To the General Executive Board of the Industrial Workers of the World.

Fellow Workers,
I note that there was considerable discussion by the 19th General Convention of the I.W.W. in regards to International relationship.

I note also the Communique from the General Labor Union (A.A.U. of Germany to the Convention and Membership of the Industrial Workers of the World in regards to possible International Relations, thru Fellow Workers Joseph Wagner.

To begin with, according to their principles and tactics as laid down in their letter there is a broad chasm of difference between the A.A.U. of Germany and the I.W.W.

The purpose of the I.W.W. is to Educate and Organize the Industrial Proletariat of the World for the final overthrow of the Capitalist System by Industrial Direct Action, and while building up the New Society within the shell of the old achieve more of the good things of Life for the Workers. Not by setting up a so called “Dictatorship of the Proletariat” by placing the Power within the hands of a few, but to gain Industrial Emancipation, by building up the Power of the Working Class thru a rank and file One Big World Wide Industrial Union.

Therefore Fellow Workers all communications from the Workers of other languages should be interpreted by at least three if not seven genuine class conscious Members of that great Industrial Union Movement known as the I.W.W., instead of just one.

Several German Fellow Workers here tell me that the General Labor Union of Germany is Communistically inclined.

How does it happen that the convention received no letters from the Syndicalists and Anarcho Syndicalist Movements of the World??? Down with Communism and up with Industrial Unionism as laid down in the good old I.W.W. preamble.

And what ever decision is reached by the G.E.B. on this International Proposition should be all means be freely discussed and voted on by the rank and file. Yours for clean cut International Revolutionary Industrial Unionism.

Guy B. Askew, Card #493776

Transcribed by Juan Conatz