The Question of Right or Wrong

Industrial Unionist, Volume 1, Issue 2, 1 March 1913, Page 1

The Question of Right or Wrong

Hoi many toilers have been so fortmte as to avoid that ignominy —thefearch for work, the struggle for aaaster; that supreme indignity ( lining up with a bunch of other out-o ’-works, submitting to an irpeetion of length and limb, tinall being turned down —and out? Very few. Yet the majority o,toilers continue in an unreasoniu belief that, when fighting for Itter conditions, they should consier their masters’ welfare, and ;he question of “ Right or Wrqg.” if .should they ? The point is: Can cq win ? Yes ! Then go to it. (ail we hold what we win ? Yesf j Then we have the might to entile!our rights. That is Capital philosophy. Labour must ad fi. >M ipMdie out-o’-work ponder the qjf of “ Right or Wrong” * : TOgtpv-ti-ng with othei unfortuws for a job V He lessens the chances of obtaining work, a|| they must either work or Jfe. Does he consider at all that the may be a hungry child inyolll or a wife in tears ? If he shod deem his action to be wrong, hisdv alternative as a wage slave, W| be to destroy himself, and ghhe other boys a better chance of taming work. If all out-o V (f should do that, gnemployub'would cease. But unemployjuf increases. So we conclude Li'when menaced by each other, porkers do not consider the qjon of* “Right or Wrong.” J then, when menaced by their

master introduces a device isplaces many men. Does the or Wrong of it concern him? may starve. They do starve. >es not consider that. He fc. If a master should treat in as generously as he treats i, he would go bung. His r ould see to that. They would rim as a hairy-toothed navvy . nervous thing of five and a esirous of a portfolio at the f a ten-pound pick. They . cut him out. He would be)ankrupt.

I the workers will remain an snt class, a bunch of instalstiffs, so long as they treat masters so much better than ;reat themselves; so long as consider whether they act y dr wrongly towards their rs when the light is on.

nechanical appliance that ensrs human life has no justifil for its existence.

system of production that entile many and exalts the few lo justification for its cxist-

orkers, in your struggle for r w v ages, shorter hours, in your for economic freedom, wiiatmeans you may take towards sure accomplishment of your es, are, according to the un;en laws of masterdom, justifiNever mind what is wrong e eyes of the boss. Do it !

it organise, if you would have rv ! Organise, if you would spoils !—A