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Philip S. Foner. The Fur and Leather Workers Union.

Biblioteca / 1950-1959

Philip S. Foner. The Fur and Leather Workers Union. A Story of Dramatic Struggles and Achievements.

Newark, NJ: Nordan Press, 1950.

xii, 708 páginas.

Contents

THE BEGINNINGS OF UNIONISM IN FUR AND LEATHER

1 – The Early Years

2 – Battle for the Eight-Hour Day

3 – Struggles and Setbacks

4 – How to Mislead a Union

THE INTERNATIONAL FUR WORKERS UNION IS BORN

5 – The Revolt of 1912

6 – The International Union

7 – Union or Private Business?

8 – Exit Albert Miller

9 – Emergence of the Kaufman Machine

THE STRUGGLE FOR TRADE-UNION DEMOCRACY

10 – The Disastrous Strike of 1920

11 – Battle in the New York Joint Board

12 – The Trade Union Educational League

13 – Sit Down or I’ll Knock You Down!

14 – Expulsions

15 – The Revolt of the Workers

16 – United-Front Administration

17 – The Ousting of Kaufman

1926—THE GENERAL STRIKE THAT MADE UNION HISTORY

18 – The Battle Line Forms

19 – The First Seven Weeks

20 – Carnegie Hall to 69th Armory

21 – ’Til the End of 1926—if Necessary

22 – Victory

A DECADE OF HEROIC BATTLES AGAINST GANGSTERISM, TERRORISM AND EXPULSIONS

23 – Expulsion of the New York Joint Board

24 – The Plot Thickens

25 – The 1927 Strike

26 – Betrayal in Washington

27 – The Struggle for Unity

28 – The Needle Trades Workers Industrial Union

29 – Retreat

30 – Battle for Spoils

31 – The First Offensive

32 – The Bankruptcy of the Right Wing

33 – The Second Offensive

34 – The Struggle for the Unemployed

35 – Morris Langer, Martyr of Labor

36 – Lepke-Gurrah

37 – The Real Racket-Busters

THE ACHIEVEMENT OF UNITY

38 – The Blue Eagle

39 – The Picture outside of New York

40 – The Pressure for Unity

41 – One United Union

42 – Reconstruction

43 – The Fur Workers Join the CIO

44 – The Fruits of Unity

THE FUR AND LEATHER WORKERS JOIN HANDS

45 – A Grim Story of Betrayal

46 – The National Leather Workers Association

47 – Merger of Fur and Leather

48 – Laying the Foundation in Leather

49 – The Acid Test

50 – Building the Structure in Leather

51 – The War Against Fascism

52 – Wartime Collective Bargaining

53 – The Post-War Wage Drive

54 – The Struggle Goes Forward

Conclusion