JP DePaula
757-622-5759
Between these two classes a struggle must go on until the workers of the world organize as a class, take posession of the means of production, abolish the wage system, and live in harmony w/ the earth.
We find the the centering of management of industries in fewer and fewer hands make the trade unions unable to cope with the ever growing power of the employing class. The trade union fosters a state of affairs where one set of workers is pitted against another set of workers in the same industry, thereby helping defeat each other in wage wars. Moreover, the trade unions aid the employing class in misleading the workers into the belief that the working class have interests in common with their employers.
These conditions can be changed and the interests of the working class upheld only by an organization formed in such way that all its members in any one industry, or in all industries if necessary cease work whenever a strike or lock out is on in any department thereof,thus making it an injury to one an injury to all
Instead of the conservative motto , "A fair day's wage for a fair day's work" we must inscribe on our banner the revolutionary watchword, "Abolition of the wage system"
It is the historic mission of the working class to do away with capitalism. The army of production must be organized, not only for the everyday struggle with the capitalists, but also to take over production when the capitalists have been overthrown. By organizing industrially we are forming the structure of the new society within the shell of the old
-IWW Preamble-
