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Arturo M. Giovannitti, “The Constructive Side of Syndicalism” (1907)

August 8, 2019 Shawn P. Wilbur
Like all the other new theories that have loomed up in the horizon on the troubled waters of capitalist society, or, for that matter, any society whatever, syndicalism is naturally going to be very much maligned, calumniated, and revolted against, not only by those that are not in sympathy with it from the economic point of view, but also from those that are sincere in their beliefs and earnest in uplifting mankind to the higher plane of civilization. It has been ever so throughout history, and it is so today.

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Arturo M. Giovannitti, “Syndicalism—The Creed of Force” (1913)

August 7, 2019 Shawn P. Wilbur
  Syndicalism—The Creed of Force BY ARTURO M. GIOVANNITTI “As a revolutionary organization the Industrial Workers of the World, aims to use any and all tactics that will get the results sought with the least expenditure of time and energy. The question of ‘right’ and ‘wrong’ does not concern us.” To interpret this statement from Andre Tridon’s “The New Unionism” we asked Mr. Giovanitti, as a leader in the I. W. W., to express his personal views on the ethics of industrial unionism. Born in Campobasso, Italy, he has been a coal miner in Canada, a student at Union Theological […]