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(One Big Union Monthly, Oct. 1920.)

MENT OF CONSTRUCTION

8 BRANCHES OF INDUSTRIAL UNIONS

NOTE ON CHAPTER I

Industrial Workers of the World

ECONOMIC DIRECT ACTION

In the chapter of this report dealing with the I. W. W., the ro e was to show the real method by which the Industrial Tokers of the World seek to form "The structure of the new ty within the shell of the old." As was pointed out, the od sought to be employed is that advocated by other revolutary bodies, namely, economic direct action, which involves e use of the coercive power of the general strike and sabotage Ings up on the majority the will of an organized and militant rory. The position of the I. W. W. with regard to method clearly expressed in an article appearing in the October issue, - of The One Big Union Monthly, entitled "Trying Out Lomic Direct Action in Italy," from which we quote the wing:

"The Italian workers, though having expressed their sympathy with Soviet Russia and the program of the Third International, as outlined largely by the Russians, have chosen their own way of solving the social problem. That their efforts, so far, almost entirely agree with the I. W. W. program is, no doubt, more than blind chance. They, like we, are following the line of least resistance in determining their course, much as water and electricity and other forces of nature do. The Italian workers are choosing for their field of revolutionary activity the sphere where the workers are strongest, that is in the shop, disregarding doctrines wh.h would steer them up against the machine guns that guard the government buildings and public places, at least for the present.

That is what the last I. W. W. convention termed Enomic Direct Action.

1ere are two messages of world importance which the Italin Industrial Revolution has already at this stage d to the workers of the world. They are

"(1) That the job organization, the industrial union, is the organ by means of which the people shall take possession of the industries.

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"(2) That the revolution should be made bloodless if sible.

(Italics ours.)

"These two messages are inspiring and are these ver days being indelibly engraved in the minds of hundreds millions of people who read the news. It can not f... have a tremendous influence on the world's workers I no doubt speed up the work of industrial organiz throughout the world as nothing else can do, and the . ful gospel of bloodless revolution is bound to enthuset those big masses who have held back from carrying program of the political revolutionists."

The viewpoint of the organization is still more clearly d by the closing paragraphs of the same article:

"We are not oversanguine in our hope that the Ita. workers will be able to carry out the industrial oce to a successful finish without the shedding of blad process. We dare hardly believe that the Italian Ca¡ ́class and the Italian government will be able to themselves and allow the change to take place without -ing the workers.

"But if they do make such an attack, the workers be able to wash their hands of resulting events, as the in good faith offered the world to make the change w shedding blood.

"All hail to our Italian Fellow Workers in revoluti "Long live The Fourth Italy,' the Italy of I: '. Communism!"

In other words, the program of the I. W. W., openly adv contemplates the attempted seizure of industries with pensation to owners and hopes that it may accomplish the formation without bloodshed or resistance on the pr owners of the property. The implication is clear, how if there is resistance on their part that force is to be eby the workers to retain or gain control of such prop-2* program is similar to that of the highwayman who de purse of the traveler at the point of a revolver, and exp hope that the traveler will not resist the robbery so that not be necessary for him to make use of the weapon.