It is responsible only to the working class. The IWW has been called red but it has never been called yellow. It is as radical as a scientist in her laboratory . . . as radical as a surgeon planning the removal of a diseased growth . . . as radical as a teacher must be to tell the truth. It is well to note that from radicalism has flowed all that makes life better today than yesterday. It is now, as in the past, the only force capable of leading the world out of its night of hunger, hatred and fear.
Humanity advances over a path blazed by radicals and stained with their blood.
So long as there is injustice there will be radicals. The name itself is the proudest title of free men and women. While the IWW uses every honorable weapon in conflicts with employers it has never initiated the use of force. Its chief weapon is the solidarity of the working class, which builds, and not individual terrorism, which destroys. Employers have always been the first to resort to force and violence and the IWW teaches only what the law affirms, that workers have the right to defend themselves against attack.