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As Long As This Great Army Of Workers Is Scattered Among So Many Craft Unions, It Will Be Impossible For Them To Unite And Act In Harmony Together. Craft Unionism Is The Negation Of Solidarity. The More Unions You Have, The Less Unity.

They Have Always Taught And Trained You To Believe It To Be Your Patriotic Duty To Go To War And To Have Yourselves Slaughtered At Their Command. But In All The History Of The World You, The People, Have Never Had A Voice In Declaring War, And Strange As It Certainly Appears, No War By Any Nation In Any Age Has Ever Been Declared By The People.

Why Should The Railroad Employees Be Parceled Out Among A Score Of Different Organizations? They Are All Employed In The Same Service. Their Interests Are Mutual. They Ought To Be Able To Act Together As One. But They Divide According To Craft And Calling, And If You Were To Propose Today To Unite Them That They Might Actually Do Something To Advance Their Collective And Individual Interests As Workers, You Would Be Opposed By Every Grand Officer Of These Organizations.

One Glance Proves Beyond A Shadow Of A Doubt That These Unions (railroad Craft Unions) Are Exceedingly Useful To The Corporations; And To The Extent That They Serve The Economic And Political Purposes Of The Corporations, They Are The Foes – And Not The Friends – Of The Working Class.

When I Rise It Will Be With The Ranks, And Not From The Ranks.