The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1917-07-19


ing men of this country are equally
ignorant concerning these things and
vast numbers of them are being fooled
or inundated into taking out ga red
card of membership" in an organiza-
ton, and blindly committing them
selves to program which means their
destruction along with the destruction
of every institution of civilization.
Another source of danger lies in the
fact that the criminal heads of this
organization have been clever enough
to incorporate into their propaganda
the writings of certain idealistic social
lists, which, because of their very ideal
ism, becloud the minds of well-inten-
toned students to the stark naked fact
of class-hatred and outlawry arming
itself, gathering and recruiting its
forces, and being financed, for the pur-
pose of striking a death blow at this
nation and at civilization itself, and
the further fact that it is blatantly
confident that it is going to be able to
strike that blow.
Easier to Destroy than to Build
How much easier is it to destroy
than to build up? Compare the skill,
numbers and resources required to de-
stroy a factory, business block, rail-
road, warehouse, reservoir, irrigation
canal, orchard, machine, or anything
else with the skill, numbers and re-
sources required to build them; and
then ask yourself cocerning the wis
dom of permitting armed bands of
sworn destructionists to roam about
this country seeking employment for
the same reason that German would
seek entrance to the trenches of the
Allies and openly making their boasts
that they were going to effect this
work of destruction and that no power
civil or military, could stop them.
If you have read this far, perhaps
you will be willing to read the proof
that the /. w. w. is what this paper
declares it to be, and that its pur-
poses, methods and confidence are
what has been herein set forth.
That the I. w. w. is reasonable
organization; that it is seeking to
bring about revolution in this coun-
try; that its attempt is to destroy
society itself; and that its method is
that of destruction and despoilation
purely and simply, is declared openly
by all its leaders and is printed on
every page of it's literature.
Declaration of Preamble
The ]. w. w. Preamble itself de-
clares: ''The working class and the
employing class have nothing in COM
mon. Between these two classes a
struggle must go on until the workers
of the world organize as class, take
possession of the earth and the ma
chinery of destruction, and abolish the
wage system. Instead of
the conservative motto, "A fair days
wage for fair days work. we must
inscribe on our banner the revolution
airy watchword, Abolition of the wage
system"
The preamble from which the above
quotations are made is part of the
constitution of the organization, has
been reaffirmed at every annual con-
vention, and is printed as their funda-
mental statement of principles in
nearly every publication issued by
them.
When the I. w. w. works he does it,
not in order to do fair days work,
not to earn any sort of wage, large or
small, @but in order to be in position
to wage effective warfare against the
wage system: to make the paying of
wages improbable; to have Oppor-
tunity for sabotage; to be able to
injure, cripple and destroy" He is at
war and accepts employment for the
same reason that fanatical German
would seek entrance to a French or
English trench, fertilization or NUM-
ton factory.
Av0wed Purpose is War
The I. w. w. is an organization of
avowed fighting men who have de-
clared war against society in the name
of certain class and have committed
themselves to perpetuate this class
struggle until every other class except
their own shall be destroyed. "a mad
DREAM" you say? Listen:
cit is the historic mission of the
working class to do away with capt.
talism." (The !. w. w. Preamble).
"The I. w. w. is the labor union that
aspires to be the future society,"" (Rev-
dictionary I. w. W., p. g..
"In order to understand sabotage or
to accept it at all it is necessary to
accept the concept of the class strug-
gle, If you believe that, between the