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13th January 2010, 18:04
Excerpts from http://www.billingsnews.com/index.php?option=com_content&id=999:in-billings-wobblies-attempt-labor-comeback
Government and capital are partners in the exploitation of workers:
In the first two hours of the day, workers produce enough goods and services to pay the companys bills. The next six hours production goes to profits and taxes, he said.
The system keeps people poor and drives them crazy.
Del Duca explains, Americans are driven to work longer and harder. They come home, hurry through supper and collapse in front of the TV. Theres no time to nurture children or marriage. The system keeps people broke, so there is no time for family activities or personal healing.
America is rich enough to provide a comfortable living for all. Instead, it provides an unconscionable income for the few at the top while the majority is scrambling to pay the light bill and mortgage.
American workers are the most misinformed in the world. They are enthusiastic and willing slaves to an unfair system, a system that pays some people $250,000 a year and others $7 an hour. In a cooperative (such as IWW members would organize within an industry) everyone would know what everyone else was paid. Workers would vote on the bosss salary and their own, Del Duca said.
The IWWs task is to educate, organize and emancipate the wage slaves.
The IWW has been called socialist, communist and other names. Del Duca prefers the term industrial democracy. The IWWs goal is to educate workers so they might take over the means of production and run industries themselves.
The IWW philosophy is as much libertarian as socialist. We do not want to force anyone to do anything, Del Duca said. Workers can solve their own problems.
America calls itself a democracy, Del Duca added, but business is run by kings. It is the IWWs aim to replace corporate interests with employee control in every single enterprise in the country.
The resurgent IWW has organized Starbucks outlets, truck drivers, garment workers, printers and others.
Government and capital are partners in the exploitation of workers:
In the first two hours of the day, workers produce enough goods and services to pay the companys bills. The next six hours production goes to profits and taxes, he said.
The system keeps people poor and drives them crazy.
Del Duca explains, Americans are driven to work longer and harder. They come home, hurry through supper and collapse in front of the TV. Theres no time to nurture children or marriage. The system keeps people broke, so there is no time for family activities or personal healing.
America is rich enough to provide a comfortable living for all. Instead, it provides an unconscionable income for the few at the top while the majority is scrambling to pay the light bill and mortgage.
American workers are the most misinformed in the world. They are enthusiastic and willing slaves to an unfair system, a system that pays some people $250,000 a year and others $7 an hour. In a cooperative (such as IWW members would organize within an industry) everyone would know what everyone else was paid. Workers would vote on the bosss salary and their own, Del Duca said.
The IWWs task is to educate, organize and emancipate the wage slaves.
The IWW has been called socialist, communist and other names. Del Duca prefers the term industrial democracy. The IWWs goal is to educate workers so they might take over the means of production and run industries themselves.
The IWW philosophy is as much libertarian as socialist. We do not want to force anyone to do anything, Del Duca said. Workers can solve their own problems.
America calls itself a democracy, Del Duca added, but business is run by kings. It is the IWWs aim to replace corporate interests with employee control in every single enterprise in the country.
The resurgent IWW has organized Starbucks outlets, truck drivers, garment workers, printers and others.