VI.
1. At present the advocates of industrial unionism agitate indiscriminately for two types of industrial unions.
2. One form would consist of all the workers employed by a specific business unit, as workers employed by railroads or iron and steel mills.
3. The second type would organize all workers engaged on a specific kind of material as metal trades, clothing and wearing apparel trades, etc.
4. Industrial unionism is inevitable if trustified industries are to be organized. The present makeshifts have proved ineffective. But it would behoove the advocates of industrial unionists to study carefully the obstacles and problems confronting them.
Readings
Commons—Trade Union and Labor Problems, Amalgamation of Related Trades, pp. 362–385.
Cole—World of Labor, Industrial Unionism and Amalgamation, pp. 205–258.
Savage—Industrial Unionism, Industrial Unionism within the A. F. of L., pp. 3–142.
Marot—American Labor Union, Industrial and Trade Organization, pp. 78–112.
The Steel Strike of 1919, Interchurch World Movement Report, Organizing for Conference, pp. 144–196.
Foster—The Great Steel Strike.
Saposs—How the Steel Workers Were Organized—A Phase of the New Trade Union Technic, Survey, Nov. 8, 1919.
In the Wake of the Great Strike, Labor Age, January, 1923.
Readings in Trade Unionism, Chaps. IX and X.
6. THE I. W. W. AND DUAL UNIONISM
I.
1. Just as the American Federation of Labor was the rival of the Knights of Labor, it in turn has had to contend with opponents.
2. The attempt to organize internationals in opposition to those affiliated with the American Federation of Labor, or a combination of unions to replace the Federation itself, is popularly known as "dual unionism."
II.
1. Some of the dual unions do not differ in philosophy and tactics from the American Federation of Labor unions. They were founded largely on account of dissatisfaction with the leaders of the old union, because of rivalry between leaders, etc.
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