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Hellraisers Journal – Thursday February 2, 1911
Some thoughts on agreements with capitalists from William D. Haywood.
From the International Socialist Review of February 1911:
PICK AND SHOVEL POINTERS
BY WILLIAM D. HAYWOOD
AGREEMENTS with capitalists are the death warrants of labor.
There can be no closed shop as long as the boss has the keys.
There is no chivalry in the work shop. Capitalism compels sex equality.
Every new invention of machinery makes the journeyman of today the apprentice of tomorrow.
Trade unionists keep men out of the union and then wonder why the Manufacturers’ Association can get scabs.
Labor organizations should be free to fight for their class interests at all times.
You recognize this fist as a fighting weapon. It is made up of five members, five organizations. They can all work independently when necessary but when called upon can become a united force.
Suppose one of them is tied up with an agreement-a white rag—for a year or more. What be comes of it? It will wither and decay. And what is true of this finger is true of a labor organization. It is useless to itself and stands in the way of its fellows.
An agreement between the capitalist class and the working class is an unholy alliance, and when entered into by any body of workingmen it removes them from their class and the class struggle and makes them auxiliaries of the enemy of labor.
When the soldier enlists he enters into an agreement to fight the battles of the capitalist class and shoot down his fellow workers. When the trade unionists sign an agreement with the capitalist class, they likewise enlist to furnish the soldiers with guns, with food and with clothing. They are the enlisted men behind the man behind the gun.
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[Emphasis added.]
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SOURCE & IMAGE
The International Socialist Review, Volume 11
(Chicago, Illinois)
-July 1910 to June 1911
Charles H. Kerr & Company, 1911
https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/isr/
https://books.google.com/books?id=8-05AQAAMAAJ
ISR – Feb 1911
https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=8-05AQAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&pg=GBS.PA448-IA2
-page 458: “Pick and Shovel Pointers” by BBH
https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=8-05AQAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&pg=GBS.PA458
See also:
The International Socialist Review, Volume 11
(search: haywood)
https://books.google.com/books?id=8-05AQAAMAAJ
Bill Haywood’s Book
The Autobiography of William D. Haywood
-by Big Bill Haywood
International Publishers, 1929
https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/000859708
-pages 232-238: BBH to Copenhagen in 1910, and travels in Europe
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015050276461&view=2up&seq=236&q1=copenhagen
New-York Tribune of Dec 18, 1910, page 2:
“Sees Labor Revolt Abroad-William D. Haywood, Back Home, Tells of Conditions in England.”
https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83030214/1910-12-18/ed-1/seq-2/
International Socialist Congress, Copenhagen 1910
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Socialist_Congress,_Copenhagen_1910
Tag: International Socialist Congress Copenhagen 1910
https://weneverforget.org/tag/international-socialist-congress-copenhagen-1910/
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Internationale – Alistair Hulett
Lyrics (in French) by Eugène Pottier, Paris, June 1871
Music by Pierre Degeyter, 1889
https://www.marxists.org/history/ussr/sounds/lyrics/international.htm