech in Hyde fight, and mean to keep both hands free as far but all means are constitutional, when used Park, may probably have something to say to a by the stronger power. “ Treason never suc­ certain notorious “ labour leader ” concerning his as possible, and fight with both hands. “ All's attitude towards the locked-out miners before their fair in love and war," and the war of classes is ceeds for the reason that, when it succeeds ’tis cause became manifestly popular. one in which there will be no giving or taking no longer treason.” The rifle, the machine of quarter. It is a fight to a finish, and in this gun, and the torpedo, are constitutional means A comrade forwards a copy of the Grays and Til­ bury Gazette for Oct. 14, wherein it is reported that the fight we should be fools to neglect any oppor­ when used by the party in power against us. Grays Branch have offered to supply the Board of tunity or any weapon. They will be constitutional for us when we are Guardians with copies of J u stice, the Workman's Our object—the object for which we haver strong enough to use them successfully. It Times, and the Clarion, weekly, for the use of the would be criminal to attempt to use anything inmates of the workhouse. The chairman asked : been organising and working, is the Social of the kind now, because it is criminal to fail. “ Does any guardian know what these papers are ? Revolution; the complete overthrow of the In the meantime we aw ait and prepare for our To which a local preacher and 10-per-cent, philan­ capitalist system ; the abolition of classes, and opportunity. While we agitate for the suffrage, thropist named Brooks replied, amid the laughter of the domination by the whole people of their we should learn the use of arms and the arts of the Board, “ It’s ali Socialistic literature, sir.” natural means of existence. To attain this warfare. War may be barbarous, and political The offer was declined. At the last election the means may be dirty, but both are good enough five guardians elected for the Grays district of the object we hold all means, all methods, to be Union posed as Progressives. justifiable. This is a case, if ever there was for our enemies, and we have to fight them with their own weapons. They are merciless Mr. Brooks is a managing director of a cement one, in which the end justifies the means. No and unscrupulous. We must b e equalIy so. Social-Democrat who recognises the horrors of works, at about £ 500 per annum. A director’s Let us, then, neglect none of the m eans at our qualification is £ 2,000 in the firm : Hilton, Ander­ the present system; who sees the ruthless disposal that really are means; but with the son, Brooks, Shoobridge, and Co. murder of men, women, and little children old motto of Agitate, Educate, and Organise, going on all around us day after day; who sees which so often before has stirred us to enthusi­ INTERNATIONAL NOTES. the vice and sin and misery which are inherent asm, let us press earnestly and steadily for­ ward, without haste and without rest, with all A u s t r i a . in this accursed commercialism, would hesitate weapons and by all roads, to the goal we have to use any means to put a stop to it, to crush From the 1st of May to the 15th of September set before us. “ We have a world to win! our Austrian comrades have organised 404 public this infamous thing—capitalism. We are pre­ We have nothing to lose but our chains !" meetings in favour of universal suffrage, 94 of pared to use any means, any weapon, from the H. Quelch. which have been in the open-air. Of these 67 have October 21, 1893 JUSTICE 5 been prohibited, and nine dissolved by the police. D. (West End North Balustrade), Chairman, H.R. London which have been agreed upon and are Numerous meetings have, of coarse, been held Taylor; Platform E. (East End North Balustrade), badly needed. A Bill to empower these to be made since Sept. 15. Chairman, H. B. Rogers. has been passed by Parliament during the recent The spread of Socialism in Austrian Poland For full list of speakers, see Saturday and session. But our Council of faddists had tacked on necessarily brings with it Governmental persecu- Sunday papers. to the Bill a condition, which they knew the Lords tion. At Cracow recently citizen Dascynski was to All speakers are particularly requested to be in would not accept, that these improvements would have given his report as delegate to the Zurich their places at 3.30 sharp, the time for the com­ only be carried out if a portion of the cost were Congress to a public meeting of Social-Democrats. mencement of the meeting. The resolution will be imposed upon the landlords. Although right enough On learning of the meeting the authorities imme­ put at the sound of the bugle at 4.45. The time as a matter of abstract principle, the proposed con­ diately prohibited it on the ground that it would for the conclusion of the meeting must be rigidly dition would have made no material difference to tend to increase the cholera. That this was merely adhered to by the chairmen of the respective plat­ any but a few leaseholders. It could not make the a cowardly pretext for dissolving a Socialist forms. most infinitesimal difference to the great mass of meeting is clear from the fact that other meetings working Londoners who will have to suff er through were held unmolested. COLLECTIONS FOR THE MINERS the obstinacy and stupidity of the Council. Why A newly-formed bakers' trade union at Cracow should long-needed improvements be delayed, and has been dissolved by the police, who also seized Labels for boxes will be distributed to branches thousands kept out of employment, because middle­ some announcements of a Socialist social gathering of the S.D.F. who must see that they are properly man and landlord are quarrelling about the inci­ because they were printed on red paper! Verily given out to other bodies taking part in the demon­ dence of taxation? Perhaps Mr. Burns, M.P., will th e agents of a despotic government in the more stration as well as to their own members. It is see to it. outlying districts cannot be equalled anywhere for requested that, as far as possible, boxes be brought their stupidity. to 337 