 L'introduction de sabotage visite un Recording Libravox. Toutes les recordings de Libravox sont dans le domaine public. Pour plus d'informations ou de volandaires, visitez le site Libravox.org. Sabotage par Elisabeth Geuliflin, introduction. L'intérêt de sabotage dans les États-Unis a développé l'account d'un cas de Frédéric Somnamboyd à l'état de New Jersey, comme l'offre du tract de Paterson, avant son arrest et la conviction pour l'advocation de Sabotage, le petit n'est-il nommé de cette forme particulière de la tactique libérale dans les États-Unis. Maintenant, il a développé une nécessité d'advocation, pas seulement d'expliquer ce que ça veut dire à l'employeur dans sa lutte pour des conditions meilleures, mais aussi d'adverser à l'employeur et à tout ce qu'il a dit. Je suis primairement désiré d'expliquer Sabotage, d'expliquer cela dans ces deux fortes significations, l'une pour sa utilité et l'autre pour sa légalité. La fin de l'introduction. Section 1 de Sabotage. C'est la recording de Libravox. Toutes les recordings de Libravox sont dans le domaine public. Pour plus d'informations ou de volandaires, visitez le site Libravox.org. Sabotage par Elisabeth Geuliflin, c'est une nécessité dans la guerre clausse. Je ne vais pas tenter d'adverter un sabotage sur tout le monde. Si les travailleurs considèrent que le sabotage est nécessaire, cela en soi-même fait un sabotage moral. La nécessité est une excuse pour l'existence, et pour nous de discuter de la moralité du sabotage, il serait aussi absurde que de discuter de la moralité de l'attention ou de la moralité de l'attention itself. Pour comprendre le sabotage, ou d'accepter tout à l'heure, il est nécessaire d'accepter le concept de l'attention de l'attention. Si vous croyez que entre les travailleurs sur l'un de l'autre il y a de la paix, il y a de l'homony, comme il existe entre les frères, et que, conséquemment, quelles sont les lois et les lois, ou simplement les familles, si vous croyez qu'un point peut être riche, d'où l'employeur peut obtenir assez, et le travailleur peut obtenir assez. Un point d'adversation ambitie de la guerre industrielle et de la distribution économique, alors il n'y a pas de justification, et une nouvelle explication de sabotage intelligible pour vous. Sabotage est une armée, qui s'occupe dans l'horstinale du laborat, pour combattre l'arrivée de l'arrivée. Sabotage réalise, comme il devient plus intelligente, qu'il doit avoir de la puissance, afin d'accomplir tout, qu'il n'y a pas de paix pour sympathie, qu'il n'y a pas d'abstracrite, pour les meilleures conditions, pour exemple, prendre un établissement industriel, comme le mouillage, où les hommes et les enfants, travaillent 10 heures par jour, et n'importe qui, ou un comité qui représente le monde, espèrent induire l'employeur pour donner les meilleures conditions, par appeler à sa sympathie, par lui dire de la misère, la paix et la pauvreté de leur vie, ou ils pourraient le faire, par appeler à son sens de justice. Suppose que un homme individual, ou une femme, a mis à l'employeur et disait, je le fais dans ma capacité, comme un travailleur dans cette factory, beaucoup de dollars de faute tous les jours, n'auraient probablement pas pu lui retirer de l'assassinatisme néerastal. Il considère lui être trop dangereux d'avoir de l'assassinatisme dans la communauté. Ce n'est pas la sympathie, pas de la justice, qui fait un appeal à l'employeur, mais c'est la puissance. Si un comité peut aller à l'employeur avec cet ultimatum, on représente tous les hommes et les hommes dans cette factory. Ils sont organisés dans une union, comme vous êtes organisés dans l'association de manufactures. Ils ont rencontré et formulé dans cette union une demande pour meilleures heures et les wagers, et ils ne travaillent pas un jour plus long. Au moins qu'ils l'ont mis en place, ils ont prouvé leur puissance comme producteurs de votre plante, et ils vont vous accroir par cette puissance de leur puissance en garantissant leurs demandes. Ce sort d'ultimatum servie d'un employeur n'est généralement pas mal d'une respiration différente. Et si la union est fort enough d'organiser, et qu'ils peuvent faire bien leur frais, ils ont généralement accompli ce qu'ils n'auraient jamais accompli. On croit que le problème existant dans la société est expéré dans l'économie d'un pouvoir plus vaste sur l'un de l'autre et la puissance économique de les travailleurs sur l'autre. Un rencontre en battu à l'opinion maintenant et encore, mais un rencontre dans un conflit continuant de la guerre qui doit avoir le grand part de producteur de laboratoire et la ownership ultime de l'esprit de vie. Le employeur veut une longue heure, le workingman intelligent veut une petite heure, le employeur veut des wagers, le workingman intelligent veut des wagers hauts. Le employeur n'est pas concerné avec les conditions sanitarie dans le milieu, il est concerné seulement avec la couture de production à minimum. Le workingman intelligent est concerné couture ou non couture avec la ventilation, la sanitation et l'illumination qui sera conduite à son welfare physique. Sabotage est à ce combat que la guerre guerrilla est à la bataille. La bataille est à l'opinion de la guerre guerrilla. Sabotage est la guerre guerrilla. La guerre guerrilla entre deux classes opposées. La fin de sa nécessité dans la guerre. Section 2 de Sabotage. C'est un recording de Libravox. Toutes les recordings de Libravox sont dans le domaine public. Pour plus d'informations ou de volontiers, visitez Libravox.org. Sabotage par Elisabeth Goerliflin, forme général de Sabotage. Sabotage a été adopté par la Fédération Générale de l'État de France en 1897 comme un équipement reconnaissant dans leur méthode de combat sur leurs employés. Mais Sabotage a existé longtemps avant qu'il était officiellement par l'organisation de label. Sabotage c'est primairement l'exécuté de l'efficacité. Sabotage c'est à l'aide d'interpréter avec la quantité ou d'interpréter avec la qualité de la production capitaliste ou d'aider de pauvres services. Sabotage n'est pas de violences physiques. Sabotage c'est un processus industriel. C'est quelque chose qu'il y a dans les quatre lois de la shop. Et ces trois formes de Sabotage affectent la qualité, la quantité et le service affectant le profit de l'employeur. Sabotage c'est un sens d'interpréter avec l'employeur pour le purpose d'interpréter avec lui en garantissant certaines conditions même si le