âSURVEY (ANOTHER POINT OF VIEW)â
In No. 41 (October 7, 1916) an
unsigned
article:
âSurvey (Another Point of View)â says that
E. Th.
agrees neither with the author of the
article âTrade Unions and the Military Questionâ
nor with the editorial postscript
. He is against
âisolatingâ the trade unions, ârestrictingâ them
to âpurely trade union questionsâ.
N.B.
The author defends the opposite view in 3½
half-columns: we cannot do everything; there is
more than enough to do already (lists of
reform-
ist
issues!!); we have had six articles on
imperialism, and from the Social-Democratic
standpoint; in 1904,
Schneeberger
, representative
of the Central Committee of the Metalworkersâ
Union in Lucerne, was opposed to âthrowing our-
selves (as a trade union) into political activityâ,
and he received 56 votes to
18
at the Lucerne
trade union congress; and âinstead of planned
[p. 2, column 3] fruitful work aimed primarily
at achieving, as far as possible, the goals set out
in the trade union statutes, we shall generate
a boundless mania for improving the world, with
all manner of projects vociferously proclaimed
and not one realised. The majority of the workers
stick to facts. However much they would like
to see âsocialisation of the means of productionâ
they will not plunge into adventures.â
!!
!!
!!
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