INDUSTRIAL WORKERS OF THE WORLD UNITE!
The working class and the employing class have nothing in common. There can be no peace as long as hunger and want are found among the millions of working people while the few, who make up the employing class, reap the profits from our labour.
Between the two classes a struggle must go on until the workers of the world are able to organize and take control of the machinery of production, in order to abolish the wage system and co - exist with the earth.
Trade unions foster a state of affairs which allows one set of workers to be pitted against another set of workers within the same industry, thereby helping to defeat one another in wage wars. Moreover, the trade unions aid the employing class to mislead workers into the belief that the working class has interests in common with its employers.
These conditions can be changed, and the interests of the working class upheld, only by organization formed in a fashion that all members involved in any one industry, or in all industries if necessary, cease to work whenever a strike is called in any department of said industry, thus making an injusry one and injury to all.
Rather than settling for the conservative motto of "A fair days wage for a fair days work", we must inscribe on our banner the revolutionary watchword of "Abolition of the wage system!".
It is the historic mission of the working class to do away with capitalism. The army of production must be organized, not only for the every day struggle with capitalists, but also to carry on production when capitalism shall have been overthrown. By organizing industrially we are forming the structure of the new society within the shell of the old.

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