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Industrial Unionist, Volume 1, Issue 6, 1 July 1913, Page 4

The fight in the shop for the product is the determinative fight of the future. Where the workman wins in the shop, improves his economic position, develops, his fighting capacity, and builds up his organisation, every step taken by him is a step towards ultimate victory. He treads the upward path. There is no need to speak of the political phase of the matter here . . . but it must not be overlooked that economic victory is the essential; without it the political reflex is no reflex of a class necessarily victorious, but may simply be the ineffective protest of an economically incapable and losing class. To call in politics to redress the economic balance is a useless attempt at a physical impossibility. The first essential to victory is the shop, and such victory as we have seen cannot be made. in. terms of craft unionism with its inseparable small property notions.—Austin Lewis.