y party of the people, the only party
opposed to the rule of the plutocracy, the only truly democratic party
in the world.

It is the only party in which women have equal rights with men, the only
party which denies membership to a man who refuses to recognize woman as
his political equal, the only party that is pledged to strike the
fetters of economic and political slavery from womanhood and pave the
way for a race of free women.

The Socialist party is the only party that stands a living protest
against the monstrous crime of child labor. It is the only party whose
triumph will sound once and forever the knell of child slavery.

There is no hope under the present decaying system. The worker who votes
the Republican or Democratic ticket does worse than throw his vote away.
He is a deserter of his class and his own worst enemy, though he may be
in blissful ignorance of the fact that he is false to himself and his
fellow-workers and that sooner or later he must reap what he has sown.

_Wages and Cost of Living._

The latest census reports, covering the year 1909, show that the
6,615,046 workers in manufactories in the United States were paid an
average wage of $519 for the year, an increase of not quite 9 per cent
in five years, and an increase of 21 per cent in ten years, but the
average cost of living increased more than 40 per cent during the same
time, so that in point of fact the wages of these workers have been and
are being steadily reduced in the progressive development of production
under the capitalist system, and this in spite of all the resistance
that has been or can be brought to bear by the federated craft unions.
Here we are brought face to face with the imperative need of the
revolutionary industrial union, embracing all the workers and fighting
every battle for increased wages, shorter hours and better conditions
with a solid and united front, while at the same time pressing steadily
forward in harmonious co-operation and under the restraints of
self-discipline, developing the latent abilities of the workers,
increasing their knowledge, and fitting them for the mastery and control
of industry when the victorious hosts of labor conquer the public powers
and transfer the title-deeds of the mines and mills and factories from
the idle plutocrats to the industrial workers to be operated for the
common good.

_Industrial Unity._

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