Internationals

35 The Sovereigns of Industry 37 The United Brewery Workmen 38 The United Mine Workers of America 38 Haymarket 39 The American Railway Union 40 The Western Federation of Miners 40 W. F. M. strikes 40 The Western Labor Union 43 The American Labor Union 44 The Socialist Labor Party and the Socialist Trade and Labor Alliance 46 The French Confédération Générale du Travail 53 CHAPTER II The Birth of the I. W. W. Pre-convention conferences 57 The rôle of the Western Federation of Miners 60 The January Conference 61 The Industrialist Manifesto 62 Attitude of the A. F. of L. 65 The Industrial Union Convention and the launching of the I. W. W. 67 Character of industries and unions represented 68 Numerical predominance of the Western Federation and the American Labor Union 71 Daniel DeLeon and the Socialist Trade and Labor Alliance 75 Doctrinal elements represented in the convention: reformist, direct-actionist and doctrinaire 76 The dominant personalities 79 CHAPTER III The I. W. W. versus the A. F. of L. Attitude of the revolutionary industrialists toward the Federation. 83 Critique of craft unionism 84 "Union scabbery" and the aristocracy of labor 85 Emphasis on the unskilled and unorganized 87 The "pure and simple" union and the "labor lieutenant" 88 Repudiation of the policy of "boring from within" 89 Convention resolutions 91 The preamble and the clause on political action 92 The attitude of DeLeon and the S. L. P public@vhost@g@gutenberg@html@files@45758@[email protected]#Page_93" class="pginternal"