Excerpt from American Syndicalism: The I. W. W It will press, too, that other question: Are the giants alone to have organization? If not, what follows? Two years ago, I found in a Pittsburg suburb the first sure sign of Syndicalism that I had seen in the United States since its abrupt formation out of that portentous strike of Colorado miners in 1903 - 4. It was a strike in which the lawlessness of labor was matched and outmatched by the lawlessness of capi tal. The fruits of it were Syndicalism, or, as here named, the Industrial Workers of the World. Belted and armed, it now enters the arena of discon tent. For several weeks in 1911, I watched it in a half dozen cities on the Pacific coast. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.