[108] According to its opponents, 600. _Cf._ Hillquit, _History of Socialism in the United States_, rev. ed., p. 337. [109] _Cf. supra_, p. 71, note 3. The installment vote at the first convention records twelve organizations as voting in the affirmative (for list see _Proceedings, First Convention_, p. 614, and Brissenden, _Launching of the I. W. W._, p. 43). St. John (_I. W. W. History, etc._, p. 4) mentions but seven. H. Richter says that eleven organizations were installed by their delegates: "The I. W. W.: Retrospect and Prospects," _Industrial Union News_, January, 1912. p. 1, col. 3. [110] "Coffin society," a term used in derision of a common tendency of trade-unions to place the emphasis on sick and death benefits, _etc._ [111] _I. W. W. History, etc._, p. 5. St. John says (letter of January 5, 1914) that "there were so few anarchists in the first convention that there was very little need to classify them." [112] _I. W. W., History, etc._, p. 3. [113] Reproduced in Appendix i. It also appears in _The Miners Magazine_, vol. vi, p. 15 (Apr. 20, 1905), and in Carl Legien, _Aus Amerikas Arbieterbewegung_ (Berlin, 1914), p. 176. A less unsophisticated draft by Wm. E. Trautmann is published in his pamphlet, _One Big Union_ (I. W. W. Publishing Bureau). [114] _Proceedings, First I. W. W. Convention_, p. 144. [115] _Ibid._, p. 154. [116] Speech before the first convention. _Proceedings_, p. 148. [117] _History of Socialism in the United States_ (rev. ed.), p. 337. [118] Editorial, _International Socialist Review_, April, 1905 (vol. v, p. 626). [119] DeLeon-Harriman Debate. _S. T. & L. A. vs. The "Pure and Simple" Trade Union_, p. 7. CHAPTER III THE I. W. W. VERSUS THE A. F. OF L. The American Federation of Labor, as the alleged embodiment of everything "crafty," has always been the arch-enemy of the I. W. W. The convention opened with this thought to the fore, and throughout the eleven days of its session it was referred to again and again. William D. Haywood's speech calling the convention to order begins with this paragraph: This is the Continental Congress of the working class.... There is no organization ... that has for its purpose the same object as that for which ... you are called together today.... The American Federation of Labor, which presumes to be the labor movement of this country, is not a working-class movement.... You are going to be confronted with the so-called labor leader--the man who will tell you ... that the interests of the capitalist and the workingman are identical.... There is no man who has an ounce of honesty in his make-up but recognizes the fact that there is a continuous struggle between the two classes, and this organization will be formed, based and founded on the class struggle, having in view no compromise and no surrender....[120]