Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1920-01-22
LOAFING ON THE JOB.


a An official "sticker" widely cir
4sculated by the I. w. w. reads:
Don't scab! Whenever you
Espeed up or work long hours on the
A1ob, you are scabblng on the I'M
Ienployed."
This is not call to give an ex-
act, full days work for an exact,
afull days pay. 1t is Il call to loaf
Rrhe effect would be to take off the
Keen edge of effort--that quality
sxwhereby workman can make the
ssmost Of himself; and the /, w. w,
hmakes no secret of the fact that
ahis is the effect it desires.
VI This doctrine Is not an incidental
@sby-product Of ]. w. w. activity,
1alor yet a secret order whispered
esfrom member to member. 1t is
gsthe heart Of the /, w. w. creed
land whoever breaches it is an l..
Jaw. w. at heart. The organization
Chat orders it's men to walk to
saworl1, rather than ride on a bicycle
FLOR street car in order that the
Atmore time may be consumed, is an
III. w. w. organization, it makes no
s3difference under what name such
reorganization may masquerade.
The purpose of it all is to make
the days product so small that two
men must be hired to produce what
one produced before. BY this rule
the first obligation of the work
man is not to the man who is Civ
ing him a full measure of wages,
but to the man who on that day
happens not to be producing at all.
Nor does it allow a full days
work on the day that everybody
happens to be employed, because
thai day never comes. There is al
+ ways a remnant of the unemploy-
ed, because there is always a REM
nant that is unemployable. Any
small group of willful loafers can
make this remnant permanent,
Because of this idleness, willful
or not, outside the mill, the I. w,
w. would increase idleness within
the mill.
Under such program there can
be no dependable business deal
ing. The man who pays eight dol
lars for n days work must know
that he will get eight dollars
worth of work done. Otherwise he
must go out Of business of eX-
changing his money for labor. He
can make no contract with pur-
chasers to deliver quantity or
quality Of his wares at a given date,
unless he knows certainly what his
workmen will produce daily.
1t is because the great majority
of workmen honestly try to give
full daily equivalent for their daily
paw that men are able to trade at
all.
Trade unionism has no part or
parcel with the Independent Order
Sof Idleness. Trade unionism that
fasts is ,the sort that lines up on
the SIDE of the dligent man, not on
the idler.
stFor the man who wins is the man
who works,
Who neither labor nor trouble
shirks;
Who uses his hand, his head, his
eyes.
The man who wins is the man who
tries"
The T. w. w. has no use for the
man who does Ills level best. Its
ideal is to bring every man down
to his level worst, Freedom from
necessary exertion, permanent and
peaceful idIenesst is the glorified
goal of the l. w, w. propaganda.
Ills speech is laden with it, the
literature sent out by the organi-
cation is shot through with it; the
work of the members show forth
their desire for it.
A workman cannot long enter
tain such low ideal without be-
coming a hobo in spirit and GRIM
nal in fact. Idlencss at the ma
chine leads logically TO throwing a
wrench into it; and this final step
into Industrial and moral chaos has
been officially sanctioned by the
I. w. w.