AND WHAT IS IT ALL ABOUT?

Industrial Unionist, Volume 1, Issue 12, 6 November 1913, Page 2

AND WHAT IS IT ALL ABOUT?

Why victimisation ? Why exploitation P Why machine guns and batons and all the other paraphernalia being brought into operation to quell workers whose lot in life has become unbeatable?

It is because the wealth-produc-ing resources (jobs) are owned and monopolised by a comparatively few men. It is because wealth production and distribution is being carried on for profit-making purposes, instead of for use. Because the few hold the lives of the many in their keeping. Because a conflict of interests arises from the fact that one class produces and doesn’t receive, the other class receives but doesn’t aroduce. In short, because a canibalistic mode of production is in operation, a mode of production and distribution which is destroying itself, and only requires the conscious effort of the working men and women of the world to finaljy destroy, and rear in its place a system of society where each one shall work, and each one enjoy the fruits of their toil. Speed the day when the toilers shall arise in their might and manhood, and wrest from the exploit-

ers the earthy and its fulness. —A REBEL.