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45758 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
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"from": "human",
"value": "[244] the journal of the organization, continued its publication for several months at Joliet, Illinois. Herein were published refutations of the charges set forth by the"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "DeLeon-Anarchist Combine in their special series of _Bulletins of... |
45758 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "but they believed that _DeLeon_ was the arch conspirator. When the Seventh International Socialist Congress met in Stuttgart in 1907, Morris Hillquit and J. Mahlon Barnes presented the Socialist version of the affair.[247] The fatal trouble from the very beginning, they thought,... |
45758 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "(the Trautmann-DeLeon-St. John faction) on the one hand, and on the other the"
}
] |
45758 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "DeLeon-Anarchist combine"
}
] |
45758 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I. W. W. Conference Proceedings,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I. W. W. Conference Proceedings,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That Conference at Chicago,"
}
] |
45758 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "A statement of facts,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Until we can get charge of the office again we will be unable to furnish local secretaries with due stamps...."
}
] |
45758 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The W. F. M. officials supported the old officials of the I. W. W. for a time financially and with the influence of their official organ. The same is true of the Socialist party press and administration. The radical element in the W. F. M. was finally able to force the officials... |
45758 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "A Statement of Facts,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Les mécontents de la Fédération."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "La Socialist Trade & Labor Alliance a obtenu le record d'avoir provoqué plus de disputes et de schismes au sein des mouvements socialist... |
45758 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "St. John has given the mine owners of the [Colorado mining] district more trouble in the past year than any twenty men up there. If left undisturbed he would have the entire district organized in another year."
}
] |
45758 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "--to be influenced by one of a score of insidious forms of corruption. This accounts for the stress laid by the Industrial Workers of the World upon the referendum idea, from the very beginning of its existence. Let the acts of delegates in convention be ratified by referendum v... |
45758 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "--indicated in the resolution carried"
}
] |
45758 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "which were to include workers in various industries, but only so to include them temporarily; it being understood that so soon as a sufficient number of the workers in any particular industry came into the locality to warrant their organization into a union that all members of t... |
45758 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Resolution A, which reveals the rôle of the red (revolutionary) label as opposed to that of the orthodox ("
}
] |
45758 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "President --it savored of the present political state! Others thought it involved too great concentration of power in the hands of one individual. These latter were the sponsors of the"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "and the forerunners of those who later figured as"
... |
45758 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "cleansed from the taint of politics by the striking out of the words"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The motion involving this change was emphatically opposed by the spokesman of the Socialist Labor party faction. Daniel DeLeon and Hermann Richter both spoke against t... |
45758 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Pure and Simplers, [296] even, coöperating in a common activity. The I. W. W. was the first to organize protest meetings, and secured the services of Clarence S. Darrow for the legal defense. The slogan"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Shall our brothers be murdered?"
... |
45758 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That the I. W. W. received its death blow at Chicago and will gradually disintegrate is a fact, according to Max Hayes,"
}
] |
45758 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mixed locals. No member of a trade that is organized in his locality is qualified for admission into a mixed local in the same locality, and no member of a mixed local can remain a member of the same after his trade has been organized in that locality. _Ibid._, p. 276. For the d... |
45758 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "This system soon appeared impracticable and as the purely industrialist view was beginning to dominate the membership, it was more and more definitely recognized that the New Unionism should organize from below upward. In other words, the local industrial union, not the departme... |
45758 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "is evidenced in Delegate Foote's statement that"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Every action of every individual in ... organized society is a political action, whether it be as you say on the industrial [political] or on the economic field.... The action of the Indus... |
45758 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "At the second convention, September, 1906, the preamble was amended and all emphasis on the need for political action omitted."
}
] |
45758 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The World of Labor,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "At the third convention of the I. W. W.... almost complete harmony prevailed. The organization had so far recuperated from the blow it had received the year before that several organizers were being employed and many... |
45758 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "faction, so called, eventually dominated the fifteenth convention of the Western Federation of Miners and made what was already a virtual separation from the I. W. W. a formal and complete divorce. The Shermanite organ, the (old) _Industrial Worker_, in its issue for April, 1907... |
45758 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "however, claimed that"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "[313] At this time, on the same authority, there were 358 locals"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "but only 181 in good standing.[314] On a basis of locals in good standing the Shermanites took with them... |
45758 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "[316] He stated further that"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "at the second I. W. W. convention, tells the miners' convention that"
}
] |
45758 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Civic Federation, the purpose of which is to establish"
}
] |
45758 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Hearst and Hillquit."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Hearst and Hillquit for good government?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Hearst and Hillquit for socialism? No."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Hearst and Hillquit for votes! Hillquit, the"
... |
45758 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "and that it was the duty of the party and the unions to render each other"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "[334] The editor of the official organ, however, looked upon these resolutions as being very favorable to the I. W. W., which he declared had forced the Congress ... |
45758 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Between these two classes a struggle must go on until all the toilers come together _on the political_ as well as on the industrial field...."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "of the preamble was the subject of extended discussion.[337] At this time all efforts to alter... |
45758 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "[he said] does have a meaning.... The point is raised that the working class will not have a"
}
] |
45758 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "With DeLeon since '89,"
}
] |
45758 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Membership of American Trade Unions,"
}
] |
45758 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Les rapports entre les partis politiques et les syndicats professionels,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I. W. W."
