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" 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. "
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Industrial Democracy in America: The Ambiguous Promise

Nelson Lichtenstein, Howell John Harris - 1996 - 312 pages
...action at the point of production, not only to improve earnings and conditions, but also eventually to "take possession of the earth and the machinery of production, and abolish the wage system." 3 The gospel of direct action soon proved to be popular even among workers who belonged to the Socialist...
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The Zinn Reader: Writings on Disobedience and Democracy

Howard Zinn - 1997 - 676 pages
...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...machinery of production, and abolish the wage system. Against the craft union concept (what they called "The American Separation of Labor") the IWW set as...
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Seeing Red: Federal Campaigns Against Black Militancy, 1919-1925

Theodore Kornweibel - 1998 - 254 pages
...1905, which announced that "the working class and the employing class have nothing in common" and that "between these two classes a struggle must go on until...the machinery of production, and abolish the wage system."8 Not surprisingly, the Wobblies engaged in sabotage as well as strikes. The "1WW threat" was...
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Working-class Hollywood: Silent Film and the Shaping of Class in America

Steven J. Ross - 2000 - 390 pages
...militant IWW declared that the "working class and the employing class have nothing in common" and that "a struggle must go on until the workers of the world...machinery of production, and abolish the wage system." These preachings assumed ominous proportions in 1906 when IWW leader "Big Bill" Haywood and Western...
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Feasting on Misfortune: Journeys of the Human Spirit in Alberta's Past

David Jones - 1998 - 324 pages
...nothing in common. Between these two classes a struggle must go on until all the toilers come together, take possession of the earth and the machinery of production and abolish the wage system."2 The dominant Canadian Marxist socialist of the first decade of the century was an American,...
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The American Paradox: Politics and Justice

Patrick J. Gallo - 1999 - 416 pages
...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...machinery of production, and abolish the wage system. Instead of the conservative motto, "A fair day's wage for a fair day's work," we must inscribe on our...
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We Shall be All: A History of the Industrial Workers of the World

Melvyn Dubofsky - 2000 - 316 pages
..."the relentless logic of history," which would roll on until, as the IWW proclaimed in its preamble, the workers of the world organize as a class, take...machinery of production and abolish the wage system." The IWW was never precise in its definition of class. Sometimes Wobblies divided society into two classes,...
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Rebels and Renegades: A Chronology of Social and Political Dissent in the ...

Neil A. Hamilton - 2002 - 386 pages
...the employing class, have all the good things in life. Between these two classes a struggle must go until the workers of the world organize as a class,...machinery of production, and abolish the wage system. We find that the centering of the management of industries into fewer and fewer hands makes the trade...
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Looking Back at Law's Century

Austin Sarat, Bryant G. Garth, Robert A. Kagan - 2002 - 474 pages
...organization's manifesto, which spoke of class struggle and the necessity for workers to organize and "take possession of the earth and the machinery of production, and abolish the wage system" (Fiske, 383). The Supreme Court looked at the preamble and concluded that, contrary to the view of...
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The 1920s in America: A Decade of Tensions : Grades 6-7

2003 - 330 pages
...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...machinery of production, and abolish the wage system. It is the historic mission of the working class to do away with capitalism. The army of production...
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