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HE Industrial Workers of the World, more widely known as the I. W. W., feel proud to be condemned by Samuel Gompers and the A. F. of L. Portland convention. Gompers and his cohorts in control of the A. F. of L. are so notoriously a part of the employers' strong arm forces, organized to break strikes and keep the workers in slavery, that any condemnation by them is an honor to a real labor union and not the disgrace that it is presumed to be.

This condemnation only serves to emphasize the fact, in a very desirable manner, that the I. W. W. is against the employers' rule in labor unionism and society; and is for that of the workers' instead. This condemnation further makes plain that the A. F. of L. exists simply to bind labor to the chariot of capitalism; while the I. W. W. exists to break the chains that tie labor to this unenviable destiny.

Under the circumstances, the I. W. W. shouts to Gompers, et al., "You honor us, indeed!" While to the workers it exhibits the traitorous character of his machine and urges its overthrow through the upbuilding of the I. W. W. everywhere. To the workers, it points out once more, that freedom from both capitalist unionism and capitalism is to be found only in the industrial unionism and society advocated by the Industrial Workers of the

World. And it accordingly urges them to join the I. W. W., to the end that labor may be both properly organized and emancipated from capitalism.

The I. W. W. is encouraged to make this argument now more than ever before. For never before has the A. F. of L. been so harrassed from within-coal miners, shoe workers, building trades workers and pressmen have revolted against its autocratic rule in favor of the employers' interests. And never before has it lost, not only hundreds of thousands of members, but the confidence of the workers; for it fails to recuperate its losses, despite tens of millions of unorganized on all sides.

Under the circumstances, the I. W. W. laughs at Gompers' attempts to sweep back the tides of working class progress, with the broom of employers' aid. It believes that eventually those tides will overwhelm both Mr. Gompers and his real masters, the capitalist class. And, as a means to that end, it again urges workers everywhere to join its ranks. Do it now!

DON'T FORGET, THE DECEMBER ISSUE OF INDUSTRIAL PIONEER IS A XMAS AMNESTY NUMBER. MAKE IT A HUMMER!

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THE PROSTRATE BORERS

Portland AFL convention has again demonstrated the failure of boring from within. As usual the borers have bored themselves out. They had no chance against the highly centralized voting machine that, with the aid of the capitalist class, bosses the AFL. And they only served to give that machine another opportunity to prove its loyalty to the interests which keep it in power, and thereby enabled it to entrench itself still more completely.

For about 25 years now, boring from within has been tried on the AFL, with the result that the last defeat was worse than the first. This is due to the way boring from within had been proclaimed a new and revolutionary kind of tactics, calling, therefore, for new and revolutionary zeal. And now, though blown with a new fervor, in the name of the Russian revolution, it lies far more prostrate than it had ever been in the days when only the old-fashioned yellow socialists toyed with it. This, too, despite the new American intelligentsia, the collegiate school of industrial democrats, who had rallied to the support of the quondam IWW member who was its high-browed prophet. Kicked out! How the gods have fallen!

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AN AGRARIAN DANGER ENJAMIN MARSH, representing the farners, points out "the great danger to labor today because of the bankruptcy of about a third of the farmers of this country. That last year 2,000,000 of the farm population left the farms and about the same number will leave the farms this year because of their inability to get a fair price for their products as a result of the manipulation of the financial group that controls the affairs of the country, and that these people coming from the farms have in some instances taken the places of strikers and are coming into the larger industrial centers to seek employment and declared that unless something was done very soon to aid the farmers that a panic would ensue, and urged that labor get behind the farmers to see that they get a square deal."

WAR'S HARVEST

Before me, a Notary Public in and for the State and county aforesaid, personally appeared Harry G. Clark, who, having been duly sworn according to law, deposes and says that he is the Sec'y-Treas. of The Industrial Pioneer and that the following is, to be the best of his knowledge and belief, a true statement of the ownership, management, etc., of the afore said publication for the date shown in the caption, required by the Act of August 24, 1912, embodied in section 443, Postal Laws and Regulations to wit:

1. That the names and addresses of the publisher, editor, managing, and business managers are:

Name of Publisher: Industrial Workers of the World, 1001 W. Madison St., Chicago, Ill.

Name of Editor: Justus Ebert, 1001 W. Madison St., Chicago, Ill.

Managing Editor: Justus Ebert, 1001 W. Madison St., Chicago, Ill.

Business Manager J. D. Carliph, 1001 W. Madison St, Chicago, Ill.

2. That the owners are Industrial Workers of the World, 1001 W. Madison St., Chicago, Ill.; Sam Forbes, Chairman, 1001 W. Madison St., Chicago, Ill.; Harry G. Clark, Secretary, 1001 W. Madison St., Chicago, Ill.

3. That the known bondholders, mortgagees, and other security holders owing or holding 1 per cent or more of total amount of bonds, mortgages, or other securities are: None. 4. That the two paragraphs next above, giving the names of the owners stockholders, and security holders, if any contain not only the list of stockholders and security holders as they appear upon the books of the company but also, in cases where the stockholder or security holder appear upon the books of the company as trustee or in any other fiduciary relation, the name of the person or corporation for whom such trustee is acting, given; also that said two paragraphs contain statements embracing affiant's full knowledge and belief as to the circumstances and conditions under which stockholders and security holders who do not appear upon the books of the company as trustees, hold stock and securities in a capacity other than that of a bona fide; and this affiant has no reason to believe that any other person. association, or corporation has any interest direct or indirect in the said stock, bonds, or other securities than as stated by him.