[291] Spargo to the contrary notwithstanding. He writes: "At the second convention, September, 1906, the preamble was amended and all emphasis on the need for political action omitted." Syndicalism, Socialism and Industrial Unionism, p. 208.
[292] Report of the General President, Proceedings, Second I. W. W. Convention (1906), pp. 44-45.
[293] Ibid., p. 573.
[294] This should be the 19th.
[295] Proceedings, Second I. W. W. Convention (1906), p. 47.
[296] A term applied to members of and believers in what Samuel Gompers has called the "pure and simple trade union"—the conventional type of unionist who will have nothing to do with radicalism and accepts implicitly the capitalistic régime.
[297] Vincent St. John, who had been organizing for the I. W. W in the Coeur d'Alene district of Idaho, was arrested at about the same time.
[298] In his report to the convention, Proceedings, Second I. W. W. Convention (1906), pp. 70-1.
[299] Proceedings, Second I. W. W. Convention (1906), p. 41.
[300] Ibid., p. 411.