working man s'interpréte avec le purpose d'interpréter avec lui. C'est simplement un autre formes d'interpréter. Il y a beaucoup de formes d'interpréter avec l'efficacité, d'interpréter avec la qualité et la quantité de production. D'autres motifs il y a d'interpréter avec la quantité de production. Il y a d'interpréter avec l'application et avec le genre d'efficacité pour le purpose d'interpréter avec lui. Mais ce type de sabotage capitaliste c'est antisocial pour la raison qu'il est aimé à la bonne de l'efficacité et à l'expérience de l'efficacité. L'efficacité du working man c'est distinctement social. Il est aimé à l'efficacité de l'efficacité et à l'expérience du working man qui est son coeur, son religion, son sentiment, son patriotisme. Tout est centré dans son bouclier et si vous vous inquiétez que vous vous inquiétez à la plus vulnérable point dans son entier moral et économique système et des formes générales de sabotage. Section 3 de sabotage C'est un recording de la Bible. Les records de la Bible sont dans le domaine public. Pour plus d'informations ou de volontiers visitez le www.librivox.org Sabotage par Elisabeth Gulliflin Short pay Less work Cacani Sabotage comme il est aimé à la quantité est une très grande chose appelée par le coach Cacani Tous les travailleurs intelligents ont essayé à un certain moment ou d'autre quand ils ont été compétenus pour travailler trop fort et trop longtemps le coach du coach avait un tract en 1889 et leur tract a perdu. Mais quand ils reviennent au travail et au circuit ils ont embriqué leurs conclusions leur expérience d'un défi c'était à cet effet les employés comme les cabs ont toujours apprécié leur travail ils ont dit combien plus supérieur ils étaient à nous ils ont payé les deux comme ils l'ont payé maintenant nous allons retourner aux doigts déterminons que depuis ce genre de travailleurs et ce genre de travail nous allons faire la même chose nous allons faire la même chose comme les cabs nous allons faire la même chose comme les cabs nous allons faire la même chose comme les cabs nous allons voir comment nos employés peuvent faire ce genre de travail c'était très quelques mois jusqu'à ce système de sabotage ils avaient gagné tout qu'ils avaient battu et n'avaient pas pu gagner c'était le premier annoncement de sabotage pour leur dire comment l'enfant travaillait sur la rue et le boss disait qu'est-ce que vous pouvez faire je peux faire le plus grand qu'est-ce qu'il disait un grand garçon disait le boss pouvez-vous prendre un chauffeur ou sûr comment vous payez ce travail est-ce que c'est tout ? c'est bien j'ai besoin de travail j'imagine que je vais le prendre donc il a pris son chauffeur et il voulait travailler bientôt le boss est allé et disait tu peux travailler pourquoi pas c'est mon clip c'est le boss let's see what the 1.25 dollars a day clip looks like c'est un peu mieux c'est le boss disait let's see what the 1.50 dollars a day clip looks like the man showed him that was fine c'est le boss well maybe we will call it 1.50 dollars a day the man volunteered the information that is 2 dollars a day clip was a hammer serve through the rail road in main was able to gain for himself and advanced from 1 dollar to 2 dollars a day we read of the gangs of Italian working men when the boss cuts their pay you know usually they have an Irish or American bus and he likes to make a couple of dollars a day on the side for himself so he cuts the pay of the man once in a while without consulting the contractor and pockets the difference one bus cut them 25 cents a day the next day the man removed had lessened considerably he asked a few questions what's the matter me know understanding English none of them wish to talk well he exhausted the day going around trying to find one person who could speak and tell him what was wrong finally he found one man who said well you see boss you cut out a pay you cut out a shop that was the same former sabotage to lessen the quantity of production in proportion to the amount of pay received there was an Indian preacher who went to college de l'existence on the side by preaching somebody said to him John how much do you get paid who only get paid 200 dollars a year well that's a damn poor page John well he said damn poor bridge that too is an illustration of a former sabotage that I am now describing to you the cacani former sabotage the go easy slogan the slacken up don't work so hard species and it is a reversal of a motor of the American federation of labor that most safe sane and conservative people of labor in America they believe in a fair days wage for a fair days work sabotage is an unfair days work for an unfair days wage it is an attempt on the part of the worker to limit his production in proportion to his remaining that is one form of sabotage and of short pay less work cacani session four of sabotage this is a library record recording all library recordings are in the public domain for more information auto volunteer www.dibrivox.org Sabotage par Elisabeth Gehlyflin Interferring with quality of goods The second form of sabotage is to deliberately interfere with the quality of the goods and in this we learn many lessons from our employers even as we learn how to limit the quantity You know that every year in the western part of this United States there are fruits and grains produced that never find a market Bananas and oranges rotten the ground, whole skiffs of fruits are dumped into the ocean not because people do not need these foods and couldn't make good use of them in the big cities of the east but because the employee clause prefer to destroy a large percentage of the production in order to keep the price up in cities like New York, Chicago, Baltimore and Boston if they set all the bananas that they produce into the eastern part of the United States we would be buying bananas at probably free for a cent but by destroying a large quantity they are able to keep the price up to 245 cents and this applies to potatoes, apples and very many other staple articles required by the majority of people yet if the worker attempts to apply the same principle, the same theory and the same tactic as his employer we are confronted with all sort of fine-spaned moral objections and of interfering with quality of goods Section 5 of sabotage This is a Libravox recording All Libravox recordings are in the public domain For more information or to volunteer, please visit Libravox.org