Special Offer Reduced Rates on All I. W. W. Publications for Three Months In order to obtain the greatest circulation possible, for the papers and magazines published by our organization, we have decided to give our readers an opportunity, never before available. Club rates for all our publications have been arranged, and the club arrangements under which the Industrial Pioneer may be obtained are shown below. These arrangements will be in force for three months, and any one wishing to obtain our publications at reduced rates, can do no better than take advantage of this opportunity. If the club arrangements shown below, do not appeal, any of our publications, the rates of which are the same, may be substituted at the pleasure of our readers. All of these papers and magazines, with the exception of the Industrial Worker, are published at I. W. W. headquarters, 1001 West Madison St., Chicago, Ill. The Industrial Worker is published in Seattle, Wash., Box 1857. Money orders for any of these club rates may be sent to whichever address is most convenient. Preamble of the Industrial Workers of the World 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. Between these two classes a struggle must go on until the workers of the world organize as a class, take possession of the earth and the machinery of production, and abolish the wage system. We find that the centering of management of the industries into fewer and fewer hands makes the trade unions unable to cope with the ever growing power of the employing class. The trade unions foster a state of affairs which allows one set of workers to be pitted against another set of workers in the same industry, thereby helping defeat one another in wage wars. Moreover, the trade unions aid the employing class to mislead the workers into the belief that the working class have interests in common with their employers. These conditions can be changed and the interest of the working class upheld only by an organization formed in such a way that all its members in any one industry, or in all industries if necessary, cease work whenever a strike or lockout is on in any department thereof, thus making an injury to one an injury to all. Instead of the conservative motto, "A fair day's wage for a fair day's work," we must inscribe on our banner the revolutionary watchword, "Abolition of the wage system." It is the historic mission of the working class to do away with capitalism. The army of production must be organized, not only for the every-day struggle with capitalists, but also to carry on production when capitalism shall have been overthrown. By organizing industrially we are forming the structure of the new society within the shell of the old. Printed by Printing and Publishing Workers Boycott All California-Made Goods! HE state of California has put itself outside the pale of civilization. TH It has taken from workingmen the right to organize. It has suppressed free speech and free assemblage. It persecutes men for reading in public the Constitution of the United States. The state of California wants to reduce the working class to a condition worse than chattel slavery. It sends men to prison for believing in and advocating industrial unionism. It has reverted to barbarism and the dark days of the Spanish inquisition. Its criminal syndicalism law is an outrage and an insult to the working class of the whole world. BOYCOTT ALL CALIFORNIA-MADE GOODS! The state of California has sentenced over fifty workingmen from one to twenty-eight years in prison for being members of a labor union the Industrial Workers of the World. These men are now rotting in Folsom and San Quentin penitentiaries for the "crime" of trying to improve the miserable living conditions of their class; for the "crime" of having the courage of their convictions. Scores of others are now on trial, or out on bail, awaiting sentence. The crimes being committed by the state of California cry out to high heaven. The state of California keeps in prison for life men who are admitted by the whole world to be innocent - Mooney and Billings, Ford and Suhr. The city of San Pedro has arrested and herded into stockades like cattle over six hundred peaceful striking marine workers and sympathizers. The state of California is paying ten dollars a day to three professional witnesses, Dymond, Coutts, and Townsend, moral and sexual perverts, who have confessed to having committed so many crimes that they ought to be put behind prison bars for the balance of their lives. The corrupt and vicious powers that rule and control Colifornia have caused the arrest of Upton Sinclair, internationally known writer and idealist, for upholding the United States Constitution. BOYCOTT ALL CALIFORNIA-MADE GOODS! Demand the liberation of all workingmen and women incarcerated in California's dungeons! Demand the repeal of the infamous criminal syndicalism law! In the meantime BOYCOTT ALL CALIFORNIA-MADE GOODS! |