Socialism and Direct Action
Cuba is having trouble in the uprising of the Negroes. A large amount of property has been destroyed. The rebels seem to have the purpose of setting up an independent republic in the east end of the island. This Government has mobilized a strong battle-ship fleet at Key West. President Gomez sends a strong protest to President Taft against intervention, declaring that Cuba can control matters. Socialism and Direct Action
At the Socialist National Convention in Indianapolis the question and methods of "syndicalism" and "direct action" were raised by William D. Haywood, a leader of the Industrial Workers of the World, and he and his party were beaten. The I. W. W. would organize the laborers in one great industrial union to work for immediate revolution by strikes, violence, or any other means of destroying employers' profits. As an Eastern paper remarks, "American working men are not yet so insane as to believe in the delusion that by deliberately wrecking factories and destroying industrial establishments where they are employed they will advance themselves and civilization." But the revolutionist propaganda is making mighty progress.