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“...Haywood, or no Haywood, when the third I. W. W.
convention had concluded its labors, the delegates were more
than hopeful that judging by the progress made during the
preceding year, in point of membership, influence, and pres-
tige the young organization would forge ahead and that the
ailings of infancy were over. This was not the case, however;
indeed, the worst was yet to come. For no sooner had the
delegates returned from the third convention than a most
malignant colic had the I. W. W. in its grip. The germs of
this colic, barely discernible at the third convention, had
multiplied rapidly.
Wm. E. Trautmann, the general secretary-treasurer; Ed-
wards, the editor of the Industrial Union Bulletin; St. John,
the general organizer, and most of the members of the Gen-
eral Executive Board all showed signs of having turned a
somersault, or that they were about to turn one. Trautmann
began to find fault with the Daily People, by claiming that
E. Markley had been using its columns against the I...”
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