"We are not yet sufficiently strong to restore them [i.e., the instruments of production] to ourselves, it is true, but it is also true that we cannot allow any opportunity to escape of reaping any advantage from them. "Thus, if to-morrow we shall be justified in wrenching from capitalism all the industries, why, when it is a question of life or death for us to win or to lose a strike, is it not just to remove a screw, derange a wheel, break a thread, or commit, in any way whatever, an act of sabotage on a machine which otherwise would become the very beginning of our defeat in the hands of the scabs? "We cannot understand how it is still possible while we have a right to all the produce of our work, we have not an entire right to a part of it."
Other illustrations of sabotage may be of interest to the reader. The following one is taken from the Chicago "Syndicalist," February