[157] Art. vii, sec. 4, Constitution (1905), "So soon as there are ten locals with not less than 3,000 members in one industry, the General Executive Board shall immediately proceed to call a convention of that industry and proceed to organize it as an international industrial division of the Industrial Workers of the World." [158] The office of general president was abolished at the second convention. _Vide infra_, p. 143. [159] _Proceedings, First I. W. W. Convention_, p. 504. [160] _Proceedings, First I. W. W. Convention_, p. 455. [161] 42,719 to 6,998. _Proceedings, First I. W. W Convention_, pp. 609-614. [162] The six locals were the United Mine Workers local union of Pittsburg, Kans. (A. F. of L.); Punch Press Operators of Schenectady, N. Y.; Journeymen Tailors Benevolent and Protective Union of San Francisco (A. F. of L.); Industrial Workers Club of Chicago; Industrial Workers Club of Cincinnati; Workers Industrial and Educational Union of Pueblo, Colo. (_Proceedings, First I. W. W. Convention_, p. 614). For detailed vote on installation, vide Brissenden, _Launching of the I. W. W._, p. 43. [163] _Proceedings, First I. W. W. Convention_, p. 527. [164] _International Socialist Review_, vol. v, p. 563 (March, 1905). [165] _Private Correspondence_, March, 1912. [166] _International Socialist Review_, vol. vi, p. 66 (Aug., 1905). [167] _Proceedings, First I. W. W. Convention_, p. 447. [168] "The Industrial Convention," _International Socialist Review_, vol. vi, p. 86. [169] _Proceedings, First I. W. W. Convention_, p. 147. [170] "The I. W. W., Retrospects and Prospects," _Industrial Union News_, vol. i, no. 1 (Jan., 1912). [171] _American Federationist_, vol. xii, pp. 514-516. [172] Quoted in _Proceedings, First I. W. W. Convention_, p. 252. [173] _Ibid._ [174] _Ibid._ [175] _International Socialist Review_, vol. vi, p. 66 (Aug., 1905). [176] _Private Correspondence_, October 5, 1911. [177] F. T. Carlton, _History and Problems of Organized Labor_ (New York, 1911), p. 82. [178] This clause was inserted in the preamble at the 1906 convention. _Cf. Constitution I. W. W._ as amended to 1908. [179] "C'était la première préparation pratique en Amérique à la révolution qui doit conduire la société de la tempête économique au port de la république coopérative." _L'Internationale ouvrière et socialiste_ (_ed. française_), vol. i, p. 63, Stuttgart, 1907 (Report of the Socialist Labor Party of America to the Congress). PART II THE "ORIGINAL" I. W. W. CHAPTER IV MAIDEN EFFORTS ON THE ECONOMIC FIELD