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PAGE 4 THE TOILEE SATURDAY, DEC. 4, 192. else was organized to take its place. This does not mean that you should get out of the A. F. of L. No, STICK RIGHT THERE! But fight for a change there for the big change! Fight for a system that will give you all the power. - Fight for a Shop Committee System, for a system by which the workers will get REAL con trol of their work. Fight for a system in which all the workers in a shop, no matter what kind of work they do, will elect a Committee to deal directly with the boss and to settle all internal shop matters. This Committee also represents the shop workers in a Community Council of the industry. The Commun ity Council elects a Local Executive Committee which has power to negotiate with the bosses of that industry in the whole city. Each delegate to the Committee is responsible lo the workers who elect him. He must take their instructions. He must report to them. Just as they elect him, they may remove him without a moment's delay. Just as every member of thj Communitv Council may be recalled, the members of the Executive Committee may be recalled. In this way, the Rank and File control! The Community Council elects a delegate to a District Council. This Coucil is composed of dele gates from all sections of the industry within that district. And, finally, all the Districts send delegates to a National Council of the industry, that will control the indutsry on a national scale. Then again, each industry in a city will elect a delegate to a Joint Community Council, which will represent all the industries in the city. And in the same way, a District and National organiza tion will be built up that will control all the work of the country. Workers Now Have Full Control. This will put an end to labor leaders, labor grafters. This will ensure control by the workers. This will build up a Rank and File system that NOBODY CAN SELL OITT OR FEED ON! This will be a system that nothing can break. Furthermore, as the purpose of a union is to fight the bosses, this form of organization is the only one by which the bosses can be fought ef fectively. Workers in the shop, doing all the work, know ing everything connected with the shop, will dis cuss shop affairs at their shop meetings. All af fairs will be settled by men employed directly m the shop and not by a business agent or walking deelgate who knows nothing about the shop. Id addition, when disturbances occur during working hours, the workers are willing to fight. After working hours, they are tired and want to forget all about their daily toil. For that reason, very few attend their union meetings, except at critical times and even then, they frequently do not The result is that their "leaders" use them at they please, selling them, binding them, enslav ing them. This unified system enables the workers is combat all schemes of the bosses. And they wiB have to be prepared to fight the bosses very vigorously. Prepare For The Coming Conflict. Hard times are ahead. The bosses are resolved to smash the unions. They dp not say that in so many mords. They speak of the open shop the American plan but the purpose is the same. Their aim is that, when there is not much work to divide up among the great number of idle hands looking for work, they will employ ovSj non-union men, and in this way smash the unions. So now is the time, fellow workers. Build op the Rank and File movement. Agitate for it and fight for it in your shop and union. Fight for Shop Control, for Control of Production. It will be indispensable in the bigger, far bigger struggle that is coming. It is the big fight be tween the bosses as a class and the workers as a class. It is the fight to determine who is going to manage industry the bosses, the exploiter, or the workers. It is the fight to fix once for all, whether the workers are to work for themselve as a class, or for the bosses. Whether the work ers shall rule, or the bosses. Behind the bosses stands the government ready to support them and break the worker. Behind the bosses stand the law and the courts and the press and the schools all to be used against the workers. Behind the bosses standi EVERYTHING EXCEPT THE WORKERS THEMSELVES! So it will be a grand struggle between the or ganized force of the workers and the organized power of the capitalists nnd the State.