The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1913-01-24


j. E. CAMPBELL, STATE SENATE
OF THE EIGHT-HOUR LAW FOR "
FIGHTING FOR THE INTEREST c
order of society. Parliaments would
then disappear, but trade unions
were necessary, for, as Prof. Hins
declared at Basle in 1869, they rep
resented in the germ the organiza-
ton of the new social system "Ba-
kunine glorifies, says Pechanoff,
"the essentially economic tactics OF
the old English trade unions, and has
not the faintest idea that it was these
very tactics that made the English
workers the tail of the liberal party"
The revolutionary unionists today
believe, as the anarchists always
have believed, that the world is ready
for tremendous upheaval. The new
order is waiting to be born, and the
sole work to. be done is to arouse in
luton. How much like the views OF
the syndicalists, as given in an earl
ier paper, are the following declara-
tions of Bakunine and Kropotkin!
"The revolution, as we understand
it" said Bakunine, must on it's very
first day completely and fundamen-
tally destroy the state and all state
institutions" The workers must
then procede to the "confiscation of
all productive capital and instru-
ments of labor in favor of the asso-
Citations of laborers, which will use
them for collective production"
THE first act of the social revolu-
tion," says Kropotkin, will be
work of destruction. The
government will be overthrown first"
And following that "the people will
also, without waiting for any direc-
tions from above, abolish private
property by forcibly appropriation.
The reorganization of pro
duction will not be possible in a few
days. especially as the revolution
will presumably not break out in all
Europe at time, The people will,
consequently, have to take temporary
measures to assure themselves, first
of all, of food, clothing, and shelter.
First, the populace of the insurgent
cities will take possession of the
dealers stocks of food and of the
grain warehouses and the slaughter
houses. Volunteers make an inven-
tory of the provisions found and dis
tribute printed tabular statements by
the millions. Henceforth, free TAX
ing of all that is present in abund-
ance; rations of what has to be mea-
sured out, with preference to the
sick and the weak; a supply for de
ficiencies by importation from the
country (Which will come in plenty
If we produce things that the farmer
needs and put them at his disposaD,
and also by the inhabitants of the
city entering upon the cultivation of
the royal parks and meadows in the
vicinity. The people will take pos
session of the dwelling houses in like
manner Again volunteers make lists
of the available dwellings and dis
&,.ih
by streets, quarters, districts and
agree about the allotment of the
dwellings, But the evils that will at
first still have to be borne are soon
to be done away; the artisans of the
building trades need only work a few
hours a day, and soon the overspaci
GUS dwellings that were on hand viii
be sensibly altered and model houses,
entirely new, will be built The pro
cedure will be followed with regard
to clothing. The people take posses.
sion of the great clothiers' establish,
ments and volunteers list the stocks.
People take freely what is on hand
in abundance, in rations what is
limited in quantity. What is lack
ing is supplied in the shortest of time
by the factories with their perfected
machines"
quote the above statements of the
two chief anarchists to illustrate the
similarity between their views and
those advocated by the syndicalists.
The latter are extremely vague re-
garding the actual procedure of the
general strike Some of them believe
that the general strike may be solely