ghten the burden
that oppresses them, the Socialist party is pledged to encourage and
support them to the full extent of its power. It matters not to what
union they belong, or if they belong to any union, the Socialist party
which sprang from their struggle, their oppression, and their
aspiration, is with them through good and evil report, in trial and
defeat, until at last victory is inscribed upon their banner.

_Fighting Labor's Battles._

Whether it be in the textile mills of Lawrence and other mills of New
England where men, women and children are ground into dividends to gorge
a heartless, mill-owning plutocracy; or whether it be in the lumber and
railroad camps of the far Northwest where men are herded like cattle and
insulted, beaten and deported for peaceably asserting the legal right to
organize; or in the conflict with the civilized savages of San Diego
where men who dare be known as members of the Industrial Workers of the
World are kidnaped, tortured and murdered in cold blood in the name of
law and order; or in the city of Chicago where that gorgon of
capitalism, the newspaper trust, is bent upon crushing and exterminating
the pressmen's union; or along the Harriman lines of railroad where the
slaves of the shops have been driven to the alternative of striking or
sacrificing the last vestige of their manhood and self-respect, in all
these battles of the workers against their capitalist oppressors the
Socialist party has the most vital concern and is freely pledged to
render them all the assistance in its power.

These are the battles of the workers in the war of the classes and the
battles of the workers, wherever and however fought, are always and
everywhere the battles of the Socialist party.

When Moyer, Haywood and Pettibone were seized by the brutal mine owners
of the western states and by their prostitute press consigned to the
gallows, the Socialist party lost not an hour in going to the rescue,
and but for its prompt and vigorous action and the resolute work of its
press another monstrous crime against the working class would have
blackened the pages of American history.

_Persecution of Loyal Leaders._

In the unceasing struggle of the workers with their exploiters the truly
loyal leaders are always marked for persecution. Joseph Ettor and Arturo
Giovannitti would not now be in jail awaiting trial for murder had they
betrayed the slaves of the Lawrence mills. They were staunch and true;