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

whereby the employer can get enough
and the worker can get enough, a
point of amicable adjustment of in
dustrial warfare and economical dis
tribution, then there is no justification
or explanation of sabotage Ineligible
to YOU" Sabotage, p. 81.
What Sabotage.Is
sabotage is to this class struggle
what the guerilla warfare is to the
battle. The Strike is the open battle
of the class struggle. Sabotage is the
guerilla warfare, the day-by-day war
fare between two opposing classes"
sabotage, p. ~.
Now, it is the conception of the l..
w. w. that this class struggle can
never cease until one party or the
other is exterminated, and believes
itself commissioned to organize a new
social system. Listen again:
"The I. w. w. is fast approaching
the stage where it can accomplish its
mission. This mission is revolution
airy in character" (The Revolution
airy /. w. W., p. 49,.
eve are not satisfied with a fair
days wage for fair days work. Such
a thing is impossible. Labor produces
all wealth. Labor is, therefore, enti-
titled to all wealth. We are going to
do away with capitalism by taking
possession of the land and the machin-
cry of production. We don't intend to
buy them, either. The capitalist class
took them because it has the power to
control the muscle and brain of the
working industry. Organized, we, the
working class, will have the power.
With that power we will take back
that which has been stolen from us.
We will demand more and more wages
from our employers. We will demand
and enforce shorter and shorter hours.
IF we gain these demands, we are di-
minishing the profits of the boss. We
are taking away his power. We are
gaining that power ourselves. All the
time we become more disciplined. We
become self-reliant. We realize that
without labor-power no wealth can be
produced. We fold our arms. The
mills close. Industry is at a standstill.
We then make our proposition to our
former masters. 1t is this: We, the
workers, have labored long enough to
support idlers. From now on he who
does not toll, neither shall he eat"
A New Government
(The Revolutionary l. w. W., p. ID:
"The Industrial Workers of the
World are laying the foundation for a
new government. This government
will have for its legislative halls the
mills, the workshops, the factories.
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mills, the shops and the factories. It's
legislative enactments will be those
pertaining to the welfare of the work
ers. These things are to be. No force
can stop them. Arms will be of no
avail. Capitalist governments may is
sue their mandates in vain. The pow
er of the workers, industrially organ
lied, is the only power on earth worth
considering, once they realize that
power. Classes will disappear and in
their place will be only useful MEM
bers of society-the workers." (The
Revolutionary /. w. w., p. 15).
1t is important to note what /. w.
w. means by the term worker" which
is Incorporated into the very name of
the organization and is constantly
used in its propaganda. "The future
belongs to the /. w. w. The day of
the skilled worker is past" THE 1.
w. W., It's History, Structure and
Methods, p. 24).
The PrOletariat Defined
By the working class" which is
waging war upon society and which
hopes to institute "the future society,"
is meant the "proletariat," and the
proletariat is thus defined. eve mean:
A class of lab0rers, possessing neither
property nor specialized skill, who sell
their lab0r-p0wer in the open market
to the highest bidder, and are able to
sell that power only SO long as it will
produce profit for the purchaser -
(The Advancing Proletariat, p. 14).
This warfare is directed against
trade unionism just as virulently as
against capitalism because it is war
fare against anything in the form of
private or individual possession,
whether it be land, houses, tools, skill,
special knowledge or any sort of, man.
ual dexterity. 1t is the warfare of
the man who has none of these and
who aims to bring the whole fabric of
society down to the level of his own
incapacity. "Property-either mater
ial or in the form of specialized skill
has ceased to exist for the proletariat;
access to the machine is the sole basis
of his life; and, following the loss of
the property idea, comes a complete
revolution in the mental attitude of
the worker. Man becomes the domin-
ant factor and all his problems are
again translated in terms of human
rights. He thinks in the terms of a
class, for he now realizes his class po-
sition and knows that on as such
can he hope to survive. He finds that
he must attack the structure Of So
ciety based on private property and
his point of attack is at the point Of
production, the point where he daily
meets his enemy. His whole attitude
is one of opposition; opposition to the
property of the master class-an atti-
tude utterly subversive Of all modern
ethics, morals, religions and laws
an utterly revolutionary attitude"
(The Advancing Proletariat, p. ~.
A Confiscatory System