Lenin said he had read in an English socialist paper a comparison of his own theories with those of ... DeLeon. He had then borrowed some of DeLeon's pamphlets from Reinstein (who belongs to the [Socialist Labor] party which DeLeon founded in America), read them for the first time, and was amazed to see how far and how early DeLeon had pursued the same train of thought as the Russians. His theory that representation should be by industries, not by areas, was already the germ of the soviet system.... Some days afterwards I noticed that Lenin had introduced a few phrases of DeLeon's ... into the draft for the new program of the Communist [Bolshevik] party.[472] Finally, mention should be made of the fact that the National Labor Committee of the Socialist Labor party has just published a memorial volume on DeLeon. It is written by a group of his friends and co-workers in the Socialist Labor party.[473] FOOTNOTES: [404] _Industrial Union Bulletin_. Nov. 7, 1908, p. 1. _Cf._ appendix vi. [405] See Appendix iv, Table A. Professor Barnett's returns, however, indicate a net gain in membership from 1907 to 1909. (_Quarterly Journal of Economics_, August, 1916.) His figures, too, were secured from the I. W. W. general headquarters. The writer is not able to reconcile the two sets of figures. [406] _Cf._ appendix iv, Table B. [407] _Industrial Union Bulletin_, April 11, 1908, col. 1. [408] In April, 1908, there was a strike of [presumably] I. W. W. quarry workers at Marble, Colo. The I. W. W. papers reported that it was successful. There is also reported in August, a strike against reductions in wages by the French branch of the textile workers' local at Lawrence, Mass. [409] _Industrial Union Bulletin_, Oct. 24, 1908. [410] Rudolph Katz, "With DeLeon since '89," _Weekly People_, Dec. 18, 1915, p. 3, col. 1. [411] _Ibid._ [412] _Proceedings, Sixteenth Convention, W. F. M._, p. 18. This report of the death of the I. W. W. was, to say the least, premature. [413] "The Industrial Workers of the World," _Evening Post_ (N. Y.) Saturday Supplement, Nov. 9, 1912, p. 3, col. 5. This article is one of a series of three published under the above title in the _Evening Post's_ Saturday Supplements beginning November 2, 1912. The reader is referred to them for an excellent short historical sketch and general estimate of the I. W. W. [414] _Proceedings, Twentieth Convention, W. F. M._, pp. 283-4. [415] _Ibid._, p. 283. [416] _Industrial Union Bulletin_, Nov. 7, 1908, p. 1, col. 6. [417] From one of the favorite songs of the floating "Wobbly" of the West. The refrain begins: "Hallelujah, I'm a bum." _I. W. W. Songs to Fan the Flames of Discontent_ (5th ed.), p. 34. _Vide_ appendix ix. [418] "With DeLeon since '89," _Weekly People_, Dec. 11, 1915, p. 2, col. 1.