Beschluss: GKC IWW

Originalversion

1 The working class and the employing class have nothing in
2 common. There can be no peace so long as hunger and want are
3 found among millions of the working people and the few, who
4 make up the employing class, have all the good things of
5 life.
6
7 Between these two classes a struggle must go on until the
8 workers of the world organize as a class, take possession of
9 the means of production, abolish the wage system, and live
10 in harmony with the Earth.
11
12 We find that the centering of the management of industries
13 into fewer and fewer hands makes the trade unions unable to
14 cope with the ever growing power of the employing class. The
15 trade unions foster a state of affairs which allows one set
16 of workers to be pitted against another set of workers in
17 the same industry, thereby helping defeat one another in
18 wage wars. Moreover, the trade unions aid the employing
19 class to mislead the workers into the belief that the
20 working class have interests in common with their employers.
21
22 These conditions can be changed and the interest of the
23 working class upheld only by an organization formed in such
24 a way that all its members in any one industry, or in all
25 industries if necessary, cease work whenever a strike or
26 lockout is on in any department thereof, thus making an
27 injury to one an injury to all.
28
29 Instead of the conservative motto, "A fair day's wage for a
30 fair day's work," we must inscribe on our banner the
31 revolutionary watchword, "Abolition of the wage system."
32
33 It is the historic mission of the working class to do away
34 with capitalism. The army of production must be organized,
35 not only for everyday struggle with capitalists, but also to
36 carry on production when capitalism shall have been
37 overthrown. By organizing industrially we are forming the
38 structure of the new society within the shell of the old.

Der Text verglichen mit der Originalversion

1 The working class and the employing class have nothing in
2 common. There can be no peace so long as hunger and want are
3 found among millions of the working people and the few, who
4 make up the employing class, have all the good things of
5 life.
6
7 Between these two classes a struggle must go on until the
8 workers of the world organize as a class, take possession of
9 the means of production, abolish the wage system, and live
10 in harmony with the Earth.
11
12 We find that the centering of the management of industries
13 into fewer and fewer hands makes the trade unions unable to
14 cope with the ever growing power of the employing class. The
15 trade unions foster a state of affairs which allows one set
16 of workers to be pitted against another set of workers in
17 the same industry, thereby helping defeat one another in
18 wage wars. Moreover, the trade unions aid the employing
19 class to mislead the workers into the belief that the
20 working class have interests in common with their employers.
21
22 These conditions can be changed and the interest of the
23 working class upheld only by an organization formed in such
24 a way that all its members in any one industry, or in all
25 industries if necessary, cease work whenever a strike or
26 lockout is on in any department thereof, thus making an
27 injury to one an injury to all.
28
29 Instead of the conservative motto, "A fair day's wage for a
30 fair day's work," we must inscribe on our banner the
31 revolutionary watchword, "Abolition of the wage system."
32
33 It is the historic mission of the working class to do away
34 with capitalism. The army of production must be organized,
35 not only for everyday struggle with capitalists, but also to
36 carry on production when capitalism shall have been
37 overthrown. By organizing industrially we are forming the
38 structure of the new society within the shell of the old.

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