The Alaska citizen., 1914-06-08
CORRESPONDENCE

. Under this head The Citizen will eral interest as prove accepta ble but will reserve the right to cut | leng ,hy letters as much as is deem. . ed necessary. The true name of the author will hereafter be published with each communication, as an evi- | dence of good faith on the part of the Writer1
 Editor Alaska Citizen:-
 In the issue of your paper of June 1 you published a lengthy article from the Literary Digest" on the
 T. W. w." and some of it's tactics and it's attitude toward the church Since you made no criticism on the same, it is to be presumed that the article met your approval. In de- fense of the organization, which seems to have been the victim of the ignorance and prejudices of sev- eral of our local newspapers, even those puTporting to be organs pub lished in the interest of the work in your publication.
 To begin with, the Industrial Work CTS of the World is an organization that proposes to organize the work CTS of all industries, regardless of creed color or nationality, in such a way that they can act as a unit and organized force in their fight against the present system of eXploi- tation in all it's phases.
 The Industrial workers differ from all the existing labor unions in that they are organized to better the conditions of "all" the workers against every existing form of ex- ploitation, while the craft unions are organized to control given trade, or job for a flew" of the particular branch of industry to bene- fit their lot at the expense of the rest of the working class.
 Furthermore, the I. w. w. organ izes the workers in the mines, mills and factories in such way that the workers can carry on production, that means to produce the necessi- ties of life whether they spring from the stomach or head, after this sys- tenn technically known as the capi- talist method of production has been overthrown.
 Let us briefly explain the capi- talist method of production. By this is meant a form of society where production is carried on for sale or making profits instead of for use. It is immaterial to the producing capitalist whether he produces family Bibles or chewing tobacco. The main thing is, can he make large profits? So we see that today the primary factor of production is exchange; the secondary, use. In short, the I. w. w. is an organiza- tion that organizes the working class at the point where they are exploit ed and robbed, that is, the mines, mills and factories, for the purpose of getting control of the only power they possess at present, the power that is indispensable to the existing order of production. their power to labor and create something in con- nection with the raw materials Of nature The organization of the l. w. w. is composed mostly of a certain type of the working class, modern product of the twentieth century who through the new in- ventions and the new improvements of the machines, technically known as means of production, have no especial craft or trade but become instead as they used 10 be the mas ter of the machine and tool. now are tool or cog of the complex modern machinery.
 That class of working men only live or rather exist when they work and only work when it is neces- sary to make profits for that class in society that owns the means of production. Any time for any req son the capitalist class cannot sell