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Friction with Federation unions.
Practical compromises with the craft-union idea
Internal dissension .
Breakdown of the Metals and Machinery Department
Defection of the Western Federation of Miners
Early strikes and strike activities
Strike policies . . .
The New Jersey Socialist Unity Conference .
The discussion on socialism and the trade unions.
The Unity Conference resolutions.
The second I. W. W. convention
Growth in membership.
The Industrial Departments .
CHAPTER V
THE COUP OF THE "PROLETARIAN RABBLE"
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The DeLeon-St. John attack on President Sherman.
Pre-convention conference of the "DeLeonite rabble
The indictment of Sherman .
Playing freeze-out with the "wage slave delegates"
The per diem resolution and the defeat of the Shermanites
Abolition of the office of General President
The findings of the Master in Chancery. .
Contemporary comment on the quarrel
DeLeonism and the Socialist Labor Party at the second convention. 147
The Western Federation of Miners
THE STRUCTURE OF A MILITANT UNION
An organization for farm laborers and city proletarians.
The I. W. W. and the lumber workers
Effect of the Moyer-Haywood case on the I. W. W.
The third convention.
CHAPTER VII
THE FIGHT FOR EXISTENCE
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Membership strength.
The I. W. W. at the Stuttgart Congress.
Political parties and the trade unions
The political clause of the Preamble again under discussion.
CHAPTER VIII
"JOB CONTROl" at Goldfield
The A. F. of L. and the I. W. W. in Goldfield, Nevada
Character of the Goldfield local of the I. W. W..
The town unionists and the mine unionists.
Proposed consolidation of the two groups
Attitude of the Mine Owners' Association
Federal military intervention and investigation.
Report of the Commission. . .
What the I. W. W. accomplished at Goldfield .
The I. W. W. and the Western Federation in Nevada politics
I. W. W. strike activities in other parts of the country.
General organizing activities
CHAPTER IX
DOCTRINAIRE versus DIRECT-ACTIONIST
Condition of the organization on the eve of the schism of 1908
Effect of the financial panic of 1907
The widening breach between the I. W. W. and the Western Fed- eration of Miners
The line-up in the I. W. W. on political action
The personnel of the convention.
Walsh's "Overalls Brigade". .
The Socialist Labor Party Delegation and the unseating of Daniel
The issue between the DeLeonites and the Direct-actionists
"Straight industrialism" versus parliamentarianism .
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The preamble purged of politics. .
FAGE
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Rump convention of the DeLeonites at Paterson, New Jersey 228
A bifurcated I. W. W.
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The issue between the Detroit I. W. W. and the Chicago I. W. W.
The Wobblies' criticism of parliamentary government
The doctrinaire state socialism of the Detroiters.
The issue illustrated in the contrast between Daniel DeLeon and
Vincent St. John. . . . .
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I. W. W. constitution non-political rather than anti-political
Influence of DeLeon on the I. W. W..
The development of the Detroit I. W. W.
Strike activities and friction with the " Bummery'
actionist faction. . .
The Anarcho-syndicalists versus the parliamentarians
The Detroit I. W. W. on sabotage
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Eugene Debs' plea for a union of the two I. W. W.s..
The Detroit I. W. W. becomes The Workers International In-
dustrial Union
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PART III
THE ANARCHO-SYNDICALISTS
[The Direct Actionists]
CHAPTER XI
FREE SPEECH AND Sabotage
Condition of the Direct-actionist faction after the split with the
Doctrinaires
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The Wobblies establish the "free-speech fight" as an institution. 260
The use of violence at Lawrence and the responsibility for it Dynamite planting
The I. W. W. and the A. F. of L. at Lawrence
The beginning of the conflict over decentralization.
CHAPTER XIII
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Centralization versus decentralization
Tom Mann joins in the attack on dual unionism
Rejoinders from Ettor and Haywood
The 1913 convention
The proposals of the “ decentralizers"
The relation of the locals to the general organization
The Pacific Coast District Organization. .
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309
The East against the West in the decentralization debate.
The western Wobbly and the eastern
Geographical differences in I. W. W. local unions.
An anarchist's impressions of the 1913 convention .
Continued hostility between the I. W. W. and the Western Fed-
eration of Miners.
The labor war in Butte, Montana
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Anti-militarist campaign of the I. W. W. in Australasia Australian "Unlawful Associations Act.
The Workers' Industrial Union of Australia.
"Criminal Syndicalism" laws in the United States.
The turnover of I. W. W. members and locals.
Conclusion.
APPENDICES
I. Chart of early radical labor organizations
II. The I. W. W. Preamble: Chicago and Detroit versions.
III. The structure of the organization in 1917. (Chart)
IV. Membership statistics:
Table A. Membership of Chicago and Detroit branches.
(1905-1916). . . .
Table B. Membership of the I. W. W. compared with the
aggregate number of organized workers in the U. S., by
industries. .
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Table C. Membership of the I. W. W. and of certain other
selected organizations and industrial groups. (1897-1914) 356
Table D. Membership of (1) the I. W. W. and (2) all American trade unions
V. Geographical distribution of I. W. W. locals in 1914. (Chi-
cago and Detroit). . .
VI. Reasons assigned for locals disbanding. (1910-1911)
VII. Free-speech fights of the I. W. W. (1906-1916)
VIII. I. W. W. strikes. (1906-1917). . .
IX. Selections from the I. W. W. Song Book.
X. Copies of State "Criminal Syndicalism" statutes.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX
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