SOLIDARITY.

Industrial Unionist, Volume 1, Issue 18, 20 November 1913, Page 3

SOLIDARITY.

(By Ruby Idom.)

Man knows less of Solidarity than any other living creature. Did you warring workers ever stop to think that even the wolves of the forest know enough to get together in huge packs and fight their common enemy ? Even the bees get together, build hives, and store up honey for the winter. In fact, all animals have incarnated in them the spirit of Solidarity, the love fcr preservation of their species. Man alone, the boasted king of organic life, is divided into sets and fight each other. When, oh when, will you workers realise your folly ? The time will come when you MI ST realise; to be liberated you MUST unite in one solid band and strike the blow. Can you imagine any living thing on earth starving in the midst of plenty, except man? Are the laws of nature responsible for the present condition of the working class ? We KNOW r that they are not. Nature has furnished plenty on earth for all. Nor is it fate that each day the struggle for existence assumes a more and more savage form. Man,-alone, is responsible for these economic ills. To-day every person who belongs to the wage-earning class is absolutely dependent upon his employer for life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness. At best he can know but little of life, less of liberty, and happiness is a joke. He looks forward to the time when he will become too old to work, when he will be thrown aside for a young and stronger slave; thrown upon charity, at last to go down to a pauper’s grave. Now isn’t there something terribly wrong when such conditions exist ? YOU KNOW THERE IS, and so do I. What are YOU doing to right these wrongs ? Agitation makes the world move forw r ard. Carry the message of the ONE BIG UNION to the toiling millions from sea to sea! When the sleeping giant, Labour, is once awakened and learns an injury one is an injury to all, then the masters of bread w T ill be put on the run and the world captured for the workers. GET BUSY! YOU!!—'“Voice of the People,” U.S.A.