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 THE I. W. W. PREAMBLE 1 . 
 
 The working class and the employing class have noth- 
 ing in common. There can be no peace so long as hunger 
 and want are found among millions of 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. Trfe 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 
 have interests in common with their employers. 
 
 These conditions can be changed and the interests 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 
 wages 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 
 organized, not only for the every-day struggle with capi- 
 talism, 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. jyj^j ^&( |()Q 
 
One Big Union 
 
 Social relations are the reflex of the grouping of 
 industrial possessions. The owners of all resources 
 and means of wealth form a class of their own ; the 
 owners of labor power as their only possession in the 
 market, another. Political, judicial, educational and 
 other institutions are only the mirror of the prevailing 
 system of ownership in the resources and means of pro- 
 duction. 
 
 One class owns and controls the necessaries, to-wit : 
 the economic resources of the world. That class, for 
 its own protection and perpetuation in power, subjects 
 all other institutions to their prevailing class interests. 
 Conversely, there is a class that strives to change the 
 foundation of the industrial arrangement. The workers 
 realize that immediately following the change these so- 
 cial relations will also be shifted; institutions deriving 
 their support and sustenance from the class in power will 
 be made to conform to new conditions after the over- 
 throw of the previously existing industrial system. 
 
 Social structures collapse as a result of ever recurring 
 changes in their economic foundation. But the new 
 structure is not a ready-made product of each of the 
 epochs of reconstruction. An historic process of evolu- 
 tion reaches a climax in a revolutionary upheaval. 
 Achievements of preceding epochs are always utilized in 
 the constructive work of a never-resting, always advanc- 
 ing civilization. 
 
 Decaying elements render nourishment to Mother 
 Earth for the generation of new species and structures. 
 Nothing is lost in the reciprocal process of nature. Pre- 
 cisely so in social systems. Achievements of social and 
 
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 industrial evolutions are always preserved after a revolu- 
 tionary climax removes all obstacles to further develop- 
 ments. Only the class previously dominating the policies 
 and actions of the social institutions is supplanted by the 
 revolutionary change ; one form of ownership in . the 
 means of life is shifted to another class. 
 
 Capitalist ownership of industries had its origin in the 
 unfolding of conditions which hastened the downfall of 
 the feudal age, and the advent of another class to power. 
 
 Co-operative control of industries by all engaged 
 in the process of production must build its foundation 
 on the highly perfected form and methods of produc- 
 tion, and upon the conditions which accelerate the pass- 
 ing away of the capitalist system of ownership in the 
 instruments of production and distribution. 
 
 The feudal lords had to surrender their sceptre to 
 the ascending bourgeoisie, better known today as the 
 capitalist class. The latter, at the outset, had in view 
 only the free development of all forces of production, 
 in an era of unrestricted competition between individuals. 
 When, over a century ago, the change was consum- 
 mated by revolutions, the instruments of production 
 were more equally distributed. They were in posses- 
 sion of a multitude of the victorious capitalists, who 
 owned small enterprises. Most people would expect 
 that in such a competitive system as was then estab- 
 lished, every one would have a chance to rise to a su- 
 perior station in life. The instruments of production 
 were not highly developed. Handicraft in the operation 
 of small machines, or in the use of tools, still predom- 
 inated. Small capital only was required in starting the 
 manufacture of things for small margins of profits. 
 
 This epoch, beginning with the revolution of the 
 "Third Estate" in France, found its counterpart in 
 the revolution of the American people against* Brit- 
 ish semi-feudalistic rule. Since then the forms, meth- 
 ods and yield of production have rapidly developed in 
 one direction, in every industrially advanced country.. 
 
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 The means of production were centralized ever more 
 in fewer and fewer hands. With the centralization of 
 the means of production and distribution, the agencies 
 protecting the interests in power also grew proportion- 
 ately. Gradually all elements that obscured the lines 
 of cleavage between the producers of wealth and the 
 class that expropriated all economic resources of the 
 world are eliminated. 
 
 The manufacturers of yore exist only in small com- 
 munities. They depend, however, more or less on the 
 good will of those who permit them to exist by sup- 
 plying them with the raw products for production, or 
 those who own the transportation facilities by which 
 the products are transported into the markets. 
 
 In this process of transformation other things can 
 be observed. Social relations are shifting with the change 
 in the forms and in the ownership of the means of 
 production. Social strata are fiercely struggling for their 
 conservation, in vain. There is no escape from the 
 irretrievable result of these rapid changes in industrial 
 possessions and arrangements. 
 ^ The howls of freaks, the frantic appeals and clamors 
 of reformers will not in the least affect the course of 
 events. The destructive battles of trades unions, di- 
 vided up in factions and sections that find their tra- 
 ditional base in the middle ages, will not turn back 
 the wheel that rolls on with irresistible force. 
 
 The outcry, so often heard before, redounds in 
 vociferous strength again: A revolution! "A revo- 
 lution is needed to change these conditions/' It is 
 a cry of despondency. Not only heard from Socialists. 
 They at least propose some way of consummating their 
 program of a revolution. But the middle-class is 
 more frantic in its wailings of despair. In their 
 band wagon they are lining up a large following of 
 workers. Millions are made to believe that an im- 
 pending struggle against predatory wealth will have as 
 .object the restoration of by-gone conditions, or the 
 
ONE BIG UNION 5 
 
 enforcement of restrictive measures for curbing further 
 concentration of industries. 
 
 But the workers are not, and should not be con- 
 cerned in the hopeless struggles of a decaying element 
 of society. They have an historic mission to perform, 
 a mission that they will carry out despite the promises 
 held out to them that a restoration of past conditions 
 would accrue to their benefit also. 
 
 They begin to realize that in the constructive work 
 for the future they have to learn the facts of past 
 evolutions and revolutions. And from these facts ex- 
 pressed in theories they find the guide for the course 
 that they have to pursue in their struggle for the pos- 
 sessions of the earth, and the goods that they alone 
 have created. That growing portion of the working 
 class are building on the rockbed of historic facts, and 
 the structure to be erected follows the plan that 
 
 "It is the historic mission of the working class to 
 do away with capitalism" "the army of production 
 must be organized. By organizing industrially the 
 workers are forming the structure of the new society 
 within the shell of the old." 
 
 Some definite conclusion must be drawn from the 
 previously established premises. It is the heritage of 
 the working class to utilize to the fullest extent the 
 great achievements of the preceding and existing proc- 
 esses and methods of production, for the benefit of all 
 useful members of society. 
 
