# British Labor Bids for Power

BRITISH LABOR Bids for POWER
The Historic Scarboro Conference of the Trades Union Congress
by SCOTT NEARING
SOCIAL SCIENCE PUBLISHERS 7 West 106th Street New York City
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Educational Frontiers.
Dollar Diplomacy. (Collaboration with Joseph Freeman)
The American Empire.
The Next Step.
Wages in the United States.
Financing the Wage Earner's Family.
Reducing the Cost of Living.
Anthracite.
Poverty and Riches.
Social Adjustment.
Social Religion.
Woman and Social Progress. (Collaboration with Nellie Nearing)
The Super Race.
Elements of Economics.
The New Education.
Economics.
Community Civics. (Collaboration with Jessie Field)
Solution of the Child Labor Problem.
Social Sanity.
FOUR IMPORTANT PAMPHLETS BY SCOTT NEARING
Russia Turns East.
Stopping a War.
World Labor Unity.
Glimpses of the Soviet Republic.
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BRITISH LABOR Bids for POWER
The Historic Scarboro Conference of the Trades Union Congress
by SCOTT NEARING
SOCIAL SCIENCE PUBLISHERS 7 West 106th Sreet New York City
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The Job of Trade Unions
"The functions of the trade unions are two-fold. First of all, they have to defend the workers' standard of life everywhere against the attacks of the capitalist forces, which have closed their ranks internationally, and are thus in a position to deliver smashing blows. This embedies an attempt to improve the condition of the working class 'within the framework of capitalist society.' But the trade unions' ultimate function is a greater one, and is therefore in a sense primary, namely to achieve the overthrow ‘of the capitalist system, the deliverance of labour, the inauguration of socialism." (Edo Fimmen, Labour's Alternative, p, 97.)
Mission of the Trades Union Congress
"That its mission was revolutionary, in effect if not in early intention, is historically certain. Notwithstanding the innate conservatism, caution and moderation of its policy, Congress has moved steadily, decade by decade, toward a complete transformation of the industrial organization based on craft unionism of an exclusive kind. … It has evolved in the general direction of a militant organization of all workers, skilled and unskilled, capable not only of collective bargaining on something like equal terms with the employers, but of more vigorous constructive action, under unified leadership, for the ultimate transformation of the whole system of productive industry. Almost unconsciously, at least until within very recent years, the Trades Union Congress has pursued a path which leads inevitably to the assumption of full responsibility by its central executive for the mass action of the Trades Unions. In recent years this unconscious tendency has become deliberate, a guiding principle of Congress policy and administration."—(Story of the Trades Union Congress, The General Council, London.)
Copyright, 1926 SOCIAL SCIENCE PUBLISHERS
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* Chapter 1: Making Labor History
* Chapter 2: Labor Statesmanship
* Chapter 3: One Hundred Years of Progress
* Chapter 4: Trade Union Sacrifices
* Chapter 5: Miners, Textile, and Trade Union Solidarity
* Chapter 6: Industrial Organisation
* Chapter 7: Relations with Russia
* Chapter 8: Attacks on Russia
* Chapter 9: India
* Chapter 10: China
* Chapter 11: International Trade Union Unity
* Chapter 12: The Workers' Wage Sacrifices
* Chapter 13: Capitalist Mismanagement
* Chapter 14: From Slavedom to Freedom
* Chapter 15: An Efficient Labor Parliament
* Chapter 16: Organizing for the Struggle
* Chapter 17: Powers of the General Council
* Chapter 18: One Big Union
* Chapter 19: World Labor Unity—Russia
* Chapter 20: Imperialism
* Chapter 21: The Dawes Plan
* Chapter 22: What Is British Labor Driving At?
* Chapter 23: British Way or Russian Way?
* End Matter
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