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“...cialist Trade and Labor Alliance, and again, later, of the
Industrial Workers of the World, and a Gompers, who
would most likely have long ago been swept away by a pro-
gressive wave, is still the president of the A. F. of L.
Therefore, was De Leons friendship far more dan-
gerous than his hatred. The S. L. P led by him alone after
the split in 1899, soon lost through his methods and tactics
all importance, until, during the last years it was nothing
but a rump, giving testimony of departed splendor. It died
before him and burled him in its ruins.
His death does not tear a gap.......
It IS hard to say which is the more remarkable in this
performance, its animus, or, its stupidity,real or pretended.
It IS certainly superfluous to lose one word as to the at-
tempted characterization of De Leon, the would-be charac-
terizers being utterly unfit to appraise either the man or his
work, but the alleged likelihood of a "progressive" wave
that was to have swept away a Gompers is so ludicrous
when...”
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