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A labor organization to correctly represent the working class must have two things in view.
First—It must combine the wage-workers in such a way that it can most successfully fight the battles and protect the interests of the working people of today in their struggle for fewer hours, more wages and better conditions.
Secondly—It must offer a final solution of the labor problem—an emancipation from strikes, injunctions, bull-pens and scabbing of one against the other.
Study the Chart and observe how this organization will give recognition to control of shop affairs, provide perfect Industrial Unionism, and converge the strength of all organized workers to a common center, from which any weak point can be strengthened and protected.
Observe, also, how the growth and development of this organization will build up within itself the structure of an Industrial Democracy—a Workers' Co-Operative Republic—which must finally burst the shell of capitalist government, and be the agency by which the workers will operate the industries, and appropriate theproducts to themselves.
One obligation for all.
A union man once and in one industry, a union man always and in all industries.
Universal transfers.
Universal emblem.
All workers of one industry in one union; all unions of workers in one big labor alliance the world over.
Quoted in Joyce L. Kornbluth, Rebel Voices: An I.W.W. Anthology (Ann Arbor: U. Mich. Press, 1964), pp. 10-11. Transcribed by Jim Crutchfield. Last updated 17 September 2003.