The I.W.A. has spread over the entire civilized
world and is planting its roots among the working
classes of all countries, where modern industry
reigns (England, Germany, France, Belgium,
Austria, Switzerland, Spain, Italy, Russia,
Holland, United States, etc.). Its central body or board
of administration, the General Council of
the I.WA., is sitting at London and in its last official
communication of March 12th distinctly recognizes
and acknowledges the organization of the
undersigned C.C. and “expresses its satisfaction
with our activity." Every Trades Union or Labor
Society of this country may affiliate with
this Central Committee of the I.W.A. by acknowledging
and defending the principles and rules of
the I.WA. and remitting an annual dues of two cents per
member for the General Council and five cents
pet member for this Central Committee to the
undersigned and also electing a delegate.
The principles of the I.W.A. may be condensed in the following extracts from its rules:
*The emancipation of the working classes must be conquered by the working classes themselves.
*The struggle for the emancipation of the working classes means not a struggle
for class
privileges and monopolies, but for equal rights and duties and the abolition
of all class rule.
*The economical subjection of the man of labor to the monopolizer of the
means of labor, that
is the sources of life, lies at the bottom of servitude in all its forms,
of all social misery, mental
degradation and political dependence;
*The economical emancipation of the working classes is therefore the great
end to which every
political movement ought to be subordinate as a means.
*All efforts aiming at that great end have hitherto failed from the want
of solidarity between
the manifold divisions of labor in each country and from the absence of
a fraternal bond of
union between the working classes of different countries. The emancipation
of labor is neither
a local, nor a national, but a social problem, embracing all countries,
in which modem society
exists and depending for its solution on the concurrence, practical and
theoretical, of the most
advanced countries.