The Labor enquirer., 1883-09-08
The Laboring People Of Every
Country the Creators of
All Wealth.
The Idle Oapitalistic Glass Produce
Nothing, Yet Control n
Everything.
Workingmen Must Cut Loose from all
Parties and Organize for
Themselves. ~

The working people, though being the
creators of all wealth, are in every sense
of the word unfree, economically and
politically.
The means of production, money, ma
chinery and tools, as well as the soil, are
in the hands of a few-the capitalistlc,
class.
The working classes, compelled by
want, are selling their only means, their
laboring power to the capitallstic class
for wages, regulated by supply and, de-
mand.
The surplus of the values created by
the laboring classes goes to the capital
istic class causing the growth of gigantic
monopolies, the destruction of the mid
die class, and the pauperization of the
working people in an ever increasing
ratio. The means of production in the
hands of capitalists are powerful means
of subduing the class of workers.
Every improvement in the means of
production does away with number of
human hands, and annually the army of
the unemployed is on the increase,
thereby decreasing the demands for the
means Of life on the part of the laboring
class
The incorporation of production and
the demand for products is growing, and
crises are the natural consequence.
The capitalistic class, by its wealth.,
owns all legislation, its privileges are
guaranteed by law.
The laboring classes have, as expert
ence shows, nothing to expect from pres.
ent legislatures. Therefore, we consider
it to be a necessity for the workers of our
day to recognize and defend their COM
mon interests as class.
For that purpose they need organic
alton
Disunited the workers are nothing
United they are an Irresistible power
estDrganization and united action are
the only means -by which the~iabering
classes can gain any advantages for them
selves. RI y z.-asa-- l..
Organization and unity bear, in them
selves, the germ for just form of So
ciety. ja.c a
Good and strong labor organizations
are enabled to defend and preserve the
interests of the working mass.
Organization enables them to assist
each other in case of strikes, death and
disease.
By organization only, the worke ers, as
a class, are able to gain legislative advan-
tages. The battletcrv of the laboring
class must be, "Cut loose from the pres
ent political parties elect none but
workmen to the legislature !" They
know the suferings of the people; they
know where to put in the lever to lift
the burdens from their fellow sufferers
and to give them their economic and po-
litical rights. w.
These organized economic and politi-
cal struggles teach the workers to con-
ductthe own case and to give them
confidence in their own might.
Self-confdence gives to the worker
the power to do away with the present
unjust mode of pr reduction, as we'll as
with the social system of classes to put
in their stead the cooperative mode of
producing, with just distribution of all
products, ,.and political equality of all in
dividuals.
The confidence in ones own power de-
stroys the belief in all authority wher-
ever exerted.
To do away with all unjust domination
in state, society, ETC., and to establish
real sovereignty of the people is the aim
Of the modern labor movement
"The laboring classes must be freed by
the laboring classes themselves"