Title | Why every worker should join the Communist Party |
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Publisher | Workers Library Publishers |
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Date | 1930? |
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Language | English |
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Original Item Extent | 31 pages: illustrations; 15 cm |
Original Item Location | HX544.W46 |
Original Item URL | http://library.uh.edu/record=b8302908~S5 |
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 | In Copyright: This item is protected by copyright. Copyright to this resource is held by the creator or current rights holder, and the resource is provided here for educational purposes. It may not be reproduced or distributed in any format without permission of the copyright owner. Users assume full responsibility for any infringement of copyright or related rights. |
File Name | index.cpd |
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Transcript | JOIN THE COMMUNIST PARTY 7 The A. F. of L. Is a Bosses' Organization But it is not enough for the workers to be members of organizations. The bosses have worked out many schemes whereby they control the workers by means of controlling the trade unions. The outstanding example of this in the United States is the American Federation of Labor (A. F. of L.) and its affiliated organizations. These organizations are composed of workers, but at their head, controlling them, are officials (Green, Woll, Lewis, Mc- Mahon, etc.) who are in closest cooperation with the bosses, who belong to the same political parties and clubs, who have the same policies, who work hand in hand to prevent strikes, or crush them when they take place. The well known activities of the A. F. of L. as a bosses' strike-breaking organization have been demonstrated many times this year, in the South (Gastonia, Elizabethton, Marion, New Orleans) ; in the coal mining industry (Lewis-Fishwick-Farrington in Illinois) ; in the needle trades of New York, Philadelphia, etc. (the open alliance of the Schlesinger-Socialist Party combination with Tammany Hall and |