society there are economic
categories called the employing class and the working class. Now,
between them as employing class and working class there is nothing in
common. Their interests are diametrically opposed as such. It is not the
same thing as saying that human beings have nothing in common. The
working class and the employing class have antagonistic interests, and
the more one gets the less remains for the other.

"Labor produces all wealth," continued Thompson, "and the more the
workers have to give up to anyone else the less remains for themselves.
The more they get in wages the less remains for the others in the form
of profits. As long as labor produces for the other class all the good
things of life there will be no peace; we want the products of labor
ourselves and let the other class go to work also.

"The trades unions are unable to cope with the power of the employers
because when one craft strikes the others remain at work and by so doing
help the company to fill orders, and that is helping to break the
strike. If a group of workers strike and win, other workers are
encouraged to do likewise: if they strike and lose, other workers are
discouraged and employers are encouraged to do some whipping on their
own account.

"We believe in an industrial democracy; that the industry shall be owned
by the people and operated on a co-operative plan instead of the wage
plan; that there is no such thing as a fair day's pay; that we should
have the full product of our labor in the co-operative system as
distinguished from the wage system.

"Furthermore," went on the witness, as the jury leaned forward to catch
his every word, "our ideas were suggested to us by conditions in modern
industry, and it is the historical mission of the workers to organize,
not only for the preliminary struggles, but to carry on production
afterward."

"We object to this!" shouted Mr. Cooley, and the court sustained the
objection.

Despite continual protests from the prosecution Thompson gave the ideas
of the I. W. W. on many questions. Speaking of free speech the witness
said:

"Free speech is vital. It is a point that has been threshed out and
settled before we were born. If we do not have free speech, the children
of the race will die in the dark."

The message of industrial unionism delivered thru the sworn testimony of
a labor organizer was indeed an amazing spectacle. Judge Ronald never
relaxed his attention during the enti