Sabotage by Lisabeth Gurliflin Boids Advice to Silk Mill Slaves So it is with the quality Take the case of Frederic Sumner Boyd in which we should all be deeply interested because it is evident Frederic Sumner Boyd is to be made the good by the authorities in New Jersey that is to say, they want blood, they want one victim if they can't get anybody else they are determined they are going to get Boyd in order to serve a two-fold purpose to carve the workers of Patterson as they believe they can and to put this thing, sabotage into the statutes to make it an illegal thing to advocate or to practice Boyd said this, if you go back to work and you find scabs working alongside you you should put a little bit of vinegar on the reed of the loom in order to prevent its operation they have arrested him under the statute forbidding the advocacy of the destruction of property he advised the diers to go into the dye houses and to use certain chemicals in the dyeing of the silk that would tend to make that silk unweavable that sounded very terrible in the newspapers and very terrible in the court of law but what neither of the newspapers nor the courts of law have taken any cognizance of is that these chemicals are being used already in the dyeing of the silk it is not a new thing that Boyd is advocating it is something that is being practiced in every dye house in the city of Patterson already but it is being practiced for the employer and not for the worker and of Boyd's advice to silk male slaves section 6 of sabotage this is a labravox recording all labravox recordings are in the public domain for more information or to volunteer please visit labravox.org sabotage by Elisabeth Gulliflin dynamic silk let me give you a specific illustration of what I mean 75 years ago, when silk was woven into cloth the silk's kind was taken in the pure dyed and woven and when that piece of silk was made it would last for 50 years your grandmother could wear it as a wedding dress your mother could wear it as a wedding dress and then you, if you woman reader were fortunate enough to have a chance to get married could wear it as a wedding dress also but the silk that you buy today is not dyed in the pure and woven into a strong and durable product one pound of silk goes into the dye house and usually as many as 3 to 15 pounds come out that is to say, along with the dyeing there is an extraneous and unnecessary process of what is very picturesly called dynamiting, they wet the silk they have solutions of tin, solutions of zinc solutions of lead if you will read the journals of the silk association of America you will find in their advice to master dyers as to which salts are the most appropriate for waiting purposes you will read advertisements possibly you saw it reprinted in the masses for December 1913 of silk mills Ashley and Bailey's in Paterson for instance advertised by an auctione as having a plant for waiting for dynamiting silk for excellence and so when you buy a nice piece of silk today and have a dress made for festive occasions you hang it away in the wardrobe and when you take it out it is cracked down the pleats and along the waist and arms and you believe that you have been terribly cheated by a clock what is actually wrong is that you have paid for silk where you have received all tin cans and zinc and lead and things of that sort you have a dress that is garnished with silk seasoned with silk but a dress that is adulterated to the point where if it was adulterated just the slightest degree more it would fall to pieces entirely now what Frederick Sumnerboy advocated to the silk workers was in effect this you do for yourselves what you are already doing for your employers put these same things into the silk for yourself and your own purposes as you're putting in for the employer's purposes and I can't imagine, even in a court of law where they can find the fine thread of deviation where the most dire sabotage is legal and the workers sabotage illegal where they consist of identically the same thing and where the silk remains intact the silk is there, the loom is there there is no property destroyed by the process the one thing that is eliminated is the efficiency of the worker to cover up this adulteration of the silk to carry just to the point where it will weave and not be detected that efficiency is withdrawn the veil is torn from off production in the silk dying houses and silk mix and the worker simply says here I will take my hands off and I will show you what it is and I will show you how written, how absolutely unusable the silk actually is that they are passing off on the public at 23$ a yard end of dynamic silk Section 7 of sabotage this is a Libravox recording all Libravox recordings are in the public domain for more information or to volunteer please visit Libravox.org sabotage by Elizabeth Gurley-Flynn non adulteration and other adulteration now Boit's forms of sabotage was not the most dangerous form of sabotage at that if the judges had any imagination they would know that Boit's form of sabotage was pretty mild compared with this suppose that he had said to the dios in Paterson to a sufficient number of them that they could do it as a whole so that it would affect every dios in Paterson instead of introducing these chemicals for adulteration don't introduce them at all take the lead, the zinc and the tin and throw it down the sewer and weave a silk, beautiful pure durable silk just as it is die 8 lb 4 lb 100 lb 400 lb the employers would have been more hurt by that form of sabotage than by what Boit advocated and they would probably have wanted him put in jail for life instead of for 7 years in other words, to advocate non adulteration is a lot more dangerous to capitalist interests than to advocate adulteration and non adulteration is the highest form of sabotage in an establishment like the death houses of Paterson big risk, confectioners, meatpacking houses restaurants, etc interfering with quality or durability over utility of a product might be illustrated as follows suppose a milkman comes to your house every day and delivers a quart of milk and this quart of milk is half water and they put some chalk in it and some glue to thicken it then a milk driver goes on that round who belongs to a union the union strikes and they don't win any better conditions then they turn on the water for sale and they let it run so that the mixture is for fixed water and one