6. On the other hand the immigrant workers that were led by the I. W. W. abandoned it after a few years of practical experience. Their disappointment in the I. W. W. was not because of its radicalism, which had captivated their imagination, and to which they subscribed wholeheartedly.
7. On the contrary they disapproved of its lack of sympathy for practical trade union policies and its scorn for stable and permanent unions that would protect and further the immediate interests of its members while propagating for the overthrow of the wage system.
8. As a result these immigrant workers founded unions independent of both the I. W. W. and the A. F. of L.
V.
1. Among the recent immigrants several races, particularly the Jews, closely resemble the Germans. While not coming entirely from industrial centers and practicing skilled trades, the Jews came largely from commercial centers where they had contact with radical political movements. A large number of their intellectuals possessed a theoretical and practical knowledge of the world labor movements.
2. Hence when the Jewish immigrant workers found themselves in unorganized trades and industries in this country, as in the needle trades, they did not long remain a helpless prey of either mercenary fellow country men or greedy employers.
3. Like the Germans, they set about to organize their own labor movement with its unions, press, benefit societies, cooperatives and propaganda clubs.
4. Their movement parallels, but at the same time is an integral part of the American Labor Movement. Where national unions existed the Jewish workers upon organizing themselves sought affiliation. Where no national unions existed, or the existing national unions proved unsympathetic, the Jewish workers founded their own national unions, as witness: The International Ladies' Garment Workers Union; the Cloth, Hat, Cap, and Millinery Workers International Union; International Fur Workers Union, and the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America.
VI.
1. But these so-called Jewish needle trades unions are really a composite of southern and eastern European races.—The most important being the Italians, Poles, Bohemians and Lithuanians.
2. Indeed, within recent years the Italian immigrant workers have manifested as keen and intelligent an insight in the labor movement as the Germans and Jews. And the other races are rapidly assuming their full share of responsibility in the conducts of the affairs of the unions.
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