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 Workers' Education and the National Urban League
This was a response to the unanimous passage of a resolution, introduced by League workers, recommending the inclusion in workers' education of the study of races and nationalities and their relationship to the labor movement.
League efforts to upgrade the African-American economic position were enhanced by the establishment of an Industrial Relations Department in 1925, funded by John D. Rockefeller' for a three-year experimental period.
As reliance on their services became a feature of American life, the status of Africans gradually was downgraded to that of slave.
http://www-distance.syr.edu/morgan.html

  
 The Progressive Movement
The Progressive Movement was an effort to cure many of the ills of American society that had developed during the great spurt of industrial growth in the last quarter of the 19th century.
The needs of blacks and Native Americans were poorly served or served not at all—a major shortcoming of the Progressive Movement.
The Roosevelt Progressives (Bull Moose Party) of 1912
http://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h1061.html

  
 Towards the Establishment of Workers' Councils in Italy by Amadeo Bordiga 1920
Councils of workers — industrial workers, peasants and, on occasion, soldiers — are, as is clear, the political organs of the proletariat, the foundations of the proletarian State.
The Soviets, the councils of workers, peasants (and soldiers), are the form adopted by the representative system of the proletariat, in Its exercise of power after the smashing of the capitalist State.
This struggle may well be advanced fruitfully by the setting up of workers' representative bodies — but these must be urban or rural workers' councils elected directly by the 'names, waiting to take the place of municipal councils and local organs of State power at the moment the bourgeois forces collapse.
http://www.marxists.org/archive/bordiga/works/1920/workers-councils.htm   (6007 words)

  
 The League Of Revolutionary Black Workers - A Historical Study
In 1937 the committee was expelled from the AFL and became the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO).
Black workers involvement in large numbers began during the first imperialist war, when there was a shortage of laborers and Detroit was becoming the center of the auto industry.
An important factor in the League's development Is the fact that it came into existence as a reaction to the spontaneous self-organizing of Black workers.
http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/Lobby/2379/lrbw.htm   (6007 words)

  
 TamilNet: 30.10.99 S.Thondaman dies
Mr.Soumiyamoorthy Thondaman,86, the Minister for Rural and Industrial Development, and leader of the Ceylon Workers' Congress died at the Jeyawardenepura National Hospital around 8.10 p.m.
He is also the leader of one of the powerful trade unions of the plantation sector,the Ceylon Workers Congress (CWC).
Another trade union, the Democratic Workers Congress (DWC), was formed in 1956 as a breakaway faction of the CWC as a result of leadership rivalries between the president, S.Thondaman, and the general secretary A. iz.
http://www.tamilnet.com/reports/99/10/3004.html   (6007 words)

  
 Welcome to the Industrial Commission of Arizona
The Industrial Commission of Arizona was created in 1925 as a result of legislation implementing the constitutional provisions establishing Arizona’s workers' compensation system.
The scope of Industrial Commission has expanded over the years to include, for example, responsibility over occupational safety and health issues, compliance responsibilities for youth employment laws, resolution of wage disputes under $2500, vocational rehabilitation for injured workers, and licensing of workers' compensation pools.
The mission statement of the Industrial Commission is to efficiently administer and effectively enforce all applicable laws and regulations not specifically delegated to others, relative to the protection of life, health, safety, and welfare of employees within the State.
http://www.ica.state.az.us   (6007 words)

  
 IWCC
The information on this Web site will serve as a guide to the rights and responsibilities of injured workers and employers.
On January 1, 2005, the Industrial Commission will change its name to the Illinois Workers' Compensation Commission.
The Commission operates the state court for workers' compensation cases.
http://www.state.il.us/agency/iic/   (6007 words)

  
 THE SMALLEST MASS PARTY IN THE WORLD
More workers were being recruited to IS, though they were being recruited as individuals on the basis of general politics rather than on the basis of an industrial strategy, and most of them were too young to have any decisive influence at their place of work.
In any case it prevented the Party from trying to mobilise the industrial opposition to Wilson and turn it into an independent political force.
The fifties saw the growth of the shop stewards movement as we know it today, but they also saw the Tory Party re-elected with increased majorities at three successive elections.
http://www.revolutionary-history.co.uk/otherdox/SMP/Smp1.html   (6007 words)

