of the
organization.

* 1. Agriculture, Land, Fisheries, and Water Products. 2.
Mining. 3. Transportation and Communication. 4.
Manufacturing and General Production. 5. Construction. 6.
Public Service.

* * J. G. Brissenden, "The Launching of the Industrial
Workers of the World," page 41.

Whatever visions of world conquest the militants may at first
have fostered were soon shattered by internal strife. There were
unreconcilable elements in the body: those who regarded the political
aspect as paramount and industrial unions as allies of socialism;
those who regarded the forming of unions as paramount and politics as
secondary; and those who regarded all forms of political activity as
mere waste of energy. The first two groups were tucked under the wings
of the Socialist party and the Socialist Labor party. The third
group was frankly anarchistic and revolutionary. In the fourth annual
convention the Socialist factions withdrew, established headquarters
at Detroit, organized what is called the Detroit branch, and left the
Chicago field to the revolutionists. So socialism "pure and simple," and
what amounts to anarchism "pure and simple," fell out, after they had
both agreed to disdain trade unionism "pure and simple."

This shift proved the great opportunity for Haywood and his disciples.
Feeling himself now free of all political encumbrances, he gathered
around him a small group of enthusiastic leaders, some of whom had a
gift of diabolical intrigue, and with indomitable perseverance and
zeal he set himself to seeking out the neglected, unskilled, and casual
laborer. Within a few years he so dominated the movement that, in the
public mind, the I.W.W. is associated with the Chicago branch and the
Detroit faction is well-nigh forgotten.

As a preliminary to a survey of some of the battles that made the I.W.W.
a symbol of terror in many communities it will be well to glance for a
moment at the underlying doctrines of the organization. In a preamble
now notorious it declared that "the working class and the employing
class have nothing in common. There can be no peace so long as hunger
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 a struggle must go on until the workers of the world
as a class take possession of the earth and the machinery of production
and abolish the wage