“…they need no book learning to convince them that the land is theirs by right.”
Category: Industrial Worker
“The ‘patriot’ doesn’t stop to question whether he is doing right or whether he is doing wrong, but will go forth and kill somebody of some other nation even if he knows he is in the wrong.”
“The I.W.W. does not neglect propaganda among the skilled workers, but it particularly addresses itself to the unskilled, migratory workers who form the bulk of the working class.”
“Let us not forget on May Day, Labor Day, to honor the memories of all our martyred dead, whose struggle, sufferings and death have made possible even the agitation for better things for the workers.”
“The latest stunt of the boss is to use the moving picture shows as an instrument to mould the minds and ideas of the workers.”
“Life must never become a habit, you said. It must be a triumph, it must be a consecration.”
“The ‘doing away with war’ must be predicated upon the presumption that it must be done outside the magic circle of overlords and their stooges…”
“Therefore our chain is your chain. The problem of hunger is universal.”
“Now aren’t we proud to raise our sons and daughters ready to stab us in the name of patriotism?”
“I refuse to wet the earth with blood and blind eyes with tears.”
“Hades is not beyond the tomb,
As some people gravely tell”
“How different is it with us! Because we stand for the people; because we wish to see them in possession of the necessaries of life and do not want them cheated with fine words…”
“It was the I.W.W. boys who first kept the red flag flying on the battlefield of Mexicali, Mexico, and during the thickest of the fight we lost two brave I.W.W. boys …”
“… I intend to make some more foolish songs, although I realize that the class struggle is a very serious thing.”
“Don’t go to Hell in Order to Give the Capitalists a Bigger Slice of Heaven”
“Our cause is yours: if you remain inactive while your brothers meet death embracing the Red Flag, you will give with your inaction a rude blow to the cause of the proletarian.”
“The military power is the direct enemy of the working class and the support of the cowardly employing class.”
“The I.W.W. can never afford to gain in membership at the cost of sacrificed principles, or by appealing to the workers from the standpoint of immediate material benefits alone.”
“Government implies governors and governed, a ruling and a subject class. No man is great enough or good enough to rule another.”
“This tendency to look down upon the workers of the ‘far-off’ lands is foolish, for we venture to remark that the United States is just as far off from Japan as Japan is from the United States.”
“…we openly declare ourselves determined opponents of all nationalistic sectionalism or patriotism, and the militarism preached and supported by our one enemy, the Capitalist Class.”
“There is nothing to it
As the Bible says
‘All politicians are liars’
Therefore, if ye would be ‘saved’
Save yourselves”
