﻿Solidarity in Union Will Win; Nothing Else Can 
By T-BONE SLIM 
 
Almost any nation can grab land but it requires real perfidy to hold it. All in the name of civilization (freelunch), more or less refined slave trade. 
Africa at one time undertook to civilize Europe along these lines and had the Romans more than swinging their arms and talking fast. 

Totalitarian states are because dictators are unpredictable—a compulsory evil. 
They tell me that heaven and hell are both totalitarian states. Do not know where they got the information. 

In passing let it be said: Any union can raise wages but it requires the solidarity of a paid-up wobbly card to hold them. 

We’ve got half the world’s monetary gold buried down in Kentucky and now, when other nations resort to barter (direct exchange of commodities without cash or currency), we feel sorely grieved and must of needs resort to similar tactics. Age of retrogression, hey! And the apple barrel is no more at the cook camp door. 

People, perhaps, have garnered a wrong impression about the diplomatic opera in Europe. It’s an economic war—cannon, forts, ships, and armies are merely props. Pity of it is the parasites are waging the eebnomic war—like goodwill ambassadors to a beer-saloon free lunch crying for bread. 
There is no remedy outside of the working class. Swapping a horse for a cream separator will not emancipate the work-ox. 
Every government feels sure that its slaves are loyal and that they will fight early and late. Each government casts longing eyes at professional chestnut pullers and it may be that the seven-foot colonial troops will once more sweep Europe . . . clean. 
It’s not my funeral. I am interested in Industrial Unionism. 

No unemployment in Europe. They’re in the army. Over there armies are useful in defending nations against diplomatic hi-jackers. The quarrel is over real estate, crops, mines, and oil-tribute. 
The sovereign states pass the plate before the low-brows. Collections growing scantier each year. And thus it is that totalitarian states are an error, error of errors in italics; blunder in emphasis; last hope of capitalism. I said hope. Hope buys no halibut. 
Three hundred thousand British join “Compulsory National Service” in Territorials. That cancels 300,000 recently acquired jobless. 
Pennsylvania Ry. lays off 20,000 on account of the coal strike. PWA lays off 13,000 on account of ice conditions in Labrador. 
Hitler has had his say and FDR says he left the door open an inch. What really happened: Hitler took the door off its hinges. 
No power in Europe is strong enough to attack, nor united enough. 
All paraphernalia of war is for defense purposes and, since none will attack it seems foolish. War may come later, much later, but just now it’s a matter of organizing the POWER. Best organizers win. 

Oomph! These Hollywood lips hang like a tail-board of a democrat wagon. 

Communism is not the cause of the rotten conditions in this country, it’s capitalism. 
The way the parasites are harping about communism in their papers is enough to make one believe that communism is another one of their political subdivisions which they desire strengthened. Subdivisions, both economic and political, lost Germany the World War. The answer is One Big Union —either economic or political, as you will. 
A country divided against itself cannot do aught but ail—and fail. 
A working class divided in myriads of unions is not a class and is already failed. The answer is One Big Union. 
A small body of parasites can go around licking the working class, part at a time. No power on earth can lick the whole working class that is united. 

“Workers of the world unite.” 
What I want to know, were those royal visitors fingerprinted? 

“French Boo Italians.” (Now, is that nice?) And did they also make faces and stick out their tongues, like little children at play? 

Don’t they know that these Italians are slaves like themselves? 
Say, Editor, did you ever stop to consider the stupendous amount of glamour in pickled pigsfeet?