The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-05

- IN cooper P Pp and the Industrial Workers World The
1903 and had definitely adopted platform of oppOrtunsm The
election Of was mind of the leading social
I read the amended preamble Of the LW.W. Inc
words referred political action had been en SM
minated and other changes introduced and the LW" A
now a revolutionary economic organization %
AS amended the preamble now read; @&x ~
"The working and the employing class have 70 4W
nothing in common be peace so long Al EI
hunger and found among millions lion .r o w M
working people and the few, who make up the en- CYN
plOying class have all the good things of life. Wh<S
Between these classes struggle must go on
until of the world organize as class take u
the earth and production and abolish the wage
ave find of the management industries into
fewer hands makes the trade unions unao 10
evgrowng of the employing class me aoe unions t
which allows set of workers to be ptea aga
@ b u u in wage wars Moreover the trade aid the
png mead the workers into the belief that the workers
"These changed and the interests of the working
class uphed O O ne dur or in all industries if necessary
lockout is in department thereof mus max
Instead of the conservative motto days for fair
days must nscrbe banner the revolutionary wstth
abolition of the system 1t the historic mission OF ne
working with capitalism The army OF production
but production capitalism shall been overthrown
organizing indusra forming the structure Oh tne ne"
knowing organization absolutely
emancipation unite under the following constitution
POINTED out that although would affiliate with
any political party did not make them ntpotical that
remember that after meeting Harrison, coored
while Douglas had the debate Lincoln had car
but the workers of the matte with
Lawrence, Ettor had the situation well hand
There was General Strike organized composed
or mill large department of the mills
The legislature had passed law reducing the
hours the textile industry from ffsx to
and wooden companies announced that when this
effect would be reduced proportion The work
declared that already lower than they should be- The
average weekly eight dollars and seventyx cents the
getting of only dollars and ory-wo cents
was
age workers who conducted this strike six dollars week.
for time work. there vacations and
bring families such wages The workers went on strike
OF Ten zen or aeee th bi n p Now ENGLAND
demonstration accorded visitor to Lawrence On the common
spoke many strikers and left Lawrence out
and raise funds and create sympathy for the strike until on February
murder Anna LaPz Italian girl striker had been killed by
policeman leaders the strike
returned at to Lawrence and became chairman of the strike
committee which composed of fyx members Back of these
another x members ready take the places of the strike
committee if any arrests made.
writer the Outlook conservative weekly which reported the
strike, said:
HAYWOOD does weavers unions Of spnners
unons loom-e of woosorters but
prehenve of all textile workers which in time will
the textile factories the steel workers will take the steel mills
and the railway workers the railways Haywood nerres the class
conflict literally which always which becomes daily
uncompromsng which only conquest
capitalist society by peaans workers. organized industry
Haywood places trust in trade which according
his theory lead merely to social and put the workers sleep
strike when they please He opposed to arbitration concaion
COMPROMISED sliding scales, sharing welfare
thing short revolutionary
He does not ask for the closed shop the official recognition of
intention
he desires not treaty of industrial between
contracting parties but merely the creation of peaan impulse
which will eventually evoutonize society Haywood
believes not and believe in them but frventy
compromsngly with obstinate faith in the universal goodwill
constany of the workers worthy of great religious leader That
what makes him supremey dangerous
although Haywood may at political
acon the change the preamble general
convention of the LWW dominated
workers. the ovras brigade organized brought
venion anarchist
mtanty antpoca practice though phrase meant really
"ani-parliamentary"
IN the article Haywood tells of killing Of workers
by police in Laurence You copy Bill HayVoods
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