 In its advent to power and supremacy the present 
 economic master class succeeded another that decayed 
 in the process of evolution. This mastery of the pres- 
 ent owners of the economic resources will, also give 
 way and pave the way for successors. The workers, 
 conscious of their mission, must recognize the fact^that 
 the industries are developing to the highest state of 
 perfection, and will be ready for operation under a 
 new arrangement of things, namely after the class 
 
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 now in possession and control of them have gone the 
 way of decay under the pressure of the advancing 
 force of a new civilization. But it is imperative to 
 arrange the human forces of production for the opera- 
 tion of the vast resources and implements of pro- 
 duction under a system wherein commodities will be 
 made for use alone. To build and to arrange cor- 
 rectly, and for lasting purposes, the constructors of 
 a further developed industrial structure must possess 
 a thorough knowledge of the material, and of organi- 
 zations destined to accomplish the task. The archi- 
 tects must know the proper grouping of each com- 
 ponent part and cell in the composition of industrial 
 combinations, so that,, when harmony in the indus- 
 trial relationship of mankind is established, it will be 
 reflected in the harmonious social, political, judicial, and 
 ethical institutions of a new age. 
 
 We repeat: Industrial and social systems are not 
 ready-made products. In their changes from one 
 stage to another they derive their propelling forces 
 from the achievements and accomplishments of each 
 preceding epoch. In its onward course to a further 
 advanced system, society is going to utilize all that 
 present day society has evolved and constructed. This 
 the workers must know, and then they will also learn 
 the intricate, interdependent arrangements of the com- 
 ponent parts of the whole industrial system. Equip- 
 ped with this knowledge, they will be able to con- 
 struct and form their own industrial organizations, the 
 frame-structure of the new society, accordingly. By 
 learning the social relations and understanding their 
 source, they can profit and prepare to change the in- 
 dustrial structure of society, which as a matter of 
 course, will determine also the changes in the social 
 and political character of the system which is bound 
 to be inaugurated. And this is the problem. The 
 working class, as the promoter and supporter of a 
 higher standard of social relations and interrelations, 
 
ONE BIG UNION J 
 
 must be equipped with the knowledge, must construct 
 the organizations, by which the cause of social classes 
 can be removed. Industrial inequality is the source 
 of all other inequality in human society. The change 
 in the ownership of the essentials of life will bring 
 automatically, so to say, the change in the intercourse 
 and the associations, and also in the institutions for 
 the promotion of these things, between the human be- 
 ings upon the globe. 
 
 Good will, revolutionary will-power, determination, 
 courage are valuable assets in the struggle for the change. 
 But they are like the water on the millwheels, uncon- 
 scious of the great service that they are rendering. To 
 convert force and power into useful operation requires 
 intelligence. And that intelligence must guide us to 
 use the accumulated force for a defined purpose. That 
 purpose, as it seems to be agreed, is to form a new 
 social, or rather, industrial structure within the shell 
 of the old. To accomplish this the advocates, the mili- 
 tants for the new, must know to what extent the pres- 
 ent factors in industrial development have organized and 
 systematized industrial production. When this is fully 
 understood, this may also explain the subsequent domina- 
 tion of industrial possession over the political, social and 
 other agencies in present day and previously existing 
 societies. 
 
 The workers of the world, conscious of their his- 
 toric mission, will learn to avoid the mistakes they 
 would make should they depend on other forces than 
 their own for the solution of the world's problem. 
 Agencies and institutions deriving their lease of ex- 
 istence from the industrial masters of today can not 
 be looked to for support. They may feign being in 
 favor of radical changes in the effects they will, how- 
 ever, strenuously and violently oppose any attempt at 
 destroying the base, or the cause. 
 
 The working class alone is interested in the re- 
 moval of industrial inequality, and that can only be 
 
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 accomplished by a revolution of the industrial system. 
 The workers, in their collectivity, must take over and 
 operate all the essential industrial institutions, the means 
 of production and distribution, for the well-being 'of 
 all the human elements comprising the international 
 nation of wealth-producers. 
 
 No destruction, no waste, no return into barbar- 
 ism ! A higher plan of civilization is to be achieved. 
 When the workers understand how the industrial sys- 
 tem of today has developed, how one industrial pur- 
 suit dovetails into another, and all comprise an insep- 
 arable whole, they will not wantonly destroy what gen- 
 erations of industrial and social forces have brought 
 forth. The workers will utilize the knowledge of ages 
 to build and to plant on a solid rockbed the founda- 
 tion of a new industrial and social system. 
 
 The foundation must be firm and solid. The rev- 
 olutionary climax, after an incessant . course of evo- 
 lutionary processes by which forms and methods un- 
 dergo changes, will eliminate forever the cause for 
 the industrial division of society into two hostile camps. 
 Harmonious relations of mankind in all their material 
 affairs will evolve out of the change in the control and- 
 ownership in industrial resources of the world. 
 
 That accomplished, the men and women, all members 
 of society in equal enjoyment of all the good things 
 and comforts of life, will be the arbiters of their own 
 destinies in a free society. 
 
 We present, with this introduction, to all our com- 
 rades in battle and strife, a portrait of industrial com- 
 binations. 
 
Analysis of the Arrangement of In- 
 dustries 
 
 The Chart Explained in Detail. 
 
 The main object of this explanation to the chart is 
 to show how industries are grouped together in a sci- 
 . entific order. 
 
 Production begins with the exploitation of the nat- 
 ural resources of the earth. Labor is applied to extract 
 the material that nature has stored up or generated. 
 Production continues with the transportation of these 
 products, mostly raw material, or fuel-matter, to the 
 centers of manufacture and commerce. The construc- 
 tion of places of shelter for a man and things, the build- 
 ing of agencies of communication, are functions of 
 another, industrial branch of the system. We observe, 
 finally, how the care-taking, the education, the provid- 
 ing for public convenience, fall to the functions of an- 
 other department in the interdependent processes of in- 
 dustrial life. 
 
 In presenting this plan of organization of indus- 
 tries, as it exists today, we have in mind only the ob- 
 ject before explained. The workers, forced by capi- 
 talist ownership of the means of production to do serv- 
 ice in all these industries, must organize themselves 
 in their proper places in the industries in which they 
 are engaged. Every worker who studies this map will 
 find where he will fit in when the industries are organized 
 for the control of the workers through industrial or- 
 ganization. 
 
