ANSWERING THEIR OWN QUESTIONS.

Industrial Unionist, Volume 1, Issue 7, 1 August 1913, Page 2

ANSWERING THEIR OWN QUESTIONS.

‘Some of the N.Z. “ Industrialists” who favour a labour organisation with two wings have been obliged to lay more stress on the, economic half of the “ burrd” so as to get the ear of the workers:

“ How are you going to stop the police baton during strikes ?” they ask, in criticism of the I.W.W. position. What about when the troops are turned out!

Someone - reminds them that they have themselves shown how the want of industrial solidarity allows the police to get there, allows a scab union to come to a head, or makes it possible for the scab to function and his product to be handled, etc. ' “But you haven’t got industrial solidarity yet. What are you going to do in the meantime?”

The logical answer: that sending revolutionists to the parliament of the propertied, ruling class to attempt the impossible, to wit: make the Government function AGAINST private property, does not satisfy them. By some sophistry they fail to see that they are answering their own questions.

Industrial Solidarity essential—we must delay its growth by wasting time, energy, and funds on the futile ; we must get economic power by turning our attention on something else 1