Excerpt from What the Workers Want: A Study of British Labor
This book tells what the workers want, in their own words. It is not an interpretation by an intellectual of what, he thinks labor ought to want. It is the human record of British labor as it goes to victory, reported by an American for Americans. It tells what the explosive ideas are which have long lain undischarged in human consciousness. It tells in their own words who the leaders are, what the strikes meant, what the workers have won, and what they seek. Labor at home is an agitation; in Britain it is forming public opinion. The trade unions are an integral part of the State. The great trade-union Socialists are successfully righting the sweep of anarchy from Eastern and Central Europe and the murderous bitterness of American industrial relations.
In this book the writer completes a five years" study of the British. He attended the conferences, met groups of trade unionists, talked personally with the leaders. He sat through the two sessions of the Coal Commission, attended the National Industrial Conference.
One of the chapters in the book is by Robert Smillie, miner, founder of the Triple Alliance, most powerful trade-union leader in Europe. Mr. Smillie answers for American readers the questions which millions of people have been asking: "What kind of England do the workers want?" "When? How soon?" "How? By bloodshed, universal strikes, or votes? By public opinion or organized pressure?" Mr. Smillie describes the revolution now under way, how the victory will be won, and the date of the achievement. He says, "It is a race between Socialism and revolution. Socialism is the only program of reconstruction that is offered."
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