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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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