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“...152 WITH DE LEON SINCE 89.
New York who had collected funds to have St. John brought
from a hospital in Nevada where be was lying with a hullet
wound in his right wrist and where, as rumors had it, he did
not receive proper treatment, and made it possible for him to
go to Chicago,this same St. John whom De Leon had once
confided in, turned on De Leon with all the viciousness of a
Western desperado.
St. John, one of those characters described by a magazine
writer, who can act as a bopncer in a bar-room, salt a mine,
or deliver a sermon or a lecture, charged De Leon with not
understanding the proper form of industrial unionism, and
with being a member of the Office Workers Local when he
should have been a member of the Printing Workers Local,
of which only a branch (linotype operators) was organized in
New York. De Leon was not seated as a delegate upon this
flimsy technical pretext.
A sufficient number of other delegates were not seated
under other preposterous pretexts as to give the Overall...”
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“...impressed by the countenance of the good bishop. In fact, I
had a suspicion that the sheriff of Passaic County did indeed
take De Leon for a bishop, and that that was why the door
opened for De Leon so quickly.
A few weeks before De Leon was taken seriously ill I
called at the Daily People office. "Comrade De Leon, how is
your health? I inquired. Never felt better in my life, De
Leon answered. He then looked the picture of health, robust
and strong. The next time I saw him was a* the Mt. Sinai
Hospital a few days before his death. Daniel De Leon passed
away on May 11, 1914.
Greatness of Daniel De Leon
The greatness of this man will be recognized by the
whole world. The members of the So'cialist Labor Party have
held De Leon in high esteem, but not even the most loyal of
his comrades could fully appreciate De Leons genius. His
was a master mind. His hand has drawn the strategic plans
that will give the working class the power to destroy the forts
of capitalism and rear the structure of the...”
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