COME TO LIGHT, QUICK!

Industrial Unionist, Volume 1, Issue 12, 6 November 1913, Page 3

COME TO LIGHT, QUICK!

You can’t print a paper without funds. There is a lot of money owing to the “ I.TJ ” for bundles. We are running every days while the strike is on. We have got ahead of the daily capitalist press with several news items already. The local wrote and cleaned out the last issue wdthin 24 hours. We can’t do without “ oat.” Shake it up !

“ The proletarian, wTiich is just entering the ring as a contestant for the mastery of the modern world, comes equipped with the knowledge that its victories are not to be won by the bubblings of public men and the intrigues of political place-hunters, but by stern conflict on the industrial field or by ceaseless and relentless war upon those whom it must expropriate.” —A. Lewis. “ To the end of promoting industiral unity and securing necessary discipline within the ranks the I.W.W. . . . disclaim responsibility for any individual opinion or act wTiich may be at variance with the purposes herein expressed.” —Constitution.

In France in 1889, the National Railwaymen’s Union was engaged in a campaign against the Merl'inTrarieux Railway Bill, which aimed at depriving the railwaymen of their right to unite. The question of answering with the general strike to the passing of the Bill was being discussed. Guerard, secretary of the Railwaymen’s Union, delivered a categorical and preicse speech. He affirmed that the Railwaymen would not stop at any means to defend their syndical liberty, and made allusion to an ingenious and cheap method of eombat. “ With two cents’ worth of a certain ingredient utlised in a peculiar way”—he declared — it will be easy for the Railwaymen to put the locomatives m such a condition as to make it impossible to run them. . . .” This clear and blunt affirmation, which was opening new and unforseen fields of struggle, raised a great roar and a deep commotion in the ranks of the employeis and the Government, which were already perceiving, not without terror, the consequences of a general strike of the railway workers. — Emile Pouget.