Strand, after the conclusion of the meeting. CORRESPONDENCE. In cases where local contingents desire to continue Belgium. To the Editor of J u s t i c e . the collections on their homeward journey it is also D e a r C o m r a d e ,—I hear that only £120 has been Esop’s fable concerning the frog and the ox requested that the proceeds of their collections be subscribed for shares in the Twentieth Century Press might well, so far as the frog, at all events, is con­ remitted to the office of the S.D.F. so that the whole of the £200 immediately necessary. I should be glad cerned, be applied to King Leopold and the amount collected at the demonstration may be to take £50 worth of shares, if others will subscibe the obsequious Belgian Chamber, who seem all at orce £30, which would then be necessary to make up the remitted to Mr. Ashton. The amount collected in required amount. We may remember the old trite to be mightily concerned at the state of the mili­ each box will be acknowledged separately and tary defences. At the request of the Chamber, proverb " Bis dat qut cito dat." announced to the credit of the body or branch S o c ia l is t . General Brialmont has drawn up and presented a collecting it ; but the whole amount will be taken report on the defences of the country. This report as the total collection made at the demonstration. SOCIALIST MUNICIPAL CANDIDATES. states that 246,000 men are necessary to protect H. W . L ee, Secretary. P elgium. The present Belgian army is 42,323 on a To the Editor of J ustice. peace footing, and the war footing, on paper, is D e a r C o m r a d e ,—Will you permit me, through the columns of J u s t i c e , to ask all S.D.F., Fabian, and 155,566 men. Now, as a matter of fact, the THE WAR CLOUD IN SOUTH I.L.P. candidates who are standing at the forthcoming increased army recommended by General Brial- AFRICA. Town Council elections, to send copies of their election mont would be powerless to defend Belgium addresses to T. M. Purves, secretary Lancashire Dis­ against either Germany or France did one of those That we are gradually becoming embroiled in trict Council S D F., 82, Hulton Street, Ordsall Park, great powers desire to absorb i t ; but it is probable a campaign against the Matabele on behalf of the Salford, and also to me, at 337, Strand. that the whole thing is the outcome of that German Yours fraternally, British South African Company is now pretty H. W. L e e , Sec. S.D.F. policy with regard to Belgium which has been con­ certain. The Company find that the filibustering sistently and persistently to turn that little country policy, upon which they entered with a light To the Editor of J u s t i c e . into a series of advanced German fortified posts on heart, is more serious than they had at first D e a r S ir ,—Again I have to acknowledge, with the Franco-Belgian frontier. When the new guns imagined. Lobengula is not coming out to fight thanks, the receipt of your kind contributions towards were placed on the fortificitions which command precisely as the Company’s forces counted on him to the relief of the families of the poor fellows done to the valley of the Meuse some five years ago the death at Featherstone. Your subscribers would feel do. Moreover, the rainy season is coming on more than compensated could they see the welcome Belgians were instructed how to use them by earlier than usual, and that will put a stop to all accorded to their generous gifts. German gunners. operations with the guns which are to decimate Believe me, yours sincerely, Lobengula's fighting men. Already a number of J ohn L i s t e r . G ermany. men have been drafted into Mashonaland from Shibden Hall, Halifax, Oct. 12. A trust on American lines has been formed by the Bechuanaland Police, and their places have the wood merchants and contractors in North PROPAGANDA FUND. been filled by troops from the West Riding Collections:— Germany with the object of “ upholding their Regiment at Cape Town. It must not be common interests." It comprises the principal Canning Town, Oct. 8 . . 0 5 9 forgotten that the Bechuanaland Police are „ Oct. 15 0 4 6 wood merchants in Hanover, the Rhine provinces, an Imperial force, for the British taxpayer Chelsea, Oct. 15 0 2 1 Westphalia, Schleswig-Holstein, Hesse, Brunswick, is called upon annually to furnish a sum for that Finsbury Park, Oct. 15 0 8 11 Thuringer, and the Hause towns. protectorate or possession three times the amount Kensal Green, Oct. 8 0 5 6 The five Social-Democratic members in the of its local revenue. This is the sort of mess in which Lambeth, Oct. 15 0 1 0 B avarian Landtag have addressed an interpolla- colonisation by limited company inevitably lands North Kensington, Oct. 15 0 1 4 tion to the Minister of War on the increasing dis­ Peckham, July 2 - . . . 0 5 10 us, and ere long we may see British troops engaged Dues:— cipline scandals in the German Army. Vollmar, in crushing another of the black races of Africa for who spoke on the interpolation, cited seventy Barrowford Branch . 1 0 0 the benfit of millionaire exploiters like Cecil Bow and Bromley Branch 0 7 0 cases of the maltreatment of privates by their Rhodes. Chelsea Branch 0 4 4 officers, in a few of which, where the ill-treatment Hoxton Branch . . . 0 2 3 was most flagrant, the officers had been sentenced FIGURE-FORGING FOR HIRE. Poplar Branch . . 0 1 7 to a few days’ simple confinement. The War Strand Branch 0 10 0 Minister was, like a tradesman suing for a debt, Monthly Self-Denial:— The whole reactionary press is rejoicing at the H. Salter . . : . 