The Labor enquirer., 1884-10-25

Ic0ntempsate We will tell you. w
believe in strikes to develop spirit Q
manhood, to fosters spirit of unity, i
awaken desire to know the cause o
your misery and the real remedy. Fo
these reasons We are with you and ten
der you our aid Butwe do it only il
the hope that the more intelligent a
least among you. will be reused up Il
practical action on the great labor ques
ltion.
We urge you to form unions, to com
bine. to read, to talk, to discuss, to strike
Ito educate yourselves, so that you ma,
be able to appreciate our principles ant
-FOUR plan of action.
We have not space here to do more
than outline these, leaving to you, how
ever, the opportunity Of finding them
set out in detail in other places.
In conclusion and in brief these are
OUR PRINCIPLES
The present misery of the workers il
caused by the existence of class of non
producers This class is all-powefull be-
cause it monopolizes the land and nat
ural resources of earth, the tools and
machinery of production, and the me-
dunn for the exchange of commodities.
1t can only be abolished by depriyiDg it
of these monopoIies and forcing the in
dividuals composing it to go to work.
This can only be accomplished by gov
ernmental cooperation where the whole
people shall collectively own the land
and natural resources /, tools and machi-
merry and mediums of exchange, commu-
nication and transportation, and shall
use them for the common good Of all !;
where the whole people shall be the sole
producer and distributor upon'a basis Of
cost being the limit Of price, rent being
abolished and interest forever estopped.
OUR PLAN OF ACTION.
Education! Education Education II
This is now the first and only duty I'M
til we are educated and organized all
actionis suicidal And this education
must be pushed with the utmust speed,
prosecuted with the most unfagging
energy if we would succeed. Science
points out to us every decade, by means
of panlcs, the approaching downfall Of
the competitive system which from its
own dead weight is bound to disintegrate.
At every panic millions of workers are
thrown on the streets penniless, foodless,
ragged and desperate. .M.....-. .
At every succeeding panic their condi-
ton is worse, their numbers greater !;
with every year, aye, every day and hour,
of new machinery, recruits
the great army ofthe poor, the desperate,
the unemployed. We know
as we know that the sun will rise to NOR
row, that at the next panic-due in 1885,
and Just beginning now-or the follow.
ing one, millions ofignorant wage slaves,
facing starvation will rise desperately,
aimlessly, striking for bread or blood,
We know this. We see its evidences
everywhere. We hear the stifed curses
of the Hooking miners, 5000 of whom
now starve while 6uddled together on
the bare ground, we mark the cries of
the factory women of Massachusetts, the
means of the gaunt-faced children of
Helrs Mills at Baltic. We see the miner
of Pennsylvania working at 63 cents a
day, the tenant farmer of Lux and Miller
in California with wolfsh face and hun
cry eyes. We see the dead lying in the
streets of Cincinnati and their
blood trickling over the pavement
stones. We see the black cap on the
head of Isaac Jacobson ON the gallows
at Chicago, for asserting his manhood,
and we hear the creak of the hangman's
rope. We see the workers of the south
sold upon the auction block as pauper
laborers to the highest bidder. We turn
abroad and behold the dungeon, the
dagger, the bullet, Siberia and the scaf-
fold all at work to kill and torture our
heroes. We see women outraged and
children killed by inches, and we note
every blood STAIN every cry of agony,
every brutal laugh, every insolent jeer,
and we discover that even ns# thar~the
Revolution is upon US. Even now the
battle has begun ..
Comrades Brothers. Shall this
great contest be one of mere almless
blood and carnage, ONE of massacre and
murder, of vengeance and revenge, of
wild fury and the fury ofignorant slaves
against unscrupulous power, or shall we
who are intelligent, who are devoted,
shall we endeavor to 80 conduct it as to
secure as its results such scientific sys-
tenn of society as will guarantee the per-
petual existence of Liberty, Equality and
Fraternity : ,. Net destroyerslbut saviors
we aim to be, and to be such effectually
we ask your aid. Will you not give it to
us freely, frankly and now?
Health and Fraternity ~
TEE INTERNATIONAL.
Issued by the San Francisco Centraa
eammittee of the International Work.