Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Labor's Challenge to the Social Order: Democracy Its Own Critic and Educator
It is from very able business men among these that we hear a new dialect. In all countries they note the ?ocking additions to trade unions and the still more momentous strengthening of these bodies by strategical alliances which may at any moment concentrate attack where the most vital public interests are at stake. The industrial technique of modern transportation furnishes this opportunity. To find among railways, longshoremen, trolleys, telegraph, tele phone, express and truck companies and in mines that labor is pooling its resources; to see why it does this; to see the weakening and even disappearance of the old local isolated craft union and the rise of a more class conscious organi zation, including scores of unions, is to see what is actually taking place.
Not a country has escaped the threats of this new phalanx. An Australian journalist speaks for many coun tries in thus describing his own.
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