fifth milk you will send the milk back and make a complaint at the same time that you are making that complaint and refusing to use the milk hundreds and thousands of others will do the same thing and through striking at the interests of the consumer once they are able to effect better conditions for themselves and also they are able to compel the employers to give a pure product that form of sabotage is distinctly beneficial to the consumer any exposure of adulteration any other adulteration that makes the product unconsumable is a lot more beneficial to the consumer than to have it tinctured and ductured so that you can use it but so that it is destructive to your physical condition at the same time interfering with quality means can be instance in the hotel and restaurant kitchens I remember during the hotel workers' strike they used to tell us about the great cold runs of soup that stood their month in and month out without ever being clean that were covered with their degree and with various other forms of animal growth and that very many times into the soup would fall a mouse or a rat and he would be fished out and thrown aside and the soup would be used just the same now can anyone say that if the workers in those restaurants as a means of striking at their employers would take half a pound of salt and throw it into that soup cold run you as a dinner or consumer wouldn't be a lot better off it would be far better to have that soup made unfit for consumption than to have it left in a set where it can be consumed but where it is continually poisonous to a greater or less degree destroying the utility of the goods sometimes means a distinct benefit to the person who might otherwise use the goods and of non adulteration and over adulteration section 8 of sabotage this is a labravox recording all labravox recordings are in the public domain for more information or to volunteer please visit www.labravox.org sabotage by Elizabeth Gualiflin interfering with service open mouth sabotage but vast form of sabotage is not a final form of sabotage service can be destroyed as well as quality and this is accomplished in Europe by what is known as the open mouth sabotage in the hotel and restaurant industry for instance I wonder if this judge who sentenced boy to 7 years in state prison in this form of sabotage or not suppose he went into a restaurant and ordered a lobster salad and he said to the speck and span waiter standing behind the chair is the lobster salad good oh yes sir said the waiter it is the very best in the city that would be acting the good wage slave and looking out for the employer's interest but if the waiter should say no sir it's rotten lobster salad it's made from the pieces that have been gathered together here for the last 6 weeks that would be the waiter who believed in sabotage that would be the waiter who had no interest in his boss' profits the waiter who didn't give a continental whether the boss saw lobster salad or not and the judge would probably believe in sabotage in that particular instance the waiters in the city of New York were only about 5,000 strong all these about a thousand were militant whether kind that could be depended on in a strike and yet that little strike than 200,000 government workers who were out at the same time they didn't win very much for themselves because of their small numbers but they did win a good deal in demonstrating the power to the employer to hurt his business for instance they drew up affidavits and they told about every hotel and restaurant in New York the kitchen and the pantry conditions they told about how the butter on the little butter place was sent back to the kitchen and somebody with their fingers picked out cigars ashes and the cigarette butts and the matches and threw the butter back into the generous supply they told how the napkins that had been on the table used possibly by a men who had consumption of syphilis were used to wipe the dishes in the pantry they told stories that would make your stomach sick and your hair almost turn white of conditions in the world of the Aztore, the Belmont all the great restaurants and hotels in New York and I found that that was one of the most effective ways of reaching the public because the dear public or never reach through sympathy I was taken by a lady up to a west side aristocratic club of women who had nothing else to do so they organized this club you know the white glove aristocracy and I was asked to talk about the hotel workers strike I knew that was not what they wanted at all they just wanted to look at what kind of person a labour agitator was but I saw a chance for publicity for the strikers I told them about the long hours in the hot kitchens about steaming, smoking rangers I told them about the overwork and the underpay of the waiters and how these waiters had to depend upon the generosity of the drunkenness of some patron to give them a big tip all that sort of thing and they were stony-faced it affected them as much as an arrow with Gibraltar and then I started to tell them about what the waiters and the cooks had told me of the kitchen conditions and I saw a look of frozen horror on their faces immediately they were interested when I began to talk about something that affected their own stomachs I never could have reached them through any appeal for humanitarian purposes immediately they began to draw up resolutions and to cancel engagements at these big hotels and decided that their clubs must not meet there again because quite a commotion around some of the big hotels in New York when the workers went back to work after learning that this was a way of getting at the bus via the public stomach they did not hesitate at sabotage in the kitchens they did not have ever got soup that was not fit to eat that was too salty or peppery maybe there was some boys in the kitchen that wanted shorter hours and that was one way they notified the bus in the Hotel McAlpine the head waiter called the man up before him after the strike was over and lost and said boys you can have what you want we will give you the hours we will give you the wages we will give you everything in the words what they had not been able to win through the strike they were able to win by striking at the taste of the public by making the food non consumable and therefore compelling the bus to take cognizance of their efficiency and their power in the kitchen and of interfering