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THE
W. W.
If there is an organization detest
ed by the employing classes gener
ally it is the industrial Workers of
the World. If there is an organiza
tion which receives no manner of
fair play at any hands, it is the
same I. W. W. Society as at pre
sent constituted, seems to have
agreed that these shall be the social
Ishmaelites, with the hand of every
man above the rank of the wage
working classes in a policy of ma
lignant misrepresentation and vile
vituperation of this body.
There is really no language of
hate tro desperate to describe this
hated body of determined workers,
and no policy of an illegal exercise
of authority too far-fetched to crush,
suppress and to destroy the mili
iancy of the class which rallies to
the standard of the Industrial
Workers of the World.
It is in evidence that every per
son who affects a degree of respect
ability makes haste to rid one ot tlie
notion that they have any sympathy,
respect or support for the I.‘V* W.
and in no quarters is this so evident
as among that section of the work
ing classes themselves, who like to
be esteemed for being socially better
than they are.
These are facts which no one
can dispute. They are an every day
experience and they need not be sub
jected to questioning.
In mighty few quarters has there
been any attempt made to under
stand this organization which is so
freely condemned, and the body, in
consequence, is quite successfully
subjected to a policy of universal
misrepresentation, to such an extent
that it is almost worth anyone’s re
putation to endorse, sympathize or
approve the Industrial Workers ot
the World.
The Industrial Workers will well
repay study. If for on other reason
than that they are here to stay and
here to be heard of long after many
of the more respectable organiza
tions which fear to sully the hems
of their garments by contact with
these pariahs, will have past away
and be forgotten. Moreover, it is
important that anything, especially
anything which displays such an im
portant power as that of the indus
trialist movement, bo properly un
derstood.
The basic purpose of the I. W. W.
when first established was to create
a condition of industrial as against
craft unionism. The already obvious
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dustriai experience, that the craft
unions were both inadequate and in- .
efficient. It was the result of a
correct analysis of the labor situa
tion, and one whose correctness, all
occurences within the labor move
ment since that time, have amply de
monstrated and fully verified.
Moreover, the organizers of the
now union noticed that the un
skilled workers were those upon
whom the labor situation in the final
analysis depended, and accordingly
made common cause with them.
This policy developed a peculiarly
rebellious disposition among the
workers who before had occupied
such a position that they could af- j
ford to criticize and examine and j
often condemn everything that the
craft unionist had to hold sacred.
Like every new organization,
Ideas, theories and policies were sub
jected to ruthless analysis and be
ing subjected to such, tactics ancl
men who heretofore had occupied
positions above criticism, had their
acts subjected to an erosive exami
nation with quite unfortunate re
sults for many of the subjects so
assayed. Just as naturally also,
many men developed views of their
own, and the efforts of these strong
ly opinated men to Impress their
own point of view upon their fellow
workers resulted in the new body be
ing torn with distractions, factions
and freakish followings of all sorts.
! The liberty of individual JTiitiative
which had been crushed under the
machine leadership of the craft
unions, v.'as paying the price of its
horning, but eventually the indus
trialists found that not in the
straddling their backs with economic
dogma and unionistlc orthodoxy,
demandng excommuneatlon if chall
j enged, but in more mental liberty
was the hope for the future. In
1 other words, they proved the old
j truth that the cure for the evils ol
liberty is more liberty.
It is not without instructive inter
est to note that one of the most
serious attempts to destroy the or
j ganization was made by the anar
! ehists whose mental digestion failed
i wholly to assimilate the true signifi
cance of French syndicalism, and
the anarchists found a haven of rest
again within the folds of the Fede
ration bossed by Gompers, and the
ardent advocates of individual liber
ty and anarchism, proved the most
ardent in supporting the mosi reac
tionary of all policies within the A. 0
F. of L. There is hardly a capital
ist writer more vindictive in his
animosity towards the I. W ■ W.
than anarchist Foster or Jay Fox,
of the anarchist Home Colony in
other days. Anarchism in any event
is merely working class reaction
under a radical mask.
