[olympiaworkers] A New Society

A New Society
When miners get tired of being buried alive for them, the few.

When keyboard pounders get tired of wearing their hands out for them, the
few.

When the truckers get tired of the weariness of driving endlessly for them,
the few.

When fast food workers get tired of producing large quantities of food
quickly at near starvation wages for them, the few.

When women workers get tired of being paid less and used as sex objects for
them, the few.

When farm workers get tired of picking the food for all to eat while being
poisoned and not having enough to eat themselves for them, the few.

When workers of color get tired of racism and having to labor in the worst
jobs for them, the few.

When hospital workers get tired of working for the profit of the bosses,
caring for the sick and injured for long hours for them, the few.

When construction workers get tired of building the homes and buildings of
society under dangerous conditions for them, the few.

When child workers get tired of producing the latest fashion statements of
the rich while having their childhoods robbed by them, the few.

When ship workers get tired of long hours in hot, miserable conditions and
having to be far from home for them, the few.

When older workers get tired of bodies being worn out through years of labor
for them, the few.

When younger workers get tired of getting the worst jobs and being
dehumanized just because of their age for them, the few.

When retired workers get tired of being told that they are all used up and
forced to live on less than when they labored for them, the few.

When service workers get tired of trying to serve the needs of people, while
their own needs are not met by them, the few.

When house care workers get tired of working in the houses of the rich while
hardly being able to afford housing for themselves for them, the few.

When disabled workers get tired of being treated as less for the greed of
them, the few.

When steel workers get tired of working in hot and dangerous steel mills for
them, the few.

When assembly line workers get tired of working endless hours of speed-up
conditions for them, the few.

When baristas get tired of of making and serving coffee drinks at low pay
and bad conditions for them, the few.

When immigrant workers get tired of working low paid jobs with bad
conditions while being demonized as the cause for economic problems by them,
the few.

When working class students get tired of being trained to produce profit
while being dehumanized and barely getting any compensation, instead having
to pay to be exploited by them, the few.

When shipyard workers get tired of having to work in deep dark cramped tanks
for low pay for them, the few.

When oil workers get tired of deadly explosions and hazardous exposure for
them, the few.

When sweatshop workers get tired of working themselves to death for the
decadence of them, the few.

When road workers get tired of working out in the hot sun or in the rain for
them, the few..

When newspaper workers get tired of being forced to write and print the lies
of them, the few.

When military workers get tired of killing other workers for the profit of
them, the few.

When the workers of the world get tired of being injured, sickened, and
dying for the profit of them, the few..

When the workers of the world get tired of putting up with dehumanizing
conduct where we are not only expected to labor to produce profit but also
to endure abuse from them, the few.

When the workers of the world get tired of minimum gains for us and
producing maximum profits for them, the few.

When the workers of the world decide that enough is enough and organize
together in a one big union for the day-to-day struggles for a better life.

When the workers of the world decide that an injury to one is an injury to
all and stand together in universal class solidarity.

When the organized power of the working class is greater than the organized
power of the capitalist class, then workers will refuse to produce or
provide services for them, the few, and take control of our labor, the means
of production and services, and at that time we, the workers of the world,
will have our new society. A society that ends all class conflict by
eliminating classes all together. A society where production and services
are for needs and the well-being of all. A society where the earth matters
and we workers take responsibility for the effects our labor has on the
environment that we all are dependent upon.

It is up to each of us, Fellow Workers, to build this new society, for it is
built one worker at a time.

So Fellow Workers with whom do you stand? With the exploiters and
oppressors, those who would doom our world, or with your Fellow Workers to
help create a new society? The choice is up to you!

Arthur J. Miller