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The number of locals affiliated with the "Detroit IWW" is a matter of some dispute. Of about 200 IWW locals in 1907, St. John's "Chicago IWW" claimed 17 groups defected to the
Detroit organization; for its part Detroit claimed the allegiance of 22 local groups at the time of its formation in November
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Paterson conference took steps to reduce per capita dues levied by the national office to just 5 cents per member per month, with a view to keeping more dues money for work at the local level. National Headquarters were temporarily located in New York City, long the base of operations of the SLP.
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Following protracted debate the anti-political faction won the day at the 4th
Convention, electing Vincent St. John the General Secretary-Treasurer of the IWW and William E. Trautmann the organization's General Organizer. A 5-member General Executive Board supportive of the anti-political orientation
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DeLeon was granted the floor at the convention to state his case and the resulting dispute was bitter and long-winded. For four days the convention did little more than debate the merits of the
Socialist Labor Party and question of whether its intellectual leader, DeLeon, was attempting to take over
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The fight took the form of an attempt by the anti-parliamentary St. John–Trautmann faction to remove reference to the word "political" from the
Preamble of the IWW, a seminal manifesto of the organization. This was met with the epithet by the politically oriented SLP supporters that the St.
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September 21, 1908, attended by 26 delegates. Despite the small size of the gathering, factional disagreement was already deep within the organization and two delegates were denied their seats at the convention – including one Daniel DeLeon of
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Unlike the IWW, which from 1908 onwards constitutionally restricted itself from political alliances, the WIIU advocated political associations, and maintained a close association with the SLP, although (as of 1922) it declined to openly affirm this association.
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WIIU called for a general lockout of the capitalist class. Instead of leaving means of production to the capitalists and their scabs, the WIIU calls for workers to take possession of the means of production and begin operating them in the interests of society.
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Although he had been denied his seat on the technicality of belonging to an incorrect union, supporters of the
Socialist Labor Party charged that the failure to seat DeLeon was a crass political maneuver by St. John and his factional ally,
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Headquarters were relocated within a few months, however, with the booming industrial city of
Detroit, Michigan chosen as the new national center for the political actionists styling themselves as the IWW.
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After seven years of parallel existence as the so-called "Detroit IWW," the dissident organization changed its name to
Workers' International Industrial Union in 1915. The WIIU maintained a presence in the
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C.H. Chase of New York City was elected as the first
General Secretary-Treasurer of the so-called "Detroit IWW," and a governing 5-member Executive Board similarly chosen by the Paterson gathering.
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on November 5, 1908. Some 18 delegates were in attendance at this rival conference, including representatives from local organizations in
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and control the IWW, subverting the union's interests to those of the SLP. DeLeon's supporters responded with the charge that the ultra-
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was also installed, over charges of the SLP faction that the victory of the St. John group was illegitimate.
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559:(1919). "The IWW: A Study of American Syndicalism".
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had already emerged as a sharp critic of IWW leader
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19:"WIIU" redirects here. Not to be confused with
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539:The IWW: Its First Seventy Years, 1905–1975
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283:in 1919, but did not affiliate.
117:Socialist Labor Party of America
55:Socialist Labor Party of America
596:1908 establishments in Michigan
104:Industrial Workers of the World
63:Industrial Workers of the World
578:Industrial Unionism in America
576:Savage, Marion Dutton (1922).
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641:Syndicalist trade unions
626:Left-wing internationals
611:De Leonist organizations
191:Bridgeport, Connecticut
606:Breakaway trade unions
601:1925 disestablishments
106:(IWW) was convened in
93:Organizational history
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488:Robert Franklin Hoxie
237:Industrial Union News
214:Eastern United States
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243:Ideology
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