  
 Politics1: Presidency 2000 - James E. Harris (Socialist Workers Party - Georgia)
Professional political organizer, but has worked from time-to-time in various other industrial positions (including meatpacker, auto worker and garment worker) as part of the SWP's mandate that party activists hold working class jobs in order to better organize the workers.
The Socialist Workers Party has been in electoral decline in recent years, capturing a dwindling number of votes in each Presidential election.
Socialist Workers Party nominee for President, 1996 (on the ballot in 11 states - 8,500 votes - 0.01%).
http://www.politics1.com/swp2k.htm   (6007 words)

  
 Handbook of Texas Online: OILFIELD STRIKE OF 1917
Unrelenting employer opposition to unionism became apparent when producers began spreading the rumor that the Industrial Workers of the World was involved with the oilfield workers.
After several brief meetings with representatives of both the producers and workers, Reed, apparently unaware of limits on his authority, issued the commission's report shortly before Christmas.
Employer solidarity and failure to win the allegiance of refinery workers persuaded Gulf Coast oilfield workers and their California counterparts, with AFL approval, to form a national organization.
http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/OO/doott.html   (848 words)

  
 Korean Confederation of Trade Unions
More than 95% of hospital and health workers are organised into national Korean Health and Medical Workers Union, and more than half of the member unions of the Korean Cargo Transport Workers Federation have merged to formed a single union with an objective to form a single industrial union.
The explosion not only galvanised the uniformed workers of industrial complexes and the neck-tie corps of office buildings, but shook the entire society.
To secure migrant workers' rights, KCTU also demands the amendment of the Labour Standards Act to extend the law's application to migrant workers.
http://www.kctu.org/2003/html/sub_01.php   (848 words)

  
 The Militant - 11/2/98 -- Meeting Celebrates Life Of Paul Montauk, 60-Year Cadre Of Socialist Workers Party
Although Paul and most others of his generation did not go into industrial plants when the party turned to the new openings to carry out revolutionary work in the trade unions at the end of the 1970s, this turn to the industrial working class was an effort of the whole party.
Montauk joined with others in reconquering and advancing the Marxist approach to a whole range of political questions posed to the party at the time: the workers and farmers government; the course of the Cuban Revolution; women and the revolutionary movement; the social weight of the Black struggle; the writings of Lenin, and much more.
Resistance among workers and in the trade unions themselves has begun to spread, and opportunities for young people to participate in political activity in the working class can be found everywhere.
http://www.themilitant.com/1998/6239/6239_23.html   (848 words)

  
 THE SMALLEST MASS PARTY IN THE WORLD
More workers were being recruited to IS, though they were being recruited as individuals on the basis of general politics rather than on the basis of an industrial strategy, and most of them were too young to have any decisive influence at their place of work.
In any case it prevented the Party from trying to mobilise the industrial opposition to Wilson and turn it into an independent political force.
The fifties saw the growth of the shop stewards movement as we know it today, but they also saw the Tory Party re-elected with increased majorities at three successive elections.
http://www.revolutionary-history.co.uk/otherdox/SMP/Smp1.html   (9651 words)

  
 THE SMALLEST MASS PARTY IN THE WORLD
More workers were being recruited to IS, though they were being recruited as individuals on the basis of general politics rather than on the basis of an industrial strategy, and most of them were too young to have any decisive influence at their place of work.
In any case it prevented the Party from trying to mobilise the industrial opposition to Wilson and turn it into an independent political force.
The fifties saw the growth of the shop stewards movement as we know it today, but they also saw the Tory Party re-elected with increased majorities at three successive elections.
http://www.revolutionary-history.co.uk/otherdox/SMP/Smp1.html   (9651 words)

  
 THE SMALLEST MASS PARTY IN THE WORLD
More workers were being recruited to IS, though they were being recruited as individuals on the basis of general politics rather than on the basis of an industrial strategy, and most of them were too young to have any decisive influence at their place of work.
In any case it prevented the Party from trying to mobilise the industrial opposition to Wilson and turn it into an independent political force.
The fifties saw the growth of the shop stewards movement as we know it today, but they also saw the Tory Party re-elected with increased majorities at three successive elections.
http://www.revolutionary-history.co.uk/otherdox/SMP/Smp1.html   (9651 words)

  
 Jamaica Gleaner - The third party factor - Sunday August 25, 2002
Later, the Agricultural Industrial Party (AIP) - and the United Party of Jamaica (UPJ) succeeded the JDP in the 1949 general election.
One of those, The Jamaica Democratic Party (JDP) - was formed in December 1942, (prior to the launch of the JLP on July 8, 1943), to contest the 1944 elections.
What is irrefutable is that third parties in Jamaica have failed to win state power - whether these have been parties of the right, centre or the left.
http://www.jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20020825/focus/focus1.html   (1580 words)

