[281] _Proceedings, Second I. W. W. Convention_ (1906), p. 463. In September, 1906, the I. W. W. label had been registered in all but three of the states of the Union. _Ibid._, p. 45.
[283] _Proceedings, Second I. W. W. Convention_ (1906), p. 231.
[285] _Ibid._ The amendment abolishing the presidential office was adopted by a vote of 354-1/2 to 253, _ibid._, p. 246.
[286] _Proceedings, Second I. W. W. Convention_ (1906), pp. 567, 420.
[288] A recognition of a wider meaning in the term "political action" is evidenced in Delegate Foote's statement that "Every action of every individual in ... organized society is a political action, whether it be as you say on the industrial [political] or on the economic field.... The action of the Industrial Workers of the World as a so-called economic organization is a political action in an organized society." _Ibid._, p. 311.
[289] _Proceedings, Second I. W. W. Convention_ (1906), p. 309.
[290] For discussion of the change in the preamble and on political action in general, _cf. ibid._, pp. 305-313. The amended preamble is printed in full in the _Proceedings_, p. 614, and in a pamphlet entitled, _Industrial Workers of the World--Preamble and Constitution_, published by the Detroit faction. _Cf._, also, appendix ii.
[291] Spargo to the contrary notwithstanding. He writes: "At the second convention, September, 1906, the preamble was amended and all emphasis on the need for political action omitted." _Syndicalism, Socialism and Industrial Unionism_, p. 208.
[292] Report of the General President, _Proceedings, Second I. W. W. Convention_ (1906), pp. 44-45.
[295] _Proceedings, Second I. W. W. Convention_ (1906), p. 47.
[296] A term applied to members of and believers in what Samuel Gompers has called the "pure and simple trade union"--the conventional type of unionist who will have nothing to do with radicalism and accepts implicitly the capitalistic régime.
[297] Vincent St. John, who had been organizing for the I. W. W in the Coeur d'Alene district of Idaho, was arrested at about the same time.
[298] In his report to the convention, _Proceedings, Second I. W. W. Convention_ (1906), pp. 70-1.
[299] _Proceedings, Second I. W. W. Convention_ (1906), p. 41.