with service open mouth sabotage section 9 of sabotage this is the library of recording all library of recordings are in the public domain for more information or to volunteer please visit library of works.org sabotage by Elizabeth Geryflin following the book of rules interfering with service may be done in another way it may be done strange to say sometimes by abiding by the rules leaving up to the law absolutely sometimes the law is almost as inconvenient a thing for the capitalist ask for a labor agitator for instance on every railroad we have a book of rules a nice little book that they give to every employer and in that book of rules it tells how the engineer and the fireman must examine every part of the engine before they take it out of the roundhouse it tells how that breakman should go the length and width of the train and examine every bit of machinery to be sure it's in good shape it tells how the station master should do this and the telegraph operator that and so forth and it all sounds very nice in the little book but now take the book of rules and compare it with the timetable and you will realize how absolutely impossible the whole thing is what is it written for and actually that happens an engineer who has been working 36 hours does not see a signal on the track and many people are killed the coroner's jury needs to fix the responsibility and upon whom is it fixed this poor engineer who didn't abide by the book of rules he's the man upon whom the responsibility falls the company wipe their hands and say we are not responsible our employer was negligent here are our rules and through these book of rules they are able to fix the responsibility of every accident and some poor devil like that engineer who said the other day after a frightful accident when he was arrested yes but if I didn't get the train in at the certain time I might have lost my job under the new management on the new heaven road that book of rules exist in Europe as well in one station in France when the station master was held responsible the station masters were organized in the railways man union and they went to the union and asked for some action the union said the best thing for you men to do is to go back on the job and obey that book of rules letter for letter if that is the only reason why accidents happen we will have no accidents hereafter so they went back and when a man came up to the ticket office and asked for a ticket to such and such a place he would watch being so much and would hand in more than the amount he would be told he can't give you any change it says in the book of rules his passenger must have the exact fare this was the first one well after a lot of fuss they chased around and got the exact change were given the tickets and got aboard the train then when the train was supposedly ready to start the engineer climb down the firemen followed and they began to examine every bolt and piece of mechanism the break men got off and began to examine everything he was supposed to examine the passengers grew very restless the train stood there about an hour and a half they proceeded to leave the train they were met at the door by an employee who said no it's against the rules for you to leave the train once you get into it until you arrive at your destination and within 3 days the railroad system of France was so completely demoralized that they had to exonerate this particular station master and the absurdity of the book of rules had been so demonstrated to the public that they had to make over their system of operation before the public would trust themselves to the railroad any further this book of rules has been tried not only for the purpose of exoneration it has been tried for the purpose of strikes where men fail in the open battle they go back and with this system they win where roadmen can sabotage for others as well as for themselves in a case like the miners of Colorado where we read there that militiamen was set in against the miners we know that they are set against the miners because the first act of the militia was to disarm the miners and leave the mine guards the folks in possession of their arms Lord Luthalud, the good church O'Brien went into Calumet Mick and said to the miners and the president of the union Mr Moyer sits at the table as chairman while he said it boys give up your guns it's better for you to be shot than it is to shoot anybody now sabotage is not violence but that does not mean that I am deprugating all forms of violence I believe for instance in the case of Michigan in the case of Colorado, in the case of Roosevelt and G, the miners should have held on to their guns exercise their constitutional right to bear arms and militia or no militia absolutely refuse to give them up until they saw the guns of the folks and the guns of the mine guards on the side of the road first and even then it might be a good precaution to hold on to them in case of danger well, when this militia was being set from Denver up into the mining district one little train crew did what has never been done in America before something that caused the thrill to go through the humblest toilet if I could have worked for 20 years just to see one little torch of hope like that I believe it worthwhile the trail was full of soldiers near the firemen all the train crews stepped out of the train and they said we are not going to run this train to carry any soldiers in against our brother strikers so they deserted the train but it was then operated by a ball wind detective and a deputy sheriff can you say that wasn't a case where sabotage was absolutely necessary and of following the book of rules section 10 of sabotage this is a labravox recording all labravox recordings are in the public domain for more information or to volunteer please visit labravox.org sabotage by Elisabeth Gurliflin putting the machine on strike suppose that when the engineer had gone on strike he had taken a vital part of the engine on strike with him without which it would have been impossible for anyone to run that engine then there might have been a different story where roadmen have a mighty power in refusing to transport soldiers strike breakers and ammunition for soldiers and strike breakers into strike districts they did it in Italy the soldiers went on the train the train guards refused to run the trains the soldiers thought they could run the train themselves they started and