SYDNEY AFFAIRS I.W.W. Agitation

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

SYDNEY AFFAIRS I.W.W. Agitation

August 12.

A strike is in progress at Darlmg Island. Casuals, working under the Government Railway Department, gained some slight concessions, and Commissioner Johnson has since been scientifically victimising them by taking advantake of a clause in the Wages Board Award, wjiich provides for permanent hands being paid a much lower wage. The strike is confined to one locality, and the local wharf labourers are out in sympathy; the trains, however, are running to another destination with the wheat, etc., that should have come to these wharves, and which proves that the slaves operating them have not woke up to the need for Class Solidarity and industrial action.

The I.W.W. is having good propaganda work done in Sydney by S.P. members, who seem to think they have a monopoly of intelligence, but have found that our material facts are displacing their theories among the workers. They have now proclaimed their own defeat by expounding at their meetings that the I.W.W. consists of the bummery element in the Working Classbut intelligent slaves are realising that there must be something in the I.W.W. if that is the only fault respectable “ Socialists ” can find with it. Anyway, our meetings are getting big ger, and new members are joining—including some good rebels from the S.P.

Fellow-Worker Glynn and L. Jones of,the S.P., are to debate the question: “Is Parliamentary Action Necessary for the Emancipation of the Working Class.” Glynn takes the negative. The prospects of progress here are good.—Press Committee, Local 2, 466 Pitt St., Sydney.