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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Bummery was made by Rudolph Katz to the Commission on Industrial Relation. He said that the Chicago I. W.W.s look upon the ballot as a gift from the capitalist class. The Detroit I. W. W.s consider the ballot" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "by the" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Bummery" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "is unnecessary, and also invites disaster to the workers and helps the forces of reaction. Such measures are suicidal and condemned by civilization. For these reasons the _bona fide_ I. W. W. sets its face like flint against any organization that teaches such tragedy-producing t...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Public service" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "With DeLeon since '89," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "R. H. P." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The I. W. W. History, Structure and Methods" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The I. W. W. and its Activities," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Le Socialist Labor party combat ceux-ci parce qu'ils prêchent 'seulement la force physique', mais en même temps je donne tout l'appui qu'il peut aux travailleurs qui, même sous la direction autrement funeste de l'anarchie, tentent de se délivrer du joug des maîtres capitalistes ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The Workers' International Industrial Union," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Principles of the W. I. I. U." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I. W. W. ), with labels of identical design--bodies closely paralleling each other in scope and structure despite th...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Wobblies, but it was not until nearly three years later that the I. W. W. free-speech epidemic assumed national proportions. Since 1909 the I. W. W.s have attracted quite as much attention by their dramatic free-speech controversies with municipal authorities here and there as t...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It cannot be considered as provocative of immediate disorder, says Police Commissioner Arthur Woods, of New York," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "[513] When George Creel was police commissioner in Denver he took a similar position and worked on the theory that all ide...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Hanging is none too good for them, said the _Tribune_;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "[516] In the face of such a tirade it is interesting to read the report of the Special Commissioner sent by Governor Hiram Johnson to investigate the disturbances in San Diego. Comm...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Wobblies. They are presented, however, in the belief that they have some significance. The organization was now unquestionably picking up. In 1910 there had been a number of I. W. W. strikes--nine at any rate in which the organization was actively interested. In April, the farm ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "[writes" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The Commentator" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "(revolutionary) syndicalists, and the" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "at the Budapest conference." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Inasmuch, he said," }, { "from": "human", "value": "[537] James Duncan, the A. F. of L. delegate at Budapest, reported that" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "and had apparently convinced ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It is aware, says William English Walling," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "[539] A number of the anarchists were inclined to favor the Syndicalist League because they feared the" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "That hobo gang which calls itself the" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Industrial Workers of the World calls for a" }, { "from": "human", "value": "as a protest against the alleged" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "AROUSE! PREPARE TO DEFEND YOUR CLASS!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "A general strike in all industries must be the answer of the workers to the challenge of the masters! Tie up all industries! Tie up all production! Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty." }, ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "[545] Emma Goldman, a prominent anarchist, describes it as the" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "[546] Professor Hubert Lagardelle, one of the _intellectuels_ of the French syndicalist movement, explains that" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Direct Action is...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "A kick in time saves nine." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Kick your way out of wage slavery." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Our coat-of-arms: The shoe rampant." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "A kick on the job is worth ten at the ballot-box."...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The development of syndicalism in America," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Restrictions upon freedom of assemblage," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Free, Speech Fights of the I. W. W." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The Sixth I. W. W. Convention," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The I. W. W., its Strength and Opportunity," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Sixth I. W. W. Convention," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "A Syndicalist League" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Unlawful Associations Act passed by the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth in December, 1916. (Reported in the _New York Times_, December 20, 1916, p. 5. col. 2. Cf. _infra_, p. 341.) Within three months of the passage of the Australian Act, the American States of Minn...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Wobblies' two big years, during which more than thirty" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I. W. W. strikes" }, { "from": "human", "value": "" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "and" }, { "from": "human", "value": "and revealed to the hither...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "" }, { "from": "human", "value": "and" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Working today?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yah. (The man speaking has a sharp knife and is whittling a stick.)" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Work tomorrow?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I d'no." }, { "from": "human", "value"...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Boycott Lawrence," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "of violence, as a believer in the philosophy of force, for he proclaimed time and again ... that" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Wobblies frankly abjured the rules under which, as they would express it, the capitalist game is played. They said:" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "If it serves our interests as members of the working class to obey certain accepted canons of conduct, we will obey them...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "For God and Country, The Stars and Stripes forever, The Red Flag never. A Protest against the I. W. W., Its principles and methods." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "" }, { "from": "human", "value": "" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "and" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Whose the sweat, his the land, and couple this with a new I. W. W. motto:" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Whose the sweat, theirs the machines" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Headquarters. This agitation for decentralization was not particularly successfu...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The Labor War at Lawrence," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Statements by people who took part." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "One Big Union Wins," }, { "from": "human", "value": "The Battle for Bread at Lawrence," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The Strikers at Lawrence, _Outlook_, Feb. 10, 1912, p. 311. Weyl thinks that" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Lawrence as it really is--not as syndicalists, anarchists, socialists, suffragists, pseudo-philanthropists, and muck-raking yellow journalists have painted it....
