"Master and Man"

Industrial Unionist, Volume 1, Issue 3, 1 April 1913, Page 4

"Master and Man"

The preamble to the constitution of the Industrial Workers of the World opens with this statement:

—“ The Working Class and the Employing Class have nothing in common. 7 7

It is necessary that we emphasise this truth, ns many workers still cling to the error, instilled into their minds for generations, that their interests, and the interests of their employers, are as one. Consider the workers’ position in industry. An employer is desirous of opening up a new business. He has the factory. 1/he machinery, the raw material (themselves the product of labour) ; but these are profitless if he can procure no workers. Only through Labour can he make any profit, and the less the workers receive as wages, the more can their employer retain as profits. Thus we see that the Working Class and the Employing Class have nothing in common., and. furthermore, that the interests of ad wage workers are the same. Let the workers, then, organise where the struggle between master and man takes place—in the plants of industry; expel the employing class, and establish a commonwealth where the workers shall have the full benefit of their toil. The I.W.W. is constituted on those lines, and with that aim in view. Study its principles and get into line.—H.S.C.