Get after the Boss

Industrial Unionist, Volume 1, Issue 5, 1 June 1913, Page 2

Get after the Boss

In all forms of conflict the first blow is often the one that counts; the aggressive party usually has the advantage over the party on the defensive.

Hitherto the workers, in their struggle against Capital, have nearly always been on their defence. Increased prices of necessaries have not been due to increased wages. It is the workers wlio have been forced to struggle to

catch up to the prices. How many workers, or groups of workers, ever think of putting the employers on their defence ? Very few. But the idea of attacking the employers, instead of waiting for the attack, is being more and more favoured in some places. Canadian railway construction workers, notwithstanding the fact that their conditions were good, comparatively, started an aggressive -strike, to exercise the strike muscles, so to speak, just as the athlete goes into training. The French workers have committees for studying the strike, stirring up strife and putting ginger into the movement —they get after the Boss.

But see how docile we are in Australasia. Isn’t it about time we became the aggressors ? Let’s get after the Boss.