The Industrial Workers of the World aims to be a hub for workers and officials across different industries to liase, connnect, and share experience. Too often Australian workers demarcate along industrial lines, which recreates that state of competition that the IWW were formed to counter.
If we behave in this guild-like fashion we all end up reinventing the wheel in every industry, and we cannot keep effective track of the chains of prduction and where they can be disrupted. Does the capitalist class demarcate along industrial lines? of course not.
Capitalists aim to own entire chains of production, and so do we.
Preamble to the Constitution of the Industrial Workers of the World
The working class and the employing class have nothing in common.
There can be no peace so long as hunger and want are found among millions of the working people and the few, who make up the employing class, have all the good things of life.Between these two classes a struggle must go on until the workers of the world organise as a class, take possession of the means of production, abolish the wage system, and live in harmony with the earth.
We find that the centering of the management of industries into fewer and fewer hands makes the trade unions unable to cope with the ever-growing power of the employing class.The trade unions foster a state of affairs which allows one set of workers to be pitted against another set of workers in the same industry, thereby helping defeat one another in wage wars.Moreover, the trade unions aid the employing class to mislead the workers into the belief that the working class have interests in common with their employers.
These conditions can be changed and the interest of the working class upheld only by an organization formed in such a way that all its members in any one industry, or in all industries if necessary, cease work whenever a strike or lockout is on in any department thereof, thus making an injury to one an injury to all..
Instead of the conservative motto, “A fair day’s wage for a fair day’s work,” we must inscribe on our banner the revolutionary watchword,“Abolition of the wage system.”
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