CHAPTER XI

FREE SPEECH AND _Sabotage_

Condition of the Direct-actionist faction after the split with the Doctrinaires 260

The Wobblies establish the "free-speech fight" as an institution 262

The procedure in free-speech fights 262

I. W. W. tactics 263

Community reactions 266

The conventions of 1910 and 1911 267

Growth in membership 268

The I. W. W. press 271

Local unions organized and disbanded 272

The I. W. W. and the French syndicalists 273

International labor politics 275

The Syndicalist League of North America 276

The I. W. W. and the MacNamara case 277

Franco-American _sabotage_ 278

Demonstration against _sabotage_ at the 1912 convention of the Socialist party 280

Article II, section 6 280