the first signal they came to was danger they went along very slowly and cautiously and the next signal was at danger and they found before they had gone very far that some of the switches had been turned and they were run off on to a siding in the woods somewhere laboriously they got back on to the main track they came to a draw bridge and the bridge was turned open they had to go across in both and abandoned the train that meant walking the rest of the way by the time they got into the strike district the strike was over soldiers who have had to walk on so full of them and vigor and so anxious to shoot daggers down when they get into a strike district as when they ride in a train men by union men the railroad men have mighty power in refusing to run these trains and putting them in such a condition that they can't be run by others however to anticipate a question that is going to be asked about the possible disregard for human life remember that when they put all the signals at danger there is very little risk for human life because the train usually has to stop dead still where they take a vital part of the engine away the train does not run at all so human life is not in danger they make it a practice to strike such a vital blue that the service is paralyzed there often with freight of course they do different things in the strike of the railroad workers in France they transported the freight in such a way that a great train load of fine fresh food could be run off into a siding in one of the poorest districts of France it was left to decay but it never reached the point of either decay or destruction it was usually taken care of by the poor people of that district something that was supposed to be set in a restaurant paris to have was sent to Morsay and so within a very short time the whole system was so clocked and demoralized that we had to set the railroad workers you are the only efficient ones come back, take your demands better run our railroad end of putting the machine on strike session 11 of sabotage this is a labravox recording all labravox recordings are in the public domain for more information or to volunteer please visit labravox.org sabotage by Elisabeth Geuliflin print the truth or you don't print at all now what is true of the railroad workers is also true of the newspaper workers of course one can hardly imagine any more conservative element to deal with than the railroad workers and the newspaper workers sometimes you will read a story in the paper that is so palpably false a story about strikers than planted dynamite in lorans for instance and it came out in a boston paper before the dynamite was found a story of how the airy trains were dynamited by strikers in paterson but do you realize that the men who write the story the men who pays for the story the owners and editors are not the ones that put the story into actual print it is put in print by printers compositors, typesetters belong to the working class and our members of unions during the swedish general strike these workers belong to the unions and were operating the papers rebelled against printing lines against the fellow strikers they set an ultimatum to the newspaper managers either you print the truth or you print no papers at all the newspaper owners decided they would rather print no paper at all than tell the truth most of them would probably so decide on strike and the paper came out a little bit of a sheet until eventually they realized that the printers had them by the throat that they could not print any papers without the printers they sent for them to come back and told them so much of the paper will belong to the strikers and they can't print what they plays in it but other printers have accomplished the same results by sabotage in Copenhagen once there was a peace conference going on at the same time the printers asked for more wages and they didn't get them they were very sore bitterness in the heart is a very good stimulus for sabotage so they said alright we will still write at work boys but we will do some funny business with this paper so they won't want to print it tomorrow under the same circumstances they took the peace conference where some high and mighty person went to church in the circus news they reported the lion and the monkey as making speeches in the peace conference and the honorable Mr. Sue and Sue doing trappies acts in the circus there was great contamination and indignation in the city advertisers the peace conference the circus protested the circus would not be there bill for advertising it cause the paper as much eventually as the increased wages would have cause them so that they came to the men please be good and we will give you whatever you ask that is the power of interfering with industrial efficiency by bad service it is not the inefficiency of a poor workman but the deliberate withdrawal of efficiency by a computer worker and not print the truth or you don't print at all section 12 of sabotage this is a library of works recording all library of works recordings are in the public domain for more information or to volunteer www.sabotage.org sabotage by Elizabeth Gurliflin use sabotage but didn't know what you called it sabotage is for the working man an absolute necessity therefore it is almost useless to argue about its effectiveness when men do a thing instinctively continually year after year and generation after generation it means that the weapon has some value to them when the boy's speed was made in Patterson immediately some of the socialists rushed the newspapers to protest they called the attention of the authorities to the fact that the speech was made the secretary of the socialist party and the organizer of the socialist party repudiated boy that precipitated the discussion into the strike committee as to whether speeches on sabotage were to be permitted we had tried to instill into the strikers the idea that any kind of speech was to be permitted that a socialist or a minister or a priest, a union organizer an AF of Elmen a politician an IWW man an anarchist anybody should have a platform and we tried to make the strikers realize you have sufficient intelligence to select for yourselves if you haven't got that then no censorship over your meetings is going to do you any good so they had a rather tolerant spirit and they were not inclined to accept the socialist denunciation of sabotage right of the real we had an