The I. W. W.: Its History, Structure and Methods

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I. W. W. Pub. Bureau, 1912 - 23 pages

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Page 9 - These conditions can be changed and the interest of the working class upheld only by an organization formed in such a way that all its members in any one industry, or in all industries if necessary, cease work whenever a strike or lockout is on in any department thereof, thus making an injury to one an injury to all. Instead of the conservative motto, "A fair day's wage for a fair day's work," we must inscribe on our banner the revolutionary watchword, "Abolition of the wage system.
Page 9 - These conditions can be changed and the interests of the working class upheld only by an organization formed in such a way that all its members in any one industry, or in all industries if necessary, cease work whenever a strike or lockout is on in any department thereof, thus making an injury to one an injury to all.
Page 9 - It is the historic mission of the working class to do away with capitalism. The army of production must be...
Page 11 - There is but one bargain the IWW will make with the employing class — Complete surrender of all control of industry to the organized workers.
Page 5 - The working class and the employing class have nothing in common. There can be no peace so long as hunger and want are found among millions of working people and the few, who make up the employing class, have all the good things of life. Between these two classes a struggle must go on until the workers of the world organize as a class, take possession of the earth and the machinery of production, and abolish the wage system.
Page 17 - As a revolutionary organization, the Industrial Workers of the World aims to use any and all tactics that will get the results sought with the least expenditure of time and energy. The tactics used are determined solely by the power of the organization to make good in their use. The question of 'right and 'wrong
Page 6 - The first year of the organization was one of internal struggle for control by these different elements. The two camps of socialist politicians looked upon the IWW only as a battle ground on which to settle their respective merits and demerits. The labor fakirs strove to fasten themselves upon the organization that they might continue to exist if the new union was a success.
Page 17 - Failing to force concessions from the employers by the strike, work is resumed and " sabotage " is used to force the employers to concede the demands of the workers. The great progress made in machine production results in an ever-increasing Hrmy of unemployed.
Page 5 - Between these two classes a struggle must go on, until all the toilers come together on the political as well as on the industrial field, and take and hold that which they produce by their labor, through an economic organization of the working class without affiliation to any political party.
Page 18 - ... isolated to the full extent of the power of the organization. Interference by the government is resented by open violation of the government's orders, going to jail en masse, causing expense to the taxpayers — which are but another name for the employing class. In short, the IWW advocates the use of militant 'direct action" tactics to the full extent of our power to make good.

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