0 1 0 “ reluctantly compelled ” to admit the correctness statement in the Labour Gazette that 150,000 men of defects cited by Vollmar, but declared that they Donations:— joined the ranks of the coal miners between 1886 A. Brown ....0 2 6 had been obtained by a “ violation of administra­ and 1892. What evidence is there of this? None For Zurich Delegates :-s— tive secrecy,” and pleaded that their publicity whatever. For all we know it is a pure invention of Darwin Branch 0 4 0 would weaken the discipline of the army. the Editor, and we daresay he will be paid for it in For W. K. Hall and A. G. Wolfe’s wages:— The Bavarian Landtag has rejected the Bill in C. Marson, 6d.; G. S. (Pendleton), 6d.; Rose Jarvis, favour of Universal Suffrage introduced by the meal or in malt. For the statement is put forward £ 2 ; G. Young, Is. 6d.; S. Morris, 6d.; C. A. Gibson, Social-Democrats. The great majority of the at the time when it will most help the masters and Is.; per Finsbury Park Branch:—Buckea, 6d.; Hazel, Liberals, as befits those sympathetic friends of the most damage the men. The argument is that if so 6d.; Sutton, 6d.; K. L. S., 6d .; Albert Scarlett, 6d.; workers, voted against it. many men have gone into the mining business in six Alfred Scarlett, 6d.; Franklin, 2d.; Hendy, 2d.; A. Jess, years wages must have been very high, and now in 2d.; Burton Shaw, 6d.; T. Hewitt, 6d.; T. G. 6d.; times of depression must come down. But who that Brenchley, 6d.; Jess, 4d .; Lizzie Franzmann, 6d .; UNIVERSAL SUFFRAGE knows anything of coal mining will believe that J. Franzmann, 6d.; Nellie, 6d.; per Battersea Branch : —S. Blake, Is.; A. Jones, 6d.; A. Neill, 6d.; J. W. DEMONSTRATION. 150,000 or even 20,000 unskilled men could become Gower, 6d.; W. Haydon, 6d.; P. M. Nappist, 6d.; H. Sunday, Oct., 22nd. skilled pitmen in six years. The very idea is absurd. Hall, fid.; E. Lanchester, 6d.; W. J. Thurrber, 6d.; Starting Places and T imes O f Processions The figure-forger, however, has served his masters, W. Kite, is.; per Walworth Branch:—G. Ellis, 6d.; N .— Finsbury Park, Manor House Gates, 12.30. the capitalists, in their dire need, and what does he Ellen Batten, 6d.; G. Burnham, 6d.; Rev. A. Potter, is.; N.E.—Triangle, Hackney Road, 1.30. ; Hoxton care about truth ? When the facts come out it will H. J. Swirles, 6d.; W. J. Harvey, 6d.; W. Johnson, 6d.; Church, 1.30.; Clerkenwell Green, assemble be found in all probability that the number of coal­ E. J. Johnson, 6d.; S. Oliver, 6d.; W. Rooke, 6d.; R. miners have decreased; but then the lock-out will be Wernick, 6d.: J. Malcolm, 6d.; A. Bowman, 6d.; Nelson 1.30 . Palmer, 6d .; F. Saunders, 6d.; J. Buckeridge, 6d .; E.—Canning Town, Beckton Road, 12.30.; East over, and the Editor of the official Labour Gazette W.J. Dudley, 6d.; H. H. Howard, 6d.; F. J. Osborne, India Dock Gates, 1. will, like his forerunner Mr. Robert Giffen, be at the 6d.; H. Alexander, 2s. 6d. S.E.—Deptford Broadway, 12.30. ; Camberwell head of a State Department. Figure-forging pays. For Miners’ Lock-out (General Fund):— Green, 1. 15. Wandsworth (half) 3s. 8d .. coll. Edith Lanchester, S.W.—Battersea, Prince’s Head, 12.45. 8s. gd.; Plumbago Crucible Workers, 4s. 9d ; Batter­ W.—Old Plough, Kilburn Lane, 12.45. OUR COUNCIL OF CRANKS. sea (half) 3s. 3d.; J. H. W., ios.; Lambeth coll. is. 6d.; N.W.—“ British Queen,” Prince of Wales Crescent, Walworth coll., 2s. 2d.; Camberwell coll, (per J. E. 1.30. The question of the unemployed is becoming Dobson) 58. 81/2d., All processions are to assemble on the Thames more pressing every day, especially in London. For Mrs. Culwick:— Embankment (Cleopatra's Needle), at 2.30. Mar­ Yet what is our ‘‘Progressive” County Council P. Buckea . . . .020 doing in the matter? Mr. John Burns, M.P., who J u s t ic e Improvement: shals for procession from Embankment to Trafalgar P. Buckea . . . . 0 2 0 Square, C. F. Davies and Geo. Lansbury. is regarded as an authority by the Council, is of Tascoe . . . .020 Platforms. opinion that, whatever may be said against muni­ Kate Rossiter . • *010 Platform A. (North Side of Plinth), Chairman, cipal workshops, it is the duty of municipal bodies Leon Caryll . • . 0 2 0 J . E. Dobson; Platform B. (East Side of Plinth), to put in hand all necessary public works at a time E. Clarke . . . ..020 Chairman, Geo. Lansbury ; Platform C. (West of depression like the present. Now there are a All subscriptions, donations, &c., should be sent to H. W. Lee, Side of Plinth), Chairman, C. A. Gibson ; Platform number of street improvements to be carried out in Secretary, 337, Strand, W.C, 6 JUSTICE October 21, 1893

ROUND THE CROWD. “ Oh, I think so.” even “ Tattler” will have to hurry up, or he’ll* “ You have a slight doubt ?” get left! I can picture the various attempts that B y the Dodger. “ Well, no; in my own mind I have no doubt. will be made to imitate different comrades who* But I do not like to answer you too emphatically helped the movement in the past. Fancy Hobart Monsieur, le redacteur en chef. lest you should think me egotistical.” impersonating John Burns, or Dobson represent­ There is an old French proverb which says: “ Thank you. But please do not stand on con­ ing Tom M ann! The representation, however, " Qui s’excuse s’accuse,” but nevertheless I am ventionalities. I am desirous to know your private would not now be complete without a clerical wide- going to submit an excuse for the absence of my opinion in these matters. Will you promise to a-wake and an endless collar !—T. R. contributions to the columns of J ustice. answer me without reluctance or parley ?" Of course everyone knows the old English pro- “ As near as I can. But I hope you will not bind The Aberdeen branch S.D.F. has resolved to verb : “ Any excuse is better than none,” still I am me to hard and fast lines, or to a yes-and-no demonstrate for Universal Suffrage next Sunday — not going to shelter myself behind such a proverb catechism style.” W . S. R. to save myself the painful ordeal of explaining the “ Certainly not. Only I am anxious to get know­ real cause of my long silence. ledge.” I could, however, very reasonably lay it to the “ Very well, then. Now what is your point ?” We have had one of the Liberals at us at Burn- weather, or even to the pressure of other business. “ Is surplus-value quite an appropriate phrase to ley to withdraw one of our municipal candidates in, I could, furthermore, with some truth, claim ex­ use to designate the surplus-wealth which the labourer favour of a “ Liberal-Labour ” candidate with the emption from censure on the plea of ill-health or produces for the capitalist ?” Liberal writ large); but they did not get much want of inspiration. Another tangible excuse might “ I see no objection to it.” compromise out of us, I can assure you. We asked', be adduced from the stand-point of summer holi­ “ But value is value; and it seems to me some­ them what they meant by talking and writing that days (only some are holidays and some are no'); what superfluous and out of place to talk of surplus- we are Tories, or the tools of Tories, and then but, no! I must tell the truth, and the truth is—I value.” coming and wanting us to withdraw to defeat a. have not written, because, well, because I have not “ Oh, but there are several qualifying designations Tory.