CHANGE YOUR EYEGLASSES

Industrial Unionist, Volume 1, Issue 4, 1 May 1913, Page 4

CHANGE YOUR EYEGLASSES

The world must belong to Labour—that is the demand of the Industrial "Workers. Many workingmen do not support it simply because their vision is impaired through wearing coloured eyeglasses which have been handed out to them by their masters, who have adjusted them so that the worker sees “ Sacred Rights of Property,” “ Capital is Entitled to Its Share,” etc., and as long as he continues to wear them he will view things with distorted vision and everything will be safe for the fat man. Let him but discard them and he will see things as they really are, then the fun will com-

mence. lias Capital, indeed, any rights Labour need respect 1 The existence of an exploiting class means tyranny over Labour; that is the right they exercise. Is there any law, human or divine, to justify such “right?” Guess not !

Capitalism, means the existence, ia a condition of demoralising 1 uxu] y and idleness, of the few, at Ihe cost of poverty and oppression loi tiie many. Can any law justify that ? Again, Guess not . r We producers have a greater right than the idle ones to say what shall , be, but we need the might to enforce it, and might comes by organisation. Let us take off our eye-glasses and ORGANISE industrially to ENFORCE OUR RIGHTS.—LIE