[The Workers Must Unite] (Editorial)
Chicagoer Arbeiter Zeitung, Sept. 5, 1888
T. B. Dyer, editor of the Granite Cutters Journal and an English conservative labor leader writes in one of his articles about the disharmony among the working class in the U. S.
It is a pity, but everything Dyer says about the unharmonious relations among the workers in the United States is true. There is a prevailing all around mixup , a sectarianism, that becomes uncanny.
Narrow minds, having forgotten common ideas in their self interest, envent new social systems and found new sects solely for the purpose of reigning over them as popes.
Following the principle "divide et impera", everything is fought against that does not adhere 100% to their special doctrines.
And the common enemy, the capitalist, can put his hands in his pockets and laugh at the sight of the working class warring against itself.
2As long as these present internal strifes continue, he does not have to move a finger. The sectarians are tending the business better for him than he ever could do.
