Thomas Bell

The Movement for World Trade Union Unity


Publisher: The Workers (Communist) Party National Office, 1113 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, December 1925
Transcription/Markup: Brian Reid
Public Domain: Marxists Internet Archive (2007). You may freely copy, distribute, display and perform this work; as well as make derivative and commercial works. Please credit “Marxists Internet Archive” as your source.


“Beware that in your fear of the Red International you do not fall into the arms of the black capitalist international.” —A.A. Purcell


“If the world’s fifty million mass membership of the trade unions was a really united army, the capitalists would long ago have been smashed to pieces.” —A. Lozovsky, Secretary of the Red International of Labor Unions



Contents

Intro: The Necessity for World Trade Union Unity

I. The International Federation of Trade Unions (Amsterdam)

II. The Red International of Labor Unions

III. The British Workers and International Trade Union Unity

IV. The Red International of Labor Unions and World Trade Union Unity

V. The Steps Toward World Trade Union Unity

VI. The Trade Union Movement in the United States

VII. The American Federation of Labor and World Trade Union Unity