Each year, 66,800 American workers are killed on the job or die
of work related causes.
Each day, 36,000 are injured; 2,300 are made sick.
By comparison, some 58,000 American soldiers died in Vietnam over a 13 year period. During the same period, more than 10 times that number of civilians were killed at home--on the job.
We are being lied to and misled by the government and corporate media, who want us to believe that violence is somewhere "out there", being perpetrated by "those people". The fact is, the 23,000 murders committed with guns each year equal only 35% of the number of murders committed by bosses.
Where is the most violent place in America? The work place.
The Class War is real. Real people are really being killed, in numbers so great that it is by far the deadliest war ever waged. But it is also the most one-sided war we have ever known. Hundreds, thousands of working class Americans become casualties every day, while the bosses just get richer. How much longer will we let this war go on? How many more of us must die before we rise up as a united class, look our murderers in the eye, and say, "No more"? We of the working class must defend ourselves on the battlefield of the Class War: the work place.
Will you be next?
Join the Army of Labor. Join the Union today.
Note - These statistics were taken from an article by Martin St. John in the April, 1998 Industrial Worker.
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