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Wobblies mark 100 years with songs, stories, unvarying beliefs
"While the mainstream American labor movement has emphasized collective bargaining, backed by the threat of a strike, as the way to increase wages, strengthen job security and improve working conditions, the Wobblies, as they call themselves, maintained a more ambitious agenda.
Just as it did in 1905, the preamble of the labor organization's constitution calls for doing away with capitalism and abolishing the wage system.
Because it concentrates power among the wealthy, capitalism is fundamentally anti-democratic" ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~
"While the mainstream American labor movement has emphasized collective bargaining, backed by the threat of a strike, as the way to increase wages, strengthen job security and improve working conditions, the Wobblies, as they call themselves, maintained a more ambitious agenda.
Just as it did in 1905, the preamble of the labor organization's constitution calls for doing away with capitalism and abolishing the wage system.
Because it concentrates power among the wealthy, capitalism is fundamentally anti-democratic" ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~
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