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SHALL FREEDOM DIE?
The Employing Class of America has conspired to:
- Maintain the wage slavery of the working class of America.
- Continuing an industrial system where "hunger and want are found among millions of working people, while the few, who make up the employing class, have all the good things of life."
- By force and violence, hindering and delaying human progress and realization of industrial freedom. Murdering workers and breaking every law of God and man.
- Inaugurating an industrial oligarchy that has wiped out those rights that are the heritage of the ages.
- Endeavoring to exterminate labor movements by such schemes and artifices as the Chicago indictments against the 166 Industrial Workers of the World.
IN proof of the charges enumerated above, the I. W. W. offers the foregoing pages and the facts of industrial history; and a verdict of "Guilty" is asked, not from twelve men of doubtful wisdom, but from the jury of bleeding and exploited Labor the wide world over.
