The Launching of the Industrial Workers of the World

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University of Calif., 1912 - 194 стор.

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Сторінка 40 - The working class and the employing class have nothing in common. There can be no peace so long as hunger and want are found among millions of working people and the few, who make up the employing class, have all the good things of life.
Сторінка 11 - ... engaged in the delectable work of trying to divert, pervert, and disrupt the labor movement of the country. . . . . . . We feel sure that the endorsement of the latest accession to this new movement of Mr. Daniel Loeb, alias De Leon, will bring unction to the souls of these promoters of the latest tradeunion smashing scheme. So the trade-union smashers and rammers from without and the " borers from within " are again joining hands; a pleasant sight of the " pirates " and the
Сторінка 42 - DeLeon had nothing but contempt for the visionary politician, the man who imagines that by going to the ballot box and taking a piece of paper — and throwing it in and then rubbing his hands and jollying himself with the expectation that through that process, through some mystic alchemy. the ballot will terminate capitalism and the socialist commonwealth will rise like a fairy out of the ballot-box.4 1 Proceedings, First I.
Сторінка 8 - Laborers are no longer classified by differences in trade skill, but the employer assigns them according to the machines to which they are attached. These divisions, far from representing differences in skill or interests among the laborers, are imposed by the employers that workers may be pitted against one another...
Сторінка 40 - Between these two classes a struggle must go on until all the toilers come together on the political, as well as on the industrial field, and take and hold that which they produce by their labor through an economic organization of the working class, without affiliation with any political party.
Сторінка 34 - I do not care the snap of my finger whether or not the skilled workers join this industrial movement at the present time. When we get the unorganized and the unskilled laborer into this organization the skilled worker will of necessity come here for his own protection.
Сторінка 9 - Craft divisions hinder the growth of class consciousness of the workers, foster the idea of harmony of interests between employing exploiter and employed slave.
Сторінка 55 - ... unity generally. It must be founded on the class struggle, and its general administration must be conducted in harmony with the recognition of the irrepressible conflict between the capitalist class and the working class. It should be established as the economic organization of the working class, without affiliation with any political party.
Сторінка 6 - Jan. 2, 1905, in secret conference to discuss ways and means of uniting the working people of America on correct revolutionary principles, regardless of any general labor organization of past or present, and only restricted by such basic principles as will insure its integrity as a real protector of the interests of the workers.
Сторінка 72 - ... between them, shall not be considered valid or binding until the same shall have the approval of the General Executive Board of the Industrial Workers of the World.

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