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  • GKC IWW (Originalversion)

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    1 The working class and the employing class have nothing in
    2 common. There can be no peace so long as hunger and want
    3 are found among millions of the working people and the few,
    4 who make up the employing class, have all the good things
    5 of life.
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    7 Between these two classes a struggle must go on until the
    8 workers of the world organize as a class, take possession
    9 of the means of production, abolish the wage system, and
    10 live in harmony with the Earth.
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    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.
    15 The trade unions foster a state of affairs which allows one
    16 set of workers to be pitted against another set of workers
    17 in 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.
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    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.
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    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."
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    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
    36 to 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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