They asserted that the "working class and the employing class have nothing in common" and that trade unions only pitted one set of workers against another set.
— from History of the United States by Mary Ritter Beard

In the preamble to the Constitution of the Independent Workers of the World (I. W. W.) we find this statement: “The working class and the employing class have nothing in common.
— from The Short Constitution by William F. (William Fletcher) Russell

How foolish is the above statement that the working class and the employing class have nothing in common.
— from The Short Constitution by William F. (William Fletcher) Russell

The working class and the employing class have nothing in common.
— from Communism and Christianism Analyzed and Contrasted from the Marxian and Darwinian Points of View by William Montgomery Brown

As the Preamble of the Industrial Workers of the World, one of the most compact utterances of a revolutionary 27 workers’ organization, expresses it: “The working class and the employing class have nothing in common.
— from International May Day and American Labor Day A Holiday Expressing Working Class Emancipation Versus a Holiday Exalting Labor's Chains by Boris Reinstein

Once labor feels itself hostile to the employer and his interests, which is another way of saying, once the employing group by its tactics succeeds in making labor conclude that “the working class and the employing class have nothing in common,” the building up of a spirit of co-operation is difficult indeed.
— from Working With the Working Woman by Cornelia Stratton Parker

The preamble to their constitution declares that "the working class and the employing class have nothing in common," and asserts that "between these two classes a struggle must go on until all the workers of the world organize as a class, take possession of the earth, and the machinery of production, and abolish the wage system."
— from Problems in American Democracy by Thames Williamson

" The famous Preamble to the platform of the I. W. W. throws a startling light upon this revolutionary industrial union, which has, within recent years, been getting a very strong hold on immigrants from Europe: "The working class and the employing class have nothing in common.
— from The Red Conspiracy by Joseph J. Mereto

A number of the men deported during September and October were not members of the I. W. W., some even being opposed at the time to the tenet of the organization, "The working class and the employing class have nothing in common," but almost without exception the non-members who suffered deportation made it a point to join the union when the nearest branch or field delegate was reached.
— from The Everett Massacre: A history of the class struggle in the lumber industry by Walker C. Smith