executive session and this is what occurred one worker said I never heard of this thing called sabotage before Mr Boyd spoke about it on the platform I know once in a while when I want a half day off and they won't give it to me I'll slip the belt of the machine so it won't run and I'll get my half day I don't know whether you call that sabotage but that's what I do another said I was in the strike of the diaries 11 years ago and we lost we went back to work these cabs that had broken our strike working side by side with us we were pretty sore so whenever they were supposed to be mixing green we saw to it that they put in red or when they were supposed to be mixing blue we saw to it that they put in green and soon they realized that scabbing was a very un profitable business and the next track we had they lined up with us I don't know whether you call that sabotage but it works as we went down the line executive committee after another admitted they had used this thing but they didn't know that was what you called it and so in the end democrats, republicans, socialists all IWWs in the committee voted that speeches on sabotage were to be permitted because it was ridiculous not to say on the platform what they were already doing in the shop and so my final justification of sabotage is it's concept used by the worker the position of speakers, organizers lecturers, writers who are presumed to be interested in the labour movement must be one of two if you place yourself in a position outside of a working class and you presume to dictate to them from some superior intellectual plane what are we to do they will very soon get rid of you for you will very soon demonstrate that you are absolutely no use to them I believe the mission of an intelligent propagandist is this, we ought to see what the workers are doing and then try to understand why they do it it's right or it's wrong but analyze the condition and see if possibly they do not best understand their need and if out of the condition they may not develop a theory that will be of general utility industrial unionism sabotage of theories born of such facts and experiences but for us to place ourselves in a position of censorship is to alienate ourselves entirely from sympathy and utility with the very people we are supposed to serve 10 of you sabotage but didn't know what you called it section 13 of sabotage this is the library of recording all library of recording are in the public domain for more information or to volunteer please visit libraryofrecs.org sabotage by Elisabeth Gurliflin sabotage and moral fiber sabotage is objected to on the ground that it destroys the moral fiber of the individual whatever that is moral fiber of the working man he has a poor working man works 12 hours a day, 7 days a week for 2 dollars a day in the steel mills of pit bug for what meant to use sabotage is going to destroy his moral fiber well if it does then moral fiber is the only thing he has left in a stage of society where men produce a computer article for instance if a shoemaker takes a piece of raw leather cuts it, designs it makes every part of the shoes turns out a finished product that represents to him what the piece of sculpturing represents to the artist there is joy in handicraftsmanship there is joy in label but can anyone believe that he is shoe factory worker one of the 100 men each doing a small part of a complete hole standing before a machine for instance and listening to this tic tac all day long that such a man has any joy in his work or any pride in the ultimate product the silk worker for instance may make beautiful things fine shimmering silk when it is hung up in the window of earthmen or messes or wannamakers it looks beautiful but the silk worker never gets a chance to use a single layer of it and the producing of a beautiful thing instead of being a pleasure is instead a constant aggravation to the silk worker they make a beautiful thing in the shop and then they come home to poverty, misery and hardship they wear a cotton dress while they are weaving the beautiful silk for some demi-monde in New York to wear I remember one night we had a meeting of 5000 kiddies we had them there discuss whether or not there should be a school strike the teachers were not telling the truth about the strike and we decided that the children were either to hear the truth or it was better for them not to go to school at all I said children is there any of you here who have a silk dress in your family mother got a silk dress one little rag her chin in front people show me mother's got a silk dress I said where did she get it perhaps rather in delicate question but a natural one he said me father spoiled the cloth and had to bring it home the only time they get a silk dress is when they spoil the goods so that nobody else will use it when the dress is so rune that nobody else will want it then they can have it proud of their work is just as silly as to talk to the street cleaner about being proud of his work or to tell the men that scrapes hard the sewer to be proud of his work if they made an article completely or if they made it all together under a democratic association and then they had the disposition of a silk they could wear some of it they could make some of a beautiful salmon colored and the delicate blues into a dress for themselves there would be pleasure in producing silk but until we eliminate wage slavery and the exploitation of labor it is ridiculous to talk about destroying the moral fiber of the individual by telling him to destroy his own product destroy his own product is destroying somebody else enjoyment somebody else chance to use his product created in slavery there is another argument to the effect that if you use this thing called sabotage you are going to develop in yourself a spirit of hostility a spirit of antagonism to everybody else in society you are going to become sneaking cowardly it is an underhanded thing to do but the individual who uses sabotage is not benefiting himself alone if he were looking out for himself only he would never use sabotage it would be much easier, much safer not to do it when a man uses sabotage he is usually intending to benefit the whole doing an individual thing but doing it to the benefit of himself and others together and it requires courage it requires individuality some self respectful and self reliance open himself as a producer I content that sabotage instead