must be observed that these crimes have never been proved to have been
committed by authorized I. W. W. agents.

140. NEGATIVE CHARACTER OF THE I.W.W.--The I.W.W. resemble the
political socialists in their failure to offer a definite system which
could be substituted for the capitalistic system. Some of the I. W.
W., it is true, have formulated a plan by means of which society is
some day to be organized primarily on an industrial basis. According
to this program, the workers of a given industry, say the railroad
industry, will be organized into a single union, rather than, as at
present, into a number of trade unions, such as an engineers' union,
as distinct from the firemen's union, the brakemen's union, etc. The
railroad union would in turn become a branch of a great transportation
union, and the transportation union would in turn become a division of
the "One Big Union," which is to include all workers in all countries
of the world.

If this plan were approved by the entire I. W. W. organization, it
would mean that the I. W. W. intended industry to be controlled by a
super-organization of workingmen, all other persons to be excluded
from any control whatsoever. As a matter of fact, this is the program
of only a faction of the I. W. W. The idea of "One Big Union" is
opposed by a second group, which insists that after the destruction of
capitalism, industry must be handed over to the exclusive control of
small units of laborers, unaffiliated with, and uncontrolled by, any
larger organization. Beyond the formulation of these two opposing
views, a constructive I. W. W. program has never been developed.
Attention continues to be centered upon the destruction of the present
system.