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BEFORE THERE COULD BE effective national political activity by organized laboring men in the United States, there first had to be enduring union organizations. Strong, stable labor unions in the nation have been a development of the twentieth century. It is not surprising, therefore, that it has been only in the comparatively recent past that the political desires of trade union leaders have received serious attention from platform makers and candidates for President.
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Samuel Gompers, Labor in Europe and America (New York, 1910), pp. 286–287. The sentiment was strikingly Jeffersonian.
See many examples in Saul K. Padover, ed., Thomas Jefferson on Democracy (New York, 1939), 123–148; 151–2.
Walter F. McCaleb, Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen (New York, 1936), pp. 118–119.
Morris Hillquit, Loose Leaves From a Busy Life (New York, 1934), p. 318;
Paul H. Douglas, The Coming of a New Party (New York, 1932), p. 199; Wall Street Journal, November 4, 1924.
Jay Lovestone, La Follette—An Enemy of Labor: the Workers and La Follette (Chicago, n.d., 1924), copy in A. F. of L. Library.
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Bornet, V.D. (1964). The Path of Traditional Labor Politics. In: Labor Politics in a Democratic Republic. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-81699-6_2
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