To get back to the thread: The following quote, from Connolly, is found in the Ulster Protestant song, DONT READ ABOUT JIM...
The most dispersive and isolating force at work in the labour movement today is craft unionism, the most cohesive and unifying force, industrial unionism. In view of that fact all objections which my comrads make to industrial unionism on the grounds of the supposedly, or truly, anti-poliitcal bias of many members of the Industrial Workers of the World is quite besie the mark. That question at the present stage of the same is purely doctineare. The use or non-use of political action will not be settled by the doctrinagres who may make it their hobby today, but will be settled by the workers who use the Industrial Workers of the World in their workshop struggles. ANd if at any time the conditions of a struggle in shop, factory, railroad, or mine necessitate the employment of political action those workers so organized will use it, all theories and theorists to the contrary notwithstanding. In their march to freedom the workers will use every weapon they find necessary.
ANyone know the tune?
Larry