at one time active in the Socialist Party. They are equally free to be anarchists. The I. W. W. membership "is not made

up of anarchists, as some writers have stated. Its ranks are not exclusively composed of socialists, as others have asserted. True, some of its members may have accepted the anarchistic philosophy. Others may have accepted the socialist faith. However, to the organization of the Industrial Workers of the World they are known only as workers, as members 1 of the working class.

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Since the State is merely the shadow cast by economic power, the I. W. W. recognizes but one nation, the nation of those who work. Industrial development is wiping out national dividing lines. Continents long separated by obstacles of natural origin "are linked and joined together by the gigantic weld of that international carrier of exchange and ..2 distribution. Hence, "National separation must be swept aside by the advancing forces of international co-operation. Therefore, the Industrial Workers of the World "will embrace all workers in all industries, in all countries throughout the world. "We aim," they say, "to have a union broad enough to take in every worker and narrow enough to exclude all who are not workers. We aim to build up a nation of workers that will have no boundary lines or limits 4 except those of the world's industries themselves." They recognize no nationality or color lines. They are "patriotic"

1. Grover H. Perry, "The Revolutionary I.W.W., 2. 2. "The One Big Union," 26.

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3. Ibid.

4. Grover H. Perry, "The Revolutionary I.W.W.,

for their class, the working class of the world, the future

"international nation of wealth-producers."1

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In this world-wide nation of workers who, in their collectivity, will own all the instruments and agencies of wealth production," coercion will utterly disappear and happy co-operation will prevail. Such harmony and freedom cannot exist while society is arrayed in two hostile camps, one of which is piling up wealth that is merely the unpaid labor of the other. Such a system of robbery the capitalists can maintain only by coercion.

tia, the army and navy, are needed.

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That is why the mili

I. W. W.'ism will have

no such thing as an army or navy, or any other instruments

of coercion.

"Harmonious relations of mankind in all their material affairs will," so I. W. W.'s believe, "evolve out of the change in the control and ownership of industrial resources of the world. That accomplished, the men and women, all members of society in equal enjoyment of all the good things and comforts of life, will be the arbiters of 4 TT their own destinies in a free society. Their ultimate

aim is an Industrial Co-Operative Commonwealth in which there will be such liberty and justice that crime will automatically vanish and each industrial citizen will be a worker of his own free will.

"Industrialism," declares Mr. Haywood, "will do away with crime and criminals, as 95 per cent of the crime today

1. The One Big Union, " 8.

2. Ibid.

3. "Testimony of William D. Haywood before the Industrial Relations Commission," 44.

4. "The One Big Union,

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