  
 Νέα σελίδα 1
Although the Socialist Workers Party and González were returned to office in the elections of 1986 and 1989, industrial workers now became the most dissatisfied sector of society because of high inflation and unemployment.
Republican parties re-emerged; a large anarchist movement took root among farm labourers in Andalusia and industrial workers in Barcelona; a small but solid socialist movement appeared in factories and mines in the Basque region and Asturias; and regionalist sentiments in Catalonia grew into demands for autonomy.
Judiciary The judicial system in Spain is governed by the General Council of Judicial Power, presided over by the president of the Supreme Court.
http://www.1001medrecipes.com/mSPAIN.htm   (1580 words)

  
 Controversial Questions in the Workers Party of America
The present isolation of the Workers Party and the crippling of the Trade Union Educational League are due to the ill-advised attempts to found the “class” farmer-labor party of industrial workers and poor farmers in the absence of mass sentiment for such a party.
This convention was held on a united front basis with the Workers Party and the Farmer-Labor Party of the United States, headed by John Fitzpatrick.
In the midst of the opportunistic adventures of the Pepper-Ruthenberg group amongst the farmers, the present majority of the CEC sounded a note of warning against this shifting of the base of the party activities from the workers to the farmers, and fought against this tendency.
http://www.marxists.org/archive/cannon/works/1925/questions.htm   (1580 words)

  
 Communist Party of Canada
Many of its founding members had belonged to groups such as the Socialist Party of Canada, One Big Union, the Socialist Labor Party, the Industrial Workers of the World and other socialist, Marxist or Labour parties or clubs.
Party members were also active in the Congress of Industrial Organizations attempt to unionise the auto sector.
It was initially illegal, and created the Workers' Party of Canada in 1922 as its public face.
http://www.mcfly.org/wik/Canadian_Communist_Party   (1580 words)

  
 Workers' Party
After World War II, the Catholic working class of the industrial Northeast was joined by further influxes of black labor from the South and by Latin American and Caribbean agrarian populations.
1900, Mark Hanna was making a serious appeal for labor support to the Republican Party and supporting industrial unionism at a time when few capitalists and politicians did.
The American Socialist Party, that “socialism of dentists” as Trotsky called it (perhaps a bit unfairly) during his sojourn in New York in 1917, was characterized from beginning to end by the predominance of a reformist center and a right wing.
http://home.earthlink.net/~lrgoldner/awcpp.html   (9484 words)

  
 Workers Liberty Australia front page
Howard's reforms can be better resisted with a focus on union rights, the right to organise and bargain collectively, the right of workers to solidarity against employers, both private and government.
This could do more to educate and organise workers in the newer industries where union levels are low, than any amount of recruitment campaigns.
Many union leaders argue that industrial campaigns make no difference to industrial court decisions, when they oppose or derail membership proposals for industrial campaigns.
http://australia.workersliberty.org   (9484 words)

  
 Chris Harman: Russia - How the Revolution was Lost (1968)
If at home objective conditions made workers’ democracy non-existent, at least there was the possibility of those motivated by the Party’s traditions bringing about its restoration given industrial recovery at home and revolution abroad.
This is the case for the transition from a capitalist State to a workers’ State, because the working class cannot exercise its power except all at once, collectively, by a clash with the ruling class in which, as a culmination of long years of struggle, the latter’s forces are defeated.
And this force was not being wielded directly by the armed workers, but by a party tied to the working class only indirectly, by its ideas, not directly as in the days of 1917.
http://www.marxists.de/statecap/harman/revlost.htm   (9484 words)

  
 Support the Socialist Equality Party in the 2004 US elections: Bill Van Auken for president Jim Lawrence for vice president
Every major advance of American workers was associated with socialism and spearheaded by socialist-minded militants—from the eight-hour day, to child labor laws, to universal public education, to the formation of mass industrial unions, to the end of Jim Crow segregation in the South.
American popular culture was once one of the wonders of the world, a pole of attraction because of its innovation and powerful democratic and humanistic spirit.
This destabilization campaign was followed by the capitulation of the Democrats to the hijacking of the 2000 presidential election and the installation of an unelected president through the intervention of the Supreme Court.
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2004/apr2004/stat-a28.shtml   (9484 words)

