The AFL's Union Label Trades Department publicized union made goods, early 1900s
Is there MORALITY in that statement regarding the demand to support union produced goods rather than oppression of human labor?
IS THERE A MORAL STATEMENT IN THAT?
I defy anyone to say no.
...The AFL and American Exceptionalism (click title to entry - thank you)
By 1914, unions outside the United States had found that broad organization reduced the availability of strike breakers, advanced labor's political goals, and could lead to state intervention on behalf of the unions. The United States was becoming exceptional, the only advanced capitalist country without a strong, united labor movement. The collapse of the Knights of Labor cleared the way for the AFL. Formed in 1881 as the Federation of Trade and Labor Unions, the AFL was organized to uphold the narrow interests of craft workers against the general interests of common laborers in the KOL. In practice, AFL-craft unions were little labor monopolies, able to win concessions because of their control over uncommon skills and because their narrow strategy did not frighten state officials. Many early AFL leaders, notably the AFL's founding president Samuel Gompers and P. J. McGuire of the Carpenters, had been active in radical political movements. But after 1886, they learned to reject political involvements for fear that radicalism might antagonize state officials or employers and provoke repression....I want to talk about that. About oppression. It is definately within the labor of the USA. How did a once great union end in destruction while people surrendered their lives to oppression? It happened. We all witnessed its character and fear. Recent history and I am not referring to construction unions either. Made front page political news. Where? I know where. No clues?