 Of course, it is the ultimate purpose of this ar- 
 rangement that every worker shall have equal rights, 
 
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 and equal duties also, with all others in the manage- 
 ment of the industry in which he or she serves in the 
 process of production. 
 
 But the other purpose, equally important, is to or- 
 ganize the zvorkers in such a .way that all the mem- 
 bers of the organization in any one industry, or in all 
 industries if necessary, cease work whenever a strike 
 or lockout is on in any department thereof, thus mak- 
 ing the injury to one the injury to all. 
 
 Of course, this can only be accomplished when the 
 workers organize on industrial lines. That is to say, 
 the workers of any one plant or industry must be 
 ' members of one and the same organization no craft 
 division lines. The capitalist institutions are today 
 organized on exactly the same lines. The industries 
 as they are grouped today, dovetailing into each other, 
 furnish to the workers the basis for the construction 
 of their organization for the struggles of today for 
 better living conditions, and for the supervision and 
 the management of industries in an industrial com- 
 monwealth of workers and producers. 
 
 DISTRIBUTION OF PRODUCTS IS PART OF 
 PRODUCTION. 
 
 All natural resources of the soil, mines and water 
 receive their first value when labor is applied to turn 
 the products into useful things. 
 
 But all of these products have more social value 
 when they are transported to places of manufacture 
 and commerce, where they are transformed and con- 
 verted into commodities for exchange. 
 
 The life of human beings will not consist of com- 
 mon drudgery alone when all the good things created are 
 enjoyed by the workers. 
 
 For all purposes, present and the future, the func- 
 tions of the public service institutions have to be de- 
 fined, and people engaged in their maintenance must 
 
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 be given a place in the industrial organization; the 
 same as those who take care of the sick and disabled. 
 Those who render other social and public service should 
 know they are engaged in useful occupation, although 
 most of the institutions in which they serve today are 
 prostituted for the protection of capitalist interests. 
 
 For all functions combined, the industries are ar- 
 ranged on the general plan presented on the map, as fol- 
 lows : 
 
 i. The Department of Agriculture, Land, Fisheries 
 and Water Products. 
 
 2. The Department of Mining. 
 
 3. The Department of Transportation and Com- 
 munication. 
 
 4. The Department of Manufacture and General 
 Production. 
 
 5. The Department of Construction. 
 
 6. The Department of Public Service. 
 
 The departments again have their subdivisions. As 
 it is proposed that the workers organize in accordance 
 with the industries in which they are engaged in serv- 
 ice, it is essential that a general term be applied. This 
 will make it easier to understand that each of these in- 
 dustrial subdivisions constitutes for itself a sub-organi- 
 zation of workers, in which they will be able to govern 
 affairs that appertain to that industry alone. 
 
 Each of these subdivisions would comprise the 
 workers organized in an Industrial Union, which, 
 however would not be separate and distinct from all 
 others, as the term "division'' would imply. (We have 
 looked in vain for an expression that would convey 
 the proper meaning.) 
 
 It is impossible, at this stage, to eliminate entirely 
 the terms now used to designate certain functions that 
 sets of workers perform in each industry. But it should 
 be distinctly understood that this is not to imply that 
 these craft-groups in industries will organize, as has 
 been the case heretofore, in separate craft-unions, or 
 
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 according to the tools that each set of workers use. 
 That would mean dividing-up under another name. 
 A worker in an industry will be assigned to the organi- 
 zation representing the product or products of that in- 
 dustry. Each sub-branch of the general industrial union 
 is modeled accordingly. 
 
 When the workers engaged in a particular indus- 
 trial production organize industrially, all are subject to 
 the same rules governing the affairs of each industry. 
 But certain fundamental rules and principles govern- 
 ing all component parts of the "one big union of work- 
 ers'' cannot be infringed upon by any of its component 
 parts without doing injury to the whole organic body. 
 
 Still another point to be made clear: The process 
 of production does not cease until the finished product 
 reaches the consumer. All zvorkers engaged in the 
 process of distribution are members of the same indus- 
 trial union, or Department Organization in which the 
 makers of the commodity are organized. 
 
 Of .course, the railroad and water-transportation 
 workers will be in the Transportation Department, al- 
 though it might be said that they also are engaged in 
 the process of distribution. But here is the difference. 
 They only transport goods to other localities or coun- 
 tries, and the real distribution process for use and con- 
 sumption takes place after finished commodities have 
 reached the merchant. 
 
 For instance : A salesman or clerk in a shoe store 
 would be a member of the organization, or a branch 
 thereof, in which are organized all workers engaged 
 in the shoe industry. A teamster delivering meats, or 
 other goods from a grocery, would be in the organi- 
 zation in which all the foodstuff workers of that par- 
 ticular branch are organized. But a truck driver, who 
 may haul a big shipment of boxes containing garments 
 from one depot to another, and on his next trip between 
 depots, will haul a load of nails for further transportation 
 or distribution, performs the work of a transport work- 
 
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 er, and as such organizers in the union of that industry. 
 \Yith these necessary explanations, suggestive of a 
 better understanding of the plan of organization, one 
 will far better be able to see how industries are grouped 
 on the chart. 
 
 I. 
 
 DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, LAND, 
 
 FISHERIES AND WATER PRODUCTS. 
 
 Four subdivisions comprise this department: 
 A. General and Stock Farming. 
 
 This subdivision comprises all workers employed 
 in general and stock farming. 1. In grain and vege- 
 tables: All farm workers, in plowing, planting, reap- 
 ing, and fertilizing operations which would, of cou 
 include all engineers, firemen, blacksmiths, repairwork- 
 ers. carpenters, etc., working on farms and engaged 
 in farm-product work. All workers on cotton and 
 sugar plantations would come into this group, also all 
 irrigation- workers, that is. all working at the operation 
 of irrigation-systems as engineers, pumpmen, lockmen. 
 pipe and repairmen, etc. 2. On cattle and live stock 
 farms: Ranchmen, herders, sheep shearers, general 
 utility men, all workers on fowl and bird farms ; on 
 dairy farms, etc. 
 
 B. Horticulture. 
 
 This subdivision comprises all workers on fruit farms, 
 flower gardens, tea and coffee plantations, orchards, 
 tobacco farms all workers engaged in the cultivation 
 of silk, in vineyards, truck farms workers in hot- 
 houses; fruit pickers, boxmakers and packers, etc. 
 
