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"The most concrete impulse that now favors socialism in this country is the insane purpose to deprive labor organizations of the full and complete rights that go with federated unionism."

"That which teaches a union that it cannot succeed as a union turns it toward socialism. In long strikes in towns like Marlboro and Brookfield strong unions are defeated.  Hundreds of men leave these towns for shoe-centres like Brockton, where they are now voting the socialist ticket.  The socialist mayor of this city tells me, 'The men who come to us now from towns where they have been thoroughly whipped in a strike are among our most active working socialists.'  The bitterness engendered by this sense of defeat is turned to politics, as it will