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45758 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
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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"
}
] |
45758 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "by the"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Bummery"
}
] |
45758 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"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... |
45758 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Public service"
}
] |
45758 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "With DeLeon since '89,"
}
] |
45758 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "R. H. P."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The I. W. W. History, Structure and Methods"
}
] |
45758 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The I. W. W. and its Activities,"
}
] |
45758 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"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 ... |
45758 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"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... |
45758 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"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... |
45758 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"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... |
45758 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"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... |
45758 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"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 ... |
45758 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "[writes"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The Commentator"
}
] |
45758 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "(revolutionary) syndicalists, and the"
}
] |
45758 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"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 ... |
45758 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"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"
}
] |
45758 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"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"
}
] |
45758 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"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."
},
... |
45758 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"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... |
45758 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"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."... |
45758 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The development of syndicalism in America,"
}
] |
45758 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Restrictions upon freedom of assemblage,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Free, Speech Fights of the I. W. W."
}
] |
45758 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The Sixth I. W. W. Convention,"
}
] |
45758 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The I. W. W., its Strength and Opportunity,"
}
] |
45758 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Sixth I. W. W. Convention,"
}
] |
45758 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "A Syndicalist League"
}
] |
45758 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"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... |
45758 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"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... |
45758 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": ""
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": ""
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "and"
}
] |
45758 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"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"... |
45758 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Boycott Lawrence,"
}
] |
45758 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "of violence, as a believer in the philosophy of force, for he proclaimed time and again ... that"
}
] |
45758 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"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... |
45758 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"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."
}
] |
45758 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": ""
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": ""
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": ""
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "and"
}
] |
45758 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"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... |
45758 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The Labor War at Lawrence,"
}
] |
45758 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"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,"
}
] |
45758 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"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.... |
45758 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"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,"
}
] |
45758 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"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... |
45758 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Why don't the I. W. W. grow?"
}
] |
45758 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"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 ... |
45758 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"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... |
45758 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "after continued failure of"
}
] |
45758 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"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... |
45758 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Bummery"
}
] |
45758 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"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... |
45758 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"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... |
45758 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"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,"
},
... |
45758 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"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 ... |
45758 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"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... |
45758 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Headquarters"
}
] |
45758 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "in all things through the"
}
] |
45758 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"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 ... |
45758 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"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":... |
45758 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"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....... |
45758 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"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... |
45758 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Economic socialism or State capitalist socialism, Which?"
}
] |
45758 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Impressions of the Chicago Convention."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Convention Notes,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The question of decentralization,"
}
] |
45758 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"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... |
45758 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"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,"
}
] |
45758 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What the mine owners failed to do by force, declares the I. W. W.,"
}
] |
45758 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"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... |
45758 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"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... |
45758 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We will make you fellows eat that card before long."
}
] |
45758 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "[651] and that"
}
] |
45758 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "and"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "at every labor body whose members refuse to gulp down the lunacy of a"
}
] |
45758 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "he said,"
}
] |
45758 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Wherever the _bona fide_ labor unions have succeeded in effecting a satisfactory agreement with the employers, declares the _Miners' Magazine_,"
}
] |
45758 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"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. ... |
45758 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"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 ... |
45758 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "In another instance, according to Vincent St. John,"
}
] |
45758 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"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... |
45758 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"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... |
45758 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"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] ... |
45758 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Six Dollars a Day or No Work,"
}
] |
45758 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"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. ... |
45758 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "A very large labor organization ... has taken steps, he says,"
}
] |
45758 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"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... |
45758 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"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"
}
] |
45758 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The Unlawful Associations Act,"
}
] |
45758 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"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... |
45758 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Revolutionary action"
}
] |
45758 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"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"
},... |
45758 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"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 ... |
45758 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Industrial Organization,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "A plea for solidarity,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Debs, revolutionary unionist,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Wobblies"
}
] |
45758 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"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,"
}
] |
45758 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The I. W. W.'s latest move,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "R. E. P."
}
] |
45758 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The Raised Fist of Labor."
}
] |
45758 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "or unlawful associations statute, but under section 4 of the"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Espionage Act"
}
] |
45758 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The Constructive Side of the New Unionism,"
}
] |
45758 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "FATHER HAGGERTY'S WHEEL OF FORTUNE"
}
] |
45758 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"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."
}
] |
45758 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Membership of American Trade Unions,"
}
] |
45758 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
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{
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"value": "The development of syndicalism in America,"
}
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Extent of labor organization,"
}
] |
45758 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Extent of Labor Organization,"
}
] |
45758 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Bum [defaulting?] secretary. Hammond, Ind. | Car builders |"
},
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"from": "gpt",
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