One Big Union for Australia (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from One Big Union for Australia The world's toiling masses are stirring, the age-long mental sleep of Labor is breaking, and thoughts almost sweet and visionary whisper the hope of a new industrial world to countless millions. In the factory and the field are work-weary men and women, in the trenches, high in the air, deep in the gloomy mine men are murmuring this new-born thought of Industrial Freedom. Political freedom has failed to satisfy, the right to vote has been weighed and found wanting. Parliaments and Governments come and go, but the deadly struggle for meals never relaxes, a struggle so frequently fought by the wage-earner - and lost. In the social crucible old ideas are vanishing. In the mad massacre for markets we see beliefs, customs and once-honored institutions being rapidly swept into a well-merited oblivion, and new conditions, bearing with them new ideas, are moving the laboring multitude. More light, more leisure, more laughter, more room for the soul to expand, a longing for the bigger, finer, deeper, more wholesome and sociable things, more life, but underlying and interwoven and transcending all, burns the fierce desire for a sense of security and freedom in work and life. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.