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Scanned Image it _ .~ . 1 - .1 _ . __ q-. m AIMS AND PRINCIPLES OF THE DIRECT ACTION MOVEMENT lll The Direct Action Movement is a working ze-F5‘ C|8$$ organisation. _ " l2l Our aim is the creation of a free and classless society. , l3l We are fighting to abolish the . state. $3 capitalism and wage slavefv 5" 3" the" forms and replace them by_ self-man899d production for need not profit. l4l ln order to bring about the new social order, the workers must take over the means of production and distribution. We are, the sworn enemies of those who would take over on behalf of the workers. '36-‘ l5l We believe that the only way for the working class to achieve this is for independent organisation in the workplace and community and federation with others in the same industry and locality, independent of, and opposed to all political parties and trade union bureaucracies. All such workers organisations must be controlled by workers themselves and must unite rather than divide the workers movement. Any and all delegates of such workers organisations must be subject to immediate recall by the workers. l6l We are opposed to all States and State institutions. The working class has no country. The class struggle is worldwide and recognises the story of no artificial boundaries. The armies and police of all States do not exist to protect the workers of those States, they exist only as the repressive Iron 3"“ of the ruling class. l7l We oppose racism, sexism, militarism and all attitudes and institutions that stand in the way of equality and the right of all people everywhere Column to control their own lives and the environment. the first of (Bl The Direct Action Movement is a federation of groups and individuals who believe in the Press principles of anercho-syndicalism; a system where the workers alone control industry and the community without the dictates of politicians, bureaucrat ~s, bosses and so-called experts. ‘may One Hundred Years On. 0 . The story of the Hoymorket Incident, The Chicago Martyrs, and the origins of Moy Doy. Produced by the North West Direct Action Movement (D.A.M./I.W_.A.) The Direct Action Movement (DAM) is the British section of the International Workers‘ Association (IWA). D.A.M National Secretary, 223 Greenwood Rd., ' Wythenshawe, Manchester, M22 YHB. 1 ONE HUNDRED YEARS ON The Congress had also seen the formation of the international Working Peoples‘ Association. This, together with the Social Revolutionary Club had about five thousand members within the Chicago area and the propagating of their singular doctrine had On May First 1886 Chicago was disrupted by a General Strike; over caused them to become a serious threat to the establishment in three hundred thousand people from all sections of the working the city. No less than five papers were were published including class community struck work in an effort to obtain an eight hour the "Alarm" in English, edited by Albert Parsons, and a German day. Of the estimated 800,000 people who went on strike laguage daily "Arbeiter Zeitung" edited by August Spies, this had throughout the U.S.A. over a third were from the Chicago area. a circulation of about five thousand copies daily. This particular fight had been going on for over twenty years, By staging impressive mass demonstrations and public meetings and there had been some success. Six States had adopted the as well as publishing the newspapers, the message of the principle of an eight hour day by 1867, and a year later Congress anarchists had gained a foothold in the region. The result was passed the first Federal eight hour law, granting the right to that the "Chicago Social Revolutionaries were able to exert a Federal employees only. However these laws were ineffective; in much greater influence than their numbers would indicate." practice both the private employers and the Federal Government The anarchists dominated the unions in the Chicago area, and ignored them. they were the heart and soul of the struggle for shorter hours By 1886 there was a new determination amongst many working and were undoubtedly responsible for the success of the strike in class people to achieve their goal of a shorter working day. their district. Originally the anarchists had been suspicious of There was, as one commentator observed later, "the spectacle of the eight hour demand because they thought it gave legitimacy to thousands of workers, skilled and unskilled, men and women, negro the wage system and imagined that its acceptance was "a virtual and white, native and immigrant, organised and unorganised" being concession that the wage system is right" and even if they were involved in the struggle. successful in prosecuting the struggle, it could divert the "There is an eight hour agitation everywhere" said a contem- energies of the class from the fight to overthrow the whole porary writer reporting in mid-April, by this time there were a economic system. Parsons, one of the martyrs, explained later quarter of a million industrial workers involved in the conflict, that they finally supported it "because it