I. W. W. PREAMBLE

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

I. W. W. PREAMBLE

The working date and the employing claaa have nothing in common. There can be no peace so long as hunger and want are found among millions of working people and the few, who make up the employing class, have ail the good things of We. Between these two classes a struggle must go on until the workers of the world organize as a class, take possession of the earth and the machinery of production, and abolish the wage system.

We find that the centering of the manage°f industries into fewer and fewer hands makes the trade unions unable to cope with the ever-growing power of the employing class. • tie trade unions foster a state of affairs which a'»ws one set of workers to be pitted againat another set of workers in the same industry, thereby helping to defeat one another in wage wars. Moreover, trade unions aid the employing class to mislead the workers into the belief that the working class have interests in common with thair employers. These conditions can be changed and the interest of the working class upheld only by an organization formed in such a way that all its members in any one industry, or in all industries, if necessary, cease work whenever a strike or lockout is on in any department thereof, thus making an injury to one an injury to all. Instead of the conservative motto, "A fair day s wages for a fair day’s work," we must inscribe on our banner the revolutionary watchword, "Abolition of the wage system." It is the historic mission of the working dais to do away with capitalism. The array of production must be organised, not only for the every-day struggle with the capitalists, but also to carry on production when capitalism shafi have been overthrown. By organizing industrially we are forming the structure of the new society within the shell of the old.