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“...Buffalo, N. Y. Both De
Leon and I were delegates. To have some sort of counter-
weight against De Leon who, as the fakers well knew, was
after their scalps, they had secured Thomas J. Morgan, of
Chicago, a man who had evoluted from a machinist into a
lawyer, a rather queer personality, as vain as a peacock and
known all over the country as Tommy I. I. I. Morgan, which
modification of his name he had earned by the constant re-
iteration in his speeches of the personal pronoun, first per-
son, singular. He had some reputation as a speaker and
writer and had acquired further fame as the introducer of the
famous "Plank 10," embodied in the program of the A. F. of
L. at the Detroit convention, utterly disregarded by the of-
ficialdom of the organization and then knocked out at the
next convention, at Denver, Col. Morgan was a Socialist
"too." His Plank 10, calling for the collective ownership
of the means of production, was to transform the A. F. of L.
into a Socialist body, not all at once but...”
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“...72 REMINISCENCES OF DANIEL DE LEON.
its being true or untrue, its truth or untruth to be determin-
ed by the facts and the interpretation of facts that the evo-
lutionary processes bring to light, to us, I say, that speech of
Mr. Berger in the House of Representatives appears singular-
ly deficient. Why does he deprive himself of the terrific
force that an argument based squarely upon the evolutionary
theory would impart to his effort? WHY?
Different Tactics
I have before me another pamphlet, entitled: The Social-
ist Party, issued by the "New York State Headquarters.
On pages 10 and 11 thereof, I find an address To Organized
Labor, adopted at the National Convention, Chicago, May,
1908. I quote;
The Socialist Party does not seek to dictate to organiz-
ed labor in matters of internal organization and union policy.
It recognizes the necessary autonomy of the union move-
ment on the economic field, as it insists on maintaining its
own autonomy on the political field.
Just soyou maintain your...”
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