 C. Forestry and Lumbering. 
 
 In this subdivision are associated together all work- 
 ers in forests; rangers, fort me wardens, wood- 
 
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 choppers and lumberworkers ; all workers in the saw 
 and shingle mills adjacent to forests, preparing wood for 
 shipment for manufacturing purposes ; collectors of sap, 
 herb, leaf, cork and bark, etc. 
 
 D. Fisheries and Water Products. 
 
 In this subdivision are organized all fishermen on 
 ocean, lakes and rivers ; oyster and clam-bed keepers 
 in short, all workers engaged in raising, keeping and 
 catching of fish ; in the collection of pearls, sponges and 
 corals, such as divers, sorters, etc., which would include 
 all mechanics on fishing boats and steamers, etc. 
 
 II. 
 DEPARTMENT OF MINING. 
 
 This department again consists of four large sub- 
 divisions : 
 
 A. Coal and Coke Mining. 
 
 All coal miners comprise this industrial union. All 
 workers in bituminous, anthracite, lignite and other coal 
 mines, including, of course, mining engineers, firemen, 
 pumpmen, blacksmiths, mine carpenters, shotfirers, break- 
 er boys. All workers employed in the production of coke, 
 all miners of turf, peat ; clerks in the offices of mines, and 
 also all workers in the coal yards at the places of dis- 
 tribution, such as teamsters, shovelers, derrick-workers, 
 weighers, etc. 
 
 B. Oil, Gas and By-Products. 
 
 The workers in this subdivision also organize to 
 manage the affairs of this part of the mining industry, 
 that is, all workers employed in the natural gas and oil 
 fields, shaft sinkers, pipemen, pumpmen, tankmen, 
 gaugers, and also all workers in the oil distribution 
 places, as fillers, coopers, teamsters, all workers in the 
 oil-refining plants, as well as oil by-product institutions. 
 
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 C. Metal Mining. 
 
 This subdivision embraces all workers employed in 
 the mining of gold, silver, copper, zinc, lead, tin, plati- 
 num, iron ore, etc., and in it are also organized all 
 workers in the smelters, including the workers in the 
 repair and mechanical departments, such as repairers, 
 carpenters, machinists, ropemen, teamsters in the main 
 and subsidiary enterprises, and also waiters, cooks in 
 small mining camps. 
 
 D. Salt, Sulphur, Mineral, Stone and Gem Mining. 
 
 In this fourth subdivision of the mining department 
 organization are brought together all workers employed 
 in the mining of salt, sulphur, clay, borax, mica, 
 bromine, graphite, sodas, gypsum, asphalt, limestone, 
 sandstone, whetstone, marble, onyx, slates, building 
 stones, asbestos, and gems of all kinds, like diamonds, 
 sapphires, etc. 
 
 It includes all workers in the refineries, in the salines, 
 salt and soda dry works, quarry workers, etc. 
 
 III. 
 
 DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION AND 
 
 COMMUNICATION. 
 
 Brief Preface. 
 
 The process of transportation, different from the 
 process of final distribution, comprises the act of bring- 
 ing the products of land, water, and mines to the places 
 of manufacture and general production, and to re-trans- 
 port the partly finished goods either to other places 
 at which the process. of production is finished, or to 
 bring the finished goods to the points where the distri- 
 bution to the users or consumers takes place. This proc- 
 ess also includes the transport of human beings to and 
 from one place to another. As the interchange proc- 
 
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 ess can not always be carried on by direct transportation 
 of people, the indirect method of transmitting commer- 
 cial transactions by mail or by telegraphy is resorted to. 
 All the workers engaged in either of the subbranches 
 of that department are organized together. But, for 
 expediency, they are grouped together in five sub- 
 divisions, as parts of that department organization. 
 
 A. Long-Distance Transportation on Land. 
 
 This subdivision embraces all workers employed in 
 the long distance railroad service, such as railroad en- 
 gineers, motormen, firemen, conductors, trainmen, 
 switchmen, all engaged in the supervision and main- 
 tenance of the roads, railroaci freight yard workers, 
 station tenders, watchmen, car repairers, railroad dis- 
 patchers and telegraphers ; all workers in the railroad 
 repair shops, all clerks in the railroad offices, etc., etc. 
 
 B. Marine Transportation. 
 
 In this subdivision are all workers employed on 
 steamships, sailing vessels and tugboats, such as sailors 
 and wheelsmen, engineers, water tenders, oilers, firemen 
 and coalpassers, stewards, waiters, cooks, etc. Also all 
 workers employed in the loading and unloading of ves- 
 sels, dry dock and repair workers, etc., etc. 
 C. Municipal Transportation. 
 
 In this subdivision are organized all workers in mu- 
 nicipal passenger transportation service, street car work- 
 ers, all workers on elevated roads, or city subway lines, 
 including all the workers in the power-producing plants, 
 electricians, linemen, car shop workers, also cab drivers, 
 automobile drivers, barn, stable and garage workers, 
 wherever the service is directly connected with the mu- 
 nicipal transportation service. 
 
 D. Air Navigation. 
 
 This will comprise all workers engaged in the serv- 
 ice of air navigation, transporting passengers, dispatches, 
 or anything else. 
 
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 E. Communication. 
 
 All workers in the postal and commercial telegraph, 
 telephone and wireless service are organized in this sub- 
 division, such as clerks, carriers, mail wagon teamsters, 
 telegraph and telephone operators, towermen, linemen, 
 including the janitors, cleaners, etc., in all stations and 
 houses. 
 
 IV. 
 DEPARTMENT OF MANUFACTURE AND GEN- 
 ERAL PRODUCTION. 
 
 If this department be subdivided in industrial 
 unions only, it would not give justice to those engaged 
 in the various industrial sections that make up the com- 
 plex organization embracing them all. The depart- 
 ment comprises so many industries that it is neces- 
 sary to establish a standard for their proper arrange- 
 ment. Each kind of raw material transformed or con- 
 verted into a finished article for use, be it either for 
 food, or clothing, for comfort or general utility pur- 
 poses, for the production of instruments for the further 
 development of advanced producing methods, forms 
 the basis for a sub-department of production. Each 
 sub-department again has its sub-divisions. In other de- 
 partment organizations they are marked as parts of the 
 same, while in this arrangement the sub-divisions, or in- 
 dustrial unions, form the component parts of a sub- 
 department. 
 
 The Department of General Production is accord- 
 ingly composed of the following sub-departments : 
 
 a. Glass and pottery (ceramic goods). 
 
 b. Clothing and textile. 
 
 c. Leather and substitutes. 
 
 d. Metal working and machinery building. 
 
 e. Woodworking goods. 
 
 f. Chemicals. ' 
 
 g. Foodstuffs, 
 h. Printing:. 
 
