STUDIES IN HISTORY, ECONOMICS AND PUBLIC LAW EDITED BY THE FACULTY OF POLITICAL SCIENCE OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY Volume LXXXIII] [Whole Number 193 THE I. W. W. A Study of American Syndicalism BY PAUL FREDERICK BRISSENDEN, Ph.D. _Sometime Assistant in Economics at the University of California and University Fellow at Columbia Special Agent of the United States Department of Labor_ SECOND EDITION [Illustration] New York COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY LONGMANS, GREEN & CO., AGENTS LONDON: P. S. KING & SON, LTD. 1920 COPYRIGHT, 1920 BY PAUL FREDERICK BRISSENDEN TO #R. O. L. B.# PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION No very extensive changes are made in the new edition. The chart of early radical labor organizations, which appeared in the first edition as Appendix I, has been omitted in this edition. There is reproduced in its place a copy of the original industrial organization chart prepared by "Father" T. J. Hagerty at the time of the launching of the I. W. W. in 1905 and sometimes referred to as "Father Hagerty's Wheel of Fortune". This chart is believed to be of some importance as illustrating the earlier ideas of the revolutionary industrial unionists on industrial organization in relation to union structure. It has been considerably amplified by W. E. Trautmann and published in his pamphlet _One Great Union_, and still further developed by James Robertson who has very recently built extensions upon it in furtherance of the shop-steward propaganda in the Pacific Northwest. His version is published in a pamphlet entitled _Labor unionism and the American shop steward system_ (Portland, Oreg., 1919).