strike, which is demoralizing industry, has resulted in the formation of an organization known as the United Railroad Work1 ers of America, i.e., the "outlaw" strikers are attempting to set up "One Big Union" to replace the railroad brotherhoods. The strike of the coal miners was an unprecedented demonstration of the tremendous power of an industrial union in a key industry. It is significant that the most successful unions, the most militant, the unions most imperious in their demands, are industrial unions. They are also the ones which stress most the need of proletarian education and which found labor colleges. The probability is that the more constructive type of union will prevail, and not the I.W.W. Unions, like the Amalgamated Clothing Workers, which attempt to protect and stabilize an industry at the same time that they wrestle with employers for control of that industry, are those who se star is in the ascendant. "So while Capital flounders helplessly in the face of greater industrial unrest than the world has ever known, Labor struggles forward on a hundred fields, trying in a hundred different ways to fashion the only instrument through which its ultimate emancipation can be achieved, One Big Union. This is, perhaps, an exaggerated statement, but it illustrates the enthusiasm and optimism that pervade the ranks of revolutionary unionism. 1. The Milwaukee Journal, April 11, 1920. 2. The Voice of Labor, October 1, 1919. BIBLIOGRAPHY 1. Books Marx, Karl, and Engels, Frederick, The Manifesto of the Communist Party. (N. Y.: Socialist Literature Co., 1912). Marx, Karl, Value, Price, and Profit. (Chicago: Charles H. Kerr & Co. Cooperative). Proceedings of the Nineteenth Convention, United Garment Schluter, Hermann, The Brewing Industry and the Brewery of america, Cincinnati, 1910). 2. Constitutions and By-Laws By-Laws of the Chicago Clothing Cutters' and Trimmers' By-Laws of Local No. 127, United Automobile, Aircraft, Constitution and By-Laws for the Government of Local Unions of the United Textile Workers of America. Constitution and By-Laws of the Industrial Workers of the World (1919). Constitution and By-Laws of the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union (Revised, 1918). Constitution and By-Laws of Local Union No. 91 of the United Brewery and Soft Drink Workers of America. Constitution and By-Laws of the United Textile Workers of America (Revised, November, 1918) Constitution of the Amalgamated Textile Workers of America Constitution of the One Big Union of Canada Constitution of the United Automobile, aircraft, and Vehicle Workers of America Constitution of the United Garment Workers of America Constitution of the Workers' International Industrial Union (1915) Constitution and Rules of Order for Meetings of the International Federation of Workers in the Hotel, Restaurant, Lunchroom, Club, and Catering Industry Membership Book and Constitution of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America (Amended, 1918) |