Men, institutions of men, codes
and formulae of all kinds are sacred
only where the mind approaches
them with a veneration abhors any
such thing as serious examination.
Naturally then, with minds open
and unchained hy superstitious re
verence, many of the things w'hich I
the majority of the people, workers ;
included, regarded as sacro-sanct
were now subjected* to an unreveren- \
tial scrutiny with quite alarming re
sults for these men, institutions ot :
men, codes and formulae which long
enjoyed a position quasi-divine in ,
the popular minds. Hence the
astonishing attitude of Industrial J
Workers on many subjects pained, j
outraged, insulted and maddened S
men who clung with tenacious wor- 5
shipping to a good many things t
were very far indede from deserving |
any kind of respect at all. t
The result of this has been inevit- ?
able. First and foremost being con- |
corned with bettering the condition jj
of the workers, the I. W. W. ran 5
counter to many great employing in- ,
tersts which never for a moment >
misunderstood the purpose of the
new organization. It requires no
very great economic sagacity to pen
etrate the fact that with industrial
solidarity an accomplished fact, as
it can be accomplished by the In
dustrial Workers of the World and
in no other way. the job control
and the economic power of the
owner of the machinery of produc
tion and distribution would be
placed in jeopardy. They, fought
them on the economic field, but they
fought the industrialists far more
fiercely on what one may term the
sociological Held. They denounced ■
the red flag, they attacked the lack ^
of patriotism, the insubordination, j
the contempt for the village Dog
berries and the agitation to main
tain free speech and assembly. They
represented them as criminals red
with senseless murder and blacked
with purposeless arson. And they
handed this out from pulpit, from
press, from platform and had every
respectable in the land demanding
blood and iron to eliminate them
from the scheme of things. They
were met with methods not much |
different. Every constitutional right (
was suspended as far as the indus- j
trialists were concerned. They were ■
arrested and charged with murder i
and the resources of state aftfir state j
were placed at the disposal oi the j
prosecution to convict. Some were i
convicted. Innocent men, like Joe J
Hill, were executed without a j
shred of real evidence. Arrested |
men in San Diego and Wheatlands
and Spokane and Lawrence were
subjected to a venomous fury of au
thority would disgrace any nation
calling itself civilized, if such thingB
were not actually quite an important
part of our civilization, and the very
reasonable effort of those holding
the economic power to prevent any
attempt to wrest it trom them.
So therefore with this review, and
it is quite impartial, the situation
Everett is very understandable. The
workers struck in the sawmills. The
I. W. W. were first to enter the
breach. The sheriff armed a posse i
with booze and sticks and deported
and beat up all the leaders In
fashion would be considered dis
graceful if it were not quite so fre
quent from the graceful. The re
turn of these men and their followers
was the occasion of this battle which
is reported in news dispatches.
Any attempt to paint the industri
alists as angels and much wronged
beings with unsullied wings would
promptly be rejected with a cry of
derision by none more quickly than
the industrialists themselves. But
it is impossible to avoid pointing
out to those respectables who affect
to denounce and deprecate the work
of these much maligned ihen, that
the I. W. W. is a product of capi
talism. If you do not like the effect,
it would be more reasonable to de
nounce the cause. For every crime
that may be laid justly or unjustly
to the doors of the industrialists,
ten thousand can be laid to the
doors of tne capitalist system. What
the I. W. W. is doing is placing
within the hearts of hopeless men,
nerveless men, discouraged men,hope
and daring and determination. They
have gone among their fellow work
ers, it has been slow and discourag
ing work, and in the very humblest
ranks they have imbued a fighting
spirit which all other labor organi
zations have been unable to do.
That fighting spirit takes on. very
objectionable forms; but in that, it
is fundamentally based upon a spirit
of resistance to tyranny, to wrong,
to injustice, fundamentally also it
is upon the same basis as upon
which the structure of American re
publicanism originally was founded.
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