The membership alone is no indication of the act1 power of existing organization or of group action. ne simple facts that organizations do exist, and that w ones may form at any moment, for purposes her temporary or permanent, create a potential rce equal in ultimate results to the recognized acmplishments of the labor unions. The very rapidity th which one labor event has followed another is measure of the potential power of organized labor. hile the rapid succession of events is making hisry old before the events can be recorded, the comrative values of the principles and methods preached d practised, can be gaged as never before on acunt of their diversity and extended appeal. STANFORD LIBRARY AMERICAN LABOR UNIONS CHAPTER I PHILANTHROPY AND LABOR UNIONS anthropic movement-Difference between the two movements, in aim and methods-No question of rivalryDifference between benevolent and self-imposed measures -Reform movements not co-extensive with democracy but with bureaucracy. a policy on the part of the most liberal of social rmers to include labor unions as far as possible eir many schemes for general social uplift. They d the movements which they initiate for labor labor's own movements as common agencies for oving the material conditions surrounding induss well as the lives of the workers themselves. effort of the many agencies and the improved tions constitute the forces of a "New Deacy" or are, rather, the new democracy itself.1 - agencies are, indeed, not confined to any class; include employers, and they draw their moral nancial support from large and small capitalists. ere are employers who are building sanitary workand developing elaborate schemes of welfare women's clubs and consumers' leagues are 'For Notes, see end of volume. |