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| Title | The road to power, or, the constructive elements of socialism |
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| Publisher | Literature Bureau of the Workers' International Industrial Union |
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| Date | 1919 |
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| Language | English |
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| Original Item Extent | 33 pages: chart; 17 cm. |
| Original Item Location | HX86.D25 1919 |
| Original Item URL | http://library.uh.edu/record=b8304529~S11 |
| Original Collection | Socialist and Communist Pamphlets |
| Digital Collection | Socialist and Communist Pamphlets |
| Digital Collection URL | http://digital.lib.uh.edu/collection/scpamp |
| Repository | Special Collections, University of Houston Libraries |
| Repository URL | http://libraries.uh.edu/branches/special-collections |
| Use and Reproduction | This item is in the public domain and may be used freely. |
| File Name | index.cpd |
| Title | Image 33 |
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| Transcript | CONSTRUCTIVE ELEMENTS OF SOCIALISM 31 l» Socialist movement; a struggle carried on in the face of the recognized and accepted tenet: That where no class solidarity is able to sprout out of Socialist class-consciousness, also no all-cmbracive class organization can make headway, flourish and develop. The Industrial Union would organize a printery in the following manner: First, the printing industry is a sub-division of the Department for Manufacture and General Production. This subdivision or subsidiary department organizes and embraces all workers who are directly or indirectly engaged in the production of printed matter. Not to forget: THE PRODUCT FURNISHES THE BASIS OF ORGANIZATION. This sub-division is again constituted out of so-called Local Industrial Unions. In their respective Local Industrial Union all the workers employed in a printery are organized, forming an integral part of the local organization constituted of various Local Industrial Unions embracing all industries in a given locality. Consequently, the Local Industrial Union of workers employed in a printery would organize all of the above mentioned twelve crafts like typesetters, printers and pressmen, bookbinders, photographers, stereotypers, lithographers, journalists and editors, machinists, firemen, electricians, bookkeepers and clerks and janitors into ONE compact organization with one class interest and one method of warfare. This Local Industrial Union, embracing the whole printing industry of a locality, can of course, divide itself into as many local sub-divisions or branches as the demands or peculiar conditions of a specific industry may require. The organizations of these branches or sub-divisions in the Local Industrial Union are, as stated before, determined by craft peculiarities. For instance, in the Local Industrial Union of the printing industry, the twelve crafts |