"Boston Evening Transcript,"
September 24, 1919, that the first appearance of Foster as a radical was
in 1910, when, as a reporter for the "Seattle Call," a Socialist paper
at that time, he was sent along the Pacific Coast to report a number of
so-called free speech fights. "From this," continues Mr. Ackerman, "he
appears to have developed into a general agitator. As a result of his
tour of the west he joined the I. W. W. and in this capacity he began to
advocate sabotage....

"In 1911, while a member of the I. W. W., Foster went to Europe and
visited France, Germany and Hungary as a correspondent of
'Solidarity,' the official organ of the I. W. W. in America, at
that time published at New Castle, Pa. He wrote many articles for
this publication, some of them signed, 'Yours for the I. W. W., W.
Z. Foster,' and others, 'Yours for the revolution, W. Z. Foster.'"

In a letter written by Foster in 1911 and on file in the office of the
United States District Attorney in Chicago, Foster said:

"I am satisfied from my observation that the only way for an I. W.
W. to have the workers adopt and practice the principles of
revolutionary unionism, which I take it is its mission, is to give
up the attempt to create a new labor movement, turn itself into a
propaganda league, get into the organized labor movement, and by
building up better fighting machinery within the old unions than
these possessed by our reactionary enemies, revolutionize these
unions, even as our French syndicalist fellow-workers have so
successfully done."

This letter, showing Foster's plan of "boring from within" the A. F. of
L., was signed, "Yours for the revolution."

As late as 1915 Foster brought out a book entitled, "Trade Unionism, the
Road to Freedom." Several excerpts taken from the sixth chapter show the
true frame of mind of this leader, who has recently gained such a
following in the A. F. of L.:

"Under the new order as pictured above, government, such as we know
it, would gradually disappear. In an era of science and justice
this makeshift institution, having lost its usefulness, would
shrivel and die....

"Criminal courts, police, jails and the like would go also. Crime
is due almost wholly to poverty. In a reign of plenty for all, it
would practically disappear.... People would no longer have to
wrangle over property rights. T