SABOTAGE

a form of militancy. adopted by certain revolutionary labor organ i zations. The name is derived from the French word ‘sabot,’ a wooden shoe, which was causing destruction to machinery. Sabotage literally means that the workers shall aid their cause, destruction of the capitalist system, by towards its own deThese tactics are usually employed by the Syndicalists, represented in country by the Industrial. Workers of the World (qg.2.). In its crudest form sabotage is usually complished by thro into delicate machinery, causing damage in some cases obeying all instructions in service, as an illustration, as in the case again st endangering life, or in the case of store workers, telling the literal truth regarding goods being sold. Sabotage is more widely employed in the Continental European countries than in AngloS axon countries, where the labor leaders prefer the open tactics of the strike.