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[ { "from": "human", "value": "PROLETARIAN RABBLE" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "_vs._ the" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "DeLeonite rabble" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "JOB CONTROL" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Overalls Brigade" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Straight industrialism" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "CIVILIZED PLANE" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Bummery" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Unlawful Associations" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Criminal Syndicalism" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Wheel of Fortune" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Criminal Syndicalism" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "or the" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "New Unionists in the days of Robert Owen--all these and many another group have sought to push their cause by methods now once again made notorious by the French syndicalists and the American Wobblies. The general strike--mass action--the sympathetic strike--the solidarity of al...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "of which we now hear so much was surely in existence in England in the early thirties. Robert Owen at that time outlined his great plan for a" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "General Union of the Productive Classes. Sidney and Beatrice Webb report the establishment, in...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "An injury to one is the concern of all --the same slogan which is today prominent among the watchwords of the I. W. W. The Knights proposed, first to bring within the folds of organization every department of productive industry, making knowledge a standpoint for action and" }...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I saw, said Grand Master Workman Terence V. Powderly," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "This high degree of centralization of power in the hands of the General Assembly and the national officers was a factor in the disintegration of the order. More important still was the fact of internal dissension, especially the bitter animosity arising out of the Knights' parti...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "International which, springing up in Europe in the late sixties, soon spread to both sides of the Atlantic. It was first established in the United States in 1871. This first American section of the International made a slogan of the declaration that the emancipation of the worki...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "and the anarchists which resulted in the birth of the International Working People's Association.[23] At this convention were gathered representatives of anarchist and revolutionary socialist groups from twenty-six cities. These delegates drafted the famous Pittsburgh proclamati...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "[26] Comparing the French cousin of our modern I. W. W. with the older Association, James Guillaume asks," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Ennemie de tout despotisme, ne reconnaisant d'autre forme politique que la forme républicaine, et rejetant absolument toute alliance réactionnaire, elle repousse aussi toute action politique qui n'aurait pas pour but immédiat et direct le triomphe de la cause des travailleurs co...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Moyer and Haywood are the arch anarchists of this country, along with Herr Most. I see that Moyer is coming to Idaho Springs tomorrow. I want to say that if the people allow him to land his feet in Clear Creek County they are dirty arrant cowards." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "[42] This resolution was reaffirmed in 1903 and 1904." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "We recommend the Socialist party, reads their statement in 1904," }, { "from": "human", "value": "[43]" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Let all strike industria...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It believes, says one of the members," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Believing that the time has come, runs the A. L. U. _Preamble_," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The Socialist Labor party, on the other hand, embraced a doctrinaire" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "policy, violently attacked the trade unions, made its slogan" }, { "from": "human", "value": "and insisted that new unions, industrial in structure and soc...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Old Unionism Pure and Simple" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "[71] This expressed fairly well the attitude of the Socialist party men." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Born in hatred, suckled in dissension, as one socialist writer sees it," }, { "from": "human", "value": "had been practiced by American working men yea...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "the W. F. M.--was skirting the edge of dissolution.[75] The Socialist Labor party and its" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "the Socialist Trade and Labor Alliance, were in a bad way. Among the United Mine Workers there was dissension in many localities. There was dissat...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Stellen wir also vor allem fest, das die syndikalistische Bewegung ... in ihren Tendenzen and ihrer Taktik als eine Volksbewegung, eine Bewegung in den Arbeiterkreisen selbst, entstanden ist, deren geschichtlichen Ursprung man ... bis in den Anfang der neunziger Jahre, ja selbst...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Plan of an Investigation of the I. W. W." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Labor Knights Dispute," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Ephemeral labor movements," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The decay of trade unions," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The General Strike" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Labor disturbances in Colorado: 1880-1904," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Labor Disturbances in Colorado," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The timber worker and the timber wolves," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "With DeLeon since '89," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Industrial Union Epigrams," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "With DeLeon since '89," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The trade unions and the Socialist Party," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "DeLeon," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "At the most liberal estimate, the total strength of the Alliance did not exceed 15,000 at that time (1898)." }, { "from": "human", "value": "The Trade Unions and the Socialist party," }, { "from": "gpt", ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Industrial Union Congress" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Mother Mary Jones. During a three days' session plans for a proposed new labor organization were seriously discussed and carefully worked out. The report of their committee on methods and procedure was worked up by the members of the conference into a" }, { "from": "gpt"...