and been laid out on a national basis. In
South America, where the labor movement always has been in
sympathy with us, the workers are going one step further and have
started organizing as an I. W. W. In Buenos Ayres there is already
an organization of 2,800 marine transport workers in such an
organization.

"Furthermore it is to be noted that practically all the old trade
unions on this continent prove to be honey-combed with friends of
the I. W. W.

"Over in Europe it is the same story. The rebuilding of production
and distribution in Russia is said to be largely based on our
principles. At last report there were about 3,500,000 industrial
workers organized in industrial unions for the carrying on of
production and distribution. The Russian people are taking
possession of the industries through their industrial unions.

"In Italy 'The Italian Syndicalist Union,' 300,000 strong, is
forging ahead along the same lines as the I. W. W. In Spain our
adherents are to be numbered by the hundreds of thousands. In
France the proposition has recently been made in the organ of the
Communist Party, 'L'Internationale Communiste,' to start
reorganizing the French working class on our program, in opposition
to the C. G. T. [Confederation Generale du Travail, or French
Confederation of Labor]. In England there is a separate
organization of the I. W. W. that is advancing rapidly, while the
influence on the old trade unions is very noticeable in their
changed attitude of late toward 'direct action.' ...

"But the biggest surprise of the year we received from Germany. At
least two separate calls have been issued by the German workers to
organize exactly as the I. W. W. The recently formed 'Freie
Arbeiter Union' is also a federation of industrial unions that
endorse our principles. And, finally, from distant, unknown Greece
we are receiving news that the One Big Union is the aim of all the
organized workers of that country."

Several very important facts have been proven in this and the preceding
chapter: first, that the Industrial Workers of the World is a
revolutionary organization in the strictest sense and has for its object
the overthrow of the United States Government; secondly, that, like the
Socialist Party, it is constantly seeking to stir up trouble whenever it
can