  
 Workers Online Print Edition
The CPSU collected more than 150 signatures from workers angry about the Cup Day and got more than 50 workers to vote in favour of taking industrial action against the company earlier the week.
He may have wanted to bring purity back to US politics, but all Green maverick Ralph Nader looks like achieving is the elevation to the White House of a man who'll bash the workers, give tax cuts to the rich and outlaw abortion.
When the Government set up a Federal Magistrates' Court to help cut the backlog of cases in the Family Court, he tried to hijack it -- and no doubt stack it --so that it could also deal with industrial relations.
http://workers.labor.net.au/77/print_index.html   (16449 words)

  
 Balance Sheet on the Socialist Workers Party (U.S.A)
The party leadership ignored the majority of women workers who did not have industrial jobs—even though these female workers were winning better job conditions, wage increases, protections against sexual harassment in the workplace, an end to age discrimination, affirmative action programs, parental leaves, child care provisions, and other benefits.
In keeping with this analysis, Barnes declared, “The Socialist Workers Party recognizes that the African National Congress is the vanguard of the democratic revolution in South Africa.”
When Solidarity fought for workers' rights in Poland, Castro supported Jaruzelski and the imposition of martial law in 1981.
http://www.marxists.org/history/etol/document/fit/balsheet.htm   (16449 words)

  
 Permanent Revolution in the U.S. Today
It is international precisely in that national liberation and democratic struggles in all countries--in the Third World, the west, and the workers' states--are indissolubly bound up with the success of proletarian revolution in the advanced industrial countries.
The workers' states--saddled by bureaucracy, backwardness, internecine national rivalries, lack of access to world resources and technology, low productivity of labor--cannot and will not break the imperialist stranglehold.
In Los Angeles, every Trotskyist tendency except for the FSP and International Workers Party (4th International) (IWP) tail-ended the Stalinists and voted against including defense of abortion rights in the coalition's rally slogans.
http://www.socialism.com/library/perm1.html   (16449 words)

  
 Workers' Opposition
The third decisive step toward democratization of the party is the elimination of all non-worker elements from all the administrativew positions; in other words, the central, provincial, and county committees of the party must be composed so that workers closely connected with the working masses would have the preponderant majority therein....
Workers -- that part of the advanced guard of the Russian proletariat which has borne on its shoulders all the difficulties of the revolutionary struggle, and did not dissolves itself into the soviet instutitions by losing contact with the laboring masses, but on the contrary, remained closely connected with them....
The opposition consists almost exclusively of members of the trade unions, and this fact is attested by the signatures of those who side with the oppoisitiong under the theses on the role of industrial unions.
http://www.marxists.org/archive/kollonta/works/1921/work-op.htm   (1286 words)

  
 The Militant - 8/30/99 -- Appliance Workers In New Zealand Strike, Demand Raise
Ten Steelworkers on lockout by Kaiser Aluminum joined the march and rally, as did members of the Carpenters' Union, the American Federation of Teachers, and the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees.
The August 3 New Zealand Herald noted that the picket "was one of the largest industrial protests seen in New Zealand since the advent of the Employment Contracts Act," antiunion legislation adopted in 1991.
But the striking workers never stopped the newspapers from printing, and in the face of cop assaults on the picket lines and court injunctions the union leaderships ended the mass picketing.
http://www.themilitant.com/1999/6329/6329_19.html   (1563 words)

  
 Mitchell, John. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
In 1914 he was appointed commissioner of labor for New York state and was from 1915 to 1919 chairman of the state industrial commission.
When the United Mine Workers of America was formed (1890), he became a member; after his successful leadership of the S Illinois soft-coal miners in the strike of 1897, he was national vice president, then president from 1898 to 1908, when he resigned.
As a vice president (1899–1914) of the American Federation of Labor, he was a strong advocate of the “sacredness of contract,” in which he was opposed by the more radical factions in the federation.
http://www.bartleby.com/65/mt/MtchllJ.html   (1563 words)

  
 Labor Commission of Utah
The Division of Industrial Accidents monitors and assists in the prompt payment of compensation to injured workers and their return to the work force.
The Labor Commission and the International Workers' Compensation Foundation are sponsoring the Fourth Annual Workers' Compensation Educational Conference on May 20 and 21, 2004 at the Sheraton City Centre Hotel in Salt Lake City Utah.
For Registration Information contact the IWCF at (386) 304-1993
http://www.labor.state.ut.us/indacc/indacc.htm   (1563 words)

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