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  Now we stand, outcast and starving, 'mid the wonders we have made;
 * For the Union makes us strong.

All the world that's owned by idle drones, is ours and ours alone. We have laid the wide foundations; built it skywards, stone by stone. It is ours, and not slave in, but to master and to own,
 * While the Union makes us strong.

They have taken untold millions that they never toiled to earn. But without our brain and muscle not a single wheel can turn. We can break their haughty power; gain our freedom, when we learn
 * That the Union makes us strong.

In our hands is placed a power greater than their hoarded gold; Greater than the might of armies, magnified a thousand fold. We can bring to birth the new world from the ashes of the old,
 * For the Union makes us strong.

The present is distinctively an industrial epoch in world history. There can be no democracy in a world ruled by industrial despots. The I. W. W. stands for the only REAL democracy—Industrial Democracy.

One worker on the job is worth a dozen in the jungles.

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