[Rarebooks] FS: Trade Union Educational League Handbill

[Karen Howell]

Offered today:

Trade Union Educational League.

Railroad Unionists Come to the Big Meeting for Amalgamation!

[Chicago]: Trade Union Educational League, [circa 1920 or 1921].

Handbill.  9 x 6 inches.  Printed on one side within a ruled border, folded twice, the paper is brown, but this may be the color as originally issued; text clean, unmarked.  SCARCE.  Very Good. 

This handbill announces a meeting to take place at Ashland Auditorium at Ashland Blvd. & Van Buren Street in Chicago on April 11th at 8 pm (no year, but circa 1920 or 1921).  Good Speakers, including, H. Brown, Member of Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen; Wm. Ross Knudsen, International Association of Machinists; and Wm. Z. Foster, member of the Brotherhood of Railway Carmen and founder of the Trade Union Educational League.  The Trade Union Educational League was established by William Z. Foster in 1920 as a means of uniting radicals within various trade unions for a common plan of action.  The organization sought to both fund itself and spread its ideas through the sale of pamphlets and circulation of a monthly magazine.  The group was marginalized by the unions of the American Federation of Labor, which objected to its strategy of "boring from within" existing unions in order to depose sitting union leadership.  In 1929 the organization became the Trade Union United League which sought to establish radical dual unions in competition with existing labor organizations.  The only copy currently in the trade; no copies in Worldcat.

$85; reciprocal trade discount applies.

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Sincerely,

John Howell, ABAA, ILAB, IOBA

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