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Show FIRST PRINCIPLE OF INDUSTRIAL UNIONISM. FIRST It accepts the principle taat the interests of the working class and of the employing class are Irreconcilably Irre-concilably opposed, in accepting this principle, the Industrial Unionist gives ihe lie to the notion which doifilnaics the ordinary trade or craft union, rnmely that the Interest of the two classes are harmonious. That the poverty of the working class Is due to the fact of labor power being a commodity is becoming Increasingly In-creasingly evident. Th'.- working-man's working-man's wages are si".nply the price of the commodity he must sell to the employer em-ployer In order to live, and this price represents only a very small portion of the wealth produced by him In the service of the capitalist class. Mo, I- ( c rn society Is made up of wage work- 1 ers. who perform all the necessary labor, and capitalist owners of the means of life, who appropriate the bulk of labor's product. The Interests of the two societies are not the same. The one tolls and produces, the other Idles and appropriates. The one receives re-ceives wages enough only to enable it to work, the other pays wages out of previous surplus produce, and gets them back a hundred fold. The one has no means of production, the other has all the means of production. The working class alone is necessary, and should rule society and industry, the capitalist class is unnecessary, and should, therefore, be abolished Between Be-tween Ihe two there exists a class struggle, continuous and bitter. Capitalism Is organized to obtain Its sway, while Labor's ranks present the appearance of a disorganized rabble, trades unionism helping the confusion by keeping the Yvorkers divided along 1 raft lines. Industrial unionism seeks to organize and unite all wage earners In order to pursue the class struggle to an end intelligently ami relentlessly. relentless-ly. Exchange. |