—G. M. B. written ! to value. There is exchange-value, use-value, and Pardonnez moi, monsieur. surplus-value. They are all acceptable according The Rochdale Branch S.D.F. will hold meetings Therefore, re-enter the Dodger. to economists.” next Sunday in support of Universal Suffrage.. Still, I feel sorry that you have not refused to be “ That may be so, although I recollect reading Comrade Hobart will be one of the speakers. reconciled. I am undone. I am an Ishmael. in a Socialist economic pamphlet a sentence like Every man’s hand is against me, and I am against this: ' Absolute value is unknown, and such a The date of the Grand Concert of the South- every man’s boot. phrase as “ value in use,” or “ use-value,” ought East District Council S.D.F. was inadvertently And all because why ? to be definitely and finally given up as misleading omitted from last week’s notice. Don’t forget,. Because, sir, I am at a loss to do full justice to and unscientific.' That disposes of one of the St. John’s Hall, Wadding Street, Rodney Road, the opinions of a certain lecturer! phrases. Exchange-value I admit. Surplus-value, (near Elephant Station,) on Thursday, October 26.. I thought I knew something about Political I contend, is a misnomer. There is no exchange- There are still some tickets left.—F. J. O. Economy, and I thought that I was in perfect value established until the commodity rests in its agreement with all the lecturers of the S.D.F. final market. Therefore, to my thinking, the G eneral. But how are the mighty fallen! surplus produced by the labourer is surplus-wealth, I have received the two numbers of the local Whether the mighty one who hath thus fallen not surplus-value.” organ issued by the S.D.F. branches in North- be the lecturer or the Dodger must never be known. " There is evidently some reason in your argu­ East Lancashire, the Socialist. The second is a very Therefore, I propose to discuss the question ment, but I am not prepared at present to pro­ considerable improvement on the first number, but thusly:— nounce a verdict, either in your favour or against then our comrades had exceptional difficulty in “ Of two things, one. Either the workers are you.” getting out the latter. Whoever reports the lectures robbed or they are not. If they are robbed it pre­ So the discussion ended. But opinions will still delivered at Burnley does so remarkably well. Of* supposes that they had something to be robbed of.” be thankfully received by course the paper has some pages of “ stereo.” That, “ Certainly. Surplus-value.” T he Dodger. however, is very often the case with local papers. “ Aye, but they had not that surplus-value. They But it offends my eye, nevertheless. Perhaps I created it.” am hypercritical. Hyndman's leader on the Coal. “ Therefore, if they created it they had it.” W ar is excellent and timely. “ Not so. Creation is not necessarily possession.” S.D.F. NOTES. What saith Marx ?” A concert and ball will be given by the Common­ ‘“ The seller of labour-power, like the seller of A meeting organised by the Southampton branch weal Anarchist Group at Grafton Hall, Grafton- any other commodity, realises its exchange-value, S.D.F., with the assistance of the local Fabian street, W., on Tuesday, Oct. 24, on behalf of D. J and parts with its use-value. He cannot take the Society and a few Radicals, was held at South­ Nicoll, who will be released from Chelmsford Gaol one without giving the other. The use-value of ampton last Sunday in support of the locked-out on Nov. 1. The tickets are 2s., is., and 6d labour-power, or, in other words, labour, belongs miners. Addresses were given by comrades Lewis, Though most of us think Nicoll was exceedingly- to the dealer who has sold it. The owner of the Exten, Phillips, and Bicker-Caarten. and Messrs., indiscreet in the language he used concerning the- money has paid the value of a day’s labour-power; Moon, Lumby, Dudderidge, and Randoff. The condemnation of the Walsall Anarchists, he has. his, therefore, is the use of it for a day; a day’s meeting was very successful, considering the damp more than paid the penalty of such indiscretion by labour belongs to him. The circumstance that on weather. We collected £ 3 3s. iod. for the miners. the eighteen months’ incarceration which he has the one hand the daily sustenance of labour-power —C. W. W. undergone. His benefit concert, therefore, deserves, costs only half a day’s labour, while, on the other to be well supported. hand, the very same labour-power can work during W e are progressing most favourably in Kensal a whole day, that consequently the value which its Town (London) and district. We have trebled our The new Sheffield Branch of the S.D.F. is pro­ use during one day creates is double what he pays membership, and our sales of literature have greatly ceeding by leaps and bounds. It has now n o . for that use, this circumstance is, without doubt, a increased. We are making arrangements for members. I hope they’ll stick, and that the branch, piece of good luck for the buyer, but by no means Hyndman to lecture in the Queen’s Park Hall will be a hare-like tortoise or a tortoise-like hare,., an injury to the seller.” ’ Page 175, “ Capital.” early in November, at which we expect a crowded whichever you like. It is certainly not like a tor­ “ What think you of the latter part of the last audience. We have also attacked the outlying toise at present in its movements, and if it combine sentence ?” districts of Harlesden and Willesden, in which we the swiftness of the hare with the perseverance of “ Verily it is an aggravation. Is, then, surplus- have been assisted by some of our Kentish Town the tortoise the whole of the district will soon be value a