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

The fight in the shop for the product is the determinative fight of the future. Where the workman wins in the shop, improves his economic position, develops his fighting capacity, and builds up his organisation, every step taken by him is a step towards ultimate victory. lie treads the upward path. There is no need to speak of the political phase of the matter here, as that receives consideration in the next chapter, but it must not be overlooked that ecenomic victory is essential; without it the political reflex is no reflex of a class necessarily victorious, but may simply be the ineffective protest of an economically incapable and losing class. To call in politics to redress the economic balance is a useless attempt at a physical impossibility. The first essential is victory in the shop, and such victory as we have seen cannot be made in terms of craft unionism with its inseparable small property notion. —Austin Lewis.