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| Title | The road to power, or, the constructive elements of socialism |
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| Publisher | Literature Bureau of the Workers' International Industrial Union |
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| Date | 1919 |
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| Language | English |
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| Original Item Extent | 33 pages: chart; 17 cm. |
| Original Item Location | HX86.D25 1919 |
| Original Item URL | http://library.uh.edu/record=b8304529~S11 |
| Original Collection | Socialist and Communist Pamphlets |
| Digital Collection | Socialist and Communist Pamphlets |
| Digital Collection URL | http://digital.lib.uh.edu/collection/scpamp |
| Repository | Special Collections, University of Houston Libraries |
| Repository URL | http://libraries.uh.edu/branches/special-collections |
| Use and Reproduction | This item is in the public domain and may be used freely. |
| File Name | index.cpd |
| Title | Image 32 |
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| File Name | uhlib_12374394_031.jpg |
| Transcript | 30 THE ROAD TO POWER gravers' Union of North America; the stereotypers would be claimed by the International Stereotypers and Electrotypers Union of North America, and the lithographers organized by the International Lithographers Protective and Beneficial Association of the United States and Canada. For the journalists and editors, the A. F. of L. has as yet provided no organization, however, they would have to establish an International Association of Editors and Journalists. The machinists employed in a printery would have to become members of the International Union of Steam and Operating Engineers ; the firemen again would affiliate with the International Brotherhood of Stationary Firemen; the electricians would be organized into the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers of America; the bookkeepers and office workers will be claimed by the Bookkeepers and Accountants Unions; and the janitors would have to join the House Superintendents' and Janitors' Union. And thus we have represented in a printery, which through the co-operative production of the above mentioned crafts, turns out a certain product, namely—printed matter, luckily twelve different craft organizations, with twelve different trade agreements. And then certain Socialists are surprised, if no unified homogeneous feeling of solidarity and class-consciousness takes root and develops in the organizations affiliated with the A. F. of L. However, this reactionary form of organization is absolutely in accord with the still more reactionary principle of harmony between Capital and Labor, so strenuously advocated by this so- called labor union, and with which it seeks to stifle the class-consciousness awakened and reared in the workers by the inexorable effects of social conditions. The reactionary spirit of these advocates of Craft Unionism is most convincingly symbolized in their vigorous struggle against Socialism and the |