CHAPTER V

THE _coup_ OF THE "PROLETARIAN RABBLE"

The "reactionaries" _vs._ the "wage slave delegates" at the second convention 136

The DeLeon-St. John attack on President Sherman 137

Pre-convention conference of the "DeLeonite rabble" 137

The indictment of Sherman 139

Playing freeze-out with the "wage slave delegates" 142

The _per diem_ resolution and the defeat of the Shermanites 143

Abolition of the office of General President 143

The findings of the Master in Chancery 145

Contemporary comment on the quarrel 147

DeLeonism and the Socialist Labor Party at the second convention 147

The Western Federation of Miners 149

I. W. W. finances 153