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 34 |
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File Name | uhlib_12374394_033.jpg |
Transcript | 32 THE ROAD TO POWER enumerated above could be organized as twelve separate branches of the Local Industrial Union, without being at all exposed to the disintegrating effects of the A. F. of L. pure and simpledom. As twelve craft branches, they are only organs or parts of a whole—the Local Industrial Union of Printing Workers; and this Local Industrial Union is a member of the National Industrial Union, which again is a sub-division of a certain industrial department, which joins, with the other industrial divisions, into One Big International Industrial Union comprising the class-conscious wage workers of the world. In order to encourage harmonious and conscious organization amongst all the wrorkers in a certain locality, and also in order to be in steady contact with all industries, Local District Councils, which consist of delegates from all the Local Industrial Unions, functioning in and embracing the most variegated industries of a locality, are organized and chartered and attached to General Headquarters. As we will be able to perceive from the foregoing, Industrial Unionism in no way curbs the workers' craft independence. A typesetter can, as a member of the typesetters' branch of a Local Industrial Union of Printing Workers, confer with his colleagues over the details of the typographical industry as in the good old days. What, however, will no longer be tolerated is that the interests of a particular craft are placed above those of an industry. The interests of the Industrial Union, in this case the interests of all workers in a printery, are the dominating ones. Here the august maxim is applied: ALL FOR ONE AND ONE FOR ALL. The picayune and egotistical craft interests must here submit to the general interests of all industrial workers. That is the reason why it |