IS ONE BIG UNION ^ 
 
 Sub-Department A. 
 Glass and Pottery (Ceramic Goods). 
 
 i. All workers employed in the making of glass 
 wares are organized in the first sub-division; flint glass, 
 green glass, window glass, plate glass workers, furnace 
 workers, mixers, blowers, gatherers, annealers, cutters, 
 polishers, etc. 
 
 2. All workers in potteries, porcelain factories, 
 china-ware factories, including decorators and designers, 
 clerks, salesmen, teamsters in sales and distribution 
 houses of ceramic goods. 
 
 3. Those employed in terra cotta works, tile and 
 brick-making yards. 
 
 Sub-Department B. 
 
 TEXTILE AND CLOTHING MANUFACTURE. 
 
 This sub-department is composed of workers from 
 the following industrial subdivisions : 
 
 1. All workers employed in the manufacture of 
 silk, linen, cotton, wool and worsted articles, as mule- 
 spinners, loom-fixers, weavers, warpers, carders, sort- 
 ers, clerks and stenographers in factories and retail 
 houses, all workers in dye-houses, including chemists, 
 inspectors, also all workers employed in the making 
 of knitting wares, passementerie workers, wood silk 
 workers, etc. 
 
 2. All those engaged in the making of garments 
 and other goods of silk, artificial silk, linen, cotton and 
 woolen fabrics, such as clothing workers, workers in 
 collar and shirt factories, including all salesmen, clerks, 
 stenographers in distribution places (dry goods stores). 
 
 3. All workers employed in establishments where 
 wearing apparel is made of fur, ,felt, straw, etc., as 
 furriers, glove makers, hatmakers, straw hat makers, 
 millinery workers. 
 
ONE BIG UNION 19 
 
 Sub-Department C. 
 
 MANUFACTURE OF LEATHER GOODS AND 
 
 SUBSTITUTES. 
 
 This sub-department is composed of workers or- 
 ganized in three sub-divisions : 
 
 1. All workers employed in tanneries and leather 
 preparing houses. 
 
 2. All workers engaged in the manufacture of shoes 
 and boots, as cutters, lasters, inseamers, etc., which, of 
 course, includes all clerks and stenographers in the offices, 
 and the clerks in shoe stores and distribution houses of 
 shoes, teamsters, engineers, firemen, etc., working in 
 the shoe industry. 
 
 3. All workers in other leather goods, or substi- 
 tutes of leather, such as harness makers, and horse 
 goods makers, workers in belt factories, etc. 
 
 Sub-Department D. 
 
 METAL AND MACHINERY MANUFACTURE. 
 
 All workers employed in making goods of any kind 
 of metal are grouped together in this sub-department, 
 three subdivisions joining together to constitute the same, 
 in which are organized : 
 
 1. All workers in blast furnaces, steel mills, roll- 
 ing mills, tin plate mills, wire mills, nail mills, rail mills, 
 including all workers in plants where by-products are 
 manufactured. 
 
 2. All workers engaged in the building of engines 
 and machinery, such as pattern makers, core makers, 
 molders of iron, and other metals, machinists, all other 
 workers in all these plants, including the workers in the 
 power departments of such plants, machinery movers 
 and teamsters, etc. 
 
 3. All workers employed in making of metal wares 
 and products other than engines and machines, of dif- 
 
20 ONE BIG UNION 
 
 ferent metals, such as workers in watch factories, knife 
 and saw factories, in the making of jewelry goods, and 
 utensils, and of instruments ; silversmiths, goldsmiths, 
 etc. 
 
 Sub-Department E. 
 
 MANUFACTURE OF WOOD ARTICLES. 
 
 This sub-department consists of organizations of 
 workers employed in the manufacture of goods out of 
 wood, or principally wood. It would embrace all work- 
 ers in piano factories, planing mills, furniture factories, 
 hotel and bar fixture factories ; all workers in cooperage 
 shops, in reed and rattan factories, box factories, etc. 
 Of course, the workers of each of these industries would 
 form a branch organization, embracing all the workers 
 of one or more plants in which a given article is manu- 
 factured, for instance, in an industrial union of piano 
 workers would be organized not only the wood workers, 
 but also the metal workers, tuners, polishers, piano 
 movers, etc., employed in that industry. 
 
 Sub-Department F. 
 MANUFACTURE OF CHEMICAL GOODS. 
 
 This sub-department comprises all workers em- 
 ployed : 
 
 i. In the production of paint, drugs, rubber, gutta- 
 percha, powder, dynamite, melinite, and all explosives; 
 inks, perfumes, turpentine, celluloid, soaps, etc., includ- 
 ing chemists engaged in these pursuits, all workers in 
 drug stores and pharmacies, as clerks and salesmen, etc. 
 
 2. All workers employed in the making of cellulose 
 and paper, for printing and commercial purposes. 
 
 Sub-Department G. 
 
 MANUFACTURE OF FOODSTUFFS. 
 
 Made up of five industrial subdivisions, this sub- 
 department is composed of workers engaged: I. In 
 
ONE BIG UNION 21 
 
 the production of foodstuffs made of grain and cereals. 
 II. In the production of foodstuffs made of animal mat- 
 ter. III. In the production of liquids for consumption. 
 IV. In the production of narcotics. V. In the distribu- 
 tion of foodstuffs. As the process of production is not 
 finished until the goods are put to use by the consumer 
 all workers in the distributing places, that is, the workers 
 in hotels, inns, restaurants, saloons, etc., form organiza- 
 tions connected with the foodstuff sub-department. 
 
 I. Comprises all workers in flour and cereal mills, 
 in bakeries, biscuit factories, candy and confectionery 
 shops, in sugar refineries, in fruit packing and canning 
 plants, including, of course, all engineers, coopers, clerks, 
 salesmen and delivery teamsters employed in any of such 
 establishments. 
 
 II. This subdivision comprises all workers em- 
 ployed in meat packing houses, in all the fifty-nine fac- 
 tory departments ; dairy and milk depot workers and 
 deliverers, all workers in fish-packing nouses. 
 
 III. In this are organized all workers in wine and 
 whiskey distilleries, in breweries, malthouses, vinegar 
 factories, ginger and cider mills, all employed in yeast 
 production, and production of soda and soft drinks. 
 These, as all other industries, include the workers in 
 the power-furnishing departments of all these plants 
 and the workers in the delivery and distributing stations, 
 also clerks, stenographers in the offices, etc. 
 
