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“...WITH DE LEON SINCE 89.
gave much space to the Sherman faction now, with the ill-
concealed wish to kill both factions.
The Sherman clique soon petered out. But a serious blow
was dealt the I. W. W. from which it never wholly recovered.
That De Leon was to be blamed for the split at the sec-
ond I. W. W. convention, was a foregone conclusion, and no
doubt a part of the scheme of those who engineered that split.
It was comparatively easy to blame De Leon among the super-
ficial readers of the Socialist Party papers, who were only too
willing to believe anything wicked about De Leon.
De Leon Blamed by His Enemies
Surely, it had to be that De Leon was the cause of all the
splits in the labor movement. Was he not in the Knights of
Labor and was there not a split in that organization? Was he
not a member of the Socialist Labor Party, and was there not
a split there? Even in the Socialist Trade and Labor Alliance
there was a split. So there had to be a split in the I. W. W.
So argued the pure...”
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