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is a component part of an army, and_ their movements and advances only a well-directed part of the program of the whole.

The industrial union, in contradistinction to the craft union, is that organization through which all its members in one industry, or in all industries, if necessary, can act as a unit and adopt such methods by which the power, the might and the commanding position of the wealth producers can be best exercised and demonstrated.

Wherever the factory system of production is established, wherever a few, by reason of their control of all means of life, use their economic power to exact profits from the labor power, the limbs and lives of the proletarian class, there are evident the eruptions of pent-up discontent; at intervals, measured by the degree of power acquired through the various stages of the organizing process, great masses arise in one country or another, and from the convulsions vibrating through the universe the workers in other parts of the world, if, they follow events, learn of the efforts of others to throw off the burden and to uplift the class. "Anarchy, riot, mob rule," is the tale of woe given by the news agency of the ruling class; the capitalist class throughout the world, through their pliant tools, are watching every