IT IS QUITE TRUE THAT--

Industrial Unionist, Volume 1, Issue 8, 1 September 1913, Page 4

IT IS QUITE TRUE THAT--

—The I.W.W. admits none but bona-fide wage workers. —“None but slaves can free slaves” so we don’t want the boss for a “comrade”. —You are robbed at the point of production, so you should organise there —in one word: Industrially. —The I.W.W. has no use for the politician —“labour” or otherwise —Parliamentarism merely sidetracts the workers; the difference between a labour party and any other old party being that the boss pays for the one and the worker for the other. —The return of one S.D.P. can - didate is a step in the right direction —of demoralising the futility of such “action.” —The anti-political posture may be merely a frame of mind, but the non-political attitude is usually the outcome ofhard thinking —which cannot be said of the frame of mind of many who endorse labour politics. & jl. —Every rebel knows that the labour politician’s frame of mind is usually determined by his personal material interests. —lf all the parliamenary legislation ever passed in the interests of the workers, by the workers, were written large on a piece of parchment, there would’nt/be enough to make a serviette for a baby smallpox microbe.