Sabotage (Elizabeth Gurley-Flynn)

Originally published as SABOTAGE, THE CONSCIOUS WITHDRAWAL OF THE WORKERS' INDUSTRIAL EFFICIENCY, in October, 1916, by the IWW publishing bureau, in Cleveland, Ohio. It was later withdrawn from the IWW's official litearture. The pampahlet originally sold for 10 cents.

Elizabeth Gurley-Flynn's Introduction:

The interest in sabotage in the United States has developed lately on account of the case of Frederick Sumner Boyd in the state of New Jersey as an aftermath of the Paterson strike. Before his arrest and conviction for advocating sabotage, little or nothing was known of this particular form of labor tactic in the United States. Now there has developed a two-fold necessity to advocate it: not only to explain what it means to the worker in his fight for better conditions, but also to justify our fellow-worker Boyd in everything that he said. So I am desirous primarily to explain sabotage, to explain it in this two-fold significance, first as to its utility and second as to its legality.

Table of Contents:

• Chapter 1 - Its Necessity in the Class War
• Chapter 2 - General Forms of Sabotage
• Chapter 3 - Short Pay, Less Work, "Ca Canny"
• Chapter 4 - Interfering With Quality of Goods
• Chapter 5 - Boyd's Advice to Silk Mill Slaves
• Chapter 6 - "Dynamiting" Silk
• Chapter 7 - Non-Adulteration and Over-Adulteration
• Chapter 8 - Following The "Book of Rules"
• Chapter 9 - Putting The Machine on Strike
• Chapter 10 - "Print The Truth or You Don't Print at All"
• Chapter 11 - "Used Sabotage, But Didn't Know What You Called It"
• Chapter 12 - Sabotage and "Moral Fiber"
• Chapter 13 - Limiting The Over-Supply of Slaves
• Chapter 14 - Sabotage a War Measure

Disclaimer: The views expressed here are not the official position of the IWW (or even the IWW’s EUC) and do not necessarily represent the views of anyone but the author’s.