Revolutionary Action.

Hokitika Guardian, 25 March 1922, Page 4

Revolutionary A ction.

ONE BIG UNION IN AUSTRALIA SYDNEP, Afarch 16.

The principle of revolutionary action to achieve their finis is included in the newly-drafted policy of the One Big Union recently formed by the Australian Workers’ Federation, and the Coalminers’ Federation. The constitution declares that “the struggle must continue until capitalism is abolished. Capitalism can only he abolished by the workers uniting in one class-conscious eoonomie organisation to take and hold the means of production, distribution, and exchange bv revolutionary industrial and political action.”

As the working class created and operated the socially-operated machinery of production, it. is asserted, it should direct production and determine working conditions. It has been agreed that the political policy of the union shall he the decision of the 1921 All-Australian Trade Union Congress and the 1921 Brisbane Inter-State A.T/.P. Conference until altered by the annual convention. Included in the union’s objects are: (1) The abolition of the contract system ; (21 to improve the standard of living and conditions of members, and reduce working hours, and generally protect their interests; (3) to educate members, and build an organisation for the purpose of abolishing capitalism and! substituting in its place the social ownership of the means of production, distribution, and exchange to he controlled by the workers in the respective industries. Under the scheme the union is divided into five departments under the following headings :— Department of Agriculture, Land and Fisheries, Department of Building and Construction, Transportation Department, the Department of Manufacture, and the Mining Department. There are also to he a national departmental council, State councils, State departmental councils, State divisional councils, departmental district councils, sections, sectional, committees, and local committees.