Quotation from: War of the Classes

Written by: Jack London


The woman stenographer or book-keeper who receives forty dollars per
month where a man was receiving seventy-five is a scab. So is the
woman who does a man's work at a weaving-machine, and the child who
goes into the mill or factory. And the father, who is scabbed out
of work by the wives and children of other men, sends his own wife
and children to scab in order to save himself.


When a publisher offers an author better royalties than other
publishers have been paying him, he is scabbing on those other
publishers. The reporter on a newspaper, who feels he should be
receiving a larger salary for his work, says so, and is shown the
door, is replaced by a reporter who is a scab; whereupon, when the
belly-need presses, the displaced reporter goes to another paper and
scabs himself. The minister who hardens his heart to a call, and
waits for a certain congregation to offer him say $500 a year more,
often finds himself scabbed upon by another and more impecunious
minister; and the next time it is HIS turn to scab while a brother
minister is hardening his heart to a call. The scab is everywhere.
The professional strike-breakers, who as a class receive large
wages, will scab on one another, while scab unions are even formed
to prevent scabbing upon scabs.

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