This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1920 Excerpt: ...field later. So the decade of the seventies closed with trade unionism, pure and simple, demoralized in organization and spirit, and politics occupying the center of the stage. If prosperity had not returned in 1879 and the farmers and workingmen had not fallen apart once more, a powerful labor-agrarian party might ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1920 Excerpt: ...field later. So the decade of the seventies closed with trade unionism, pure and simple, demoralized in organization and spirit, and politics occupying the center of the stage. If prosperity had not returned in 1879 and the farmers and workingmen had not fallen apart once more, a powerful labor-agrarian party might have played an important role in national politics. Prosperity was a signal for quietism on the part of the farmers and for efforts at organization to increase wages on the part of labor. CHAPTER IX RISE OF THE AMERICAN FEDERATION OF LABOR Prosperity, the labor market and unionism.--With the return of prosperity, the money market eased, trade expanded from shore to shore, aided by immense grants of public lands to railways, industries responded quickly to the new demands for commodities, and immigrants began to pour into the country in ever larger streams. Labor now saw both an opportunity and a menace: an opportunity to participate, through renewed union organization, in the new prosperity, and a danger from a flood of unskilled and skilled immigrants. New leaders arose among skilled workers, in the persons of Adolph Strasser and Samuel Gompers of the cigar makers' union, one of the few unions that had survived the panic, after a desperate battle with competition from tenement house cigar manufacturing. They bent their first efforts toward a reorganization of their own union on a British pattern. Under their plan (1) complete authority over the locals was given to the officers of the international union; (2) membership dues were increased to build up a large benefit fund; and (3) a benefit system was created to tide the union over periods of industrial depression. By a system of fund equalization, the well-to-do locals were obliged to help weake...
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