IT IS QUITE TRUE THAT—

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

IT IS QUITE TRUE THAT—

The I. W. W. advocates shooting the boss —in the pocket book

Though sabotage is not a new weapon, we Australasian workers lag behind in developing dexterity in its use. A lot of moonshine is dished out re “scabbing” at the ballot box, also re striking at the same point. “The best way to strike at the Parliamentary ballot-box is with a big hatchet”

All the ballot papers in creaion never yet arrested a police’ man’s baton.

Anyway, you can make as many ballot box “revolutionaries” as you like and the boss will still smile, but when you start to do things— The I. W. W. has only one “wing”— but it is’nt composed of white feathers.

When labour misleaders fall out over the “sweets of office,” the much despised rank and file smell a rat,

‘Everybody’s doin’ it s—-reading 5 —-reading the Industrial Unionist .

A while back, a socialist lecturer unconsciously paid a compliment to the I.W.W. when he said the latter always finds a more fruitful recruiting ground, where the S.P. has been. Get into the I.W.W.

To send men to parliament, to better conditions of Labour, is like asking a shadow to get out of your light.

Item in daily paper —“Birthday Honours: Henry Otterson, clerk of N.Z. House of Representatives has been made a C.M.G.”

Real wages are still going down in N.Z.

Grab the economic substance and you control the political shadow.

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