Word: unionized
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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What you need is One Big Union and One Big Strike...
College professors of France have agreed to hold a referendum to decide whether or not they shall transform their association into a national union to be affiliated with the Labor Federation. The school teachers already have decided to join the Labor Federation, although their right so to organize has not been recognized by the government...
...interesting not because of its disorderly ferocity, which is certainly not characteristic of those to whom it is addressed, the workingmen, but because of the idea it advocates. It is a conception which has recently jumped into prominence in America, especially in Canada--the idea of the One Big Union...
...political organization, or as an industrial organization, which somehow could manage without "direct action," the One Big Union might be a successful organization with possibilities of unlimited power. As an organization whose chief functions would be to strike, the O. B. U. would have to possess more organizing ability than its leaders have yet shown if it would end in anything but disastrous failure...
...Once upon a time there was a Trade Union which grew so big and powerful that it was able to absorb all the other Trades Unions. Ultimately it became know as, The Union, and everybody had to join it. A National Program was drawn up, and a Great Conference was arranged. It was unanimously decided that in the event of the National Program being refused a General Strike should take place...