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A portion of the workers, in ever-increasing numbers, recognize the fact that the working class and the employing class have nothing in common, and that the struggle must go on until all the toilers come together and take and hold that which they produce by their labor. As there is no harmony between exploiter and exploited, the former, by using the craft unions and their methods to their own advantage, could always hold their ground and remain the masters over the destinies of millions. The workers begin to see that they must not only prepare themselves to hold their own against the aggressions of their oppressors, but also destroy the fortifications behind which the enemy has entrenched himself in his possessions of land, mills, mines and factories. "What is of benefit to the employers must, self-evidently, be detrimental to the employes," is the logic of the everyday professor of the workshop. Organization he sees on the side of the enemy; masterfully arranged, systematically conducted; unscrupulous in the application of any method to hold their domain of power and to subdue the workers, On the same lines must the workers organize, and their fighting methods must be governed by only one consideration,