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "These divisions, in the words of the Manifesto," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "is odd--for industrialists. A. M. Simons gives an explanation. He says that any union entering the I. W. W." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "[88] This phrase referring to political parties was the germ of the ill-fated" }, { "from": "human", "value": "of th...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "are again joining hands; a pleasant sight of the" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "and the" }, { "from": "human", "value": "It is true they believed the Federation, as a federation, to be harmful to the interests of labor--and would have been nothing loath t...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Industrial Congress or the" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Industrial Union Convention," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "of labor. After considerable debate the report of the committee was adopted" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "union, rarely more than national in scope, and merely a national association of local unions of a given trade. This type was represented by the United Metal Wor...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "[109] Several of these labor bodies were really more shadow that substance. The Socialist Trade and Labor Alliance, the United Metal Workers, and the American Labor Union, St. John's three" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "though many delegates repudiated the name socialist as being synonymous with reactionist and conservative. If socialists at all, they were socialists with a radical adjective. In reference to some the word" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "should be substituted for" }...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Its members seemed firmly convinced that all labor leaders (except I. W. W. organizers!) are really" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "of labor, and throughout their propaganda literature there is evident this repudiation of leaders and apotheosis of the" }, { "f...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "We have not got an agreement existing with any mine manager, superintendent, or operator at the present time. We have got a minimum scale of wages and" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "or understudy of the Socialist Labor party, and this fact was looked upon by A. M. Simons and others of the Socialist Labor party as having an ominous significance for any new organization to which DeLeon might wish to hitch the Socialist Labor party as a" }, { "from": "...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "One Big Union." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I Won't Work," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I Want Whiskey," }, { "from": "human", "value": "International Wonder Workers," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Irresponsible Wholesale Wreckers, _etc._" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Th...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The Origin of the Manifesto," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Mother" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The Trade Unions to be Smashed Again," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The Chicago Conference for Industrial Unionism." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "delegates were" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Mother" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The I. W. W.: Retrospect and Prospects," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Coffin society," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Pure and Simple" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It has been said, remarked Haywood," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "[121] This common opposition to what they called the" }, { "from": "human", "value": "American _Separation_ of Labor proved to be a fairly adequate" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The A. F. of L., which is the fine consummate flower of craft unionism, it declares," }, { "from": "human", "value": "This, they contend, because (1) it is adapted only to such conditions as existed in England sixty years a...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Union scabbery helped to create a kind of" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The craft idea tended to develop the idea of caste among workingmen, and the skilled were set off from the unskilled as the" }, { "from": "human", "value": "The industrial unionists ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "This latter" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "of labor was the symbol of another objectionable feature of the A. F. of L., _viz._, the identity of interests assumption. Naturally the idea that the interests of employer and employee are identical, is the only consistent ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "union. DeLeon believed" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "" }, { "from": "human", "value": "The labor movement, he said" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "We call upon the socialists of the United States, said another member of the S. T. & L. A.," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "There is but one way, he said," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "He goes on to say that" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "[136] Mr. Gompers cited, among others, the case of the Boot and Shoe Workers' International Union. The workers in Lynn, Massachusetts, in a branch of the shoe trade--they were makers of" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "On the sixth day the principal piece of constructive work confronting the convention--the shaping-up of some sort of a workable constitution--was taken out of the hands of the committee and made the order of the day. Though Simons intimates[137] that the first days of the conven...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "as it has since been called, was quite essential to keep the proposed organization" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "" }, { "from": "human", "value": "The barbarian, he said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "[143] He believed it to be absolutely im...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "that last working-class compromise with capitalism, there will probably issue a political organization strong in numbers, but stronger in principle, because raised by the revolutionary spirit high above" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "). Each of these departmental divisions was supposed to comprise an allied group of industries, grouped together for administrative purposes. In the original report of the constitution committee the industrial or occupational" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Mining Department of the I. W. W.; the Metal Workers became the" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Metal Department ; and the United Brotherhood of Railway Employees, the" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Transportation Department." