Membership Book and Constitution of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America (Classic Reprint)

Membership Book and Constitution of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America (Classic Reprint)
ISBN-10
133215574X
ISBN-13
9781332155743
Category
Reference
Pages
38
Language
English
Published
2015-08-04

Description

Excerpt from Membership Book and Constitution of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America The economic organization of Labor has been called into existence by the capitalist system of production, under which the division between the ruling class and the ruled class is based upon the ownership of the means of production. The class owning those means is the one that is ruling, the class that possesses nothing but its labor power, which is always on the market as a commodity, is the one that is being ruled. A constant and unceasing struggle is being waged between these two classes. In this struggle the economic organization of Labor, the union, is a natural weapon of offense and defense in the hands of the working class. But in order to be efficient, and effectively serve its purpose, the union must in its structure correspond to the prevailing system of the organization of industry. Modern industrial methods are very rapidly wiping out the old craft demarcations, and the resultant conditions dictate the organization of Labor along industrial lines. The history of the Class Struggle in this country for the past two decades amply testifies to the ineffectiveness of the form, methods and spirit of craft unionism. It also shows how dearly the working class has paid for its failure to keep apace with industrial development. The working class must accept the principles of Industrial Unionism or it is doomed to impotence. The same forces that have been making for Industrial Unionism are likewise making for a closer inter-industrial alliance of the working class. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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