“Direct Action Makes Capitalism See Stars”

In this IWW cartoon labor delivers a knock out blow to the system by means of direct action and society’s long hoarded wealth is shaken loose from the grip of the capitalist. Above two birds engage in a humorous dialogue which is representative of the Wobbly conviction that “The working class and the employing class have nothing in common.”

Illustration by I. Svenson from the IWW publication the Industrial Worker, February 6, 1913.

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