[605] _Proceedings of the Eighth Convention of the I. W. W._, September, 1913, p. 2. The distribution of voting power among the delegates depends, as explained in chapter ii, upon the membership of the locals represented. _Cf._ article iv, section 7, of the I. W. W. Constitution (1914 ed., pp. 14-16). [606] _Supra_, p. 297. [607] Covington Hall in _The Voice of the People_, Oct. 9, 1913, p. 2, col. 3. [608] _Proceedings_, p. 43. All of these resolutions were proposed by a delegate from Phoenix, Arizona. In connection with the resolutions it was "moved and seconded that a committee on style be called for, whose duties shall be to strike from the constitution all references to the powers of the General Executive Board, General Organizer, and General Secretary." _Ibid._ [609] Caroline Nelson, "Economic socialism or State capitalist socialism, Which?" _The Voice of the People_, July 30, 1914, p. 4, col. 3. [610] _Proceedings_, 8th I. W. W. convention, p. 81. [611] Delegate Schrager, _ibid._, p. 71, col. 1. [612] _Ibid._, p. 84, col. 1. [613] Delegate Van Fleet, _op. cit._, p. 69. [614] _Ibid._, p. 69 (Fellow-worker McEvoy). [615] _Ibid._, p. 71. [616] _Ibid._, p. 112. [617] _Ibid._, p. 33. An unsuccessful effort had been made at the third convention in 1907 to abolish the initiation fee. [618] Preamble and Constitution (1914), article vii. [619] _Proceedings_, p. 117, col. 1. [620] _Ibid._, p. 118, col. 1. [621] Ben Reitman, "Impressions of the Chicago Convention." _Mother Earth_, October, 1913, vol. viii, p. 240. [622] G. G. Soltes, "Convention Notes," _Voice of the People_, Oct. 23, 1913, p. 2, col. 3. The italics are not in the original. [623] "The question of decentralization," p. 2. [624] Report of Committee. _Solidarity_, Feb. 18, 1911, p. 2, col. 4. [625] J. M. Foss in his report to the eighth convention, _Proceedings_, p. 37. [626] _Solidarity_, Oct. 21, 1911, p. 2, col. 3. [627] Report to the eighth convention, _Proceedings_, p. 36. Some of the delegates at this convention appeared to think that the P. C. D. O. "scheme" was instigated indirectly by the capitalists. Delegate Foss said: "... it is much cheaper for the masters to work within our organization rather than to fight us openly." _Ibid._, p. 38, col. 1. [628] "The sixth I. W. W. convention," _International Socialist Review_, vol. xii, pp. 301-2, Nov., 1911. [629] Ewald Koeltgen, "I. W. W. Convention" (8th, 1913), _International Socialist Review_, vol. xiv, p. 275, Nov., 1913. Professor Hoxie took the same general view that decentralization was the slogan of the western membership. "The Truth about the I. W. W.," _Journal of Political Economy_, Nov., 1913. vol. xxi, p. 788. [630] _Proceedings, Eighth Convention_, p. 52. [631] _International Socialist Review_, vol. xii, p. 44, July, 1911. [632] Report of the Eighth Convention, _Proceedings_, p. 37, col. 1, 2. [633] Report of the Eighth Convention, _Proceedings_, pp. 103-4. [634] _Ibid._, p. 70.