The Connecticut labor news., 1922-03-03

The preamble in it's outline follows the so-called scientific system of agoleg-is the man in the moon is ad legislation. Ostesibly doing one thing while really seeking to do another. It's first part is a description of the want and suffering of the working people. The second part (section) seeks to destroy such rights and hopes as may exist by pointing out traveller to follow it. The third part (section) is a qualified promise and then a benediction. Through the en- tire text of the preamble runs a con demnation of existing industrial and political systems, but more especially against the workers making any use of the political machinery to obtain relief
 I. w. w, is Opposed to Political
 Action.
 The 1. w. w. is opposed to any and all political action (see constitution) i; it is opposed to Government by law. In disregard of the fact, proclaimed suit in want and suffering, and, of the further fact, which it overlook ks, that the present condition, be it what it may, is made by law, 1t is opposed to the use of the legislative system for the purpose of obtaining relief. Re lief must come if at all by revolution. As basis for the whole philosophy it assumes that the people are divided in two classes. The employing class and the working class.
 The Photographer defines the word class as follows:
 "A number or body of persons
 with common characteristics, or
 in like circumstances, or with d
 common purpose, occupation,
 etc, such as the wealthy class,
 the learned class, the working
 CLASS" This last word class is
 in capitals.
 The lexicographer recognizes the lingual usage, but he questions it's correctness as well as he may under the definition given. hTe workers as considered and addressed by the preamble are not humber or body" they are the millions in want any reasonable definition be called a class. They have nothing i'll common unless it be the hunger and want They have neither a common purpose nor a common occupation. They are not exclusive; they have neither in dividual nor class pride. They ac- cept members, real or expelled, of the employing class of leaders; they borrow ideas, thoughts, language, phrases, manners and customs from the employing class, whom they look up to and consider their betters; they are so eager to get out of their class, that they are willing to do all most anything even risking prison to get up as they call it. It is by herd ing such as these into mixed as The Army that is to upset existing society-better equipped than at any time in the worlds history to de- fend itself against revolutionists.
 Distinct Hostility to Craftsmanship
 and Skill.
 This is not to say that real workers may not have some common char acteristics which properly understood and cultivated would not or could not mold them into a genuine class, not withstanding their great numbers. In the old religions, now called myth ology, the workers are thought of as nearest to the gods, because they continue creation. Being the artists in production, without which life 
 have a pride, in production, in skill, in work we'll done and a conscious ness of their creative capacity, that might serve as foundation for class felling and class pride
 We look in vain, however, for any recognition of any such in either the preamble or the constitution. On the contrary there Is a distinct hostility, like in the case of employer or a large number of them, to any crafts manship or skill Both the docu- ments discredit the verythought Free interchange of membership cards or transfers from one organiza- ton to any other within the I. w. w. is insisted upon under penalties (See transfers The baker must be transferred into the shoemakers TO the blacksmith into the tailors, the sailors into the teamsters and vice versa There is a distinct opposition with their semi-conscious groping after craftsmanship and skill Their jurisdiction disputes are ridiculed They are accused of helping the em- ployers in strikes and lockouts, be- cause they-so it Is said-encourage agreements being made in such way as to cause one union to remain at work while another is on strike or locked out, and of helping the em- ployers by misleading the workers into a belief that the workers and the employers may have some interest in common. In direct opposition to the truth they insist that the unions encourage such agreements as men tioned above and this notwithstanding the record of trade unions to the con- trary. (See proceedings American Federation of Labor, I8o6-7-8) But this was of course before the I. w. w. was organized to help the em-