 IV. The fourth subdivision comprises all workers 
 employed in the manufacture of tobacco goods; cigar- 
 makers, stogiemakers, cigarette makers, all other to- 
 bacco factory workers, clerks in cigar and tobacco stores, 
 distributors, etc. 
 
 V. In the fifth subdivision are organized all workers 
 in hotels and restaurants and saloons, as cooks, waiters, 
 bartenders, bakers and butchers in hotels, barbers, if 
 employed in the hotel service, chambermaids, hotel clerks, 
 
22 ONE BIG UNION 
 
 etc., chauffeurs and cabdrivers, if they are in the hotel 
 service exclusively. 
 
 Sub-Department H. 
 
 PRINTING. 
 
 All workers in the printing and lithographing insti- 
 tutions are organized in this sub-department. Printers, 
 pressmen, bookbinders, photo-engravers, stereotypers, 
 lithograph artists and printers, designers, editors of 
 newspapers and magazines, proofreaders, including, of 
 course, all machinists, engineers, firemen, electricians, 
 janitors and clerks in the printing industry. 
 
 V. 
 
 DEPARTMENT OF BUIEDING AND CON- 
 STRUCTION. 
 
 This department is composed of three national sub- 
 divisions : 
 
 A. All workers employed in the erection and con- 
 struction of buildings are organized in this subdivision : 
 Architects, designers, excavators, stonemasons, brick- 
 layers, hodcarriers, cement workers, carpenters and 
 joiners, electricians, elevator constructors, painters, 
 architectural iron workers, plumbers, building- material 
 teamsters, etc. But these crafts are not organized in craft 
 groups, but they form according to the nature of their 
 work branch organizations of the one "Building Con- 
 structors Industrial Union" in every locality. 
 
 B. In this subdivision are organized all workers 
 employed in the construction of roads, tunnels and 
 bridges, such as pavers, bridgebuilders, workers em- 
 ployed in the building of docks, subways, in the con- 
 struction of irrigation works, of sewers, of canals, etc. 
 
 C. All workers engaged in the construction of ships 
 and vessels are organized in this subdivision ; in the build- 
 ing of steamers, launches, tug boats, as ship caulkers and 
 carpenters, iron ship builders, machinists, boilermakers, 
 
ONE BIG UNION 23 
 
 coppersmiths and all other branches of workers directly 
 engaged in this industry. 
 
 VI. 
 DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SERVICE. 
 
 This department is composed of workers organized 
 in six national industrial unions, constituting each a 
 component part of the department organization. 
 
 A. Hospital and sanitariums. 
 
 B. Sanitary protective division. 
 
 C. Educational institutions. 
 
 D. Water, gas and electricity supply service. 
 
 E. Amusement service. 
 
 F. General distribution. 
 
 A. In this subdivision are organized all workers in 
 hospitals and health-restoration resorts, sanitariums, etc., 
 such as physicians, nurses, waiters, cooks, attendants, 
 laundry workers in these institutions, etc. 
 
 B. This is constituted of workers employed in the 
 protection of health and public safety, that is, all workers 
 employed in the cleaning and caretaking of streets, public 
 places and parks, the street protection workers, all work- 
 ers in immigration stations, house janitors, office building 
 workers, all workers employed in burial places, as 
 funeral teamsters, embalmers, grave diggers, crematorium 
 workers, etc. 
 
 C. In this subdivision are organized all workers in 
 public schools, and all institutions of learning, education 
 and instruction, such as teachers, lecturers, librarians, 
 including also all workers keeping the institutions in 
 sanitary and wholesome condition, such as school and 
 university wardens, janitors, engineers, firemen, etc. 
 
 D. This subdivision is composed of workers in 
 municipal power houses, pumping stations, all workers 
 in plants supplying to communities power, gas, elec- 
 tricity, etc. 
 
 E. All workers in theaters, amusement places, con- 
 cert halls and gardens, on ball play grounds, in summer- 
 
24 ONE BIG UNION 
 
 resort and amusement places organize themselves into 
 this subdivision, such as actors, musicians, stage workers, 
 singers, ushers, waiters in amusement places, etc., also 
 all workers engaged in the making, production and ex- 
 hibition of moving pictures. 
 
 F. The big department stores and distribution 
 houses, with thousands of workers employed in each, 
 have more or less assumed the functions of public 
 service institutions. Not one specialized article, but in 
 fact any and all kinds of commodities and fabrics are 
 going through the process of distribution. 
 
 It would be well-nigh impossible to organize the 
 workers in that service according to the goods that they 
 handle in the process. Therefore, all the workers in these 
 distribution stores are organized together into unions as 
 component parts of the one subdivision, which in turn 
 is a part of the department organization of public service 
 workers. 
 
 Tailors in department stores, clerks in the shoe de- 
 
 " partment of a department store, or any other workers, 
 irrespective of the place of employment, of the tools 
 they use, are organized together ; stenographers, clerks. 
 
 1 tailors, repairers, freight handlers, packers, department 
 store drivers, bakers, candy makers, etc., in these stores, 
 all are members of one industrial union. 
 
 CONCLUSION. 
 
 When now and then advocates of a better system of 
 society refer to the new unionism they do it, in most 
 cases,^ without knowing fully the distinction between the 
 old kind of unionism and the unionism that advocates 
 One Big Union for the Entire Working Class the World 
 Over! But, even if the critics of this plan of action 
 disagree with the author of this booklet as to the means 
 to attain a desired end, they can no longer plead that 
 there never has been any literature presented in which 
 the program of the industrial unionists has been enun- 
 ciated. 
 
ONE BIG UNION 25 
 
 Organize industrially ; organize right ! This is the call 
 to the downtrodden heard all over the world. In increas- 
 ing numbers the proletariat of every country is enlighten- 
 ing itself on the subject, and everywhere workers are 
 preparing for organization in which they will find 
 the embodiment of their collective power and the in- 
 strument for direct action, as occasion and conditions 
 may command. All countries of the world are gov- 
 erned, principally, in the interests of the small class 
 controlling industrial combinations. Whenever the work- 
 ers aimed heavy blows at these interests directly, that is, 
 when they refused to serve, temporarily, in the production 
 process of these industries, the exploiting class all over 
 the world burst out in frantic denunciations of the forces 
 that had so little regard for private property. 
 
 The industrial unionists propose to organize the 
 workers for more militant action within present day 
 society, so that, with every advance gained, the workers 
 will gain an appetite for more and for all, and will find 
 the means to get it. 
 
