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“...delegates
lingered in the hall, Gompers came over to me, and laying his
hand on my shoulder he patronizingly spoke to me thus:
Katz, I was in the labor movement before you were born.
You are on the wrong track. I was at one time a bit of a So-
cialist, not a member of the Socialist Labor Party, but worked
with the Socialists in the shop. I associated with them. I
drank with them, in short, I was one of them. I studied the
German language for six months so as to be able to read Marxs
Das Kapital. ["Das Kapital was not translated into English...”
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“...doubt as
to the correctness of De Leons attitude toward labor leaders
of the Gompers kind, Gompers removed it. Here was the gen-
eralissimo of labor leaders telling me that he read Das
Kapital but found nothing in it; praising one Socialist pa-
per and denouncing the other. To be sure, I dropped the pa-
per praised by Gompers like a hot potato.
At this convention Gompers boastfully declared that he
was willing to debate the question with any Socialist, but that
it was time wasted to discuss Socialist theories while the dele-
gates had far more important work to do. Such debates, he
said, should take place outside of the convention hall. Soon
thereafter Gompers was challenged to debate with Daniel De
Leon. Gompers declined. He might have been too shallow
mentally when, as he claimed, after reading Das Kapital he
found there was nothing in it, but he certainly had his wits
all there when he preferred not to debate with the editor of
that sheet he had so paternally warned me against.
Capitalist...”
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“...Volkszeitung,
65.
Journals, Socialist, published in United States, II. 13-14.
Justh, Otto, nasty letters about De Leon written by, II. 142-
143; De Leons opinion of, 143-144.
Kalbitz, F., loyal Socialist Labor Party member in Chicago, II.
72.
Kangaroos, the, I. 20; abuse poured upon De Leon by, 117-130:
derivation of name, II. 70; defeated in attempt to usurp
name and functions of S. L. P., 70-71.
Kangaroo exodus, the, I. 38.
Kanglets, the, I. 30-32, 38; outbreak of, in 1901-1902, II. 89-90
Kapital, Marxs, disapproved by Gompers, II. 20-21....”
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