misnomer, or is it a mistake to say the comrades, and we hope soon to form a new branch gained for the S.D.F. labourer is robbed ?” of the S.D.F. “ Turn again to Marx, page 217, and read: " If Wolfe expects shortly to shift to Sheffield. He- the average time that (doing a reasonable amount W. K. Hall’s engagements this week will in­ finds that it is an excellent centre for propaganda of work) an average labourer can live is 30 years, clude Wigan, Bolton, Eccles, Ramsbottom, Rad- work. The Sheffielders are great on excursions ; the value of my labour-power, which you pay me cliffe, &c. Good meetings at various mining consequently there are frequent cheap trips to from day to day, is 1365 plus 30, or 1-10950 of its centres last week, especially at Tyldesley, where many large towns. total value. But if you consume it in 10 years you Hall met with opposition from a parson. Going pay me daily 1-10950 instead of 1-3650 of its total home one night last week Hall came across an Particulars of Sunday's Universal Suffrage value, i.e., only one-third of its daily value, and outdoor meeting in favour of an I.L.P. candidate Demonstration in Trafalgar Square will be found you rob m e, therefore, every day of two thirds of in a mining centre, Dot a hundred and one miles elsewhere. If only the weather be fine, the demon­ the value of my commodity.’ ” from Pendleton. Hall offered them a couple of stration will be a great success—greater than I “ Verily this logic is more than Hegelian.” hundred of the S.D.F. “ W hat Use is a Vote ? ” anticipated last week, for I felt that the Sun demon- " Ay, but is it correct to say rob ? Or would it leaflets. They were accepted; but on seeing stration for the miners in Hyde Park last Sunday not be nearer the mark to say cheat “ Social-Democratic-Federation ” at the top, they might very possibly detract from ours on the fol- ‘"Well, bested, or swindled, would both be appro­ were sent back to Hall with a request that he would lowing Sunday, as many organisations would not priate. Still, the word robbed has a very powerful cut off the heading. Hall, of course, refused to do care to parade on two consecutive Sundays. But and significant influence on the person to whom it so, and the leaflets were returned !—T. M. P. local branches of the Navvies’ Union, the G S. is applied.” Workers’ Union, the Vestry Employees’ Unions,, “ Do you mean the capitalist or the labourer ?” The Eccles branch S.D.F. have decided to and other trade societies intend to take part on “ Oh, the labourer. I do not think any words submit resolutions dealing with Universal Suffrage Sunday, and probably others will agree to do so interfere with the mental repose of the capitalist.” at their meetings on Sunday next.—A. F. within the next couple of days. Two speakers “ True. But do you think it is as effectual to tell have been appointed by the London Trades’ a worker that he has been robbed of two-thirds of The Bacup branch S.D.F. will hold a mass Council. As for the Radical Clubs, with a few the result of his labour as if you told him he had meeting on Sunday in favour of Universal exceptions, not a word has been heard from them.. been swindled or cheated of two-thirds of his pro­ Suffrage, Payment of Members, &c., at which duce ?” W. K. Hall will be the principal speaker.—S. M. Ajax. “ Well, perhaps not.” “ Further. Is he robbed ? Strictly speaking, The Hoxton (London) branch S.D.F. will in­ [Special.—Will branch secretaries kindly note that is. According to the common acceptation of troduce a novelty into their concert at the Cos­ that reports for “ S.D.F. Notes ” must reach me a t: the word ‘ robbed ?' ” mopolitan Club, Charles Square, Hoxton, on 337, Strand, W.C., not later than the first post on “ Well, perhaps not.” Saturday, November 4. The novelty will be an Tuesday morning ? I want particularly to have “ As to ' surplus-value,’ there is no doubt in your impersonation competition of well-known members reports of Suffrage Demonstrations and meetings in mind that the phrase is perfectly defensible ?” of the S.D.F. I think, after this original idea, good time for next issue.—H. W. Lee]. O ctober 21, 1893, JUSTICE. 7

LECTURE DIARY. Canning Town, High Street, Plaistow, 8 p.m. A CATECHISM FOR THE MOB. Walworth, Vestry Hall, Walworth Road (open-air), Printed and published by command of the Bankers’ Institute, Social-Democratic Federation. at 8 p.m., Branch. and ordered to be read at every Union meeting through­ Willesden Lane, opposite “ Case is Altered,” at LONDON. 8 p.m. out Australasia. The working people are expected to Saturday, Oct, 21. Thursday, Oct. 26. inculcate these sublime teachings into the minds of their Bow and Bromley, Branch Meeting. 193, Bow Road young from early life. Bow and Bromley, Lady Franklin, 0 ld Ford Road, 8.30 Canning Town, 144, Barking Road, at 8 p.m. At the ring of the bell, at the whistling of the machine, we Clerkenwell Green (open-air), 8 p.m. Camberwell, Oakley Place, Old Kent Road (open- Kensal Town, Westbourne Terrace North, Har- must hasten to congregate; and, once engaged in prayer, set air), at 8 p.m. row Road (open-air), at 8.30 p.m. our arms and legs, hands and feet in motion like automata— we Canning Town, Beckton Road, 7.30; High Street, Plaistow, 7.30, Kentish Town, outside “ Mother Shipton," Prince must grunt and sweat —we must strain our muscles and exhaust Hyde Park, near Marble Arch (open-air), at 6.30 p.m. of Wales Road (open-air) at 8 p.m. our nerves. Kensal Town, opposite Prince of Wales’s Road, Mile End Waste (open-air). 