Sabotage: The Conscious Withdrawal of the Workers' Industrial Efficiency

Wraps, 16mo; 31, (1)pp. With 10-cent price and two-color wooden shoe graphic. "10" inked to upper corner, short closed tear to bottom rear wrap, else Very Good. An early reprint; originally published in October, 1916, when the IWW publishing Bureau was in Cleveland, Ohio. This copy states Chicago, where they started publishing in March 1917. The title was later withdrawn from the IWW's official literature.

"The interest in sabotage in the United States has developed lately on account of the case of Frederick Sumner Boyd in the state of New Jersey as an aftermath of the Paterson strike. Before his arrest and conviction for advocating sabotage, little or nothing was known of this particular form of labor tactic in the United States. Now there has developed a two-fold necessity to advocate it: not only to explain what it means to the worker in his fight for better conditions, but also to justify our fellow-worker Boyd in everything that he said. So I am desirous primarily to explain sabotage, to explain it in this two-fold significance, first as to its utility and second as to its legality."