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how they can gain advantages over their Oppressors, and frustrate all efforts to disarm the workers by their manifold agencies.

Organization on right lines, and for the purposes outlined, must be so constituted that all distinctions between crafts are eliminated, although for technical details the grouping of workers must be so arranged that the factory, mine or mill at which wage earners are employed can be controlled for proper and well-directed action; either in the everyday conflicts or in the endeavors to achieve the final aim for which such labor organizations are brought into existence. "A chain is not stronger than its weakest link," and if the organized workers in any industry neglect to bring within the folds of their organization any portion of those exploited, they will thereby weaken the chances of accomplishing results, by which the progress of social development is usually measured. Organization being the essential thing, as it is in the craft union movement, though there it often results for the benefit of the capitalists, the organization which is to equip the workers with the best instruments of warfare must so be formed that every portion thereof forms a component, inseparable part of the whole body, depending in its actions on the movements of all others, so that every battalion and regiment