The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-11


finest convention that had held There had
been of three thousand members during the previous year.
There delegates from the new camps in Nevada
-Tonopah, Goldfed, Rhyoite and Bullfrog. Albert
Ryan a delegate from Arizona; the W. F. M MM
elected him to the w. convention. Later A
he got in shooting and killed two ANY,
gunner had been rkebreaker and was sent YK& %CX
life imprisonment in San Quentin Cali NW
fornia fifteen years before he &A ~
pardoned The other delegates to the June convention 1 81
myself The W. F. M had adopted the Manifesto and %IyN
myself The w. F. M. had adopetd the Manifesto and W
instruc o install the Federation in the new
organization.
AFTER Salt Lake it only matter
- Chicago for the first convention
Industrial Workers of the World Brands Hall
81 1905 packed with spectators dover two hundred
Many the delegates had the PLATFORM among
Mother the only who had taken
initial conference and Gene Deb As exchanged greet
ngs mind how should the
recalled that during the French Commune the workers had
addressed citizens but there
citizens of the that would not do
didn't want to the old trade union FORM brothers and sisters
so picking piece lay the platform and using
opened the convention with "fellow workers.
IN calling with of the
sbty that rests and rests delegate that is
Continental of the working class We
confederate the workers of this country into working class
that shall have for its the emancipation of the work
the slave bondage of capitalism There
aon there to be labor organization that has for its
purpose b that for which called together
The and objects of this organization shall be put the
working class production and distribution without
gard to capitalist masters
which be the labor
this country workngcass does
the working There organizations that a
loosely affiliated with the A. F. of L. which their onstu
bylaws prohibit initiation comforting the obligation
prohibit the comforting of the obligation
foreigners establish this time labor
will wide its doors that his livelihood
either by his brain his muscle There great work to be
pshed this and of recognize the
responsibility that rests
WHEN corporations capitalists understand that you
organized the placing the supervision of
dustry you going
subjected ndiy and cruelty that their minds invent
going be confronted with the soaed labor leader
tell you workers that the
capitalist the workngman identical say that
that assertion foe to the working class than
Parry August Belmont There is not who has
his makeup but the fact that there
struggle
will be formed based and founded the class struggle having view
and surrender and but subject and
bring the workers this into the possession
of the full value of the product of their toll.
read foreign untries
the Confederation of Labor of France Carl Leen of the Ger
the other had
wishing to the convention There letters
the United States Ed Boye sent his excuses for not attending and
Vincent John
leaders of the organization who signed his letter with assumed
The convention composed of several the Western
Federation of Miners being the dominant factor Meyer ONe and
myself with the other delegates that represented the VIM well
tons previous conventions and Chicago with ideas
the necessity of industrial of the working
The American Labor Union delegates definite
though had had active experience
strikes of the West had the delegates of the WIN.
THE socialists who the convention with Dbs realized that
industrial unionism the
None Of the politicians of the socialist party such Berger Hu
Spargo Hayes took part.
The Socialist Trade and Labor Alliance organization
might be described which the
account of its activity working
read and absorbed the Manifesto
few anarchists felt organization
of the early days Of the labor movement.
There besides these metal workers and railroad
representing small bodies which had been dusoned the A.
L. and the Railroad Brotherhood The individual
people who actively interested in industrial
100000 workers represented at this first convention
elected permanent chairman.
IN the meet nsamen Haywood vrtcs first
convention OF Des and DLeon and himself and their
the unions should be- Readers should neglect
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