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "After the Battle," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "was lodged in the hands of two delegates, one of whom was a paid officer. (" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Open letter to Wm. D. Haywood," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The I. W. W. Convention," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The Bummery 'Congress'" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Seventh I. W. W. Convention," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "and the respective merits of what the French Syndicalists called _la pé...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Why don't the I. W. W. grow?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "and usually consider the question undebatable. Convincing arguments in favor of the theory I have never seen nor heard--I used to accept it without question like the vast majority of the I. W. W. membership does now, and in practice it has achieved the negative results shown by ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "tactics, their revolutionary movements are vigorous and powerful. France offers the most conspicuous example. There the C. G. T. militants, inspired by the tactics of the anarchists who years ago, discontented at their lack of success as an independent movement, literally made a...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "after continued failure of" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "He went on to" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "William D. Haywood replied that" }, { "from": "human", "value": "[600] He went on to show that it is well-nigh impossible for the unskilled man to get into the A. F. of L., even when he does desire to do so, be...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Bummery" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "controversy in our political history. The I. W. W. _administration_ and its supporters were, very naturally," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "They favored a strong federal government for the I. W. W. and attacked the" }, { "from": "human", "value": "program...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Headquarters. Some five hundred resolutions were introduced at the convention and a large number of these were assorted decentralist proposals for giving the local union relatively greater power--demands, in other words, for readjustments which were expected to result in increas...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "No action was taken.[612]" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "We ... are working ... to overthrow this [wages] system, said a decentralist fellow-worker," }, { "from": "human", "value": "The General Executive Board members, according to this delegate," }, ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "[619] Delegate Elizabeth Gurley Flynn advocated the abolition of the convention. She said that it was not genuinely representative, inasmuch as all the locals could not afford to send delegates.[620] The proposal was finally defeated. In general, the decentralizers--anarchistic ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "first assumed definite form at a conference of the Pacific Coast locals of the I. W. W. held at Portland, Oregon, in February, 1911. At this conference the eight-hours movement, plans for the establishment of agitation circuits for organizers, and--this most of all--the evils of...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Headquarters" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "in all things through the" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "and which requires a" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "union, and it is therefore not directly connected with any" }, { "from": "human", "value": "or industry. It is more nearly a propaganda club. It usually has a hall of some kind for meetings, and in many ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "in the mixed locals is said to have attempted to disrupt the I. W. W., asks," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Is this chair-warming sect now the leading element in the I. W. W.? Is it in a majority? If it is, the I. W. W. is not dying. It is dead." }, { "from":...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "[634] At another time he remarked:" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The western portion of this organization does not need any decentralization. Decentralization has got hold of it now and that is the very reason why this organization has no job control in the West.......
