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“...PART I From 1886 to 1896.Make-up of Early S. L. P. De Leons Entrance into the Party.Bor- ing From Within.Formation of S. T. & L. A. and Endorsement of Same by S. L. P. Forerunner of Industrial Unionism. My earliest recollection of De Deon dates back to the year 1886, the days of the Henry George campaign and of the Na- tionalist movement, a collectivist movement that had sprung up after the publication of Edward Bellamys Looking Back- ward, a book that stirred up not a little interest in those days and that was industriously spread by all who took a more than passing interest in Socialism. De Leon delivered a lecture on some subject connected with that Nationalist move- ment and I had gone over to New York to hear him. Of the lecture itself I have today no recollection whatever, but the lecturer, how he spoke and how he looked, all that I can con- jure up before my minds eye as distinctly as though it hap- pened yesterday. A portrait of De Leon, published in the 2Sth anniversary souvenir...”
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“...66 REMINISCENCES OF DANIEL DE LEON. course, be entirely acceptable to them, but hardly to oursel- yes. The move made in 1908 came to naught, the S. P. Na- tional Committee taking it upon itself to decline the invita- tion for a conference, not taking the trouble to refer it to its membership. Since then the S. L. P. has several times over been induced to spend and wa.ste time and effort on the same elusive task, the last time at the invitation of the S. P., a gen- eral vote of that party having decided to invite the S. L. P. toa Unity Conference." There may be such of our members who reason that these unity conferences bring the S. L. P. position to the attention of the S. P. membership and that they have, for that reason, a propagandist value. I doubt whether any considerable por- tion of that membership ever hears about the result of these conferences, and I also doubt that the few who do, ever get more than a very much twisted version thereof. There may also be such of our members who...”
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“...that De Leon is not with us to help us build the new temple upon the foundation that he strove and fought and lived for, but we of the S. L. P. must and will do as he would have done. As things look today, the lead in laying the beginning of the new structure may devolve upon Russia for the reason that Russia today holds the imagination of the revolutionary working class the world over. Let us hope that, when the time comes, she will be in a position to take the lead. Perhaps, who knows, other na- tions may by that time have trodden the path that Russia was the first to venture upon; almost anything is possible in a time like this and with the Russian example at hand. In the new International, freed from the rubbish of bour- geois connections that hampered and stifled the old and caused its disgraceful collapse when the war-cloud broke, the Socialist Labor Party of America will at last come into its own, will contribute to the building material of the new struc- ture its undying principles...”
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“...makes no progress, that was raised a couple of years before could not be raised this time. The oppositionists redoubled their efforts in the spreading of slanders. De Leon was denounced by them as an anti-Semite m Jewish districts; as a Jew among Gentiles; as a man who hated the Germans, among the Germans, etc. The basest falsehoods were told in the East Side cafs aibout De Leon. Gompcrs in his paper made the allegation that De Leons name was Loeb, not De Leon. The name of Henry Kuhn, who was then na- tional secretary of the Socialist Labor Party, was woven into a tale to the effect that there was a connection between Kuhn, Loeb and Co., the noted banking firm, and Daniel De Leon and Henry Kuhn. Be a slander ever so ridiculous, there are always o-oole who, having a mentality resembling a savages, can be...”
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“...which means when translated into English, lions dale, referred to him as Comrade Lions Tail, or in German, the language spoken at the meetings of the 28th Assembly District, as Genosse Loewenschwantz. This was the horrible language used by De Leon, and it was quite excusable at that, for there were a number of men about with similar names, like Loewen- fuss, etc. Opposition Organized With the advent of the year 1899 it became apparent that the opposition had effected some sort of organization on a na- tional scale. Connections had evidently been established by the New York oppositionists with those of other cities. At any rate the disgruntled elements were getting bolder and more and more boisterous and bothersome generally. Instead of de- voting the time to agitation work, party meetings were dragged out for hours with wrangling; the energies even of the loyal members were exhausted with endless discussions upon party tactics. It was felt that a storm was gathering that had to break, soon...”
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“...many who up to that time had stood by the party now swung around; the taxation question and De Leons position regarding the same was top many for them. Now that the ice was broken, the whole position of the Socialist Labor Party was wrong; the party had to be remodel- ed, and De Leon and De Leonism abolished forevermore. How was this noble aim to be consummated? Oh, that was easy. Simply get the majority of delegates to the general com- mittee, then elect all officers of the Section, suspend the Na- tional Executive Committee, and the Volkszeitungs new exec- utive committee would do the rest. In other words, repeat the coup detat of 1889. This time, however, things went dif- ferently. De Leon the Storm-Center The lines were now drawn between the loyal party mem- bers, who were in favor of the revolutionary stand the Social- ist Labor Party had taken, and the oppositionists of all shades. There were indeed many shades to the opposition faction. Some of them claimed that the attitude of the...”
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“...nothing left in the rooms that The People and the partys National Office had occupied except the whitewash on the wall and that was not very white. The People w?s printed in the Volkszeitungs printing plant and its finances were handled by the Volkszeitung man- agement. The agreement made between this publishing asso- ciation and the Socialist Labor Party gave that association certain rights in electing the editor, but it was clearly stated in the sti^lation made that if any disagreement between the Na- tional Executive Commitee of the Socialist Labor Party and the Publishing Association should arise the members of the...”
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“...where attempts were also made to capture the party organizations and their belongings, they fared no better. In Cleveland, Chicago, Milwaukee, Indianapolis, everywhere their kangaroo attempts were frustrated. Party Weathered the Storm At that time I was sent by the New York State Executive Committee on a trip to visit all Sections in the state. Roches- kangaroos predominated. They had their most precious Frank Sieverman in Rochester, who had opposed the Socialist Trade and Labor Alliance at he na lonal convention of 1896. Sieverman boasted at that w ? "konnsr from within in the Boot and Shoe Workers Unionhow successful can be judged today by e number of labor fakers turned out by that organization. The only other Sections of the party that kangarooed in New York state were Section Portchester, a small-town in West- cheHer County, and a Section in Oneida composed of cigar...”