Excerpt from Why Men Strike
In an earlier stage of our development men struck for money or hours or to gain improvement in some other essential detail in connection with employment. Now they are more and more striking against what they think is capital; really they are striking against work. Most of the panaceas offered to prevent strikes start with the assmnption that there must be a dispute of some kind between the employer and employee else there could not be a strike. This to the writer seems ma class with treating smallpox as a skin disease. The men are, however they may express themselves (and conunonly they are inarticulate as to their real emotions), striking against what they think is an unjust system of society. They have been led into the thought that they labour for others and not for themselves, and that society is somehow divided into those who own and those who work, and that the former have all the fun in life. This doctrine is not widespread but its influence is, for a considerable niunber of people are vociferously and by profession of the proletariat.
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