For chart showing structure of the I. W. W. in 1912 vide St. John, The I. W. W.-its history, structure and methods, (1st ed.) p. 2. St. John's chart is reproduced in the author's Launching of the

I. W. W.

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terest, and on the industrial field under the banner of One Great Industrial Union to take and hold all means of production and distribution, and to run them for the benefit of all wealth producers.

The rapid gathering of wealth and the centering of the management of industries into fewer and fewer hands make the trade unions unable to cope with the ever-growing power of the employing class, because the trade unions foster a state of things which allows one set of workers to be pitted against another set of workers in the same industry, thereby helping defeat one another in wage wars. The trade unions aid the employing class to mislead the workers into the belief that the working class have interests in common with their employers.

These sad conditions must be changed, the interests of the working class upheld and while the capitalist rule still prevails all possible relief for the workers must be secured. That can only be done by an organization aiming steadily at the complete overthrow of the capitalist wage system and formed in such a way that all its members in any one industry or in all industries, if necessary, cease work whenever a strike or lockout is on in any department thereof, thus making an injury to one an injury to all.

[Therefore, without endorsing any political party, we unite under the following constitution.]

Therefore we unite under the following constitution.

AND CHICAGO FACTIONS

NOTES TO TABLE A.

Here are assembled most of the available figures relating to I. W. W. membership and fluctuations in membership during the
period 1905-1917. The figures are fragmentary and, for the most part, approximations; those in columns 1, 6, 7 and II being
especially rough and fragmentary. For example, it will be observed, in comparing columns 7 and 9 with column 11 for the year
1914, that there must have been at least 1784 defunct locals at that time instead of 681 as the record shows.

The figures in italics were furnished by the secretary-treasurers, Vincent St. John for the Chicago I. W. W., and Hermann
Richter for the Detroit I. W. W.

(*) Average membership 1905-1906. Computed from record
of receipts for the General Defense Fund (Proceedings Second
Convention, p. 586.)

(b) Approximate. W. D. Haywood before U. S. Commission
on Industrial Relations, Washington, D. C., May 12, 1915.
(Final Report and Testimony, vol. xi, p. 10581.)

(') Number issued between February 1910, and October, 1911.
(*) For the Detroit I. W. W. Approximate number issued
during the textile workers strikes.

(') Accumulated number from 1905.

() For the Detroit I. W. W. Approximate. October 1,

() Weekly People, Sept. 27, 1913; also testimony of Rudolph Katz before U. S. Commission on Industrial Relations (Final Re-1908, to February 1, 1915. port and Testimony, vol. iii, 2485).

(d) Only 2000 were "in good standing.' (*) No data available.

(') St. John, The I. W. W.-Its History, Structure and
Methods (1917 ed.), p. 23.

(*) The figures in column 3 are from Professor Geo. E. Barnett,
"Membership of American Trade Unions," Quarterly Journal
of Economics, vol. xxx, p. 846 (August, 1916). His figures
come, apparently, from I. W. W. headquarters in Chicago, but
they do not agree entirely with those furnished the author by
Secretary St. John.
() In this and some of the following columns more than one
figure has been included in years for which varying estimates were
found. The sources for column 4 are as follows: Proceedings
2nd I. W. W. Convention. p. 60; Report of the I. W. W. to
the Stuttgart International Socialist Congress, Industrial Union
Bulletin, Aug. 10, 1907, p. 4; Bulletin New York State Depart
ment of Labor, no. 67 ("International trade union statistics"),
p. 3; Louis Levine, "The development of syndicalism in Amer-
ica," Political Science Quarterly, vol. xxviii, p. 478 (Sept.,
1913); Vincent St. John's testimony before U. S. Commission on
Industrial Relations (Final Report and Testimony, vol. ii, p.
1456; Weekly People, Dec. 9, 1916, p. 1, col. 3).

(1) Leo Wolman, "Extent of labor organization," Quarterly Journal of Economics, vol. xxx, p. 603 (May, 1916). Wolman shows sex distribution as follows:

Chicago I. W. W.: males 7137, females 2000. Detroit I. W. W.: males 3130, females 345.

(*) Sources: Industrial Worker (I), August, 1906; Miners
Magazine, Sept. 7, 1905, p. 15; Marot, American Labor Unions,
p. 59; St. John, op. cit., p. 23.

(°) Sources: Proceedings 2nd I. W. W. Convention, p. 43;
Third I. W. W. Convention, Official Report No. 1, p. 2; Re-
port of the I. W. W. to the Stuttgart International Socialist Con-
gress, Industrial Union Bulletin, August 10, 1907, p. 3, col. 3;
Massachusetts Bureau of Labor and Industry, Annual Report on
Labor Organizations, 2nd to 7th, inclusive (1909-1914); The
Industrial Worker, May 14, 1910, p. 2, and Jan. 5, 1911, p. 2;
Marot, op. cit., Appendix.

(P) Sources: Miners Magazine, issues from Oct. 1, 1906, to
Feb. 1, 1907; Report of the secretary-treasurer to 3rd I. W. W.
Convention, Industrial Union Bulletin, Sept. 14, 1907, p. 7,
col. 1.

(4) Number issued up to Feb. 1, 1906, including 185 charters
issued to the Mining Department (W. F. of M.) (Miners Maga-
zine, Feb. 22, 1906, p. 14).

(F) Solidarity, May 27, 1916, p. 3, col. I. This figure is for the first five months of 1916.

(*) Figures in the Detroit column are from Oct. 1, 1908. (') W. F. M. (Mining Department) locals. Miners Magazine, Sept. 7, 1905, p. 15.

(") Oct. 1, 1907, to Oct. 1, 1908 (Industrial Union Bulletin, Oct. 10, 1908, p. 2, col. 3).