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Management vs. Labor
“Tools” of Management
“Tools” of Labor
“scabs”
P. R. campaign
Pinkertons
lockout
blacklisting
yellow-dog contracts
court injunctions
open shop
boycotts
sympathy demonstrations
informational picketing
closed shops
organized strikes
“wildcat” strikes
Unions• Craft vs. Industrial• The craft unionist advocates sorting workers into
exclusive groups of skilled workers, or workers sharing a particular trade. The organization operates, and the rules are formulated primarily to benefit members of that particular group.
• The industrial unionist sees advantage in organizing by industry. The local organization is broader and deeper, with less opportunity for employers to turn one group of workers against another.
Goals of the Knights of Laborù Industrial Union
ù Skilled and unskilled laborers
ù Employers are the new “slave power”
ù Eight-hour workday.
ù Worker-owned factories.
ù Equal pay for men and women.
ù Safety codes in the workplace.
ù Prohibition of contract foreign labor.
How the AF of L Would Help the
Workersù Craft Union
ù Skilled worker.
ù Represented workers in national legislation.
ù National strike fund.
ù Prevented disputes among the many craft unions.
ù Mediated disputes between management and labor.
ù Closed shops.
The Socialists
Eugene V. Debs
• Vs. capitalism & Private Control
• Problem unequal wealth distribution
• Problem inevitable concentration of ownership in fewer and fewer hands
• Want GOV’T. control to ensure fairer distribution of the benefits of wealth.
• Necessity of class conflict• Difference Peaceful vs.
violent upheaval
Socialism vs. Communism
• From James D. Forman’s 1974 book, “Fascism.”– Democratic socialism, favoring government
ownership of the principal means of production, found gradual acceptance in the more advanced and industrialized nations through persuasion and the ballot box rather than by force and violence. Communism, with its revolutionary programs directed toward the same economic ends as democratic socialism, addressed itself to the bloody overthrow of capitalism everywhere, but it met with little success where the parent system was firmly planted.
Anarchists 1886
• Government unfairly restricts freedom of workers.• “New Order” needs to be achieved that represents the laborers.
Union Struggles
• AFL opposed by National Association of Manufacturers & the radical IWW. IWW:– Class conflict– Worker takeover
• Manufacturer Assoc:– Spies– Injunction– Yellow Dog Contracts.
• Lack of UNITY damages possibility of success.