The daily progressive-miner., 1917-10-08
ANARCHY IS THE
 KEYNOTE OF THE
 INV. w. STRUCTURE

ling purpose which is more and more disclosing itself to the general public in the activities, particularly in the West, of the organization known as Ithe Industrial Workers of the World And what is the ultima thule of this purpose?
 Listen! It is Daniel De Leon, one of the founders of the l. w. w. speaking in Minneapolis on July 10 before a large audience of radicals on the plans of himself and associates for the "one big union." He says:
 Where the general executive board of the Industrial Workers of the World will sit, there will be the nations cap ital."
 The oC-.si report of the speech says there was long and continued ap. plause at this juncture. And in this applause may be discerned the real menace which now confronts the na- ttion, more widespread than appears on the surface, and so insidious in it's very nature that it will require far more energetic measures than to date have been resorted to if it is to be overcome.
 Just now there is considerable talk of pro-German influence and money in connection with l. w. W. strikes. Possibly there is some ground for such theory, in isolated instances. at least. But the sooner the inner mean ing of the movement is generally un- derstood and appreciated the better will be the chance of eliminating it if, indeed it can be eliminated. To begin with the I. W. w. is really the manifestation in this country of Eur opean syndicalism. And there never has been much syndicalism in Germ any.
 I. w. W..-ism is aimed at the very structure of modern society.
 It purposes to undermine the feufi- dations of government as we know it; to set up in it's stead a socalled indus al democracy which shall know no president, no congress, no state or ganizations, and which shall own and operate collectively all of the indust- rial machinery of the nation.
 These utophian ideals it has taken from Socialism, but there it's resem- blance to the Marxist body ceases.
 It's Inception in Chicago.
 It Was ifi little back room some where on the West Side of Chicago that a group of radicals one day tfiet, back in 1904, and laid the plans for the organization, which is said by its sponsors now to number nearly 50O,- 900 unskilled workingmen of all trades and conditions of life.
 1n the group were W. D. Haywood, present national secretary of the I. W. w, and one or two others who for merlS had been identified with the So. cialists. But they were at a point where, as they said, they despaited of ever reaching the utophian state thru the slow methods of the Socialists The latter organization believed then, and still believes, that evolution and the ballot box will bring about the end it seeks in due time.
 "The world will be dead before eco homie justice comes through the bal lot box" said one of the party.
 And then came the idea to Haywood that some more effective weapon might be devised.
 It is not recorded who delivered himself of the suggestion. but the par ty just naturally found itself looking with favor upon this philosophy called anarchy, and, having already purloin- ed few ideals from Socialism, it was simple matter to abstract from the creed of anarchy the direct action club which has been used so freely since ! the founding of the organization in Chicago in January, 1906
 Menace of the 1. w. w.
 The positive menace to present CT. ganized society Of the l. w. w. prebs ably may be best appreciated through couple of paragraphs of the l. w. w. preamble adopted at the second con vention in September, 1906:
 "The working class and the employ ing class have nothing in common. There can be no peace so long as hun ger and want are found among millions of working people, and the few who make up the employing class have all the good things of life. Between these two classes struggle must go on un- til the workers of the world organize as class, take possession fthe earth and the machinery of production, and abolish the wage system"
 The final paragraph of this pream- ble says:
 Tt is the historic mission of the working class to do away with capi- talism. The army of production must be organized not oniy Tor the every day struggle with the capitalist, but also to carry on production when cap italism shall have been overthrown. By organizing industrially we are worming the structure of the new so- ciety within the shell of the old" Contempt for Law