re examination, the jury was
spell-bound, and it was only by an obvious effort that the spectators
kept from applauding the various telling points.

"There is overwork on one hand," said Thompson, "and out-of-work on the
other. The length of the working day should be determined by the amount
of work and the number of workers. You have no more right to do eight or
ten or twelve hours of labor when others are out of work, despondent,
committing suicide, than you have to drink all the water, if that were
possible, while others are dying of thirst.

"Solidarity is the I. W. W. way to get their demands. We do not advocate
that the workers should organize in a military way and use guns and
dynamite. The most effective weapon of labor is economic power: the
modern wage workers are the living parts of industry and if they fold
their arms, they immediately precipitate a crisis, they paralyze the
world. No other class has that power. The other class can fold their
arms, and they do most of the time, but our class has the economic
power. The I. W. W. preaches and teaches all the time that a far more
effective weapon than brickbats or dynamite is solidarity.

"We have developed from individual production, to social production, yet
we still have private ownership of the means of production. One class
owns the industries and doesn't operate them, another class operates the
industries and does not own them. We are going to have a revolution. No
one is more mistaken than those who believe that this system is the
final state of society. As the industrial revolution takes place, as the
labor process takes on the co-operative form, as the tool of production
becomes social, the idea of social ownership is suggested, and so the
idea that things that are used collectively should be owned
collectively, presents itself with irresistible force to the people of
the twentieth century. So there is a struggle for industrial democracy.
We are the modern abolitionists fighting against wage slavery as the
other abolitionists fought against chattel slavery. The solution for our
modern problems is this, that the industries should be owned by the
people, operated by the people for the people, and the little busy bees
who make the honey of the world should eat that honey, and there should
be no drones at all in the hives of industry.

"When we have industrial democracy you will know that the mills, the
mines, the factories, the earth itself, will be th