The Americanization of Labor: The Employers' Offensive Against the Trade Unions

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International Publishers, 1927 - 272 halaman

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Halaman 19 - open shop' drive masks under such names as 'The American Plan,' and hides behind the pretense of American freedom. Yet its real purpose is to destroy all effective labor unions, and thus subject the working people to the complete domination of the employers. Should it succeed In the measure that Its proponents hope, it will thrust far into the ranks of the underpaid the body of American working people.
Halaman 148 - The only economic revolution now under way is going on in the United States. It is a revolution that is to wipe out the distinction between laborers and capitalists by making laborers their own capitalists, and by compelling most capitalists to become laborers of one kind or another, because not many of them will be able to live on the returns of capital alone. This is something new in the history of the world...
Halaman 32 - Association will do a great deal for its members. (1) Should you be threatened with a labor controversy or strike, you can immediately get in touch with us and we will handle that situation for you. (2) Should you want an under-cover man on the inside among your employees, we will also furnish you such a man, and you will receive a daily report on what is going on. (3) In the event of trouble, we will replace any men that may strike against you.
Halaman 19 - ... members. But the present drive is not of that kind. The evidence shows that in its organized form it is not merely against the "closed shop," but against unionism itself, and particularly against collective bargaining. Of what avail is it for workers to be permitted by their employers to become members of unions if the employers will not deal with the unions? The workers might as well join golf clubs as labor unions if the present "openshop" campaign is successful. The "open-shop" drive masks...
Halaman 32 - ... (2) Should you want an under-cover man an the inside antong your employees, we will also furnish you such a man, and you will receive a daily report on what is going on. (3) In the event of trouble, we will replace any men that may strike against you. (4) We establish welfare clubs in your plant from which you derive a lot of benefit ; and all manufacturers are alive to this issue.
Halaman 45 - ... the National Association of Manufacturers, the United States Chamber of Commerce, and the Department of Commerce.
Halaman 182 - About 16 per cent of all employees engaged in the manufacturing and mechanical industries, transportation, extraction of minerals and clerical occupations have the expectation of being paid old age pensions by the concerns for which they have worked.
Halaman 122 - Coke Company with the express understanding that I am not a member of the United Mine Workers of America, and will not become so while an employee of the...
Halaman 185 - If the company] continues in business, and If the company does not decide to abandon this plan, you will receive a pension at the age of — , subject to the contingency of its discontinuance or reduction, after it has been entered upon...
Halaman 36 - The conservative labor man is one to whom sound argument and sound horse sense appeal. . . . This is the ideal thing to do and it can be done in many parts of the country. In others, where the radical element is too strongly entrenched, there is, of course, but one final thing to do, and that is to beat them by force. They must be locked out and licked until the conservatives see the light and realize that the rights of capital must be considered.

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