Mission of the Workingclass.

Maoriland Worker, Volume 2, Issue 14, 9 June 1911, Page 5

Mission of the Workingclass.

DON'T MISS THIS.

By T. J. HAGERTY a

A labour organisation to correctly represent the AA'orking class must, have tAvo things in view.

-First : It mu*it combine the wageworkers in such a Avay that it can most successfully fight the battles and protect the interests of the Avorkers of to-day in their struggles for feAver hours of toil, more wages and better conditions.

Secondly : It must offer a final solution of the labour problem—an emancipation from strikes, injunctions, bull-pens, and scabbing of ono against the other.

OBSEPvVE Hoav this organization Avill give recognition to control of shop affairs, provide perfect industrial unionism and converge the strength of all organised Avorkers to a common centre, from Avhich. any weak point can be strengthened and protected.

OBSERVE ALSO Hoav the growth and de\'elopment of this organisation will build within itself the structure of an industrial democracy, which must finally burst the shell of capitalist government and be the agency by which the Avorkers will operate the industries and appropriate the products to themselves.

One obligation for all.

A union man once and in one industry ; a union man always and in all industries. transfers, universal emblem.

All Avorkers of one industry in one union ; all unions of workers in one big labour alliance the Avorld o\^er.

NOTE WHAT FOLLOWS

When the workers organise in industrial unions, copied from the institutions in which they are employed, they will be able to stand together as powerful industrial combinations in their skirmishes for better working conditions in any one industry. Not separated by craft divisions, or trade Union contracts with tl exploiters, they will not only be able to _nrtail production on a small scale and thus also the profits of the employers of labour, but they will abruptly stop production altogether, if necessary, in any one industry, or in all industries of a locality, or of a nation, or they can, when they are powerful enough, shut the factories .against the present employers and commence production for use. THE FIRST DUTY. The workers, though, must tear down, as a first duty to themselves, all craft demai'kation lines, the remnants of a by-gone age. Unhampered by that dragchain, they can then develop and organise their industrial power. But that

d W. E. TRAUTMANN.

must bo guided in its use and exercise by the collective intelligence Avhich Avill develop simultaneously Avith the generation of power. Equipped Avith the power of an industrial organisation, Avith the knowledge gained in the everyday struggle against the oppressors, they will successfully strive for a higher standard of life conditions, within this system, and thoy can master things and forces so that they will reach the final goal of all efforts—complete industrial emancipation.

Hundreds of thousands of workers in every civilised country are learning to understand the principles of industrial unionism. Thousands are organising for the battle of to-day, for better conditions, and for the final clash in the future -when the general lock-out of the parasite-class of non-producers will end the contest for industrial possessions and political sup* remacy. GET BUSY. Tf you are one of the millions needed to accomplish the task, join tho industrial union composed of workers in the shop or plant -where you work. If none exists, be the first to get busy. Get others, organise them. Learn to tackle the industrial problems. Show others how the workers will be able to run the in-> dustrial plants through the agencies of their own creation, locally, nationally, internationally, tho world over.

There are organisations everywhereand where there aro none, they will be formed. In the industrial union movement alono Avill the Avorkers forgo the* sword, train themselves for the use of all and every weapon that can be utilised in the struggle for a better -world. In the industrial union movement the workers will -strictly adhere to the great words of a great thinker, Karl Marx :

" Tho emancipation of the workers must bo achieved by tho working class itself, " Workers of the World, Unite !"