I. W. W. PREAMBLE

Industrial Unionist, Volume 1, Issue 9, 1 October 1913, Page 1

I. W. W. PREAMBLE

The working class and the employing class nave nothing in common. There con 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 all the good things of life. Between these two classes a struggle must go on until the workers of the world organize •» a class, take possession of the earth and the machinery of production, and abolish the wage tystem. We find that the centering of the manage' ment of industries into fewer and fewer hands makes the trade unions unable to cope with ever-growing power of fhe employing dam. ije trade unions foster a state of affairs which Mows one sat of workers to be pittad against another set of workers in the same industry, thereby helping to defeat one another in wage wars. Moreover, trad* unions aid the employing elm to mislead the workers into the belief that the working dais have interests in common with their employers. These conditions can be changed and the interest of the working class uphold only by an organization formed in such a way that an its Mmber* in any one industry, or in ail industries, u necemary, cease work whenever a strike lockout is on in any department thereof, drat makmg an tniuiy to one an injury to all. instead of the conservative motto, "A lasr day’s wages lor a fair day's work,* we must ■wenbe on our banner the revolutionary watchword, “Abolition of (he wage system.’* H is the historic mission of the working ckas to do away with capitalism. The army of production must be orgamaed, not only lor (he everyday struggle with the capitalwt% but also to carry on production when capitalism shall have been overthrown. By organizing industrially we are forming the structure ef Hie new society within the shell of the old.