You ought to be out raising hell. This is the fighting age. Put on your fighting clothes.
-Mother Jones
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Tuesday May 2, 1915
From the Voices of Labor: Father Hagerty Offers a Chart of Industrial Organization
In preparation for the upcoming convention of Industrial Unionist to be held in Chicago in June, Father Thomas J. Hagerty has proposed a chart which outlines a possible structure for the new labor organization which the convention intends to establish.
Father Hagerty's Wheel as it appeared in the April 20th edition of Miners Magazine.
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Father Hagerty's chart was included in this month's edition of the American Labor Union's
Voice of Labor along with the recommendation that the chart be studied as a model of "perfect Industrial Unionism:
FATHER HAGERTY'S "WHEEL OF FORTUNE"
The Structure of Industrial System
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 strike, 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 the products to themselves.
One obligation for all.
A union man once and in one industry, a union man always and in all industries.
Universal emblem.
All workers of one industry in one union; all unions of workers in one big labor alliance the world over.
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SOURCES
Rebel Voices
An IWW Anthology
-ed by Joyce L. Kornbluh
Charles H Kerr Publishing, 1988
Father Thomas J Haggerty
http://www.iww.org/...
Image
http://www.gutenberg.org/...
See also:
Conference of Industrial Unionist
http://www.dailykos.com/...
Note:
I made this edition of Hellraisers Journal short, thinking that Daily Kos was going to be down this morning. But I have continued to research, and more will be revealed later. Hagerty is found as a signer of the Manifesto and Convention Call as a representative of the American Labor Union. I believe that he was editor of the the ALU's Voice of Labor by this time, but, sadly, the Voice of Labor has not yet found its way online, and I am unable, at this time, to verify exactly when he became the editor of the Voice of Labor. The American Labor Journal merged with the Railway Employees Journal to become the Voice of Labor in January of 1905.
On the spelling of Hagerty's name: notwithstanding that his name is spelled "Haggerty" at the IWW web site, I am now prepared to say that his name should be spelled "Hagerty." Hagerty's wheel appeared in the May 1905 issue of the Voice of Labor signed: Thos. J. Hagerty. His name also appears as Hagerty in the stenographic report of the founding convention of the IWW.
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One Big Industrial Union - May Day Chorus of Asheville
PAINT 'ER RED!
Come with us you workingmen and join the rebel band
Come you discontented ones and lend a helping hand
We march against the parasite to drive him from the land
With One Big Industrial Union
Chorus:
Hurrah! hurrah! we're gonna paint 'er red!
Hurrah! hurrah! The way is clear ahead!
We're gaining shop democracy and liberty and bread
With One Big Industrial Union.
In factory and field and mine we gather in our might
We're on the job and know the way to win our hardest fight
For the beacon that shall guide us out of darkness into light
Is One Big Industrial Union.
Come on you fellows, get in line, we'll fill the boss with fears
Red's the colour of our flag, it's stained with blood and tears,
We'll flout it in his ugly mug and raise our loudest cheers
For One Big Industrial Union.
"Slaves", they call us, "working plugs", inferior by birth
But when we hit their pocketbooks, we'll spoil their smiles of mirth
We'll stop their dirty dividends and drive them from the earth
With One Big Industrial Union.
We hate their rotten system more than any mortals do
Our aim is not to patch it up but build it all anew
And what we'll have for government when finally we're through
Is One Big Industrial Union.
-Ralph Chaplin/Elmer Rumbaugh
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