chart furnishes. It implies heights and depths of organization of which our present despised "state bureaucracy" scarcely gives us a hint. It implies a system of representation and a politics on a scale far beyond anything which now exists. If this charted dream were to be Utopia (that is, "Nowhere"), one would greet it on its own terms, but the I. W. W. are above all bent on things practical. All circuitous ways, as through politics and parliaments, are not for them. It is "action" that educates and action that frees labor from its chains. Capitalism is now so far gone that its dissolution needs only to be hastened by "direct action," sabotage, the strike in every phase,—local, short, and quick, sympathetic,—and finally the general uprising.[1]
The childlike simplicity of this proposal astonishes us the more because it seems to be here recognized, that as the world is bound closer and closer together, exchange of products must go on; that kinds, amounts, terms of exchange, have in some way to be determined, and that all this can only be through boards chosen by the various trades. As "the Globe itself is to be one brotherhood," international affil-
- ↑ The most recent statement by the general secretary of the order reads:
"All power vests in the general membership through the initiative and referendum and the right of repeal and recall.
"Universal transfer system and recognition of cards of union workers of all countries; one initiation fee to be all that is required, and this is to be placed at such a figure that no worker will be prevented from becoming a union man or woman because of its amount."A universal label, badge, button and membership card, thus promoting the idea of solidarity and unity amongst the workers.—Solidarity, Jan. 18, 1913."
