PROGRAM OF THE TRADE UNION EDUCATIONAL LEAGUE - THE OFFENSIVE AGAINST THE LABOR MOVEMENT

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Program of the Trade Union Educational League adopted by the Third National Conference in New York (December 3-4, 1927) outlines the crisis facing the labor movement and the renewed employer attack. It describes efforts to raise working hours, cut wages, weaken protections, and undermine trade unionism, including pressure against rail shop unions and the 8-hour day. It argues that injunction law and anti-labor legislation are used to deprive workers of rights, while union leadership retreat and surrender worsen the danger to labor’s survival.

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PROGRAM OF THE TRADE UNION EDUCATIONAL LEAGUE

THE OFFENSIVE AGAINST THE LABOR MOVEMENT

PROGRAM OF THE T.U.E.L.

GOVERNMENT BY INJUNCTION

UNION LEADERSHIP IN RETREAT AND SURRENDER

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人 | | --- | --- | 5 569111e972-5 # PROGRAM OF THE TRADE UNIONEDUCATIONAL LEAGUE ## THE OFFENSIVE AGAINST THE LABOR MoVEMENT The trade union movement is in the deepest crisis of its history.At thistime,while the Third National Conference of the Trade Union EducationalLeague is meeting,the great attack against the labor movement is beingrenewed with redoubled vigor.The employers are openly battling to increaseworking hours,decrease wages,break down protective regulations,and smashall effective trade unionism.The railroad shop unions have been largely re-placed by company"unions,"while the 8-hour day on the railroads is beingrapidly undermined.The trade unions have been driven out or reduced toimpotence in the basic and key industries.More and more,the A.F.of L.isbeing narrowed to skilled and privileged workers,whose interests the bureau-cratic leaders seek to protect at the expense of the basic mass of the workers.The much-heralded“prosperity”of 1925-26,which never reflected itself inprosperity for more than a very small number of workersis now near it end;unemployment is rapidly becoming acute;the capitalist class of America sees itsopportunity to complete the union-smashing campaign which was only partiallycarried out in 1920-23. The union-wrecking drive reaches its apex in the present efforts of theemployers to smash the Miners Union.Aided by the treacherous leadershipof the Lewis regime,the coal operators,in the past few years,have destroyeddistrict after district of the union,which has lost some 200,000 members.Nowin this strike the operators are crushing the union in the three key districts ofWestern Pennsylvania and Ohio.Should they succeed the U.M.W.A.willbe broken nationally.Such an employers'victory would stimulate the openshop movement in every indust

FAQs

What crisis does the program describe for the labor movement in 1927?

It describes the labor movement as facing the deepest crisis in its history, with employers renewing attacks and unions being driven out or reduced to impotence in key industries.

How do employers use government power against labor according to the program?

Employers are portrayed as using injunctions and court orders that replace ordinary law, alongside anti-labor legislation and institutions that strip workers of civil rights during disputes.

What role does union leadership retreat play in the program’s assessment?

The program claims that for more than five years unions have been losing ground due to retreat, defeat, declining membership, and reduced militancy, which makes the situation more dangerous during economic depression.

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