}
] |
45758 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The relations between trade unions and the political party,"
}
] |
45758 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Rapports entre les partis et les syndicats,"
}
] |
45758 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "With DeLeon since '89,"
}
] |
45758 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "JOB CONTROL"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "[343] Early in 1906 the I. W. W. had a flourishing local (No. 77) composed of the"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "of Goldfield. The American Federation of Labor had almost no foothold in Goldfield at the time, t... |
45758 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "and apparently used the carpenters' union as their tool. At any rate the miners' union"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "This demand was ignored.[350] The Mine Owners now issued a statement setting forth that because of the"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "b... |
45758 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The I. W. W. took root at Goldfield, Nevada, he says,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But he comes thankfully to the conclusion that"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And that"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "[365] This last charge was reiterated ... |
45758 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The chief crime of the I. W. W. in Goldfield, said St. John,"
}
] |
45758 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The strike of the W. F. M. in October, 1907, says St. John,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The economic conditions of this camp forbid the answer of the question you ask.... I trust ... it will not be long before 353 can meet openly and above board."
}
] |
45758 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "At two o'clock Monday, [December 10] it was reported,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "[378] Reports of this strike from I. W. W. sources give the impression that the American Federation of Labor bodies in Schenectady did much to block the efforts of the I. W. W. It wa... |
45758 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Story of a New Labor Union, says"
}
] |
45758 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "If the street-car men had been organized under our motto, together with all other A. F. of L. men, the street-car strike would have lasted ten minutes,"
}
] |
45758 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, you've tied us up. I didn't think you could do it, but you did. You're clever; I'll give you credit for that. I didn't think any union could close this mill, one of the mill owners is reported as having said to Organizer Yarrow."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Y... |
45758 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "and he went on to the optimistic conclusion that"
}
] |
45758 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The whole fight against the Japanese, he said,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "[392] He added, however, that he considered it"
}
] |
45758 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Its locals dissolved by the dozens and the general headquarters at Chicago was only maintained by terrific sacrifice and determination.... [401] The report of the General Secretary to the fourth convention explained that when the third convention closed, General Headquarters exp... |
45758 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Wobblies as"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": ") held the seeds of discord in its apparently harmless assertion that the class struggle"
}
] |
45758 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The International Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers."
}
] |
45758 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Review of the facts in the situation at Goldfield,"
}
] |
45758 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What happened at Goldfield,"
}
] |
45758 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Papers relative to labor troubles at Goldfield, Nevada."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Preston's Crime,"
}
] |
45758 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The Goldfield Situation,"
}
] |
45758 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Papers relative to labor troubles at Goldfield, Nev. 60th Congress, 1st Session, Document No. 607, and St. John,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Review of the facts in the situation at Goldfield,"
}
] |
45758 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Story of a new labor union,"
}
] |
45758 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Report of the I. W. W. to the Stuttgart Congress (1907) we read:"
}
] |
45758 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Reflections on the Third Annual Convention,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The I. W. W., its Strength and Opportunity, by"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The Commentator,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "With DeLeon Since '89,"
}
] |
45758 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "First Convention of Textile Workers to be held May 1, 1908, in Paterson, N. J. In his document the claim is made that"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "[407] During the eighteen months' period following the financial crisis of 1907 the I. W. W. almost entirely gave up i... |
45758 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "the"
}
] |
45758 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "of 1908."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It is doubtful, he says,"
}
] |
45758 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "[415] These or similar charges had evidently been made at about the time this letter was supposed to have been written. St. John, in his report to the fourth I. W. W. Convention as General Organizer, denied certain"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "and the bitter and di... |
45758 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "in 1906, leaving the field to the"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Socialist Laborites were sloughed off (or they"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Bummery."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Bummery"
}
] |
45758 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "--the essence of the"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The first group was ultimately to constitute a socialistic I. W. W. with headquarters at Detroit--the doctrinaire wing; the second group an anarchistic I. W. W. with headquarters at Chicago--the direct-action wing, ... |
45758 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "and this was said to be the first revolutionary convention ever held in Chicago composed of"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "[420] The largest and most important delegation from the West was popularly known as the"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Overalls B... |
45758 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I. W. W. Red-Special! Overall Brigade, --"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "On its way through the continent--Thousands listen to the speakers--Gompers and his satellites furious with rage!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The Overall Brigade, according to R... |
45758 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Such remarks as 'I would like to get a punch at the pope' (meaning DeLeon) were overheard in the hall among the 'Overall Brigaders'."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "DeLeon told them whither they were drifting--to Shermanism, to Anarchy, to the movement's destruction. ... |
45758 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Anarcho-Syndicalist"
}
] |
