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70 the hand, it has been necessary
~ work indirectly toward tne = =
songbt and to make the polsc 2. s
of re public mind progressive. =
ei;en worker. an-kmericea n
=. .~3 thought, speaking MT ~
u. ylisb. often melcilessly
nIo;tAd bv his own countr!F-e g
- - understanding Amer IA
'--i an5 institutions has
n NOS fertile field for the ae "a
4 has beed carei.lis
,io,yaJ narrowed and seeded 70 a
s,,u cron of hell-raisi7g. 2e
American has been approached 80
directly. more adroitly, oy syn. "a
thizing with him over his feal
fancied grievances-then oy
mo him gently over the NIL d.
divides common sense from luh&cS.
The rel program, though per-
enc without the latest hU sian
.,.;,,,,,;nos. is clearly stated in the
ran,sbIef on Syndicalism written
~ Earl c. Ford and William z.
~ .fer-who was Instrumental ~
organizing the men for the steer
,t,.ire-and published by the latter
g.hen he was secretary of the Syn
4iealist League Of America. In tiiis
hook the authors say;
1.-THE Svndiealist knows that cap
;talism is organized robbery and ne
consistently considers and treats
as thieves plying their
frsJe- He knows they have no
49, .r;obt' TO the wealth they
have .amassed than a burglar has
"a his loot, and the idea Of eXpro-
n,;atino them without remuneration
Gems as natural to him as for the
footnad's victim to take back his
-olen property without paying the
footpad for it. From long eXpef-
ence he has learned that the so.
.alled legal and inalienable rights
Of man are but pretenses with
"A hich 10 deceive workilgmen; that
-. reality rights are only enjoyed
bv those CAPABLE of enforcing them.
He knows that in modern society.
as in all ages, might is right. and
that the CAPITALISTS hold the indus
tries they have stolen and daily
No rpetrate the robbery of the wages
system simply because they have the
economic power to do so. he mas
fathomed the secret system of ethics
and morals, and knows them to be
inst so many auxiliaries to the cap
italistic class. Consequently, he has
cast them aside and has placed his
relations with the capitalists upon
a basis of naked power.
"In his choice of weapons to night
his capitalist enemies, the Syndical-
ist is no more careful TO select those
that are fair just or civilized
than is a householder attacked IN
the night by burglar. He knows
he is engaged in life and death
struggle with an absolutely lawless
and INSCRIPTIONS enemy, and con-
siders his tactics only from the
standpoint of their effectiveness.
With him the end justifies the
means. Whether his tactics be le-
cal and moral or not. does not
concern him, so long as they are ef-
fective He knows that the laws.
as well as the current code of NOR
ais, are made by his mortal enemies
and considers himself about as much
bound by them as householder
would himself by regulations re-
gardg burglary adopted by an as
ISOLATION of housebreakers. Conse-
quently, he ignores them insofar
as he is able and it suits his pur-
poses. He proposes to develop, re-
CARELESS of capitalist conceptions of
legality fairness right and so
forth, a greater power than his
capitalist enemies have; and then
to wrest from them by force the
industries they have stolen from
him by force and duplicity, and to
put an end forever to the wages
system. He proposes to bring about
revolution by the geenral strike"
! And again: "Sabotage.-Next to