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“...FROM 1905 TO THE SPLIT IN THE
I. W. W. IN 1908
High Hopes Raised by New UnionPerfidy of
the S. P.Discord Within the I. W. W.
and S. L. P.De Leons Fight Against
Physical Force Only
The Socialist Trade and Labor Alliance not only actually
installed its membership in the Industrial Workers of the
World, but became the most active force in the new organization.
All the pent-up energy of the S. T. & L. A. was now put into
action. Locals of the I. W. W. were organized wherever the
S. T. & L. A. and the S. L. P. had adherents.
The zeal displayed by these organizations in behalf of the
I. W. W. gave the officialdom of the Socialist Party and other
reactionary elements a pretense to make all sorts of allega-
tions to the effect that De Leon and the S. L. P. were out to
gain control of the I. W. W., to use such control to bolster up
"the dying S. L. P., which after having been proclaimed dead
and buried many times, again was attested to be alive and full
of vigor. How...”
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