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Hellraisers Journal, Tuesday August 4, 1908
Denver, Colorado – W. F. of M. Makes Break Official
The reporting by Luella Twining from the recent convention of the Western Federation of Miners, as published by the Appeal to Reason of August 1st, failed to mention that the convention, on July 22nd, officially severed all ties between the Federation and the Industrial Workers of the World. Other newspaper accounts did not ignore the rupture.
From the Illinois Moline Daily Dispatch of July 22, 1908:
WESTERN FEDERATION DROPS INDUSTRIALS
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Adopts Amendment to Constitution
Which Strikes Out All Reference to
Industrial Workers of the World.
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Denver, July 22.-The Western Federation of Miners today officially repudiated the Industrial Workers of the World by adopting an amendment to its constitution striking out the words “mining department of Industrial Workers of the World” where they appear and inserting in lieu thereof Western Federation of Miners.”
[Photograph added.]
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SOURCE
Moline Daily Dispatch
(Moline, Illinois)
-July 22, 1908-Evening
https://www.newspapers.com/image/338458367/
IMAGES
Quote Mother Jones, UMWC, Indianapolis, July 19, 1902
https://cuomeka.wrlc.org/items/show/860
https://digital.library.pitt.edu/islandora/object/pitt%3A31735035254105/viewer#page/40/mode/2up
WFM Button
https://www.nps.gov/kewe/learn/historyculture/museum-guide-5.htm
See also:
Hellraisers Journal, Monday 3, 1908
Denver, Colorado – Miss Luella Twining Reports on Convention
From the Appeal to Reason of August 1, 1908
https://www.newspapers.com/image/67587387/
July 13-29, 1908 -Denver
Official Proceedings of the 16th Annual Convention
of the Western Federation of Miners
(search: “industrial workers of the world”)
https://books.google.com/books?id=0aM0AQAAMAAJ
First Day, July 13, 1908, Afternoon Session
Report of President Charles Moyer
-Pages 21-23 re: reasons for WFM separating from IWW;
Moyer indicates that WFM had already withdrawn from IWW
by referendum vote of membership before the convention.
https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=0aM0AQAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&pg=GBS.PA21
Ninth Day July 22nd, 1908, Morning Session
https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=0aM0AQAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&pg=GBS.PA353
Pages 356-7: Resolution No. 67 adopted:
https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=0aM0AQAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&pg=GBS.PA356
Resolution No. 67, with report of committee on same, read as follows:
No. 67.
Denver, Colorado, July 17, 1908.
To the Officers and Delegates of the Sixteenth Annual Convention, Assembled:
Gentlemen—In view of the fact that being no longer a part of the Industrial Workers of the World, be it
Resolved, That we, the delegates of the Sixteenth Annual Convention now in session, strike from our constitution and by-laws, and all parts of same, the words, “Mining department of the Industrial Workers of the World,” and insert the words “Western Federation of Miners.”
Ed. LONG, No. 1 [Butte].
BARRY O’LEARY, No. 1.Denver, Colorado, July 18, 1908.
To the Officers and Delegates of the Sixteenth Annual Convention, W. F. M.:
We, your Committee on Constitution and By-Laws, after due consideration, beg leave to report on resolution No. 67, that this be adopted.
Respectfully submitted,
M. C. LEAKE,
A. T. MILHOAN,
THOS. POWERS,
CLEM VOGEL,
BARRY 0’LEARY,
ALEX. MAIN,
JAS. J . MURPHY.Moved by Vogel, seconded by Ganter, that the report of the committee be adopted. Motion carried.
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