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Rh They can't weave a yard or make a dollar without you. That was a fact, just as a deficit, an accident, or death is a fact; but it is not a fact to rejoice in.

If the wage earners are to get possession of the mills, as is the dream of the I. W. W., by no conceivable means will they get them, except by decades of positive and coöperative work with those who now own and direct the invested capital which these mills represent. Never will they get them by the waste, the negations, and evil habits which sabotage begets. Preached generally and as a doctrine, it separates them from their object and weakens them in every capacity to attain it.