# American Company Unions

No. 15 in the Labor Herald Library
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Militants, Notice!
   Organize! Join the Trade Union Educational League. This is a system of informal committees throughout the entire union movement, organized to infuse the mass with revolutionary understanding and spirit. It is working for the closer affiliation and solidification of our existing craft unions until they have been developed into industrial unions. Believing that all workers should stand together regardless of their social or other opinions, it is opposed to the common policy of radical and progressive-minded workers quitting the trade unions and starting rival organizations based upon ideal principles. That policy is one of the chief reasons why the American labor movement is not further advanced. Its principal effects are to destroy all radical organization in the old unions and to leave the reactionaries in undisputed control.
   The Trade Union Educational League is in no sense a dual union, nor is it affiliated with any such organization. It is purely an educational body of militants within existing mass unions, who are seeking through the application of modern methods to bring the policies and structure of the labor movement into harmony with present day economic conditions. It bespeaks the active cooperation of all militant union workers. For further details apply to the
Trade Union Educational League
156 W. Washington St., Chicago, Ill.
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American Company Unions
A STUDY OF EMPLOYEE REPRESENTATION PLANS, "WORKS COUNCILS" AND OTHER SUBSTI- TUTES FOR LABOR UNIONS
By ROBERT W. DUNN
WITH CONCLUSION AND A PROGRAM FOR THE FIGHT AGAINST COMPANY UNIONISM
By WILLIAM Z. FOSTER
Price 25 Cents
Published by the
Trade Union Educational League 156 W. Washington St. CHICAGO, ILL.
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CONTENTS
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WELFARE.
Sing a song of "Welfare," A pocket full of tricks; To soothe the weary worker, When he groans or kicks. If he asks for shorter hours, Or for better pay, Little stunts of "Welfare" Turn his thoughts away.
Sing a song of "Welfare," Sound the horn and drum, Anything to keep his mind Fixed on kingdom come. "Welfare" loots your pocket While you dream and sing, "Welfare" to your paycheck Doesn't do a thing.
Sing a song of "Welfare," Forty 'leven kinds, Elevate your morals Cultivate your minds. Kindergartens, nurses, Bathtubs, books, and flowers, Anything but better pay Or shorter working hours.
—Will Herford.
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PREFACE
Robert W. Dunn is a well-known labor writer and student not directly affiliated to the trade unions or the T. U. E. L. He is the co-author, together with Sydney Howard, of "The Labor Spy." He is the author of "American Foreign Investments." He is a special writer for the Federated Press. He has made extensive special studies in the field of employers' tactics against labor and the various devices used to undermine trade unions. Therefore, the Trade Union Educational League asked him to set down as briefly as possible his findings to date in the field of Company Unionism. The results appear in this pamphlet between pages 4 and 61. The concluding chapter was written by Wm. Z. Foster.
The Publishers.
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