Stop the Strike (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Stop the Strike The trend of modern trade unionism is distinctly away from the strike method of industrial warfare. So far, this trend is at best but semi-conscious. Many influences are at work, however, developing a lively consciousness. Of these the most potent and searching is the restless and persistent propaganda of Socialism, which is swiftly and surely turning the organised workers from old fallacies to newer and broader truths. Besides this, there is the grim irony of fact that not even the stodgiest and most preju diced of the old trade unionists can evade. Nearly every well-established union is equipped to carry on a strike; not one is half equipped to resist a lock-out. Not one can protect its members from the ruthless speeding up of man and machinery which charac terises modern productive systems; scarcely one but has been forced to forfeit the last vestige of control over the machine tools of its craft, not one that can regulate the hours of labour to the extent of creating a guarantee for all its people of the very elementary right to work at their own calling. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.