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“...INTRODUCTORY
When, on Saturday, September 14, 1918, our National Sec-
retary, Arnold Petersen, urged upon me that I undertake to
add to the present volume such of my reminiscences durin*
the period of my close association with our late comrade,
Daniel De Leon, as I considered of value as a contribution to
the history of the Socialist Labor Party, I was at first taken
aback. I knew what that meant in point of research, in gather-
ing again the mass of material that had passed through my
hands during the formative and most stressful period of the
Partys existence and I also felt that, not being able to give to
so important an undertaking a measure of time ample enough
to insure painstaking performance, I would have to rely, ex-
tensively, upon the indulgence of the reader, the more so since
I can not, by any stretch of the imagination, be considered an
historian, either by others or by myself.
However, the idea once implanted did not let me rest, but
continued to...”
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