SYNDICALISM.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1457, 4 June 1912, Page 5

SYNDICALISM.

orrosED by Australian \ wokkers. By Telegraph-Press Association-Cosyright Melbourne, June 3. At the Independent Workers' Federation's second intcr-.Stato congress, it was stated that there were 5000 members of associated unions. This number would probably bo doubled this yew. A resolution was passed urging the community to adopt immediately ft strong aggressive attitude against the advance of Syndicalism, as introducing treacherous, unmanly, arid aati-national sentiment. WAR ON EMPLOYES. A "Symposium on Syndicalism" by active workers in the movement in Britain was published recently, and in it the "roo't principlo" was advanced that property or capital has no right. In an article on working-class Socialism, one writer, 10. J. li. Alkm, slated: '"i'he existing unions must be united, strengthened, and enlightened as to the real purpose that f> labour union should be formed lor: to teach their members to think every timo they enter the yard, mill, or mine, This is the place whtro my fellow-workmen and I are robbed; this Is "the place that wo keep going. This is the place that we ought to own and control.' "The industrial union is destined to become the most powerful instrument in the class struggle, by showing the work-ing-class how to hold in check tlie rapacity of their masters, and the tyrannies of the State, by direct pressure of their colkctivo economic strength, which power Teaches its highest expression in the complete paralysis of the whole of the normal functions of capitalist society by meansof the general strike. The use of the Kenrral strike must be amplified and extended, embracing a- larger and larger number of workers in the actual combat; evolving that unity of action and fameness of inspiration which will make, them think and act as a 'class, for the direct and forcible expropriation of the capitalists. . . . Our employer robs us, and other employers rob their workers; as such, we ara all in the same' position. . . . The police and local courts are always u-"ed to xiphoid law and order, and maintain inviolate the 'right' of the men of property to fleece us 'without an effective protest being made; therefore, war to the exploiters and their State-controlled forces. Hurrah for the class war! "To the devil with the lying reformist cry of 'Peace! Peace!' when there can be no peace, whether it comes- from the capitalists or from those in the bosom of the working-class."