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SELDOM HAS publicity come so suddenly and so lavishly to any movement as to the Syndicalist movement.

Before the Lawrence strike,...there must have been very few people in this country who knew what the Syndicalist theory stands for and what was this I.W.W. organization in which the Syndicalist philosophy is embodied....

Syndicalism has come forth as the program of the proletarian "doers" as opposed to the intellectual Socialist talkers in the parliaments.... [Its] philosophy of "direct action" has recently been summed up as follows: "Fellow-workers, you want an eight-hour day?... Take it, and when you come back the next morning, tell the master you were on strike four hours.... You want to get possession of the instruments of production?

You are in possession already--all you have to do is to declare that you own the factory in which you work. If the master protests, lock him out. You...don't get the full product of your toil? Get it, do only as much work as you are paid for, and go slow the rest of the time.... You say you are treated like dirt? Put some dirt into the product."... ...Socialist parliamentarism... stands for half measures, for palliatives, for concessions. Syndicalism demands all or nothing.... It is a philosophy of desperation.