Bérmunkás, 1935. január-június (23. évfolyam, 824-849. szám)

1935-06-29 / 849. szám

8 oldal

BÉRMUNKÁS

1935 junius 29.

Junior Column

Slaves, to the Slaughter

(YOUNG RECRUIT.)

The drums roll forth their summons,

The war-like bugles thrill;

From here and there and everywhere The slaves are give narms to bear Some other SLAVES to kill.

Each one must do his “duty”—

Must find warm blood to spill;

For “wrong” or “right,” with dread or spite, Although HE has no cause to fight;—

It is HIS MASTER’S will.

He leaves his wife or mother,

He learns tó march and drill.

For wise men say, “Ah, haste the day When you can stab and shoot and slay— God bless while—YOU KILL!”

now it seems to be coming out stronger then ever. The J. W. U. rebels do not want “to yield in meek submission from their cradles to their graves,” they want to live—not exist. It is now up to every Wobbly to help the J. W. U. go ov.er the top. There are many ways to build this rebel youth movement but most important is—Education! As the IWW is based on Education, so likewise is the J. W. U.

One of the best ways of helping the J. W. U. is to see to it that every member has a copy of “The General Strike.” This pamphlet can be read over and over and the reader will always find it absorbing. It is written in working class language and can be understood very easily. There is enough

THE SCABS

material in it to upset any opposition to the IWW program, be it political or otherwise.

This pamphlet will do more to clear the minds of workers and their children than probably any other publication issued by the IWW. In reading this pamphlet over several times I have always found additional information which has served to convince me more and more that the program of the IWW is the only program which will enable the working class to overthrow Capitalism and set up the Workers’ Commonwealth in it’s place. To this end let us fight th.e harder! Educate the youth by starting with “The General Strike,” the rest will be easy.

—Irvin J. Du Vernay.

By EDDY

They praise him in the papers With patriotic swill;

They dress him in a gaudy suit And teach him how to aim and shoot,

Then send him forth to—KILL.

The “lawful” zealots laud him

(Their guarded codes are nil;)

In accents loud they tell the crowd That “lawful” murder is allowed;

It IS NO CRIME TO KILL.

They lead him to the “enemy,”

To prove his warlike skill;

He knows not who, he knows not why,

For some poor slave has got to die For he is there—TO KILL.

He marches down the highway,

The cheers ring loud and shrill;

With deadly weapons in his hand He leaves “his own dear native land”

Some corpse-strewn trench to fill.

Beneath his master’s banner,

Before his master’s god he’ll pray (Slave seeking courage slaves to slay And aid “divine” to kill.)

Then comes MACHINE-MADE MURDER.

The strongest hearts are still . . .

And many a slave has found a grave In gory sod or crimson wave—

YEA, OF HIS OWN SWEET WILL.

The workers have THEIR struggle—

Their war to wage—until It comes to pass the orking class Beneath its OWN red flag shall mass,

The world with joy to fill.

Unite! Unite! for your own fight In mine and shop and mill;

How better far such battles are That all the streaming ways to war

Where slaves fight slaves TO KILL!

—RALPH CHAPLIN.

The IWU and “The General Strike” Pamphlet

The Junior Wobblies Union was formed by the IWW for the purpose of educating the youth of the workers, so that they would not have to go through the miseries of Capitalism in ignorance. In the past year there has been an increasing interest around in the minds of most “Wobblies” and youthful rebels. In 1933 the J. W. U. seemed to be dead but

Any person who, knowingly or knowingly takes another worker’s place in industry during a period when the latter is on strike, is a scab. This scab, who shunned by the union members and despised by the capitalists, acts as buffer between the workers and the employers. Although capitalism is tottering on a weak foundation, it will live for a long time yet if that parasite or black sheep of the working class, the scab, is not prevented from breaking up strikes and doing other favors for the bosses, such as working long hours for a small wage.

There are two kinds of scabs, the company scabs and the working class scabs. The company scabs are paid hirelings or thugs who are professional strikebreakers. These th ugs know that they may get beaten up or killed if they participate in strikes, but they are willing to take chances wh.en they are paid a higher wage. After a strike is over, the hirelings move to another strike area to help th.e bosses retain their strange hold on the workers. The company scabs are dangerous because they know that the capitalists are behind them, even if they commit brutalities, which would usually terminate in a prison sentence.

The working class scab, so called because he is in reality a worker, is usually a man or a woman who has be.en out of work for a long time, and who has began to think that any job is better than none at all. They are so distracted by their need for food and clothing that they will go to work at the first opportunity, little realizing that in so doing they help lower the wage scale of the other workers and help the capitalists to reap huge profits.

These ordinary scabs shoud, instead of being despised, be taught that only by organizing into the One Big Union

of the working class can they ever hope to be saved from future slavery.

COMMENT.

The above articles are excerpts from the “Industrialis- ti.” They are very good articles, well-written, but believe me fellow Jr. Wobblies of the “Bérmunkás” these articled and poem aren’t any better than those you. have been submitting to the J. H. C.

This “jogger-er-up” spout- in on my part has to do with the lack of quantity rather then of quality.

Being unwilling to continue nagging-nagging being ruinous to my school gipl complexion, couldn’t you or wouldn’t you all, novicis, amateurs, etc., d-do somethin, — soon? . . . (I’m gonna cry in a minute!)

Anna Zsamar.

OPEN FORUM

Los Angeles Californiában az IWW rendezésében az IWW Hallban, 280 Lang Bldg. 212 S. Spring St. minden vasárnap este 8 órai kezdettel. Belépő dij NINCS. Kérdések. Hozzászólások.

NEW YORK FIGYELEM!

Az Általános Munkás Dalárda junius 30-án, vasárnap

NAGY GULYÁS KIRÁNDULÁST

rendez az Edenwald erdőbe. Lesznek különféle szórakoztató játékok és a legjobb ételekről és italokról a rendezőség gondoskodik.

ÚTIRÁNY: Lexington

Ave. Subway a 180-ik utcáig, átszállni a Boston és Westchester (White Plans Local) a Dyer Aveig onnan jobbra táblák jelzik az utat.

A new yorki munkástár- sak tömeges megjelenését kéri a Bizottság.

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