8 p.m. At our prayer meetings we must submit with humble mien Harrow Road (open-air), at 8.30. Peckham Triangle (open-air), 8 p.m. Kentish Town, outside" Rose and Thistle,” Queen’s Walworth Branch, Grand Concert at St. John’s and patiently to the. ill-temper and insults of the boss and his Hall at 8. foreman ; they are always right. Crescent ((open-air), 8 p.m. Mite End Waste (open-air), at 8 p.m. Friday, Oct. 27. We must never make a complaint if the boss lowers our Peckham Park Road, near Canal Bridge (open- wages and raises our hours of work; everything he does is right, air), at 8 p.m. Battersea Branch, Sydney Hall, 36, York Road, and is done for our best. Walworth, Gurney Street (open-air), at 8., Branch. Battersea, at 8.30, Discussion Class open to all Sunday, Oct. 22. members of the S.D.F. We must consider it an honour if the boss takes undue liberties Bermondsey, outside Christchurch (open-air), at with our wives and daughters. Social Democratic Federation, the Hall,337, Strand, 8 p.m., T. Partridge. W.O., at 8, W. G. Pearson, “ With the Bed Van Camberwell Green, opposite Red Cap, 8 p.m., J. Rather than ever to allow a complaint to escape our lips— in Berkshire.” rather than ever to allow our blood to boil —rather than ever to Hunter Watts. Battersea Park, South-east Gates (open-air), at Hackney, Well Street (outside Burge’s Factory) at t hink of striking, we should submit to all trials, swallow our 11.30; Prince’s Head,(open-air), 6.30, O.B. Rogers. 8.30. bread moistened with our own spittle only; and drink dirty water Bermondsey, Upper Orange Road (open-air), 7.30. Kentish Town, Obelisk, bottom of Weedington to wash that down. Should we be impertinent enough to dare Bow and Bromley, Obelisk, Devons Road (open- Road (open-air), at 8 p.m. air), 11.30. find fault with such treatment, then would our masters scourge Poplar, near " London ’’ Tavern, Manchester Road, Camberwell, Addington Square (open-air), 11.30 Cubitt Town (open-air). at 7.30. us with the prisons and penitentiaries, sharp cutting sabres, J. E. Dobson; Camberwell Green (open-air) at 8 West Islington, Charlotte Street (open-air), at 8 repeating rifles, cannon, policemen’s clubs, and even the p.m. p m. gallows. They would clap us behind the bars if we were to Canning Town, Beckton Road (open-air), at 11.30 Walworth, Arthur Street (open-air), at 8 p.m. а.m.; Green Gate, at 11.30. •do aught that is contrary to the decrees of the laws which they Chelsea Embankment (open-air), at 11.30, Branch ; have enacted and promulgated. World’s End (open-air), 7.30. Q.— Do you expect any reward after death ? Clapham Common, near Band Stand (open-air), PROVINCES. at 3.30., A. Tucker. A.— A very great one. After I am dead Capital allows me Saturday, Oct. 14. to lie down and rest; I am then freed from hunger and cold, Clerkenwell, Garnau t Place (open-air), at 11.30. East St. Pancras, Regent’s Park (open-air), at Aberdeen, Castle Street (open-air) at 8 p.m. •and from the fear of want for evermore. I then enjoy the 11.30 a.m. Todmorden, Market Place (open-air), at 3.30 and eternal peace of the Grave. Edmonton, corner of Angel Road (open-air), at 7.30, б. 30. p.m. Sunday, Oct. 22. Finsbury Park, Manor House Gates (open-air), at 11.30.,; near Band 8tand, 3 30, and 6.45. Aberdeen, Market Street (open-air),at 3 p.m. Trade A LITANY. Council Hall at 6,30.. a lecture. For the use of the Respectable Classes. Hampstead Heath, near Whitestone Pond (open- air). 7.30. Barrowford Socialist Hall 3 and 6.30 p.m.t J.Bnrgess Edited by E d. Carpenter. Harlesden, High Street (open-air), at 1130; Bacup (open air), W.K. Hall. Pavilion, Green Man, High Street, at 8 p.m, Bolton, Town Hall Square (open-air), 3 and 7.30. O God, the Father of Heaven, have mercy upon us miserable W. Gardner. Penlington. Burnley, Market Square (open-air), at 3 and 6 30., sinners. Highgate, Parliament Hill, 11.30, and 6.30. Hyde Park, near Marble Arch, at 11.30; near J. Hunter Watts. Remember not, Lord, our offences; nor the offences of our Marble Arch, 3.30, ; near the Serpentine, 7. Blackburn, Market Ground (open-air), 11.30 and forefathers; neither take thou vengeance of our sins. Spare us, Hoxton Church (open-air), 11.30. 6.30, Whitham. good Lord ; spare us whom thou hast brought into honour and Bristol Socialist Society, Horsefair (open-air), at Kennington Albert Embankment (open-air), at 11 ; Brandon Hall (open-air), at 11; Durdbam good position through the precious blood of the toiling masses, 11.30 a.m.; Clayton Street, Kennington Road Downs (open-air), 7; Eastviile Park (open-air), 7. and be not angry with us for ever. (open-air), 7.30., Branch. Kensal Green, The Old Plough, Kilburn Lane Brynn (open-air). Spare us, Good Lord. (open-air), at 11.30; Fifth Avenue, Harrow Bury, Fair Ground (open-air). 3 and 6.30. Leech From all evil and mischief, from the crafts and assaults of the Colne, (open-air) at 2.30 and 6.30. Road at 7.30 p.m. Coventry, Pool Meadow (open-air), at 11, 3 and 6. thief and the burglar, from poverty, and the everlasting damna­ Lambeth, Savile Place Lambeth Walk (open-air) Darlington Fabian Society. Market Steps (open-air) tion of the workhouse. at 11.30.; Belvedere Road, Westminster Bridge Road (open-air ), at 7 p.m., T. Moore. at 6.30 p.m. Good Lord, deliver us. Mile End Waste (open-air), at 11.15 a.m„ at Darwen, Market Ground (open-air), 3.30 and 6.30. From bad trade and bogus dividends, from shady and Unprofit­ J. E. Broadbent. 7.30, Branch. Dundee, foot of onnethill (open-air), at 2 p.m. ; able investments, from all unsuccessful speculation ana losses, New Southgate (open-air), at 6.30. Commercial Street (open-air), 6.30. whether on the turf or in the City, North Kensington, Uxbridge Road Station (open- Eccles Cross (open-air), at 7.30 p.m., R. Abrahams. Good Lord, deliver us. air), at 11.30; Clarendon Coffee Palace, Claren­ Edinburgh Scottish Socialist Federation, Meadows don Road, Notting Hill, at 8 p.m., a lecture. From all loss of our position in society, and taint of vulgarity Peckham Rye (open-air), at 11.30; Pioneer Hall, (open-air), 6.30. in our manners or connections, from poor relations, and from Glasgow, Jail Square (open-air), at 2 and 6 p.m. 40a Peckham Rye, at 8 p.m, H. Quelch, " Hell or Grays, High Street (open-air), 11.30 and 7. being mistaken for the butler or the lady’s maid in our own Sccial-Democracy.” Great Harwood (open-air). houses, Poplar, Stainsby Road, Limehonse, (open-air) at 11.30, Hanley (the Potteries), Market Square (open- Good Lord, deliver us. Rotherbithe, Southwark Park (open-air), at 11.30. air), at 11 a.m.; Joiners Square (open air). 