“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…”
Category: Industrial Worker
“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 …”
“Despite the silence of newspapers in the eastern and central sections of this country, the revolution – the economic revolution – is in full swing, and heading straight for free land.”
“… 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.”
