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Trade unionist and Marxist politician William Z. Foster explains
the organization and failure of the steel strike in 1919, an action
which saw much of America's metal industry grind to a halt. The
metal industries had, owing to great leaps in technological
advancement, shed many jobs during the early 20th century. This
precarious situation, plus the fact that unions had been curbed
after a number of violent actions in the 1890s, led to the
situation of laborers becoming unbearable. Shortly after Armistice
Day marked the end of World War I, a surge of discontentment was
accompanied by organization of labor and strike action. Although
successful for a number of weeks, to the point where President
Woodrow Wilson had to intervene and placate the workers on strike,
the owners of the mills mounted an effective campaign which eroded
public support for the strikers. Police brutality against striking
steelworkers was recorded, with several such incidents being
unprovoked.
Writing during the Great Depression, William Z. Foster describes
burning injustices in the economic orthodoxy, and predicts the
gradual emergence of socialism in the United States. By the time
the Depression struck in 1929, Foster was already a veteran
campaigner and organizer of labor, having a prominent role in the
great steel strike of 1919. At the time he published this book in
1932, Foster was leader of the United States Communist Party, and
had developed a comprehensive policy platform based upon the Soviet
Union. The USA's fraught economic situation at the time led many
disillusioned and impoverished citizens to consider socialism and
communism as an alternative. Foster begins by describing various
aspects of decay in capitalist society, identifying its proclivity
to indulge in war, its worsening cyclical economic crises, the
impoverishment and neglect of vast numbers in the labor force, and
so on.
Trade unionist and Marxist politician William Z. Foster explains
the organization and failure of the steel strike in 1919, an action
which saw much of America's metal industry grind to a halt. The
metal industries had, owing to great leaps in technological
advancement, shed many jobs during the early 20th century. This
precarious situation, plus the fact that unions had been curbed
after a number of violent actions in the 1890s, led to the
situation of laborers becoming unbearable. Shortly after Armistice
Day marked the end of World War I, a surge of discontentment was
accompanied by organization of labor and strike action. Although
successful for a number of weeks, to the point where President
Woodrow Wilson had to intervene and placate the workers on strike,
the owners of the mills mounted an effective campaign which eroded
public support for the strikers. Police brutality against striking
steelworkers was recorded, with several such incidents being
unprovoked.
Writing during the Great Depression, William Z. Foster describes
burning injustices in the economic orthodoxy, and predicts the
gradual emergence of socialism in the United States. By the time
the Depression struck in 1929, Foster was already a veteran
campaigner and organizer of labor, having a prominent role in the
great steel strike of 1919. At the time he published this book in
1932, Foster was leader of the United States Communist Party, and
had developed a comprehensive policy platform based upon the Soviet
Union. The USA's fraught economic situation at the time led many
disillusioned and impoverished citizens to consider socialism and
communism as an alternative. Foster begins by describing various
aspects of decay in capitalist society, identifying its proclivity
to indulge in war, its worsening cyclical economic crises, the
impoverishment and neglect of vast numbers in the labor force, and
so on.
William Z. Foster, one of the earliest speakers and organizers with
I.W.W. He was a leader of the Communist Party in America and writes
from a first-hand knowledge of the role Industrial Unionism plays
in our lives for workers rights. All forces of labor throughout the
trade union movement should be united to reject the suspension
order and preserve the unity and progress of the trade union
movement. No man living today can speak with more authority on the
industrial union question than Foster. He was a pioneer in the
fight for the industrial form of organization since 1900. In the
Carmen s Union in Chicago, among the packing-house workers and as
leader of the Great 1919 Steel Strike and hundreds of labor
struggles throughout the country during his years of courageous and
militant organizing, Foster was always the leader in the industrial
union fight. This classic reprint from 1936 is still just as
valuable as it was then.
This is a new release of the original 1942 edition.
This is a new release of the original 1941 edition.
THERE is a great and growing mass demand in this country to know
just what is the Communist party and its program. The masses of
toilers, suffering under the burdens of the crisis, are keenly
discontented and want to find a way out of their intolerable
situation. They are alarmed at the depth, length and general
severity of the crisis. They begin to realize that "there is
something rotten in Denmark," that there are fundamental flaws in
the capitalist system. Their growing realization of this is further
strengthened as they see the spectacular rise of Socialism in the
Soviet Union. The masses are beginning rightly to sense that
Communism has an important message for the human race, and they
want to know what it is. Capitalism is deeply anxious that the
masses do not get this message. Hence, from the outset it has
carried on a campaign of falsification of the Russian revolution
entirely without parallel in history.
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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
PublishingAcentsa -a centss Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age,
it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia
and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally
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Additional Author Is John Williamson. Forward By Max Weiss.
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