PROFESSOR ON THE I.W.W.

Maoriland Worker, Volume 2, Issue 36, 10 November 1911, Page 14

PROFESSOR ON THE I.W.W.

Professor' John Graham Brooks, special lecturer on economics at the Uuiversitv of California, says that the United States is now in the- throes of a social revolution. The professor says that the Socialist ■ who believes in reform can accomplish nothing, unless it be to prove their inefficiency. Brooks tells the young ministers that they should decide, the point before going, to preach, as to whether all interest and nrohts on money is thieving. In speaking of the capitalists- fighting the craft unions, the professor has the following to say : — "Capitalists, in. fighting trades Unions, as they have been, showed yerv poor policy; that in Pittsburg, where the trades unions have been absolute! v crushed and where men work a, 12-hour day, seven days in the week, the Industrial Workers of the World were stronger than in any other city in and that Pittsburg was going to be the seat of serious trouble unless some concessions were made by the capitalists.*' He said he had talked to Gary and Frick, prominent steel men, and that they had told him of their anxiety. He said he feared that it was too late to make any concessions to the laboring men in Pittsburg. In order to enlighten the ministers present as to what the T.W.W. meant by "direct action," Mr. Brooks told Of ah incident in Germany where the bakers' union, after abandoning their old leaders and turning to Socialism, put castor oil in the bread made by its members the next day. Their policy is to make trouble' for the capitalistic system in every possible manner. They are for a revolution, and while by that they may hot •mean a bloody revolution, they meant something about as practical aaid as trouhledome.