Living or Dead Labor Unions (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Living or Dead Labor Unions Every day in every country there is an army of men, women and children rushing forth to do battle with all their strength of their bodies and minds in the mines, mills and shops. They shiver in their thin clothing in the cold winter mornings. They hug their pieces of bread with perhaps a slice of pie and bottle of cold coffee for their lunch. They hitch themselves to their machines and tools that callous their hands and callous their minds to the thundering, roarings of the machinery. But they cannot callous their lungs and blood to poisonous fumes, to stifling air, to bad food and to little rest. These things eat away their vitality and make them old long before their time. This army of workers struggle now here and now there to better their conditions. In that struggle they have to take their lives into their hands, for they are clubbed by the police, shot down by the soldiers, outlawed by the courts, and while they work they are often maimed and crippled. This is the working class war fought with empty hands for the principle of life. Now and then they gain, now and then they are beaten. But forever this army struggles onward throughout the ages, every time it has been beaten it rises again and yet again. War cannot end until this army is victorious, for it cannot and will not make peace with slavery and injustice. In the working class war all property and the lives of their enemies arc held to be sacred. If they destroy any lives, machinery, buildings, they are called murderers, hoodlums, social vipers, etc. But the moment the privileged classes war, both property and life cease to be sacred. Here the same deeds on a much larger scale become glorious and heroic. When the workers kill and destroy in the interest of the ruling classes they arc patriots, courageous and brave. What kind of ethics are these? They are ruling class ethics. They are nothing but shams and hypocrisy. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.