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    Anarcho-syndicalism, autogestion, worker and student self-management, unions, cooperatives, Dallas, Fort Worth, Arlington, Denton, Grand Prairie, Irving, HEB.

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ORGANIZING IN DALLAS / FORT WORTH / ARLINGTON / MID CITIES / DENTON ..
General Metroplex Gathering:
Every fourth Sunday, 7pm.

The schedule for Fort Worth Sunday meetings looks like this:

1st Sunday - Committee meeting. Committee and time to be set by committee on first Sunday or the collective on the 2nd. Usually at 7pm.

2nd Sunday - Library/Propaganda Committee meeting. 7pm.

3rd Sunday - Committee meeting. Committee and time to be set by committee on first Sunday or the collective on the 2nd. Usually at 7pm.

4th Sunday - Fort Worth and Surrounding Areas local meeting. This is a good meeting for new interest to come out to! 7 PM

5th Sunday - There will be fun events scheduled for months that have 5 Sundays! All meetings are currently held at 1919 Hemphill St. in Fort Worth.

The above is subject to change if more interest comes from Arlington, the mid-cities, Denton, Dallas or in between.

Dallas, Denton, and Arlington to be scheduled soon!


Who Can Join the IWW?

-Anyone who does not have the ability to hire or fire at work can join and is encouraged to do so. You don't even have to pay dues to help out and be involved in most decisions.

IF YOU WORK AT A RESTAURANT, A FACTORY, A RETAIL STORE, A MINE, A HOTEL, AN OFFICE, PUBLIC SERVICE, OR ANY JOB WHERE YOU ARE NOT THE BOSS YOU CAN JOIN US. YOU JUST HAVE TO BE A WORKER WHO WANTS DEMOCRACY AT WORK.

Industrial unions don't mean unions for factory laborers, they mean unions between workers in the same industry. This includes the service industry as well as the others.

If you work at Grocery Store A we'd like you to be in a union with workers in other grocery stores; Another Grocery Store A, Grocery Store B, C, D, etc. because you're grocery workers and if all the grocery workers go on strike other grocery workers won't take their jobs.

It is much more effective this way.

We see class as access to decisions more than particular income (though one definitely affects the other!), so when we talk about the working class this should not exclude those with family members who may be bosses. Noone wants to hurt anyone, we just don't want to be taken advantage of. Revolution is to make life better for everyone, not worse.
-Womyn and people of color strongly encouraged to join. Sexism and racism are directly related to capitalism.

DIY politics, directly democratic union!

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Preamble to the IWW Constitution

The working class and the employing class have nothing in common. There can be no peace so 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 means of production, abolish the wage system, and live in harmony with the Earth.

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 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 have interests in common with their employers.

These conditions can be changed and the interest of the working class upheld only 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 everyday 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.



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