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