The Connecticut labor news., 1922-03-03

ploycrs in their fight on the trade unions.
 The trade unions being semi consciously on the right road to or groping after those character istics, in work we'll done and Justify growing, had to be op- posed, ridiculed and led astray or they might become dully con- scious of being on the right road
 and then become dangerous Within the purview of the l. W. w. there IS no pride in produc- ton, in skill, in work we'll done feeling or class pride Labor Is something to be summed, to be held in contempt together with
 the laborer, The working class, so called in the preamble, has therefore nothing upon which to bsae itself unless it be common misery, common hate of labor, common hate of the employer, and, under their worship Of economic determination" sell hShnes of, and an ef- fort to overreach each other, in their effort to get out of the working class.
 Having spread this birdlime, made up of ingredients above referred to, the preamble scatters the grains of promise to induce the birds to light after attracting them with the blaze of its main dogma, as follows: "The working class and the employing l class have nothing in common. Even If we were to admit that there | is now a working class - an impos- 1 sible admission 1t IS not true that the workers and the employers have ! nothing i'll common. On the contrary, | being human, they have nearly all important facts of life in common. They, If life IS to continue, must be sheltered and they must eat. But | this means production - the indus | trial activity upon which the preamble so ostentatious1y rests, and they must l therefore have a common interest in production. And this is by indirec- ton admitted by the preamble, when it speaks of hunger and want among the millions of the working people, while the few have all the good things of life. The preamble speaks of the world - of world hunger and want; but unless there Is too little pro- duced there could not be hunger and want among the millions. Ii is not 1 reasonably conceivable that the few can waste what would be sufficient ! to keep millions comfortable. Again | the promise is plenty, when the work ing people, as a class, shall have taken control of the earth and the machinery of production.
 The Amazing WHEN and HOW Explained.
 Having made this promise the pre- amble goes on to tell WHEN this is to happen and HOW? Reading the preamble, I find the following: These conditions can be
 changed and the interests of the working people upheld ONLY by an organization framed in such | way that all it's members in any l one industry, or in all industries l If necessary, cease work when l ever a strike or lockout is on in any department thereof, thus
 making the injury to one an in-
 jury to all"
 From this it would appear that there shall be plenty and no injustice, 1 first, when there is an organization so functioning that "an injury to one
 is an injury to all,'' second, when
 such organization shall have taken control over the earth and the ma chinery of production. Surely a pretty safe promise to make. But
 sue has it is it tells us WHEN - if
 we are ready to believe. Having
 found the answer to WHEN, what
 about the HOW? How is this or
 ganization, again ushering in the
 golden age, to function? By and
 through the universal strike! The
 members thereof are to cease work l o1 @1 ha
 lockout. And if necessary all," is
 hunger and want we are to stop pro- duction, and this in a world with the
 normal production so deficient that
 there is hunger and want.
 A strike as ordinarily conceived - arises out of some disagreement
 between the employer ar employers
 and the workers. The employers ar
 bitrarily act in such way that the
 workers are either losing something | or think they are about to lose some
 thing which they have, or fail to get something to which they think them selves entitled and wish to obtain They cease to work for the purpose
 of interfering sufficiently with thai
 employers production to induce him
 to cease doing evil and begin to dc good. Hate is not any necessary part
 of this action, nor is there of neces
 sity any serious suffering except to
 the strikers. There is a sharp pro
 test and with it an appeal to other workers not to interfere and to the Ipeople as a whole for sympathy. II
 is not an attack upon human society
 It is in fact the only penalty, whicf
 the Christian religion endorses but
 with a proviso, that it shall cease
 when the sinner "ceases to do evi
 and begins to do good"
 The general strike advocated
 in this document is an attack | upon human society as it now