William Z. Foster, one of the earliest speakers and organizers with I.W.W. He was a leader of the Communist Party in America and writes from a first-hand knowledge of the role Industrial Unionism plays in our lives for workers rights. All forces of labor throughout the trade union movement should be united to reject the suspension order and preserve the unity and progress of the trade union movement. No man living today can speak with more authority on the industrial union question than Foster. He was a pioneer in the fight ...
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William Z. Foster, one of the earliest speakers and organizers with I.W.W. He was a leader of the Communist Party in America and writes from a first-hand knowledge of the role Industrial Unionism plays in our lives for workers rights. All forces of labor throughout the trade union movement should be united to reject the suspension order and preserve the unity and progress of the trade union movement. No man living today can speak with more authority on the industrial union question than Foster. He was a pioneer in the fight for the industrial form of organization since 1900. In the Carmen's Union in Chicago, among the packing-house workers and as leader of the Great 1919 Steel Strike and hundreds of labor struggles throughout the country during his years of courageous and militant organizing, Foster was always the leader in the industrial union fight. This classic reprint from 1936 is still just as valuable as it was then.
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