Unionism and Socialism: A Plea for BothStandard Publishing Company, 1904 - 44 стор. |
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Сторінка 20 - pure and simple" trade-union of the past does not answer the requirements of today, and they who insist that it does are blind to the changes going on about them, and out of harmony with the progressive forces of the age. The attempt to preserve the "autonomy" of each trade and segregate it within its own independent jurisdiction, while the lines which once separated them are being obliterated, and the trades are being interwoven and interlocked in the process of industrial evolution, is as futile...
Сторінка 21 - At the same time, and quite apart from the general servitude involved in the wages system, the working class ought not to exaggerate to themselves the ultimate working of these everyday struggles. They ought not to forget that they are fighting with effects, but not with the causes of those effects ; that they are retarding the downward movement, but not changing its direction ; but that they are applying palliatives not curing the malady.
Сторінка 21 - The members of a trades-union should be taught the true import, the whole object of the labor movement and understand its entire program. They should know that the labor movement means more, infinitely more, than a paltry increase in wages and the strike necessary to secure it; that while it engages to do all that possibly can be done to better the working conditions of its members, its higher object is to overthrow the capitalist system of private ownership of the tools of labor, abolish wage-slavery...
Сторінка 44 - A thousand heads have grown for every thousand pairs of hands ; a thousand hearts throb in testimony of the unity of heads and hands; and a thousand souls, though crushed and mangled, burn in protest and are pledged to redeem a thousand men. Heads and hands, hearts and souls, are the heritage of all.
Сторінка 22 - Railroad, and there is no legislative independence that can exist in its sight. As well expect a green vine to flourish in a dark cellar as to expect honesty to exist under the shadow of those upastrees. Unless there is a power in your movement, industrially and politically, the last knell of democratic liberty in this Union is struck...
Сторінка 30 - Socialism is first of all a political movement of the working class, clearly defined and uncompromising, which aims at the overthrow of the prevailing capitalist system by securing control of the national government and by the exercise of the public powers, supplanting the existing capitalist class government with socialist administration — that is to say, changing a republic in name into a republic in fact.
Сторінка 26 - In the class struggle the workers must unite and fight together as one on both economic and political fields. The Socialist party is to the workingman politically what the trades-union is to him industrially ; the former is the party of his class, while the latter is the union of his trade. The difference between them is that while the trades-union is confined to the trade, the Socialist party embraces the entire working class, and while the union is limited to bettering conditions under the wage...
Сторінка 22 - Instead of the conservative motto, "A fair day's wages for a fair day's work," we must inscribe on our banner the revolutionary watchword, "Abolition of the wage system.
Сторінка 17 - ... been done by the courts in the name of the institutions they were designed to safeguard, but have shamelessly betrayed at the behest of the barons of capitalism. Injunctions have been issued restraining the trades-unions and their members from striking, from boycotting, from voting funds to strikes, from levying assessments to support their members, from walking on the public highway, from asking non-union men not to take their places, from meeting to oppose wage reductions, from expelling a...
Сторінка 21 - By cowardly giving way in their everyday conflict with capital, they would certainly disqualify themselves for the initiating of any larger movement.