The future belongs to labour

When the producers, who work for wages, organize politically and economically, they will have taken a long step in the direction of industrial freedom. The Socialist Party Declarations of Principles is not intended to apply to only one country but is intended to cover wage-worker in all countries.  Fundamentally, there is no difference between those workers who move about from job to job and from one industry to another in one city or neighborhood, and those who cross nations shifting from locality to locality, and following now one and again another industrial calling. The only thing that distinguishes or rather differentiates one from the other is the distance in which they move about. To change residence from one part of the city to another, is not different to changing from one city, or country or continent, to another. The necessity to move arises from a common cause. The problem of the one element is the problem of the other, and they must unite to solve it.

The migrant is an unemployed wage-worker in search of employment. He or she may find a job within reaching-distance of their residence or may have to travel thousands of miles to find one. But find a job they must, or suffer. To sell one's labour power is the sentence of capitalism upon the wage-worker. To try to sell it is his or her pressing business when unemployed. How far they must travel before they succeed in doing so depends on the circumstances and the person. Between the city's unemployed, who tramp the streets from factory to factory, and those who go from place to place, there is no difference substantially. The difference is only psychological, not material. The condition is identical, resulting from the same cause, springing from the same source, and demanding the same remedy. They must unite to solve that problem. Socialism offers the only means for doing so. The existing ownership and the class relationship growing out of it makes it imperative for the migratory workers to seek permanent access to the means of life—the earth's resources and the instruments of production. This element is where it must move for its own preservation, and the only objective toward which its condition and experiences are driving it entails a revolutionary change. It must have access to its means of livelihood. The present system of ownership stands between it and the social destination toward which it must travel—it must remove and replace that system of ownership before it attains security for itself.