Chapter IX: DOCTRINAIRE versus DIRECT-ACTIONIST

Condition of the organization on the eve of the schism of 1908 213

Effect of the financial panic of 1907 214

The widening breach between the I. W. W. and the Western Federation
of Miners 216

The line-up in the I. W. W. on political action 218

The personnel of the convention 220

Walsh's "Overalls Brigade". 221

The Socialist Labor Party Delegation and the unseating of Daniel
DeLeon 222

The issue between the DeLeonites and the Direct-actionists 223

"Straight industrialism" _versus_ parliamentarianism 225

The preamble purged of politics 226

Rump convention of the DeLeonites at Paterson, New Jersey 228

A bifurcated I. W. W 229

The issue between the Detroit I. W. W. and the Chicago I. W. W. 231

The Wobblies' criticism of parliamentary government 232

The doctrinaire state socialism of the Detroiters 234

The issue illustrated in the contrast between Daniel DeLeon and
Vincent St. John 235

I. W. W. constitution non-political rather than anti-political 236

Influence of DeLeon on the I. W. W. 238

DeLeonism and Bolshevism 241

CHAPTER X

THE I. W. W. ON THE "CIVILIZED PLANE"

The development of the Detroit I. W. W 243

Strike activities and friction with the "Bummery" or Direct-actionist
faction 246

The Anarcho-syndicalists _versus_ the parliamentarians 252

The Detroit I. W. W. on _sabotage_ 253

Eugene Debs' plea for a union of the two I. W. W.s. 253

The Detroit I. W. W. becomes The Workers International Industrial
Union 255

Part III

THE ANARCHO-SYNDICALISTS

[The Direct Actionists]