Industrial Unionism

Maoriland Worker, Volume 2, Issue 10, 12 May 1911, Page 5

Industrial Unionism

(1) The Industria.r'-Irr'f??- organises the entire working class in oli'S-itHl&Jlv It breaks down the barriers of trade and crafty of skilled and unskilled labour. It carries the principle of the solidarity of labour into actual practice. It confronts united class-con-scious capitalist class with a united class-conscious working class. (2) The Industrial Union is organised on the basis of the class struggle. It not only organises the "workers, but it educates and enlightens them. It delivers them from the thraldom of capitalist economics and from the treacherous control of the labour fakir. It puts forward the -overthrow of capitalism as the union's single aim, the essential preliminary to the attainment of social well-being. (3) The Industrial Union calls upon the workers to unit© politically as well as economically, to attack the class State as the buttress and mainstay of social parasitism. In addition to its direct advocacy of working class political unity on revolutionary its own method of organisation, tils clear principles on which it is based, and the atmosphere in which. its members move, all tend to promote that unity in actual fact. (4) The Industrial Union lays the foundations of the Socialist Republic and provid-es the machinery by which production will be administered and directed when the revolution has been accomplished. In short, while the pure and simple union is the creature of reaction and capitalism, the Industrial union, stands for enlightenment, progress and the Social Revolution.—From ''The Development of Socialism in Great Britain."