Preamble of the Industrial The working class and the employing class have nothing in common. There can be no peace as long as hunger and want are found among millions of the working people and the few who make up the employing class have all the good things of life. Between these two classes a struggle must go on until the workers of the world organize as a class, take possession of the earth and the machinery of production, and abolish the wage system. We find that the centering of the management of industries into fewer and fewer hands makes the trade unions unable to cope with the ever growing power of the employing class. The trade unions foster a state of affairs which allows one set of workers to be pitted against another set of workers in the same industry, thereby helping to defeat one another in wage wars. Moreover, the trade unions aid the employing class to mislead the workers into the belief that the working class has interests in common with their employers. . These conditions can be changed and the interests of the working class upheld by an organization formed in such a way that all its members in any one industry, or in all industries, if necessary, cease work whenever a strike or lockout is on in any department thereof, thus making an injury to one an injury to all. Instead of the conservative motto, "A fair day's wage for a fair day's work," we must inscribe on our banner the revolutionary watchword, "Abolition of the wage system." It is the historic mission of the working class to do away with capitalism. The army of production must be organized, not only for the every-day struggle with capitalists, but also to carry on production when capitalism shall have been overthrown. By organizing industrially we are forming the structure of the new society within the shell of the old. Announcement "T" HE ONE BIG UNION MONTHLY" has neer" has taken its place. The names of all subscribers to the former have been transferred to the mailing list of "The Industrial Pioneer." The purpose of the magazine is to spread the doctrines of Revolutionary Industrial Unionism. To that end we will publish educational matter dealing with the labor and economic situation in this and other countries, as well as articles descriptive of various industries. Proletarian art in the form of fiction and poetry will also find expression in our columns. Subscription and bundle order rates will be found on page 14. We solicit the wholehearted co-operation of all who want to abolish the exploitation of the workers, and hasten the day of Labor's Commonwealth. THE INDUSTRIAL PIONEER Vol. I, No. 1 FEBRUARY, 1921 Complete Serial No. 1 The "White Terror" in Hungary NE of the most stupendous crimes in history is being perpetrated upon the defenseless Hungarian proletariat. A systematic attempt to exterminate every working man and woman possessing a spark of courage or intelligence has been carried on for months. Thousands of men, women and children have been shot, hung, beaten to death, crucified, broken on the torture wheel; their bodies have been mutilated in a most atrocious manner. The unspeakable atrocities committed cry to high heaven. They are an indelible blot of shame on the very name of humanity. Has a voice been raised in America, "the land of the free, and the home of the brave," against these awful crimes? No! Our kept press has been as mute about these events of world significance as the Egyptian mummies. It harps upon a few instances of "Red Terror" in Russia, where a nation of 180 million souls is struggling for its very existence against conspiracy within and without, against military intervention, blockade, industrial chaos, and deliberate sabotage by the bourgeoisie, but it says not one word when in Hungary a whole nation is being massacred to satisfy the blood-thirsty appetites of decadent "nobles" and perverted capitalists. America, how can you look with indifference upon the grievous spectacle of the murder of a nation? Awake, America, from your lethargic sleep! The world is on fire! Do not consent to be a silent, unprotesting witness to the re-introduction of the Inquisition of the Middle Ages. The rack, the burning irons and the crucifixion of living human beings should remain buried in the shame of past ages. They are being revived in Hungary today on a colos 1 sal scale. America, let your voice of protest against these unspeakable barbarities be heard from one end of the country to the other!. We print below several communications sent to us from Europe by the Communist International of Youth, setting forth the almost unbelievable ravages of the "White Terror" in Hungary: Help the Dying Hungarian Proletariat! Betrayed by the Social-democrats, encircled by the mercenary armies of the Allied Imperialists, the Hungarian Soviet Republic broke down after a brief existence. The Hungarian Communists knew that their Republic, alone and separated from the rest of the world by a criminal blockade, could not endure. However, they took the initiative when the time was ripe, convinced that the workers in other countries would follow suit. The Hungarian proletariat did not set up soviets merely to rejuvenate their own country; they did it to show the way to the rest of the world as well. The Hungarian Communists were well aware from the very beginning of their Republic of the hardships and sacrifices of the struggle. They foresaw the possibility of a bloody war like the one that Soviet Russia has been fighting for the preservation of the Revolution. The Hungarian proletariat could not at that moment, however, think of itself alone; it was its clear duty to think and to act for the proletariat of the whole world. In fighting for the Soviet Republic it fought for working-class supremacy the world over; it fought for you, working men and women of all countries, and it is now suf |