Anti-Wobbly propaganda from ‘The Daily Liar’
Preamble to the Constitution of the
Industrial Workers of the World (1991 revision)
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 evergrowing 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.”
It is the historic mission of the working class to do away with capitalism.
The army of production must be organised, not only for everyday struggle with capitalists, but also to carry on production when capitalism shall have been overthrown.
By organizing industrially we are forming the structure of the new society within the shell of the old.
Wobbly texts on this site
A Rebel May Day, from Industrial Worker (1909)
Military Power, from Industrial Worker (1909)
Manufacturing Psychology, from Industrial Worker (1910)
The IWW and Political Parties, by Vincent St. John (1910)
Some collected texts and letters by Joe Hill (1910-1915)
Manifesto to the Workers of the World, by the Mexican Liberal Party (1911)
William Stanley, from Regeneración (1911)
Fighting On, by Ricardo Flores Magón (1911)
Reds Die For Freedom, by the Industrial Workers of the World (1911)
War and the Workers, by the Industrial Workers of the World (1911)
Insurrection Rather Than War, from Industrial Worker (1911)
Hell Here, No Hereafter, from Industrial Worker (1911)
Resolution of the San Diego IWW (1911)
Help This Propaganda, by Joseph Kucera (1911)
Patriotism A Bloody Monster, by Caroline Nelson (1912)
Industrialism is not Syndicalism, from Industrial Worker (1913)
The Spirit of Revolt, from Industrial Worker (1913)
Queries and Replies, from Industrial Worker (1913)
The Yellow Peril, from Industrial Worker (1913)
Break This Conspiracy of the Shipping Trust, by Ben Fletcher (1914)
Concerning Atrocities, by James Peter Warbasse (1915)
That Sucker, the Patriot, from Industrial Worker (1916)
The Deadly Parallel, by the Industrial Workers of the World (1917)
One Big Union the Need of All Mine Workers, by Frank Little (1917)
In Free America!!, by Ricardo Flores Magón (1917)
The Politician is Not My Shepherd, by Covington Hall (1933)
Tough Times, by T-Bone Slim (1939)
How to End War, by T-Bone Slim (1939)
Land, Labour and Loss: A Story of Struggle & Survival at the Burrard Inlet, by Taté Walker (2015)
Industrial Workers of the World in Vancouver, by M.Gouldhawke (2002)
Wobbly texts on other sites
The Roots of Modern War, by James Connolly (1898)
Industrial Union Manifesto, by the Conference of Industrial Unionists at Chicago (1905)
Lucy E. Parsons’ Speeches at the Founding Convention of the Industrial Workers of the World (1905)
Slugs From the Social Matrix, by James Connolly (1906)
Developments at Spokane, by J. H. Walsh (1908)
Japanese and Chinese Exclusion or Industrial Organization, Which?, by J. H. Walsh (1908)
Experiences of a Hobo Miner, by Frank Little (1908)
San Diego Strike of Mexican Laborers Conducted by the I.W.W., from Solidarity (1910)
The California Fruit Belt, by Frank H. Little (1910)
Liberty VS. the Law, by Frank Little (1910)
Little Says He Preferred Dark Cell, from Industrial Worker (1910)
William Stanley Dead, from Industrial Worker (1911)
The Battle of Mexicali, by F.A. Compton, from Industrial Worker (1911)
For Land and Liberty: Mexican Revolution Conference in New York, from Industrial Worker (1911)
Organize the Mexican Workers, by Stanley M. Gue, from Industrial Worker (1911)
To Arms Ye Braves! An Appeal from the I.W.W. Brigade in Mexico, from Industrial Worker (1911)
Contracts, from Industrial Worker (1912)
Down with Race Prejudice, by Phineas Eastman (1912)
Away with Race Prejudice, by Caroline Nelson (1912)
The Seventh I.W.W. Convention, by William Z. Foster (1912)
Stirring the Pot in Dixie, by Benjamin H. Fletcher (1913)
Marching on Denver to Fight for Free Speech, from Industrial Worker (1913)
Frank Little Kidnapped, Rescued by Strikers, by James P. Cannon (1913)
The Working Class and War, by Vincent St. John (1914)
Where We Stand on War, by Mary E. Marcy (1915)
The I.W.W. And Other Unions, by William D. Haywood (1915)
Revolutionary Unionism and War, by James Connolly (1915)
Joe Hill to the People of Utah, from The International Socialist Review (1915)
Another Immortal, by Honoré J. Jaxon (1915)
Economic Conscription, by James Connolly (1915)
Statement on Abduction in Ironwood, Michigan, by Frank H. Little (1916)
Miners in Arizona Lining Up, by Frank H. Little (1917)
To Frank Little, by Phillips Russell (1917)
Evolution of American Agriculture, by Abner E. Woodruff (1919)
Local 8 of I.W.W. on the Firing Line, from The Messenger (1922)
The Philadelphia Longshoremen Become an Independent Union, by Ben Fletcher (1923)
The Negro and Organized Labor, by Ben Fletcher (1923)
Frank Little and the War, by Ralph Chaplin (1926)
Ben Fletcher: Portrait of a black syndicalist, by Jeff Stein (1987)
Why I am not a Misanthrope, by Judi Bari (1991)
Redwood Uprising, by Steve Ongerth (2010)
The Legacy of Joe Hill, by The Salt Lake Tribune (2015)
Mexican Workers in the IWW and the Partido Liberal Mexicano (PLM), by Devra Anne Weber (2016)
T-Bone Slim: the laureate of the logging camps, by the Working Class History podcast (2019)
Fitz St. John: A Longshoreman’s Longshoreman, by the ILWU (2020)
Ben Fletcher’s One Big Union, by Robin D.G. Kelley (2020)
The IWW in Canada, by the Working Class History podcast (2021)
Head Hits Concrete, by M.Gouldhawke (2021)
Indigenous labour struggles, by M.Gouldhawke (2022)
Ben Fletcher, by the Working Class History podcast (2023)
Remembering James Connolly, by Ronan Burtenshaw (2023)
Early history of I.W.W. “stickerettes” or “silent agitators”, by Catherine Tedford (2023)
Elizabeth Gurley Flynn texts at the Marxists Internet Archive
Mary Marcy texts at the Marxists Internet Archive
T-Bone Slim and the transnational poetics of the migrant left in North America
Don’t Mourn — Organize!: Songs of Labor Songwriter Joe Hill, by Smithsonian Folkways
The Bisbee Deportation 1917, by the University of Arizona
IWW History Project by the University of Washington
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