The constitution committee presented a resolution declaring that "the I. W. W. seeks its political expression only in its own industrial administration." This is vague, and it may have been made designedly so. It might have been brought in to appease those who feared that the I. W. W. would be made the tail to some political party kite.[341]
[305] Rudolph Katz, "With DeLeon since '89," _Weekly People_, Nov. 20, 1915, p. 2, col. 1.
[307] _The I. W. W., History, Structure and Methods_ (1917 ed.), p. 7.
[309] The fifteenth convention of the W. F. M. (June, 1907) may be considered as marking its final separation from the I. W. W.; the connection had been only nominal after the Second I. W. W. Convention in October, 1906. As already stated (supra, p. 151) the Federation was formally _suspended_ from the I. W. W. for non-payment of dues, in January, 1907.
[310] _Proceedings, Fifteenth Convention, W. F. M._, pp. 232-3.
[311] _Industrial Worker_, February, 1907.
[313] _Industrial Workers of the World Bulletin No. 2_, October, 1907.
[315] _Official Report [No. 1], Third I. W. W. Convention_, p. 2, col. 3.
[316] Editorial, _Miners' Magazine_, Nov. 14, 1907, p. 8, col. 2.
[318] _Proceedings, Fifteenth Convention, W. F. M._, p. 614.
[320] "Membership of American Trade Unions," _Quarterly Journal of Economics_; vol. xxx (Aug., 1916), p. 846.
[321] _Private Correspondence_, Feb. 1, 1915.
[323] Report of Secretary-Treasurer to Third Convention, _Industrial Union Bulletin_, September 14, 1907, p. 7, col. 1.
[324] Especially in the issues from February 22, 1906, on.
[325] _Compte Rendu_, VIIe Congrès Socialiste Internationale (Brussels, 1908), p. 60.
[326] _Cf._ also _Industrial Union Bulletin_, Aug. 10, 1907, p. 3, col. 3, p. 4, col. 5. The report further stated that I. W. W. literature was then being printed in seven different languages and that the official organ--the _Industrial Union Bulletin_--had attained a circulation of 7,000 paid copies. (_Ibid._, p. 4, col. 5.)
[327] (Translated from the French of the report.) _L'Internationale ouvrière et socialiste. Rapports soumis au Congrès ... de Stuttgart_, 18-24, aout, 1907 ... ed. française (Brussels, 1907), v. 1, pp. 61-62.
[328] "Les rapports entre les partis politiques et les syndicats professionels," _Compte rendu analytique_ (Stuttgart Congress, 1907) _publié par le Secretariat du Bureau Socialiste International_ (Brussels, 1908), pp. 184-215.