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "God! Is it possible that this bunch of pork-chop philosophers, agitators who have no real, great organizing ability or creative brain power, are able to frighten the capitalistic class more than any other labor movement organized in America? Is it true that this body of politici...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Economic socialism or State capitalist socialism, Which?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Impressions of the Chicago Convention." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Convention Notes," }, { "from": "human", "value": "The question of decentralization," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "was instigated indirectly by the capitalists. Delegate Foss said:" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The sixth I. W. W. convention," }, { "from": "human", "value": "I. W. W. Convention (8th, 1913), _International Socialist Review_, vol. xiv, p. 275, Nov., 191...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The Question of Decentralization," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The I. W. W. Convention," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Impressions of the Chicago Convention," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Sensationalism _vs._ Organizing Ability," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What the mine owners failed to do by force, declares the I. W. W.," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "This clause was stricken out in 1912. The revised edition of the _Constitution_ for that year expressed the new policy of the Federation (now the International Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers) in these terms:" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Local unions or gro...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Reds and the" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yellows. Among the" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Reds, I. W. W. members and sympathizers predominated. The" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yellows comprised the local officials of the union and the...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "We will make you fellows eat that card before long." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "[651] and that" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "and" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "at every labor body whose members refuse to gulp down the lunacy of a" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "he said," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Wherever the _bona fide_ labor unions have succeeded in effecting a satisfactory agreement with the employers, declares the _Miners' Magazine_," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The consolidated miners and the reunited I. W. W., he said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "[661] In the same article Debs advocated a reunion of the Socialist and Socialist Labor parties, and William English Walling in commenting on Debs' proposal for uniting the W. ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Millions have been appropriated for the militia; nothing for the wealth producers who will be without work. Where warehouses are full of food, go in and take it; where machinery is lying idle, use it for your purposes; where houses are unoccupied, enter them and sleep. [668] At ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "In another instance, according to Vincent St. John," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "and credits the organization (for 1913) with a" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "He came to the conclusion" }, { "from": "human", "value": "[678] The figures in Appendix IV indicate that more than 191,000 persons have at one time or another during the last t...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "[682] A possible exception to this general inactivity is the National Industrial Union of Marine Transport Workers of the I. W. W., which affiliated with the I. W. W. in April, 1913, and has since made some progress.[683] St. John informed the United States Commission on Industr...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "A. W. O. (organized April, 1915), which has taken great strides in pushing the propaganda of industrial unionism among the farm laborers and harvest hands and organizing these hitherto unorganized workers. At the tenth convention" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "[686] ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Six Dollars a Day or No Work," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "cook their food, often pilfered from nearby farms, wash their clothes, bathe, and not infrequently stage drunken orgies. This year the I. W. W.s have posted signs at their" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "reading," }, { "from": "human", "value": "For I. W. ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "A very large labor organization ... has taken steps, he says," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The dominant tone, he says," }, { "from": "human", "value": "and he approvingly quotes one delegate as exclaiming," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The I. W. W. is passing out of the purely propaganda stage and is...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It is unlikely that the" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "British Administration amounts to anything. The writer has happened upon vague references to an" }, { "from": "human", "value": "I. W. W. local" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The Unlawful Associations Act," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Section 3 runs in part as follows:" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The following are hereby declared to be unlawful associations, namely: (a) the association known as the Industrial Workers of the World; and (b) any association which, by its constitution or propaganda...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Revolutionary action" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "or _sabotage_ laws have been enacted by the States of California,[709] Idaho,[710] Michigan,[711] Minnesota,[712] North Dakota,[713] Montana,[714] South Dakota,[715] and Nebraska.[716] In the State of Washington a" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "and in Arizona a" },...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "for the decade 1905-1915 has been exceedingly heavy--not only as measured by individual members but also by local unions. The most favorable report of the present strength of the I. W. W. is given in the _World Almanac_ for 1917, where it is stated that the I. W. W. is composed ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Industrial Organization," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "A plea for solidarity," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Debs, revolutionary unionist," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Wobblies" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The I. W. W. in California." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The Truth about the I. W. W.," }, { "from": "human", "value": "The Development of Hoxie's Economics," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The Development of Syndicalism in America," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The I. W. W.'s latest move," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "R. E. P." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The Raised Fist of Labor." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "or unlawful associations statute, but under section 4 of the" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Espionage Act" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The Constructive Side of the New Unionism," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "FATHER HAGGERTY'S WHEEL OF FORTUNE" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "A fair day's wage for a fair day's work, we must inscribe on our banner the revolutionary watchword," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Abolition of the wage system." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Membership of American Trade Unions," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "International trade union statistics ), p. 3; Louis Levine," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The development of syndicalism in America," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Extent of labor organization," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Extent of Labor Organization," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Bum [defaulting?] secretary. Hammond, Ind. | Car builders |" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Bum" } ]