overnment and
conserve its civilization, and without whom industry would be paralyzed
and the nation helpless? What, I ask, has any of these capitalist
parties, or all of them combined, for the working and producing class in
this campaign? Nothing. Absolutely nothing.

These parties are bidding stronger than ever for the labor vote this
year. That vote is now not so easily delivered as in the past. The
competition for the votes of the wage-workers is the distinguishing
feature of the present campaign. Thousands of workers are now doing
their own thinking. They have discovered that workers are as much out of
place in a capitalist party as capitalists are in a workers' party. They
have also found that politics express class interests and that the
interests of those who make the wealth and those who take it are not
identical. That is where the Socialist party comes in and where the
workers come in the Socialist party.

The working class is in politics this year. It has always been in
politics for its master; this year it is in politics for itself.

The most promising fact in the world today is the fact that labor is
organizing its power; its economic power and its political power.

The workers who have made the world and who support the world, are
preparing to take possession of the world. This is the meaning of
Socialism and is what the Socialist party stands for in this campaign.

We demand the machinery of production in the name of the workers and the
control of society in the name of the people. We demand the abolition of
capitalism and wage-slavery and the surrender of the capitalist class.
We demand the complete enfranchisement of women and the equal rights of
all the people regardless of race, color, creed or nationality. We
demand that child labor shall cease once and forever and that all
children born into the world shall have equal opportunity to grow up, to
be educated, to have healthy bodies and trained minds, and to develop
and freely express the best there is in them in mental, moral and
physical achievement.

We demand complete control of industry by the workers; we demand all the
wealth they produce for their own enjoyment, and we demand the earth for
all the people.

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The Old Umbrella Mender 9

The Secret of Efficient Expression 15

Jesus, the Supreme Leader 22

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