Another I. W. W. publication, "The Evolution of Industrial Democracy," page 40, speaking of government after the "Wobblies" get into power, goes still further:
"Government, as now understood will disappear--there being no servile class to be held in subjection--but in its place will be an administration of affairs."
Relative to property rights in the future, "The Evolution of Industrial Democracy," page 39, informs us:
"Rights of inheritance would disappear with the right to hold private property in the lands, tools and machinery of production. Any accumulation by the individual that might be used for exploitation would pass to the collectivity at the death of the holder. Society would be the heir of the individual and, vice versa, the individuals would be the heirs of society. The right to freely function at the machines and enjoy the social value of his toil would guarantee the worker a full competence."
As regards compensation for work in accordance with the I. W. W. plan, we are told on page 39:
"Compensation in the industries would necessarily be upon the basis of the 'man-day'--the average production of an average man in an average day when working under average conditions--and in those industries not of an actual productive nature, such as 'public service,' etc., the man-day must prevail there also (being based upon the average production of all the industries served) for the reason that no man could be induced to serve for less than that average--to do so being to confess himself an inferior being--and to compel him to serve for less would be to set up a new slavery, which the moral sense of the new community could not endure."
Giovannitti, in "Il Proletario," New York, April 5, 1913, gives a lesson in sabotage to the Italian Socialists and members of the I. W. W.:
"We are not yet sufficiently strong to restore them [i.e., the instruments of production] to ourselves, it is true, but it is also true that we cannot allow any opportunity to escape of reaping any advantage from them.
"Thus, if to-morrow we shall be justified in wrenching from capitalism all the industries, why, when it is a question of life or death for us to win or to lose a strike, is it not just to remove a screw, derange a wheel, break a thread, or commit, in any way whatever, an act of sabotage on a machine which otherwise would become the very beginning of our defeat in the hands of the scabs?
"We cannot understand how it is still possible while we have a right to all the produce of our work, we have not an entire right to a part of it."
Other illustrations of sabotage may be of interest to the reader. The following one is taken from the Chicago "Syndicalist," February 15, 1913:
"A few drops of sulphuric acid placed on top of a pile of woolen or cotton goods never stops going down.
"Two decks of cards in a grain separator cover the screen and cause the grain to vanish out of the blower.
"A piece of iron dropped in a crucible full of glass will eat through it. Crucibles are made of graphite and cost $40.
"A handful of salt in paint will allow a good-looking job for a day or two, but when dry will fall off in sheets.
"Maclay Hoyne, Chicago's district attorney, is analyzing a spontaneous fire powder that allows the user to be miles away when it breaks forth.
"Castor oil capsules dissolved in varnish destroy the ability of the latter to dry. The job must be washed down and started all over again.
"The suffragettes of England have significantly notified their opponents that a fire in every shire was the way the word was flashed in days gone by."