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DANIEL DE LEONOUR COMRADE.
W. affords us S. L. P. folks a means to counteract that wave
that we would not otherwise enjoy.
It was not very long, however, till it became plain that
my apprehensions had been well founded. De Leons optim-
ism (or was it not rather his desire to see at last a genuine eco-
nomic organization of Labor) led him to entertain hopes for
the eventual triumph of the 1. W. W. that few of us who saw
what was going on in the field, were able to keep up much af-
ter the first year. It was probably due to that freak-frauddom
of California, which De Leon feared, that the Anarchistic
tendencies developed there quicker than anywhere else. How-
ever, it was not long before De Leon was fully aware of the
situation, the culmination of which was a most vicious attack
upon the Party, from inside and out. In relation to this De
Leon wrote:
April 13, 1908.What does all this mean? It is the cul-
mination of an issue that started with Bohns inauguration as
National Secretary. He...”
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“...requiredand that any
average set of workingmens representatives are fully able to
ascertain infinitely better than our modern rhetoricians in
Congress.........
In the first place, the trade union has a supreme mission.
That mission is nothing short of organizing by uniting, and
uniting by organizing, the whole working class industrially
not merely those for whom there are jobs; accordingly, not
only those who can pay dues. This unification or organiza-
tion is essential in order to save the eventual and possible vic-
tory from bankruptcy, by enabling the working class to assume
and conduct production the moment the guns of the public
powers fall into its handsor before, if need be, if capitalist
political chicanery pollutes the ballot-box. The mission is im-
portant also in that the industrial organization forecasts the
future constituencies of the parliaments of the Socialist Re-
public."
From American Labor Union Journal, December, 1904:
The economic organization of the proletariat is...”
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