 And in all these days of unrest and struggle the 
 industrialists are preparing the administrative, the gov- 
 ernment agencies, for the industrial commonwealth. 
 Representatives elected by the workers, organized in 
 their indutrial organizations, will constitute the industrial 
 parliament of the future, the workers' commune in 
 municipal, national and international affairs. 
 
 STUDY THE CHART. 
 
 Observe how commercialism, the main factor in the 
 development of the capitalist system of production, 
 encircles the whole globe with the means and tributaries 
 at its service : 
 
 Transportation facilities as the messengers for the 
 exchange of products between countries and continents 
 know no boundary lines land, water, air have been 
 conquered and rendered servants of the monstrous forces 
 
26 ONE'BIG UNION 
 
 behind the prevailing industrial system of production and 
 exchange. 
 
 Industrial development has wiped out boundary lines 
 between sectional territories, 
 
 National dividing lines disappear before the invincible 
 force of the conqueror. 
 
 Continents so long separated by landmarks and ob- 
 stacles of natural origin are linked and joined together 
 by the gigantic weld of that international carrier of 
 exchange and distribution. 
 
 But the functions of that agent of a social system are 
 still today confined to the service of profit-production 
 for a few. 
 
 What still remains, in the minds of mankind, as a 
 force for separate nationalities, is merely imaginary. 
 
 A heavy load of traditional falsehoods, holding living 
 human beings in a bondage of ignominious, deep-rooted, 
 and ingeniously fostered intellectual, and hence also in 
 industrial, serfdom must disappear; national separation 
 must be swept aside by the advancing forces of interna- 
 tional co-operation, before the highest and most marvel- 
 ous stages of industrial development, social progress, and 
 perfection in the utilization of all elements subservant 
 to the generating powers of mankind, can be achieved, 
 and a higher order of civilization be established. 
 
 THE SECOND INTERNATIONAL LINE. 
 
 Observe also how a second transcontinental line con- 
 nects the world's component parts into one inseparable 
 whole. Science and scientific research and discoveries 
 are the international agencies by which the riddles and 
 miracles of the universe, in all their magnitude, are 
 solved and explained. Institutions of learning, schools 
 and universities are linked together by the uniformity 
 of fundamental laws governing science and the dissem- 
 ination of knowledge and discoveries. 
 
 Likewise are evils and afflictions, springing irresistibly 
 from the same sources, suffered alike by all living beings 
 
ONE BIG UNION 27 
 
 throughout the world. Remedies and means of preven- 
 tion must, consequently, assume the character of inter- 
 national agencies, deriving their support from the neces- 
 sity of eliminating and curing the evils, and of removing 
 the causes for their existence. 
 
 Hospitals, as curing stations ; cleaning, sanitary and 
 protective agencies, as institutions for prevention; the 
 supply stations of water, light, and other means of public 
 need are therefore joined together with the institutions 
 of learning and with the agencies for recreation and 
 amusement, into one great chain of international depend- 
 ence, and are formed and maintained in the pursuit of 
 functions preventive as well as beneficial, as the 
 promoters and protectors of public interests and universal 
 weal. 
 
 FOUR CARDINAL FUNCTIONS. 
 
 Observe, then, how in the complex process of pro- 
 duction of the necessities of life four cardinal functions 
 comprise the interlocking chain of industrial activity, 
 through which the resources of the earth must run 
 before their ultimate use. 
 
 'A. From the soil, the woods, and the waters all 
 material required for producing purposes is secured by 
 the labor of the millions serving in the social process in 
 raising and procuring the raw products for food, raiment 
 and shelter. 
 
 B. From the bowels and the treasures of the earth 
 labor puts out the material for fuel and the essential 
 things which, after being transformed, comprise the im- 
 plements and machinery of production and distribution. 
 
 C. With the matter thus furnished production proper 
 for the providing of all necessary things of life and 
 comfort is carried on in the various, but inter-depending 
 places of production, mills and factories. 
 
 D. With all these things combined the constructive 
 hand of labor builds the houses of shelter for the protec- 
 tion of life and*matter against the adversities of nature's 
 
28 ONE BIG UNION 
 
 forces,, and harnesses them to render service for social 
 good. 
 
 LABOR THE SOLE PRODUCER. 
 
 To all of the making and development of these social 
 institutions the workers, and they alone, contribute their 
 intellect and their manual labor. They have created the 
 instruments to produce wealth with, and improved them 
 as time rolled by. 
 
 These institutions are organized in their operative 
 functions to yield profits for a few who never did, nor 
 do, contribute to their making and maintenance, except 
 in a manner to protect them in the possession of things 
 that they did not make. 
 
 The human forces rendering these instruments, 
 agencies and implements useful to all society, and adding 
 value to matter and forces of nature, are divorced from 
 their creations by powerful combinations of parasitic 
 nature, by which a few control all the co-ordinate stations 
 of industrial life through the means that they have 
 organized and subjected to their rulership. Against these 
 hostile powers the workers must organize their own 
 resources and their own collective power, in organiza- 
 tions embracing all useful members of society and wealth 
 producers. 
 
 THE MISSION OF THE WORKING CLASS. 
 
 A labor organization to correctly represent the work- 
 ing class must have two things in view. 
 
 First: It must combine the wage-workers in such a 
 way that it can most successfully fight the battles and 
 protect the interests of the workers of today in their 
 struggles for fewer hours of toil, more wages and better 
 conditions. 
 
 Secondly: It must offer a final solution of the labor 
 problem an emancipation from strikes, injunctions, bull- 
 pens, and scabbing of one against the ottfer. 
 
ONE BIG UNION 29 
 
 Observe 
 
 How this organization will give recognition to control 
 of shop affairs, provide perfect industrial unionism and 
 converge the strength of. all organized workers to a 
 common center, from which any weak point can be 
 strengthened and protected. 
 
 Observe, also, 
 
 How the growth and development of this organization 
 will build within itself the structure of an industrial 
 democracy, which must finally burst the shell of capitalist 
 government and be the agency by which the workers will 
 operate the industries and appropriate the products to 
 themselves. 
 
 One obligation for all. 
 
 A union man once and in one industry ; a union man 
 always and in all industries. Universal transfers, uni- 
 versal emblem. 
 
 All workers of one industry in one union ; all unions 
 of workers in one big labor alliance the world over. 
 
