Little Jolts

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

Little Jolts

Revolutionary unionism is the pilot of the labour movement. • • • The boss hates it for that reaon. * • • So does the reactionary labour leader. # # * And the ‘'revolutionary” politician. * * • It lessens the latter’s chance of a soft billet. ♦ • # Fooling with a ballot paper only gets you trivial “palliatives.” • • • Revolutionary direct action aims straight for the goal of industrial freedom. • • • Even a little of it brings down showers of palliatives. * # » Parliament is a mirror, reflecting conditions outside. # * When your face is dirty do you wash the mirror? ■ I. W.W. — 1 won't work long hours, under unhealthy conditions, at an uncongenial, ill-paid task. Now, who Will?' # # • I. W. W — l will work necessary hours, under healthy, congenial conditions, granted my every need is satisfied. Now who won’t? • • • Two inventions are submitted to the capitalist; one to increase the output, and decrease the wage bill; the other, not to increase profit, but merely to lessen the danger to the life, or limb, of the workers. Which will the capitalist choose? Why, the former of course!

* * * Ours is a true brotherhood. We seek to exclude none from those benefits we would ourselves enjoy. • * • , .. 1 / . ■ ; r A y * The religionist, the sentimentalist, the crawler, preach brotherhood. How can there be social harmony until there is solidarity of interest? • « • The capitalist class and the working class each want the same thing, the product of labonr If one gets more, the other gets less. They have nothing in common, except their desires. The working class only have a valid claim. It is their production, the product of their labour. Therefore they should have it. • • • What about getting your mates to think for themselves, instead of allowing capitalistic writers and speakers to do it for them. # « « On the job is a good place to agitate, the boss pav? <V>r the time too. • # •