[440] H. Richter, General Secretary-Treasurer of the Detroit (S. L. P.) I. W. W., now officially known as the Workers' International Industrial Union, in a letter to the author, dated February 17, 1915.
[441] H. S. Carroll, "The Industrial Workers of the World. A brief sketch of some history of the organization." Weekly People, Dec. 21, 1912.
[442] Detroit I. W. W. leaflet. A message to the membership of the Industrial Workers of the World and the working class in general.
[443] Weekly People, Nov. 7, 1908, p. 1, col. 6.
[444] "With DeLeon since '89," Weekly People, Dec. 25, 1915, p. 5. The Bulletin was published more or less regularly until the Spring of 1909. The issue of March 6 appears to have been the last. On March 18, No. 1 of Vol. 1 of the Industrial Worker [II] was issued at Spokane, Wash.
[445] Weekly People, Nov. 7, 1908, p. 1, col. 6.
[446] Ibid.
[447] Industrial Union Bulletin, No. 7, 1908, p. 2, col. 2.
[448] Letter to the author, Feb. 17, 1915.
[449] The referendum on the Chicago convention, sent out by the Trautmann-St. John administration, was published in the Industrial Union Bulletin, Oct. 24, 1908. The DeLeonites issued a special referendum circular signed by the ad interim officers.