live stock farms: ranchmen, herders, sheep shearers, general utility men, all workers on fowl and bird farms; on dairy farms, etc."
Again the Department of Civil Service and Public Conveniences contains:
- (A) Hospitals and sanitariums.
- (B) Sanitary protective division.
- (C) Educational institutions.
- (D) Water, gas and electricity supply service.
- (E) Amusement service.
- (F) General distribution.
This would merge scores of craft unions that had been built up on sectional interests. Against this "curse of sectionalism" the Syndicalist acts.
It is a curse because it cultivates a selfish monopoly spirit. "One Big Union" in each industry, ever ready to unite with those in other industries, is the remedy. With this perfected solidarity once attained, labor has only to stop, and the catastrophe of capitalism is at hand. This may be done playfully with smiling lips and hands in pockets.
What Mr. Trautmann's pamphlet has done is to give us a blurred caricature of present commercial activities in the world.[1] This is done apparently to show pictorially how easily the "world brotherhood of labor" may be instructed to oust the present possessors.
From Sir Thomas More to William Morris, we have nothing more soaringly utopian than that which this
- ↑ I am told that in the Sixth Convention this chart has now been "entirely made over." In the I. W. W. Solidarity, Nov. 30, 1912, is a long and critical article on necessary changes.
