INDUSTRIAL PIONEER Preamble of the Industrial Workers of the World 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 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 organize as a class, take posses­ sion of the earth and the machinery of production, and abolish the wage system. We find that the centering of the management of in­ dustries 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 to 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 has inter­ ests in common with their employers. These conditions can be changed and the interests of the working class upheld 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 sys­ tem.” 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 cap­ italists, but also to carry on production when capitalism shall have been overthrown. By organizing industrially we are forming the struc­ ture of the new society within the shell of the old. EDITORIALS: Page The Thirteenth Convention of the I. W. W........................ — 14 Secretary Davis Urges “A Fair Deal for Capital”......................... 14 SERIAL • The Story of the Sea. By Tom Barker............................................ 44 ARTICLES: First of May, 1921.............................................- .....-......... 3 Supreme Court Denies Petition of I. W. W. Prisoners------------- 4 All Aboard for “Normalcy.” By S. P --------------------------- 10 George Hardy on the I. W. W ....................................................... 12 Capital and Labor. By John O’Hara------------------------------------ 13 How the I. W. W. is Organized. By James Kennedy. .......17 Wasteful Methods of Distributing City Milk. By the L W. W. Bureau of Industrial Research................................................. — 57 FROM FOREIGN LANDS: The Truce in England. By Francis Davis.................. 7 Mexico; Its Government and Labor Movement. By W. J. Lemen. With 4 Illustrations------------- 23 “Dust” on Mexico. With 2 Illustrations __________________ 28 Boycott All Goods Made in Spain...*. ---------------------------------- 42 John Bull, the Sacred Cow and the Golden Calf. By J. A. Loeb 47 The International Situation. By H. Van Dorn ---- 49 DEPARTMENTS: The Question Box. ------ -.-------- 30 Wobbles ........................... 43 General Defense News. By John Martin................. 66 Book Review: Revolution, A Creative Process. By S. P.--------- 68 FICTION: Economies of a Patriot. Sketch by Jacob Sherman _______ 29 The Majority. A One-Act Play by Ernest Riebe_____________ 36 POETRY: The Son of Man. By C. S................................ 6 May Day, 1921. By J. S. W. M .......... 13 The Striker. By Robert Whitaker._________ 16 The W. W. I. By John Banks.............................. 22 Bow of Promise. By Julia C. Coons........................ 27 Prelude to Propaganda. By S. P ............ 33 The River. By Julia C. Coons.................................... _..... 56 PICTURES AND CARTOONS: The Holy Trinity of Modern Civilization. Cartoon by M. A. Hanton ..... 2 “The Interests of Capital and Labor Are Identical.” Cartoon. 29 The Building. Cartoon by Art Young..................................... 34 A Wall Whose Stones Are Alive With Memories. Picture 48 Unemployment. Cartoon..................................................................... 52 i Digitized by A Triple Alliance CQvf\Hai5Tpa • * iq 2 l. THE HOLY TRINITY OF MODERN CIVIUZATION Digitized by Google Vol. 1, No. 4 MAY, 1921 Serial No. 4 i — First of May, 1921 E ARE living at a time pregnant the' one bright beacon of light is Soviet W with tremendous possibilities. .On Russia. There, also, is suffering, but it is the First of May of the year nine­ suffering for the cause of humanity; there, teen hundred and twenty-one the workers also, death reaps a bountiful harvest, but of the whole world are face to face with a it is for the purpose of upholding the rule situation more critical than has prevailed of labor. But there is no unemployment In at any time during the last one hundred Soviet Russia, and its ship of state, instead years. Starvation, unemployment, chaos, of being headed for the shoals of economic death, rule triumphant in all the four cor­ dissolution, is headed full blast for the tran­ ners of the earth, East and West, North and quil sea of Reconstruction. South. The one thing that labor is learning in Behold, oh children of men, the blessings these its days of supreme trial is the need, of capitalism! In America, the “land of the absolute necessity, of working class so­ cream and honey,” the land of “prosper­ lidarity the world over. The workers of ity,” the “haven of refuge” for the op­ no country can stand alone and win their pressed and persecuted of all countries, the struggle against the capitalists. Their ef­ gaunt figures and pinched faces of four mil­ forts must be co-ordinated ou an interna­ lion unemployed men and women looking tional scale, the other alternative being de­ for a job! Aye, four millions, at the most feat at the hands of the powers that be. conservative estimate, and very likely twice And herein lies the great significance of that number, besides all those other’s who May Day, the international labor day. work but two or three days in a week, or Never has the edict of Karl Marx, “Work­ but a week out of a month! Unemployed ers of the world, unite,” been weighted parades, in America! Suicides caused by with as profound meaning as today. lack of work, in America! Bread lines, For thousands of years has the man who hundreds of them, in America! works been trying to become his own mas­ When we turn to other countries things ter, and yet today he still finds himself in are just as bad—or worse. In England, bondage. The mistake that he has been 2,000,000 officially known unemployed; in making down the ages has been that of al­ Germany, another 2,000,000; in France, ways looking for a Messiah, of expecting even more. Wherever we may turn—in somebody else to set him free, of ever de­ Italy, Poland, Holland, Switzerland, the pending upon a Moses to lead him out of Baltic and the Balkan States, South and the desert to the Promised Land. And, Central America, unemployment, suffering, truly, thousands of Messiahs has he found, chaos, revolt, stare us in the face. On top but always has he been led astray, into a of this, the brutal hand and the spiked wilderness more desolate, and always have heel of the White Terror in Hungary, Italy, the fruits of his struggles and his sufferings Spain, Chile, Japan! In these countries been reaped by Someone else. The other thousands of our brother-workingmen are significance of May Day is that it makes being murdered for daring to raise their the workers realize with a force multiplied voices in protest. Sweet, indeed, are the a hundredfold the truth of the old saying blessings of capitalism! that “he who would be free himself must In this night of blackness and despair break his chains.” 3 Digitized by Google \ Supreme Court Denies Petition of I. W. W. Prisoners HE PETITION for a writ of certior­ declaring an end to the state of war that ari of the members of the Industrial has existed for four years between the Unit­ T Workers of the World sentenced in ed States and Germany. Our hope is that 1918 in the City of Chicago was on April this resolution may be passed in the very 11th denied by the United State Supreme near future and that the President’s subse­ Court. This means that the case will not quent action may result in the release of be reviewed and that the sentences will be all class war prisoners. upheld. And as for us, fellow workers, who are Of the ninety-four men who were sent still outside the prison gates, let us do ev­ to Leavenworth penitentiary by Judge Lan­ erything in our power to hasten the day dis twelve received one-year sentences, at the expiration o r THE of which ttihe they regained W O R L D their freedom; the sentences • UNITE- of the others varied from five to twenty years. Of these latter forty-six have been re­ leased on bond, who will now have to go back to Leavenworth, unless pardoned by President Harding. The case of the thirty-eight I. W. WVs convicted in Sacramento also was brought up to the U. S. Supreme Court, and the pe­ tition for a review was denied some three weeks prior to the action taken on the Chi­ cago case. This leaves only the fate of the twenty-six men convicted in Wichita in the balance. Their case is at present pending in the Appellate Court. Judging by the when it will no longer be possible to put actions taken in the other two cases, not men in prison for twenty years whose only much hope can be entertained for them.