strike of the silk workers, the strike on the Mesaba Range, and so
on, and we are just what they need for their purpose.

"For this reason we have met with an unusual amount of courtesy and
consideration of late, but we are sorry to say that we do not
consider it disinterested. If these revolutionists were sincere in
their friendship for us, they would throw everything aside and help
us build up industrial unionism, but that is exactly what they are
not doing to any considerable extent. Their activities are directed
on aims that are strange and foreign to us. Some of their adherents
in overalls are getting into our ranks because they work in the
industries we have organized or because our recruiting unions are
open to them, and their activity is frequently annoying to us, as
it has little or nothing to do with the industrial organization of
the workers."

The same issue contains an article by a Left Winger, I. E. Ferguson, a
"Little Corporal" ready to step to the front of I. W. W.'ism and lead it
to glory. He complains:

"The attempt to 'hog the market' of propagandizing the Russian
Revolution in the United States for the I. W. W. is leading to
excesses which ought to be checked right now, else these excesses
will accomplish injury to the American Socialist movement. This
does not mean to repudiate the claims of the I. W. W. to any
extent, but to controvert the negative proposition that all of the
American revolutionary socialist movement is and necessarily must
be within the folds of the I. W. W....

"The I. W. W. is the livest thing in the American Socialist
movement, therefore, truly, the Greatest Thing On Earth for the
American working class. But ... when the same organization carries
on the business of unionism and the business of revolution at the
same time, it is more than likely, when it becomes overburdened, to
throw overboard the more remote job in favor of the more immediate
one. Revolution is a political proposition, or, if you please,
anti-political. Its direct task is the overthrow of the capitalist
state, the bulwark of capitalist industrialism. There is no
question in the world but that the I. W. W. form of labor
organization is the most powerful possible weapon for the overthrow
of the capitalist state, because of its adaptability to