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“...People. This room De Leon shared with Vogt, the editor of
the partys German paper. On the same floor was the office
of the National Secretary of the party. Dividing Kuhns office
from that of De Leon there was a sort of ante-room w'here com-
mittee meetings were often held.
It was there that the loyal party members, about thirty in
number, were assembled awaiting the onslaught of the Volks-
zeitung reactionists. Ben Hanford and Herman Simpson were
there, at that time full-fledged S. L. P. men.
Brutal Attack Repulsed by S. L. P. Men
It was long after midnight w'hen the attacking party ar-
rived. Henry Slobodin, an East Side lawyer, whom the rump
general committee made the national secretary of what devel-
oped to be the kangaroo party, accompanied by the illustrious
Loewenthal, came up as a parliamentary committee and de-
manded the surrender of the party property and insignia of of-
fice. They were told that there would be no such surrender.
They departed, and soon after came the charge,...”
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“...at least one man among the leaders of the West-
ern Federation of Miners who would exert all his influence in
favor of the bona-fide I. W. W. and against the reactionists of
the Mahoney type in that organization. This man was thought
to be Haywood as it was generally believed that he would be
acquitted, and that once free he would with Vincent St. John
turn the tide in the Western Federation of Miners. This ex-
pectation, as. we shall see later, was not fulfilled.
At times like those, when the brutal, bloodstained hands
of the monstrous capitalist class in Idaho sought to stamp out
the economic organization of the wage slaves by hanging
their leaders; when the only-one-year-old industrial union, the
I. W. W., was treacherously wounded in its vitals by the
scheming politicians wearing the mask of Socialism and hiding
behind a Socialist cloak; and at a time when the masses of
workers were at the crossroads, about to choose whether to
take the road that leads to Revolution and Industrial Democ-...”
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