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 the management of 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' Industrial Union No. 450, L. W. W. Boost the Industrial Pioneer The Industrial Pioneer is Growing! The September issue met with a great reception. It was praised and in demand. The October number will undoubtedly surpass even this record. November Number will be the Best Yet "The Biography of Joe Hill," will be its special feature. November is the anniversary of the great rebel's death. New material by the wellknown song writer's cousin will be presented for the first time. The whole recorded and illustrated by Ralph Chaplin. There will also be many other interesting articles: fiction, reviews, poetry, wobbly humor and editorials. Get subscribers. Make it a rule to get at least one subscription each week. Send us names for sample copies and prospective subscribers. Send in names of workers. Canvass your news dealers. Ask them to sell the Industrial Pioneer A reader of the Industrial Pioneer is a friend and a member in embryo of the organization. A large circulation of our press would indicate a strong organization and a powerful influence among the workers of this land. Go after subscriptions. Now is the time. THE INDUSTRIAL PIONEER, 1001 W. Madison St., Chicago, Ill. Enclosed please find $1.00 for which send PIONEER for 6 months to NAME ADDRESS CITY Rates $2 A Year; 6 mos., $1. Foreign Postage Extra Boost the Industrial Pioneer CALIFORNIA CANNED GOODS UNTIL THE INFAMOUS CRIMINAL SYNDICALISM LAW IS REPEALED DON'T FORGET the Victims of the Centralia Conspiracy Imprisoned at Walla Walla Published Monthly, $2.00 a year; Canada, $2.25; other countries, $2.50. Published by the General Executive Board of the 1001 West Madison Street, Chicago, U. S. A. Entered as second-class matter April 23, 1923, at the post office at Chicago, Illinois, under the Act of March 3, 1879. ORKERS INDUSTRIAL WO UNIVERSAL OF THE WORLD 1923 |