was a class movement and already over thirty thousand workers had achieved their goal, against domination, therefore historical and evolutionary, and for the rest victory was in sight. necessary, and secondly because we did not choose to stand aloof and be misunderstood by our fellow workers". Though they espoused the eight hour day the anarchists did not allow themselves to lose sight of essentials and repeatedly CHICAGO made it clear that Direct Action was the only way to achieve emancipation. In the context of the time and place this meant force. (Even the reformist trade unionists allowed this fact. Chicago was the main centre of struggle having a large industrial Powderly, one of the leaders of the Knights of Labour, had said population that was heavily influenced by anarchist ideas, the as early as 1880: "l am anxious that each of our lodges should be movement was centered upon the Chicago Social Revolutionary Club. provided with powder and shot, bullets and Winchester rifles, This was one of several spread throughout the country: Boston, when we intend to strike... if we anticipate strikes we must Philadelphia and New York all had one as well as other cities. prepare to fight and use arms against the forces brought against _lt was Chicago that had taken the lead in developing what us."). In October 1885 August Spies, at the Central Labour Union, became known as the "Chicago ldea", abandoning politics and put forward the following resolution: "We urgently call upon the concentrating on developing the principle of Direct Action, and wage-earning class to arm itself in order to be able to put forth linking it to workshop organisation. These proposals had been against their exploiters such an argument which alone can be adopted by the anarchist "Pitsburgh Congress" in 1883. effective: violence." 2 3 y____ I886 It was February of this year that the workers at the McCormick l Allemiun urkingmen! Harvester Machine Co. went on strike. This was still in progress :.:...:.;.::::'w-1:5.-=1: Q 11,3 $7 grass-as-.....-'..-:..a when the eight hour clash engulfed the city. At least half of the McCormick strikers joined the eight hour movement and on Monday 3rd of May in the afternoon an eight hour mass meeting was held SS- EETI li by members of the lumber shovers union on Black Rd., near the McCormick‘ works. Amongst those in attendance were five or six TO-NIGHT, at o’clock, hundred strikers from McCormicks. The speaker was A.Spies, the anarchist editor who had been chosen to speak by the Central HAYMAHKET, Baniului S1. Blil. llliSl]lillllliS and Halslei. Labour Union. As he was in flow the strike-breakers left the ‘ Good Speakers will be present to denounce the latest factory, immediately both the strikers and many of their support- atrocious act of the police. the shooting of our ers tried to prevent them. Suddenly a detachment of police . fellow-workmen yesterday afternoon. arrived and opened fire on the strikers, killing one and wounding Wurkingmen Arm Yuurselvas and Aunear in Full Force! four or five others. Horrified by the experience, Spies returned THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE. to his office at the 'Arbeiter Zeitung' and composed a circular | i in which he called for the workers of Chicago to "rise in your might... we call you to arms". This has been called the "Revenge Circular" because one of the printers added the word "Revenge" . iilrlitung, ?lrlicitcr! without Spies‘ knowledge. The circular was distributed and a ' Groflr meeting was called to take place in the Haymarket Square, Chicago for the evening of May firth. illluiicitrQictiaiiiiitliiiig l .§§cute ilbcnb, 58 libs. uuf iicm I tlfuubolpb-Qttofir, gtniicbcn l Fbcsploirrcm u. J_5oli'tcb-Qt:-. * Q'@ulr lltrburr mrrben brn nrurflru édlurlrnflrrith brr ‘l.ioli_;ri. ! inbcm fir gtflrrrt ‘Jindunillag unirrr llitiibrt rridiofi, gtifirln. Workingmen, to Arm CZ! 0--0 e--U 0"!-Q jflrhritcr. brmnfintl (furl; nub rrldiriut muiirnliuill fie? litrrutiv-(iomitc. Your nsseere sent out their bloodhousds - the police -; they killed six of your brothers st lloflormfoke this sf.-.1-recon. They kl! ed the poor wrstehee, hsosus-e they, like you, hsd the courage to disobey the supreme will of your boeese. They killed them. beoeuee they dared eel for the shortsnln of the hours of toll. They kt-led than . to show you, "'F'l"er1\ American Clslsanol‘. test. you mm-r. be estfsfled end oantsndsd with whenever your bosses oondeeosod to sllow yon. or you will get. killed! You here for years endured the most ebjse: hnrnlllstlons; you have for ysere euflsl-ed unmeuurebis lulqultles; you have worked youreelfto dssth; you here endured THE HAYMARKET MEETING *9" Plflls of n snt and hunger; your Oh tldren you have seorlfloed to t-he fsotory-Iorde -- ln short: You hers been rulsersbls end obedient slsve ell these years: Why! To eetlsfy the lnsstleble greed, lo fill the ooflsre of your leey tsleving master? when you ssh the‘ now to lessen your burden, he sends his bloodhounde out to shoot you, kill you! Two or three thousand people turned up to the fateful meeting.
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