onvention of the Socialist party,
Debs pleaded for unity of the movement. He refused to be stampeded
into any position that would compromise the noble work that
confronted himself and the Socialist Party. Debs has always been
for industrial unionism. His speeches and writings are filled with
the spirit of organization and solidarity on the industrial field
as well as on the political. But above everything else he has
warned his fellow Socialists and industrialists that the thing to
do is to keep united, to solidify their economic and political
strength to the end that when our day comes we shall be ready to
enjoy the fruits of our victory."

"The One Big Union Monthly," March 1, 1919, pages 14, 19 and 21, gives
us some very interesting information about the I. W. W. attitude toward
Bolshevism and the two extreme groups of the Socialists:

"We have long predicted the revolutionary cyclone that is now
sweeping over the world, even though few people cared to believe
us. We asked them to prepare for it by building up the framework of
the new society within the shell of the old, in other words to see
to it that we had the new house ready to move into, before we
dynamited the old one....

"Personally we are convinced that Russia will never again return to
the old order. The workers have control and they will not let go of
it. As the days go by, they will gradually organize production and
distribution on the lines of industrial unionism, as Lenine assures
us, and that will be their salvation.

"The plight of the Russian people is a warning to other peoples to
immediately start building the new society, by building industrial
unions right now, before the structure of the old society topples
over. Industrial unions are the only social apparatus that will
make abolishment of wage slavery possible....

"The Bolshevik Revolution has emphasized this sad fact. Socialism
in Russia, facing for the first time in Socialist history, the
problem of inaugurating a working class state, found itself
paralyzed by the existence of a parliamentary form of Democracy.
The Revolution was at stake. In order to destroy capitalism it was
necessary to destroy parliamentary Democracy, and Lenine destroyed
it. In its place he reared a new form of Democracy--the
Dictatorship of the P