SYNDICALISM.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXII, Issue 88, 12 April 1912, Page 7

SYNDICALISM.

The aim of Syndicalism C sa y s il writer in the Fortnightly Review) is the overthrow of the present capitalistic society, and the substitution of union:; of working men. controlling the whole of industry. The Syndicalist advances beyond political or constitutional action. He works, not through any Parliamentary group, but through "class war," waged by the direct action of working men, grouped in industrial unions, and employing the triple weapon of the multiplied strike, the sympathetic strike, the general strike. "The pivot of Syndicalism is the general strike." The workman is assured that, once lie adopts Syndicalist policy, industrial capital will inevitably be transferred from its present owners to himself. The abolition of wages ; s to form the basis of the unions of the future. The workman is to control his own labour, producing the necessaries and luxuries of life for himself. Both the Utopia and the methods of Syndicalism are closely allied with the Utopia and methods of Anarchism. According to the famous exponent of Syndicalism, George Sorel, the new movement actually had its birth when the Anarchists entered and dominated the French Trade Unions, or "Syndicate." "Historians," says M. Sorel, "will one day recognise that this entrance of the Anarchists iiito the 'syndicats' was one of the greatest events which have happened in our time." Both movements aim,at reestablishing society, after the necessary cataclysm of the general strike, on the basis of free groups of workmen, controlling the produce of the world. Both aim at the destruction of patriotism, in favour of an international "solidarity" of workers—the substitution of the spirit of class for the spirit of nationality. Both hail the multiplied strike as the first step in the general strike.