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Show uo SABOTAGE IS REJECTED IN UTAH. The Socialists of Utah are to be congratulate on refusing to be defenders de-fenders of the I W W. The Inter-mountain Inter-mountain Worker or Salt Lake, origan or-igan of the Socialists in this state, commenting on the rejection of sabot age, says "In the last year it ha? been very clearly demonstrated in various ways and In a number of places that the I. W. W, by Its mlnlmlz-atlon of the necessity and value of political action, ac-tion, by its prevalent opposition to any reliance on political action, by (He aggressive advocacy of sabotage and violence as the most effective j weapon in the hands of the working j class to aid in its emancipation by .its tactics of disruption in existlnu economic organizations, and its attempts at-tempts to drag the Socialist party Into Its struggles In a way that should make it appear that the political organization or-ganization wai lending its sanction and influence to the I W. W. organization organi-zation and to the tactics of that organization., or-ganization., w as really a menace to the efficiency an, InteprlP f the political party of the working class. 'It has become evident, also, that the I. W. W organization, under It6 present management has drifted far irom the splendid revolutionary ha-is , enunciated In its preamble, suffered Its purpose to become overclouded by anarchistic ideas and tactics, and has decenerated into a mere horde of proletarian rebels actuated by no constructive philosophy and guided! n tactics which are merely retalla- I tory no revolutionary and which have long since beeu discredited and discarded alike on the economic and ! on the political field as reactionary. Individualistic and worse than vain in the struggle (or economic freedom free-dom ' Were the cause ..f the l W W to I win, the spirit of anarchv would be I so rampant that the industrial world I would be wrecked and progress he j Impossible, and the Socialists. In early I realizing this weakness of the 1. W .11 W , and refusing to be Identified with I the movement, are saving themselves I from being discredited |