11.30 From manual labour and the necessity of working for a living, Hey wood (open-air), at 11 a.m.. Bethel. Tottenham, end of Seven Sisters Road, High Road, Leicester, Humberstone Gate(open-air), 11.30 and 7. from gout and apoplexy, from old age and a time when we may Tottenham (open-air), 11.30 a.m., branch, and, Leigh (open-air) T. M. Purves. not be able to enjoy the pleasures of the world, the flesh, and at 7.30. Leith, Leith Links (open-air), at 2 p.m. the devil, Victoria Park (open-air),at 3.30 p.m. Liverpool, St. James’ Market (open-air), at 3 p.m. Walworth, Bast Lane, near Board Schools (open- Nelson S D.F. Club Booms, Nort Street at 2.46 and Good Lord, deliver us. air), 11.30; Penrose Street (open-air), 8 p.m. From lightning and tempest, from plague, pestilence, and 6.30., Jackson. A. Bowman. Newcastle (Staffs) Crown Bank, Silverdale (open- famine, from battle and murder, and from sudden death, Wandsworth, Buckholt Road, opposite the Town air), at 11 a.m. ; The Cross (open-air) at 7 p.m. Good Lord, deliver us. Hall (open-air), 11.30; East Hill (open-air), at 7.30, Northampton, Market Square (open-air), at 11.30 From all sedition, privy conspiracy and rebellion, from all Wood Green, Jolly Butchers Hill (open-air), at and 6.30., F, G. Jones. false doctrines of Socialists, Anarchists, and Land Nationalisers, 11.30 a.m. North Salford Branch, opposite Blackfriars Baths Walthamstow, Lea Bridge Road, corner of Shern- (open-air), at 11 a.m., and from the terror of bombs and dynamite, Nottingham Branch, Sneinton Market (open-air), Good Lord, deliver us. hall Street (open-air), at 11.30; Workmen’s. Hall, High Street Walthamstow, at 8 p.m., O 11 a.m. By the mystery of our spotless cuffs and collars, and of our A. Gibson, a lecture. Oldham, Tommy field, (open-air) at 3 and 6 30 p.m. dresses which are never behind the fashion ; by our holy Nativity, West Islington, Charlotte Street (open-air), at Tungate. Padiham, Recreation Ground, at 6.30. and descent from the very best families, 11.30 a.m.; Branch Rooms,2, Bemerton Street, Rawtenstall (open-air), Hilton. Good Lord, deliver us. Copenhagen Street, at 8 p.m., a lecture. Beading,Cemetery Gates (open-air),at 3, G. Kohler. By the select circles, in which we move, and the halo which Wimbledon Common (open-air) 3.30. St. Mary Butts (open-air), at 7 p.m., G. Kohler. NotE.—Owing to the Trafalgar Square Demon- Roohdale, Town Hall Square (open-air), 11, 3, and surrounds us in consequence, by our valets and coachmen, and stration no speakers are appointed from the blameless houses and equipages, 6.30, H. W. Hobart; Smallbridge (open-air), centre.—H. W. LEE. 11 a.m. Good Lord, deliver us. Monday, Oct. 23. South Salford, Trafford Bridge (open-air), at 11, By our punctuality in returning morning calls, and our Dan living, “ Trade Unionism, Co-operation or patience in enduring the persecutions of notorious bores for Mile End. corner of Philpot Street, Commercial Socialism ; S.D.F., Club, 43 Trafford Road, at 3 Road (open-air), 8 p.m. Branch. Thy sake, p.m., Dan Irving, " The March of Democracy,” ; Peckham Pioneer Hall, 40a, Peckham Rye, at 8. at 7 p.m.,Dan Irving " Servants and Masters.” Good Lord, deliver us. Poplar, East India Dock Gates (open-air), at 7.30. Southampton, The Avenue (open-air), at 3 J. Sulli­ In all time of our tribulation, in the time of the loss of our Walworth, New Church, 213, Walworth Road 8.15, van ; Kingsland Place, south Front, at 6.30. J. •wealth, in that hour of death and in that day of judgment. Andreas Scheu, “ The Ways and Means of Sullivan. Good Lord, deliver us. Socialism.” Tunbridge Wells, Common (open-air), at 3 p.m., Tuesday, Oct. 24. Limebill Road (open-air), at 6 30. W e sinners do beseech thee to hear us, O Lord God, and that Wigan, Old Market Place (open-air), at 3 p.m, it may please Thee to rule and govern Thy Holy Church of The Hall of the SD.F., 337, Strand, W.O., at 8 p.m,, General Council Meeting. J. Chatterton. Respectability in the right way, Bow and Bromley, Wansted Road .(open-air), 8.30. Monday Oct. 23. We beseech Thee to hear us, Good Lord. Finsbury Park, St. Thomas Road (open-air), 8.15. Dundee, West Port, (open-air) at 8 p.m. That it may please Thee to bless the Queen and all the Royal Hoxton Church (open-air), at 8.30. family, that they may continually shed lustre and distinction Peckham, Harders Road, Queen's Road, opposite Tuesday, Oct. 24. upon us, and keep us in countenance in all our doings, Wesleyan Chapel, 8 p.m. Walworth, Westmoreland Road (open-air), at 8 Leicester, Belgrave, at 7.30. We beseech Thee to hear us, Good Lord. p.m. Branch. That it may please Thee to illuminate all Bishops, Priests, Thursday, Oct.26. and Deacons, with true knowledge and understanding of Thy Wednesday, Oct. 25. Bristol Socialist Society, Bedminster Group (open- Word, that they may show to the people that our way of living Bethnal Green, Salmon and Ball (open-air), at air), at 8 p.m. is the right way, and may teach them to be content with theirs, 830. Dundee, High Street, in front of Clydesdale Bank Borough Polytechnic Parliament,Social-Democratic (open-air)- at 8 p.m. We beseech Thee to hear us, Good Lord. Party,Room 32 at 8 p.m., alternate Wednesdays. Leicester, Wigstone, 8 p.m. (to be continued) Bow and Bromley, Economic Class, 193. Bow Road. Llanelly, People’s Park (open-air), 6.30. 8 JUSTICE. October 21, 1893. THE TWENTIETH CENTURY PRESS, Ltd.,

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S.D.F. DIRECTORY. Bolton— Tunbridge Wells—Branch meeting, 10, Dorking Road, T u n ­ LONDON BRANCHES. Brynn— bridge Wells. Battersea—Branch meeting, Mondays, 8 p.m., Sydney Hall, Burnley—Committee meeting, Tuesdays, 7.30, St. James’s SCOTLAND. 36, York Road, Battersea. Hal), Burnley; branch meetings, first Tuesday in every Aberdeen—Branch meeting, 8, Oddfellows Hall, Crooked Bermondsey—Branch meeting, Mondays, 8 p.m., 31, Ber­ month at 7.30. Lane, Aberdeen. mondsey Square. Bury—Branch meetings, Mondays, 8., 15, Haymarket, Bury. Dundee—Branch meeting, Wednesdays, 8, 226, Overgate,. Bethnal Green and Hackney—Branch meeting. Tuesdays, at Colne—Branch meeting, Fridays, 8, Socialist’s Hall, Market Dundee. 8, Morley Coffee Tavern, Mare Street, Hackney. Street, Colne. Glasgow—Branch meeting, first Sunday in the month, 3.30 Bow and Bromley—Branch meeting, Thursdays, at 8, 193, Darwen—Branch meeting, Mondays 7.30, 19, Bolton Road, | p.m .; informal meeting every Saturday, from 7 p.m., Bow Road, E Darwen. 