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“... been done. Aceordingly, the
Daily People was launched on the above date with funds in
hand much below the mark that had always been set as a
minimum requirement. That spelled future troubles which,
in due time, came thick and fast....”
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“...DANIEL DE LEON-OUR COMRADE. US
As to the World,* the San Francisco Organized Labor has it
where the hair is short.
The logic of the situation and of events is smashing the
S. P. m good shape. Of ourse, if we had more forces much
more could be done. But, then, if we had more forces now the
problem would be different. We shall have to raise ourselves
by our own bootstrapsand we will. Pure and simple bomb-
ism and pure and simple politicianismthe two elements, kin-
dred elements, in the S. P., on the one hand, and in the I-am-a-
bums on the other, are ripping apart fast. That affair in 'Frisco
IS charming-. Who would have thought the A. F. of L. had the
useful mission to perform that it is performing in California
genera ly? I wish you would let me have some inside informa-
tion-.f you can gather any, from the S. P.s who are coming
our way. Of these I hold they are floaters. It would be a
freaks, and the worst sort of freaks, at that.-freaks who are
Petr^^ ^ he...”
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“... closely the Crime of 1899 was
the supreme test of its strength. The Socialist Labor Party
survived it all. The intrigues failed. The danger was great,
the life of the Socialist Labor Party was certainly threatened.
When the membership saw Vogt, Sanial, Fiebiger, Forker,
Curran, and a score of others who were speakers and writers,
turn against the S. L. P. it required moral fibre, strong convic-
tions, and unbending determination to hold aloft the S. L. P.
banner. At least in a negative way at this time, in a manner
to be described here, the Socialist Party, as it now styled itself,
rendered valuable assistance to the Socialist Labor Party.
While intrigue against the party by former Socialist Labor
Party officials was the order of the day, and resignations of
individuals and even state organizations came thick and fast,
and all looked dark as night, so that members and sympathiz-
ers of the Socialist Labor Party were overcome by a feeling
of uncertainty, the Socialist Party...”
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“..., Florence, and Grand Junction
either addressing meetings, or, up to the late (early) hours of
boarding the trains, in constant conference with friends and
party members, whom it was necessary to confer with; finally,
from the culminating trial of physical endurance experienced
in Salt Lake, where my train reached ten hours later than
schedule time, and half an hour after the hour announced for
the meeting, where, due to this delay, I had to be driven
straight to the meeting, and, due to the dining car having been
removed at noon, I had to speak upon a ten hours fast; finally,
where I had to address three meetings within twenty-four
hours. I arrived in Ogden preoccupied in mind because, from
information received at the ticket office in Salt Lake, there was
a washout on the Salt Lake, San Pedro and Los Angeles road,
thereby rendering doubtful my being able to take, from Rhyo-
lite, the train for Los Angeles at Los Vegasz, contingency,
which, had it proved actual, meant the smash...”
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“... the industrial fields.
Fifty speakers of the Detroit I. W. W. were on the strike
scene; Herman Richter, the general secretary was among
them. Arthur E. Reimer, Caleb Harrison, Frank Young, Au-
gust Gillhaus, Robert McLure, Olive M. Johnson, Margaret
Hilliard, Edmund Seidel, M. Angelevski, Boris Reinstein, and
many others used their best endeavors and worked overtime to
enlighten, encourage, and organize. A number of young peo-
ple, the sons and daughters of New York comrades, came to
Paterson to help in doing clerical work; thousands of mem-
bership books had to be issued for which men, women, and
boys and girls who had joined the organization clamored, and
which could not be made out as fast as applicants for mem-
bership demanded them, for in those days nothing was so
cherished as a membership card of the Detroit I. W. W.
S. P. and Bummery Treason
But the hand of treason once more destroyed the newly
built organization, which at its very birth was thus not only
under...”
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