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "An injury to one is the concern of all." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "He believed that dividing the industrial activities of society into thirteen divisions meant the creation--not the destruction--of craft lines, and also that" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "[164] These fears were to a certain limited extent realized. The same writer s...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "by the DeLeon element, as so many insinuate. DeLeon was elected to no office and neither of the General Executive Board members elected at large were members of the Socialist Trade and Labor Alliance. Debs insists that" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "DeLeon did not 'c...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Those 'World Redeemers' at Chicago" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "throughout America and every other country throughout the globe ... what was the result? The mountain labored and brought forth a mouse, and a very silly little mouse at that.... And out of this materi...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "members. In regard to this Vincent St. John writes:" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I know that the Annual Convention reports claim 60,000 members, but the books of the organization did not justify any such claim, and in fact the average paid-up membership, without th...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": ";[177] and he might have added, with their decentralized administrative system replaced by a very strongly centralized one--this constituting a fundamental distinction between the I. W. W. and the _Confédération Générale du Travail_, a decentralized organization. Nor should the ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "By organizing industrially, claims the Industrial Worker," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "[178] And here he evidences an idea of the future state of society and the method of its realization, rather new even to the socialist, and somewhat akin to that of the anarchist...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The Preamble of the Industrial Workers of the World." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Revolutionary Unionism," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Father" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Concerning the Chicago Manifesto," }, { "from": "human", "value": "The Workers International Industrial Union." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "So soon as there are ten locals with not less than 3,000 members in one industry, the General Executive Board shall immediately proceed to call a convention of that industry and proceed to organize it as an international industrial division of the Industrial Workers of the World...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The Industrial Convention," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The I. W. W., Retrospects and Prospects," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "C'était la première préparation pratique en Amérique à la révolution qui doit conduire la société de la tempête économique au port de la république coopérative." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "ORIGINAL" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "and that" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Wobblies" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The incoming General Executive Board is hereby directed to organize the new recruits in and by industries, and to promote the education in industrialism among those men to whom charters may have been issued upon a craft system before they could be enrolled in the I. W. W." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "There has been no time since August, 1905, but what we have had one or more strikes to contend with, which has been more or less responsible for our organization not being in a position to place more organizers in the field than what it has maintained." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "First, the proper attitude for a political party of socialism to assume toward the burning question of trades unionism; and second, the proper attitude for a political party of socialism to assume toward the ownership of its press, the voice of the movement." }, { "from"...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Join the union of your craft. Join the party of your class." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "These 1900 [1800], continued Mr. Trautmann," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "[218] The seven" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "A. W. O. ), organized in 1914, which now constitutes a large and increasingly important division of the I. W. W., is akin to what the founders wanted to have in the I. W. W. in 1905. There is more _body_ to it today than there was to any of the so-called International Industrial...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The World of Labor," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "PROLETARIAN RABBLE" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "or the" }, { "from": "human", "value": "as they were called in the second convention--these on the one side, and the more highly skilled and strongly organized groups called (by the other side) the" }, ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "of the" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "held a pre-convention conference in Chicago on August 14, 1906. This little" }, { "from": "human", "value": "was called by Local Union No. 23 of the Department of Metal and Machinery which on July 20 sent out a letter...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "If a convention were held next month, an industrialist writes," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "[228] William. E. Trautmann, the General Secretary-Treasurer, reported that he was" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "and" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "DeLeon coterie and offered $500 reward for the establishment of the truth of any of them.[231] Delegate Parks, one of the" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "in which he declared," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": ";" }, { "from": "human", "value": "and that this" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "was" }, { "from": "human", "value": "[233] A month later Sherman issued on his own behalf a letter...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "We can't stand it any longer; we are going broke; we can't sleep in boxcars and eat handouts and remain here." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "that is to say, of the Trautmann-DeLeon-St. John faction, was hardly complete. They were officials without an office in which to do business, without equipment of any sort, and without money. Secretary St. John writes that they" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "faction, but even so the latter were in a rather forlorn position now, having been abandoned to their fate by the Western Federation of Miners (whose delegates supported Sherman, some of them bolting the convention before its adjournment), and by the Socialist party. Before long...