of being sneaking and cowardly is a courageous thing is an open thing the boss may not be notified about it through the papers but he finds hard about it very quickly just the same and the man or woman who employs it is demonstrating a courage that you will measure in this way how many of the critics would do it how many of you if you were dependent on a job person would take your job in your hands and employ sabotage if you were a machinist in a locomotive shop and had a good job how many of you would risk it to employ sabotage consider that and then you have the right to call the man who uses it a coward if you can end of sabotage and moral fiber section 14 of sabotage this is a Librevox recording all Librevox recordings are in the public domain for more information or to volunteer please visit Librevox.org sabotage by Elisabeth Geuleflin limiting the oversupply of slaves it is my hope that the workers will not only sabotage the supply of products but also the oversupply of producers in Europe the syndicalists have carried on a propaganda that we are too cowardly to carry on in the united states as yet this is against the law everything is against the law once it becomes large enough for the law to take cognizance that it is in the best interests of the working class if sabotage is to be thrown aside because it is construed as against the law how do we know that next year free speech may not have to be thrown aside or free assembly or free press that a thing is against the law does not mean necessarily that the thing is not good sometimes it means just the contrary a mighty good thing for the working class to use against the capitalists in Europe we are carrying on this sort of limitation of product we are saying not only will we limit the product in the factory but we are going to limit the supply of producers we are going to limit the supply of workers on the market men and women of the working class in France and Italy and even Germany today are saying we are not going to have 10, 12 and 14 children for the army the navy, the factory and the mine we are going to have fewer children with quality and not quantity accentuated as our ideal who can be better fed, better cloth better equipementally better fighters for the social revolution although it is not strictly scientific definition I like to include this as indicative of the spirit that produces sabotage it certainly is one of the most vital forms of cloth warfare there are to strike at the roots of the capitalist system by limiting their supply of slaves and creating individuals who will be good soldiers on their own behalf and of limiting the oversupply of slaves section 15 of sabotage this is a LibriVox recording all LibriVox recordings are in the public domain for more information or to volunteer please visit LibriVox.org sabotage by Elisabeth Geryflin sabotage a war measure I have not given you a rigidly defined thesis on sabotage because sabotage is in the process of making sabotage itself is not clearly defined sabotage is as broad and changing as industry as flexible as the imagination and passions of humanity everyday working men and women on discovering new forms of sabotage and the stronger their rebellious imagination is the more sabotage they are going to invent the more sabotage they are going to develop sabotage is not however a permanent weapon sabotage is not going to be necessary once a free society has been established sabotage is simply a war measure and it will go out of existence with the war just as the strike, the lockout the policemen, the mashingun the judge with his injection and all the various weapons the arsenals of capital and labor will go out of existence with the advent of a free society and then someone else may not this instinct for sabotage have developed too far so that one body of workers will use sabotage against another that the railroad workers for instance will refuse to work for the miners unless they get exorbitant returns for labor the difference is this when you sabotage an employer you are sabotaging somebody upon whom you are not interdependent you have no relationship with him as a member of society contributing to your wants in return for your contribution the employer is somebody who depends absolutely on the workers whereas the miner is one unit in a society where somebody else supplies the bread somebody else the clovers somebody else the shoes and where he keeps his product in exchange for someone else and it will be suicidal for him to assume a tyrannical a monopolistic position of demanding so much for his product that the others might cut him off from any other social relations and refuse to meet with any such bargain in other words the miner the railroad worker the baker is limited in using sabotage against his fellow workers because he is interdependent on his fellow workers whereas he is not materially interdependent on the employer for the means of subsistence but the worker will not be swear from his turn purpose by plural objections to him this is not an argument but a struggle for life he knows freedom will come only when his boss is willing and courageous enough to fight for it he knows the risk for better than we do but his choice is between starvation and slavery and starvation in battle like a spent swimmer in the sea who can sink easily and apathetically into internal sleep but who struggles on to grow a stripped spore suffers but hopes in sufferings so the worker makes his choice his wife worries and tears spur him forth to done his shining armor of industrial power his child's theory eyes he rather light of the idol to him and strivens his determination to strike the shackles from the risk of toil before the child enters the arena of industrial life his manhood demands some rebellions against daily humiliation an intolerable exploitation to this worker sabotage is a shining sword it pierces the nerves and tears of capitalism stab at its heart and stomachs tears at the vitals of its economic system it is cutting up off the freedom to ease in production and ease in consumption confident in his powers he hurles his challenge into his master's teeth I am I was and I will be I will be and lead the nations on the lost of all your host to meet till on your necks, your heads, your crowns I will plant my strong restless feet avenger, liberator, judge red battles on my path we hurled I stretch forth my almighty arm till it revivifies the world