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Ed Boyce of the Western Federation of Miners also embraced industrial unionism, believing, as did Debs, that it had more potential than craft unionism.

They likewise recognized that industrial unionism alone could not bring into existence the new society that they envisioned.

They, along with the WFM's Bill Haywood and others, were instrumental in launching the Western Labor Union, which soon became the American Labor Union, which in 1905 led the way to the Industrial Workers of the World ( IWW ).

Boyce proclaimed that labor must " abolish the wage system which is more destructive of human rights and liberty than any other slave system devised ," and the IWW later echoed his words in its Preamble.

" The working class and the employing class have nothing in common ," the Preamble proclaimed.

" There can be no peace so long as hunger and want are found among millions of working people and the few, who make up the employing class, have all the good things of life.

Between these two classes a struggle must go on ..."