Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1912-08-08
DEBS AGAINST
LABOR UNIONS
Socialist Candidate for Pres
ident Supports |. W. W.
and Opposes Unions
IS PERENNIAL CANDIDATE
Some Points That Honest So
cialists Should Know
About Their Leader
IS PERENNIAL CANDIDATE

Eugene Debs again appears as the
presidential candidate OF the socia.-
st party. He is declared TO be lie
-reatest friend o. the cause Of labor.
His record. however. fails to disclose
any positive achievements lor tAae
cause. As a calamity bowler. he -
Ai,uouJ equal As a champion oI
.a.ol. he Is a .arce. NO man WAC
Is attempted TO dscredt and DIS
rutt the american Federation Of La
Dof Is DeDs mas, can call himself
friend OF the labor movement.
DeDs has allied himself with the
Industrial ~ orkers OF the World and
aas been urging workers to secede
froin the A +. OF L. Debs, as re-
ported by the Weekly People, made
tie following statement in St. Louis
in 1906:
Debs and the |. w. w.
If you want a place in history in
letters that will not blot out, get OF
the old rotten hulk, tie A. F. OF L..
and help to man the modern battle
ship the |. ". w
Debs was one OF the founders OF
the Industrial Workers of the World.
In the preamble of the constitution
OF the !. w. w. We read:
Instead of the conservative rntt"
"A fair days wages for a fair days
work. we must lnscribe on our pan-
ner the revolutionary watchword,
word Abolition CT the wage 5ys,cy.I
Arturo Giovanettl, one OF the lead
ers OF the |. W. W., who is still in
prison in Lawrence, expressed the pur-
pose of the /. W. w. when he said;
"'lhe future OF socialism lies only
in the general strike, not merely Il
Quiet political strike. but one that
once started should 90 fatally to its
end, lie. armed ilsJrreccion and the
forcible overthrow OF all existing So
c.al conditions.
Debs and Trades Unionism
This is the organization when Deps
: supporting, an organization winch
IS hostile to the American Federation
g.. labor IN an address OF Debs'. pu1.
'lshed under the CAPTION OF Graft
nonsm we read the following:
AT the very threshold OF this dis
cussion 1 aver that trade unions no
'oAGer meets the demands OF the WORK.
H.. class. ! aver that the trade
union has not only fulfilled its mis-
sion and outlived its usefulness, but
HAT it is now positive reactionary,
and is maintained, not in the inter-
est of the workers who support it, but
in the interests Of the capitalist class,
who exploit the workers VINO support
it,. page b.
This is Debs. the man who claims
to be the champion of the WORKING
class. He does not shrink from falsl-
a ,,1,,, ton
trade unions serve capitalist inter-
ests in a base falsehood In the same
address Debs also said:
There is but one hope, and that
is in the economic and political soil
darity OF the working class; one re
evolutionary party tsoclalst). 1t is
for this reason that the Industrial
Workers OF the World, an economic
organization, has been launched and
now makes its appeal to YOU as wage
slaves aspiring to be free" (page FL.
Revolutionary Movement
In another address delivered Dec.
TO. 1908. and printed under the title
industrial Unionism,' Debs says:
The revolutionary movement OF the
working class will date from the year
1893, from the organization of the in
dustrial Workers of the World The
old form of unionism Grade union)
has long since fulfilled it's mission,
and outlived it's usefulness, and the
hour has struck for a change" (page
g..
After declaring emphatically for
the abolition of the trade unions, he
says: You will sever your relations
with the old unions Grade unions) in
which you are divided and subdivided,
and join the Industrial Workers, in
which all are organized and united
upon the basis of the class struggle.
(page -.
Debs is preaching violent revolu-
ton. He believes in organizing the
proletariat for this purpose. At some
future date he expects to be leader
in the third American revolution.
His plan is as follows:
"A special revolutionary convention
of the proletariat at Chicago, or some
other central point. would be in order,
and, if extreme measures are required
a general strike could be ordered and
industry paralyZed as a preliminary
to general uprising.
This is Mr.. Debs labor record. He
has done more than any other man
to SANDER the American Federation
of Labor. He has allied himself
with that outlaw organization, the
International Workers of the World