630.973 'Woodruff, Abner E. ( ! W86e "Evolution of American Agriculture" ICZJOEZD] HIRE INTRODUCTION /+ BY x* wood <tyin.l/wniy PUBLISHED BY (ustrialUnionJVo.4OO. I.W.W. 3OE EVOLUTION AMERICAN of AGRICULTURE By ABNER WOODRUFF, C. E. Illustrated by Dust Published by Agricultural Workers Industrial Union No. 400 I. W. W. THE PREAMBLE OF THE INDUSTRIAL WORKERS OF THE WORLD Theworking class and the employing class have nothing in common. There can be no peace so long as hunger and want are found among millions of working people and the few, who make up the employing class, have all the good things of life. Between these two classes a struggle must go on until the workers of the world organize as a class, take posses- sion of the earth and the machinery of production, and abolish the wage system. Wefind that the centering of management of the indus- tries into fewer and fewer hands makes the trade unions unable to copewiththe evergrowing powerofthe employ- ing class. The trade unions foster a state of affairs which allows one set of workers to be pitted against another set of workers in the same industry, thereby helping defeat one anotherin wagewars. Moreover, the trade unions aid the employing class to mislead the workers into the be- lief that the working class have interests in common with their employers. These conditions can be changed and the interest of the working class upheld only by an organization formed in such a way that all its members in any one industry, or in all industriesifnecessary, cease workwhenever a strike or lockout is on in any department thereof, thus making an injury to one an injury to all. Instead of the conservative motto, "A fair day's wage for afairday'swork," we mustinscribe on ourbanner the revolutionary watchword, "Abolitionofthewagesystem." Itisthehistoric mission oftheworking class to do away with capitalism. The army of production must be organ- ized, not only for the every-day struggle with* capitalists, butalso to carry on productionwhen capitalism shall have beenoverthrown. By organizingindustriallywe arc form- ing the structure of the new society within the shell of the old. INDEX Page Chapter I. From Primitive Man to Agriculture 11 Chapter II. Indian Agriculture in America 16" Chapter III. Agricultural Periods 22 Chapter IV. Colonial Period (1620-1783) 25 Chapter V. The Period of Western Expansion (1783-1830) 33 Chapter VI. The Transportation Period (1830- 1865) 40 Chapter VII. Period of Expansion into the Far West (1865-1887) 46 Chapter VIII. Period of Reorganization (1887- 1919) 54 Chapter IX. Influence of Machinery on Agricul- tural Production and Rural Popu- lation , 59 Chapter X. Development of Agricultural Pro- letariat 68 Development of the Agricultural Workers' Union No. 400 74 .. .