45758 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "was to eliminate DeLeon and enough of his supporters to make it possible for the Wobblies from the West to carry the resolution to eliminate that fearsome political clause. They were somehow vaguely apprehensive that that phrase in the preamble which declared that the toilers mu... |
45758 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "[434] The I. W. W. was precisely so denounced soon after the convention:"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The political clause has been stricken out and with that all semblance of the I. W. W. has been wiped out. The clause was considered 'confusing.' Fact is the claus... |
45758 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "[443] This Paterson conference was virtually a meeting of the two District Councils of New York City and Paterson and a handful of Eastern locals. The delegates declared the proceedings of the Chicago convention illegal and naïvely read the"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"valu... |
45758 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "were really"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The figures presented in Appendix IV, (Table A) indicated that a large proportion of the 200 locals (to take the lowest estimate) in the I. W. W. in 1907 had in some way vanished. The Chicago faction admitted that 17 locals ... |
45758 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "_viz._, in the shop,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "; by strikes and boycotts, _etc._, but expecting to go forward, as DeLeon put it,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No particular party was endorsed, however, and any desire for the endorsement of any pol... |
45758 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "In so far as they do more than this, they merely further the designs of the big business groups whom they serve as retainers. In this regard the I. W. W.s are sufficiently Marxian and they would accent with italics Marx's strictures on the"
}
] |
45758 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Overall Brigade was the group which was most conspicuously saturated with this anarchistic feeling. These men from the West were suspicious of all parties; thought voting and legislating pleasant forms of ritual for deluding the workers; actively antagonized the craft unions, wh... |
45758 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Bummery outfit at Chicago. The Direct-Actionists might just as well concede this much to the"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Impossibilists. The latter represent revolutionary unionism in the original bottle; the former represent the changed form of militant unionism ... |
45758 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Their spokesmen, he says,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "thinks that he is being scandalously abused by the I. W. W.s, he should read some of the things the"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "have to say about the"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "... |
45758 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We hold, says this official,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "and"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The strain of love and hate aroused by DeLeon's peculiar personality, writes one who knew him,"
}
] |
45758 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Debs continues,"
}
] |
45758 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "that when, for example, one of Fellow Worker Walsh's"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "asks what the western lumberjack is to do when he is"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "for a three-day job, the party, metaphorically speaking, simply loses its temper and ... |
45758 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "In the same interview Lenin is further quoted as saying:"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Future society will be organized along soviet lines. There will be soviet [occupational] rather than geographical boundaries for nations. Industrial unionism is the basic state...... |
45758 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "With DeLeon since '89,"
}
] |
45758 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The Industrial Workers of the World,"
}
] |
45758 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Wobbly of the West. The refrain begins:"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Hallelujah, I'm a bum."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "With DeLeon since '89,"
}
] |
45758 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "With DeLeon since '89,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Report of the Committee on Credentials,"
}
] |
45758 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The I. W. W. Convention,"
}
] |
45758 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Proceedings of the Fourth Convention,"
}
] |
45758 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The Industrial Workers of the World. A brief sketch of some history of the organization."
}
] |
45758 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "With DeLeon since '89,"
}
] |
45758 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Centralizers and the"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Decentralizers"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Socialism and Direct Action"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The Development of Syndicalism in America,"
}
] |
45758 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Some Preamble History,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "DeLeon,"
}
] |
45758 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The disintegration of the Socialist Labor party."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The Coming Labor Union,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The Socialist Party and the Trade Unions,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "DeLeon,"
},
{
"from": "hu... |
45758 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "With DeLeon since '89"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "CIVILIZED PLANE"
}
] |
45758 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Our membership at present is about 10,000. Locals ... in nearly all states as well as Canada. Organizations identical with ours ... in principle and method are active in England, Australia and Africa. [477] On March 30, 1912, he wrote that the membership had"
},
{
"from"... |
45758 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Eighth I. W. W. Convention"
}
] |
45758 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "In January, 1914, the local had 350 members. Then came evil days."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The strike forced on us by the Royal Havana ... demoralized the membership [and] the S[ocialist] P[arty] members added to the confusion by creating dissensions. In the ye... |
45758 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "_i. e._, parliamentarism. Its publications are the official organs of a political sect that never misses an opportunity to assail the revolutionary workers while they are engaged in combat with some division of the ruling class. Their favorite method is to charge the revolutioni... |
45758 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
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"value": "[490] At the Seattle hearings of the Commission in August, 1914, James P. Thompson, at one time the General Organizer of the Chicago I. W. W., expressed himself on the subject of the other I. W. W. He said that the Detroiters were"
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"value": "Eighth I. W. W. Convention"
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"value": "Chicago I. W. W. which in 1908 with great blare of trumpets was going to show the workers how to get out of capitalism, _via_"
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"value": "Many of the followers of the Saint [St. John] and 'Big Bill' [Haywood] are a sadder but wiser lot. Hundreds have already joined the Socialist [meaning the Detroit] I. W. W., and more are on the way."
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