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Its members seemed firmly convinced that all labor leaders (except I. W. W. organizers!) are really
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of labor, and throughout their propaganda literature there is evident this repudiation of leaders and apotheosis of the
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Nevertheless the I. W. W. has been led and misled by leaders ever since its inception. The first convention rang with the dominant notes of a handful of men: Daniel DeLeon, William D. Haywood,
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Father T. J. Hagerty, Eugene V. Debs, William E. Trautmann, A. M. Simons, Clarence Smith, D. C. Coates, and C. O. Sherman. Debs, Haywood and Simons were then, and are today, members of the Socialist party. Simons and DeLeon were leaders in the two opposing Socialist political parties, Simons in the Socialist party and editor of the _Coming Nation_, and DeLeon, editor of the _Daily People_ and the one dominant and national figure in the Socialist Labor party. T. J. Hagerty was a Catholic priest. With the coöperation of James P. Thompson, and others probably, he framed the original I. W. W. Preamble. He was the designer of the chart which Samuel Gompers referred to as
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Father Hagerty's Wheel of Fortune,