8, Watson Street, Glasgow. Eccles—Branch meetings, Mondays, 7.30, Social-Democratic Chelsea—Branch meetings, Saturdays, at 8 p.m., Cross Keys WALES. Coffee Tavern, Sydney Street, Chelsea. Club, Monton, Lane Eccles; discussion class, Wednes­ days, at 7.45. Landore— Canning Town—Branch meeting, Sundays, 6 p.m., 144, Llanelly—Branch meeting, Thursdays, 7.30. Central Tem­ Barking Road, Canning Town. Great Harwood— Hey wood— perance Hotel, Stepney Street, Llanelly. Clerkenwell—Branch meeting, Mondays, 8.30, 18, Berkeley Morriston— Street, Clerkenwell, E.C. Leigh—Branch meeting Mondays, 7 p.m., 4 Church Street Leigh. Swansea—Branch meeting, Mondays, 7.30., Colossum Hotel, Edmonton—Branch meetings, Mondays, 8, Workmen’s Hall, Wind Street, Swansea, Lawrence Road. Liverpool—Branoh meetings, 57, Hunter Street, Liverpool. East St. Pancras—Temporary address, 35, Prince o f Wales Nelson—Branch meetings last Thursday of every month 7.30, Crescent, N.W. North Street Baths, Nelson; Committee meeting Tues­ FOR THE FAMILIES OF THE MURDERED Finsbury Park—Branch meeting, 55, Begina Road, Tolling- days, 7.30. MINERS. ton Park, alternate Thursdays, at 8 p.m. North Salford—Committee meeting, Wednesday, at 8 p.m., 7 Hoxton—Branch meeting, Mondays, 8.30, Lockhart’s Coffee Andrew Street, Lower Broughton. Amount already acknowledged, £16 os. 81/2d. Tavern, 278, Old Street, opposite Pitfield Street, Hoxton. Oldham— Burton Shaw, 6d.; Miss Skerritt, 10s. 6d.; collected Kennington—Branch meeting, Wednesdays, 8 p.m , Lock­ Padiham—Branch meeting Tuesdays, S.D.F. Club, Websters at Aberdeen, 3s. 3d.; at Clerkenwell, 5s. 6d.; Buckea, hart’s Coooa Booms, 1, Bond Street, Vauxhall Cross, S.E. Buildings, Padiham. 2S. 6d .; Leon Caryll, 25.; Joshua Tasker, is.; Arthur Kensal Town—Branch meeting, Mondays, 8 p.m., Levell’s Rawtenstall— Murrell, i s .; Ann Clarke, is.; H. Coleman, is.; Swan­ Refreshment Booms, 4, Carlton Bridge, Westbourne Rochdale—Branch meeting, first Tuesday in each m onth; sea Branch S.D,F., 2s. 6d.; Kensal Town, is. 3d. Park, W .; discussion class, Thursdays, 8 (open to all). committee meeting, Mondays, 7.30, York Place, York­ Kentish Town—Branch meeting, Mondays, 8 p.m., 35 Prince shire Street, Rochdale. Contributions to this Fund will be gladly received and of Wales Crescent, N.W.; discussion class, Wednesdays, South Salford—Branch meetings Tuesdays 8 ; discussion acknowledged by the Editor. 8 (open to the public). class, Fridays, at 8 p.m., S.D.F. Club, 43, Trafford Road, Mile End—Branch meeting, Saturdays, 8.30, 27, Mile End Salford. Road, E. Todmorden—Branch meeting. Tuesdays 7.30. Coffee Booms, Marylebone and Paddington—Branch meeting Mondays, 8, Brook Street, Todmorden. “NATURAL FOOD,” 359, Edgware Road, W. Wigan—Branch meeting, Sundays, 7 p.m., Miners’ Hall, Devoted to Health and the Higher Life. North Camberwell—Branch meetings, Mondays, at 8, 121, Wigan. MONTHLY, I d . SUBSCRIPTION, I s . 6 d . per year. Denmark Road (near Station Road), Camberwell. YORKSHIRE BRANCHES. North Kensington—Branch meeting, Thursdays, 8, Claren­ Sheffield— The Organ of the Non-Starch Dietetic School, of which following is don Coffee Palace, Clarendon Road, Notting Hill. MIDLAND BRANCHES. some of the Literature Peckham and Dulwich—Branch meet ing, Mondays, 8.15, Birmingham—Branch meeting, Mondays 8, S.D.F. Club, 47, NATURAL FOOD OF MAN. By Dr. DENSMORE. Third Pioneer Ha 11, 40A, Peckham Bye, S.E. Aston Road, Birmingham. Edition, Is. Poplar—Branch meeting, Wednesdays, 8 p.m., Johnstons Burslem—Branch meeting. Thursdays, at 8 p.m., Coffee HOW NATURE CURES. Just Published, 416 pp., 7s. 6d. Coffee Palace, East India Dock Road. E. Tavern, Newcastle Street, Burslem. EXPOSITION OF NON-STARCH SYSTEM, post free, 21/2d. Southwark and Lambeth—Branch meeting, Thursdays. 8, Coventry—Branch meeting Thursdays, 8, City Coffee Tavern, Tom Wilson’s Coffee House, 2o7, Westminster Bridge Fleet Street, Coventry. LEAFLETS " Fruit as Food,” “ Food of Paradise,” 1/2d.. Road, S.E. Hanley—Branoh meeting Sundays 10.30 a.m., Tram Coffee each, or 1s. 3d. per hundred for distribution. Strand—Branch meetings, first Thursday in month, 8, 337, House, Hanley. Address, Editor of N atural Food, 78, Elm Park Road,. Strand, W.C. Leicester—Branch meeting, Mondays 8 p.m., Club Boom, South Kensington. Tottenham—Branch meeting, Thursdays, 8, 6, Broad Lane, back of 19, Wharf Street, Leicester. Page Green, South Tottenham. Newcastle (Staffs).—Branch meeting, Thursdays at 8 p.m., Walthamstow—Branch meeting, Tuesdays, 8, Workman’s Cross Street, Liverpool Road, Newcastle. PRICE ONE PENNY. Hall, High Street, Walthamstow. Nottingham— Walworth—Branch meeting, Thursdays, 8 ; Discussion Class Nottingham (Meadows)— THE at 9.30 p.m , 213, Walworth Road, S.E. Northampton—Branch meetings, first and third Monday Wandsworth—Branch committee meeting, Fridays, 8 p.m., each month, 8 p.m .; committee meetings, second and ECONOMICS OF LABOUR. Hill Yard, The Plain. High Street, Wandsworth. fourth Monday each month, 8 p.m.; discussion class A LECTURE West Islington—Branch meetings, Mondays, 8, 2, Bemerton (open to all members S.D.F.) every Thursday, 8 p.m., at Street Caledonian Road, N. Premises open every night. Social-Democratic Club, Bailiffe Street. delivered by Wimbledon— West Bromwich—Branch meetings, Mondays, at 8, Victoria H. QUELCH Wood Green—Branch meetings, Mondays, 8.3o, Star Coffee Coffee House. High Street, W. Bromwich. Tavern, High Street, Wood Green. to the LANCASHIRE BRANCHES. SOUTHERN BRANCHES. Economic Club of the Borough Polytechnic Institute,. Bacup—Branch meetings, alternate Saturdays, 8, S.D.F. Grays—Branch meeting, Thursdays 8 p.m., Victoria Coffee Club Boom, Burnley Road, Bacup. Tavern, High Street, Grays. London: Printed and Published by the TWENTIETH CENTURY Barrowford—Branch meeting, Mondays, Socialist Club, Beading—Branch meeting, Mondays at 7 .3O, 42a, King’s PRESS, Ltd., 37a , Clerkenwell Green, E.G. Barrowford. road, Beading. Blackbum—Branch meeting, Tuesdays 7.30,, 62, Victoria Southampton—Branch meetings, alternate Tuesdays, 8, St. London: Printed and Published for the Proprietors by H Street, Blackburn, Andrew’s Hall, Southampton. Quelch, at 37a, Clerkenwell Green, E.C.