 Industrial unionism is not confined to one country. 
 The best expression of it is found in America, in the 
 Industrial Workers of the World, although the organ- 
 ization may appear to be still .weak, numerically. But 
 the conditions for the advent of the industrial revo- 
 lutionary union are most promising, because the most 
 advanced and highly developed industrial system of 
 production is bound to find its counterpart in a similarly 
 perfected organization of the working class on the in- 
 dustrial field. 
 
 As presented in this booklet, these institutions for 
 wealth production, so well organized, so masterfully 
 constructed, suggest the best forms of industrial organ- 
 izations for the workers. 
 
 Industries are organized in six big departments, 
 which are composed of forty-three subdivisions. 
 
 This arrangement is not arbitrarily fixed, or the prod- 
 uct of one man's notion. The best tabulations of statis- 
 
30 ONE BIG UNION 
 
 tical experts of different countries have been consulted, 
 and the systematic arrangement will stand the test of 
 scientific investigation. 
 
 Of course, it has been stated, and is herewith reiter- 
 ated that this arrangement of industrial organization of 
 workers would also assure the most effective solidarity of 
 all producing forces in their defensive and aggressive 
 struggles for the amelioration of the evils they suffer 
 under, evils inherent in the capitalist system of distribu- 
 tion of the commodities created by labor. 
 
 When the workers organize industrial unions, copied 
 from the institutions in which they are employed, they 
 will be able to stand together as powerful industrial com- 
 binations in their skirmishes for better working con- 
 ditions in any one industry. Not separated by craft 
 divisions, or trade union contracts with the exploiters, 
 they will not only be able to curtail production on a small 
 scale and thus also the profits of the employers of labor, 
 but they will abruptly stop production altogether, if 
 necessary, in any one industry, or in all industries of a 
 locality, or of a nation, or they can, when they are power- 
 ful enough, shut the factories against the present em- 
 ployers and commence production for use. 
 
 The workers, though, must tear down, as a first duty 
 to themselves, all craft demarcation lines, the remnants 
 of a by-gone age. Unhampered by that drag-chain, they 
 can then develop and organize their industrial power. 
 But that power must be guided in its use and exercise by 
 the collective intelligence which will develop simulta- 
 neously with the generation of power. Equipped with 
 the power of an industrial organization, with the knowl- 
 edge gained in the every-day struggles against the 
 oppressors, they will successfully strive for a higher 
 standard of # life-conditions, within this system, and they 
 can master things and forces so that they will reach the 
 final goal of all efforts complete industrial emancipation. 
 
 Hundreds of thousands of workers in every civilized 
 country are learning to understand the principles of in- 
 
OXE BIG UNION 3 1 
 
 dustrial unionism. Thousands are organizing for the 
 battle of today, for better conditions, and for the final 
 clash in the future when the general lockout of the para- 
 site class of^non-producers will end the contest for indus- 
 trial possessions and political supremacy. 
 
 If you are one of the millions needed to accomplish 
 the task, join the industrial union composed of workers 
 in the shop or plant where you work. If none exists, be 
 the first to get busy. Get others, organize them. Learn 
 to tackle the industrial problems. Show others how the 
 workers will be able to run the industrial plants through 
 the agencies of their own creation, locally, nationally, 
 internationally, the world over. 
 
 There are organizations everywhere, and where there 
 are none, they will be formed. In the industrial union 
 movement alone will the workers forge the sword, train 
 themselves for the use of all and every weapon that 
 can be utilized in the struggles for a better world. In the 
 industrial union movement the workers zvill strictly 
 adhere to the great axiom : 
 
 "The emancipation of the workers must be achieved 
 by the working class itself, 
 
 "Workers of the World, Unite !" 
 
 Read the Manifesto, issued by the Industrial Workers 
 of the World. Study the chart described in this pamphlet. 
 Xeatly printed on bond paper, ioc. 
 
 For information regarding the Industrial Workers 
 of the World referred to in this booklet, write to Wm. D. 
 Haywood, General Secretary-Treasurer, iooi West 
 Madison Street, Chicago, 111. 
 
INSTRUCTIONS HOW TO ORGANIZE. 
 
 To secure a Charter* of the Industrial Workers of the World, get 
 the names of twenty actual wage workers. Those who make a 
 living by working for wages. 
 
 All who sign the Charter' Application Blank pledge themselves 
 to be in accord with the principles of the I. W. W., as outlined in 
 the Preamble. ^ 
 
 The Charter fee is ten dollars. This covers the cost of all books 
 and supplies needed to fully equip a Union of twenty- five members. 
 
 Dues paid by the Union to the General Organization are fifteen 
 cents per member per month. 
 
 If those who sign the Charter Application Blank are employed 
 in the same industry they will be chartered as an Industrial Union 
 Branch, with jurisdiction over all wage workers employed in that 
 industry in that locality. If the signers of the Charter Applica- 
 tion are employed in two or more industries, they will be char- 
 tered as a Recruiting Union. Recruiting Unions are temporary 
 organizations, formed for the purpose of having organizations to 
 carry on the educational work necessary for the formation of In- 
 dustrial Unions. 
 
 The methods used in getting a Union started depend upon the 
 circumstances in the locality where the Union is to be formed. 
 You can call a meeting, advertising the same. If there are any 
 among you who are able to explain the principles of the I. W. W 
 have them do so to those who attend the meeting. 
 
 After the explanation has been made, you can call upon all 
 those present, who are in accord with the principles of the Organ- 
 ization, to come forward and sign the Charter Application. Or you 
 can circulate the Charter Application among those with whom you 
 come in contact, and explain the principles of the Industrial Work- 
 ers of the World to them individually. If they desire to organize, 
 have them sign their names and addresses on the Charter Applica- 
 tion. 
 
 When you have twenty names, or more, you can notify them 
 to attend the meeting, form a temporary organization by electing 
 a temporary Secretary and Chairman. Collect the Charter fee 
 from those who sign the Application, forward the same to this 
 office, with the Application. The Charter and supplies will be sent 
 to you at once. 
 
 In forwarding the Charter Application be sure to specify in what 
 industry those who sign the Blank are employed, so we will know 
 how to make out the Charter. 
 
 Trusting that the above will be of assistance to you in organ- 
 izing your fellow workers, I am, 
 
 Yours for Industrial Freedom, 
 
 WM. D. HAYWOOD, 
 General Secretary-Treasurer. 
 
 INDUSTRIAL WORKERS OF THE WORLD, 
 
 1001 West Madison Street, 
 
 Chicago, Illinois. 
 
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