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Labour Union

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The Labour Union was a small socialist political party based in London. The organisation was formed with the aim of bringing together workers who supported neither the Liberal Party nor the Conservative Party. An organising committee was established in 1888, chaired jointly by John Lincoln Mahon and Henry Alfred Barker, while Thomas Binning was its treasurer, and other members included Robert Banner and Alexander K. Donald. The large majority of its founders had recently left the Socialist League in opposition to the growing anarchist influence in that organisation, while a minority still held membership of the League. While much of its membership was in London, initially it attempted to establish provincial branches, with Tom Maguire and Fred Pickles joining in Bradford. The party was formally established at the start of 1889, with a platform including Irish Home Rule, the nationalisation of key industries, an eight-hour working day, and Parliamentary reforms similar to those earlier proposed by the Chartists. It also called for the formation of a national independent party of labour. This was based an influential document by Mahon, entitled "A Labour Programme", which had been published in 1888 with a foreword by Robert Cunninghame-Graham. In August, the platform was revised to include Scottish and Welsh home rule. At this time, Mahon stood down as joint leader, with Donald and Barker becoming joint secretaries. The organisation stood Barker as a candidate in the 1889 London County Council election in Hoxton, but he polled very poorly. Despite this, at the 1892 general election, it sponsored Donald as a candidate in Hoxton; he received only nineteen votes.

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Notable quotes

“States and public-sector unions may no longer extract agency fees from nonconsenting employees.”
— US Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito, Jr., writing for the 5-4 majority in the October 2017 ruling for Janus v. American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees, Council 31 to rule that it's unconstitutional to compel non-union employees to pay union fees.
“The heads of the unions have degenerated so fast and so far that now in many cases they are little better than Fascist agents, whose function it is to dragoon the working masses into still deeper and more helpless slavery to the employers.”
— William Z. Foster. "Right Wing Trade Union Leaders". Misleaders of Labor. Trade Union Educational League, 1927.
“Before everything else, the trades unions are necessary as building stones for the future economic parliament, which will be made up of chambers representing the various professions and occupations.”
— Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf, Volume Two - The National Socialist Movement, Chapter XII: ‘’The Trade-Union Question’’ (1926)
“Trade unions up to a certain point have been recognised now as organs for good. They are the only means by which workmen can protect themselves from the tyranny of those who employ them. But the moment that trade unions become tyrants in their turn, they are engines for evil: they have no right to prevent people from working on any terms that they choose.”
— Nathaniel Lindley, Baron Lindley, J., Lyons & Sons v. Wilkins (1896), 74 L. T. Rep. (N. S.) 364; reported in James William Norton-Kyshe, The Dictionary of Legal Quotations (1904), p. 238. See also Mogul Steamship Co. v. MacGregor, Gow, & Co., 66 L. T. Rep. (N. S.) 1; Temperton v. Russell and others, 69 L. T. Rep. (N. S.) 78.
“In 2018, unionized service workers earned a median wage of 802 dollars a week. Non-unionized service workers made on average, $261 less... almost a third less. In 2018, women who were in unions earned 21 percent more than non-unionized women. And African-Americans who were unionized earned nearly 20 percent more than African-Americans who were non-unionized.”
— Robert Reich in 5 Biggest Corporate Lies About Unions, Common Dreams, September 03, 2019
“When the factory came into existence... work became an indignity rather than a matter for pride. ... Organized labor has always consented to this entirely uncreative subjection.”
— Rexford Tugwell, The Industrial Discipline and the Governmental Arts (1933) as cited in Elements of Refusal (1999), p. 102

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Overview

The Labour Union was a small socialist political party based in London. The organisation was formed with the aim of bringing together workers who supported neither the Liberal Party nor the Conservative Party. An organising committee was established in 1888, chaired jointly by John Lincoln Mahon and Henry Alfred Barker, while Thomas Binning was its treasurer, and other members included Robert Banner and Alexander K. Donald. The large majority of its founders had recently left the Socialist League in opposition to the growing anarchist influence in that organisation, while a minority still held membership of the League. While much of its membership was in London, initially it attempted to establish provincial branches, with Tom Maguire and Fred Pickles joining in Bradford. The party was formally established at the start of 1889, with a platform including Irish Home Rule, the nationalisation of key industries, an eight-hour working day, and Parliamentary reforms similar to those earlier proposed by the Chartists. It also called for the formation of a national independent party of labour. This was based an influential document by Mahon, entitled "A Labour Programme", which had been published in 1888 with a foreword by Robert Cunninghame-Graham. In August, the platform was revised to include Scottish and Welsh home rule. At this time, Mahon stood down as joint leader, with Donald and Barker becoming joint secretaries. The organisation stood Barker as a candidate in the 1889 London County Council election in Hoxton, but he polled very poorly. Despite this, at the 1892 general election, it sponsored Donald as a candidate in Hoxton; he received only nineteen votes.

From Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Notable quotes

“States and public-sector unions may no longer extract agency fees from nonconsenting employees.”
— US Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito, Jr., writing for the 5-4 majority in the October 2017 ruling for Janus v. American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees, Council 31 to rule that it's unconstitutional to compel non-union employees to pay union fees.
“The heads of the unions have degenerated so fast and so far that now in many cases they are little better than Fascist agents, whose function it is to dragoon the working masses into still deeper and more helpless slavery to the employers.”
— William Z. Foster. "Right Wing Trade Union Leaders". Misleaders of Labor. Trade Union Educational League, 1927.
“Before everything else, the trades unions are necessary as building stones for the future economic parliament, which will be made up of chambers representing the various professions and occupations.”
— Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf, Volume Two - The National Socialist Movement, Chapter XII: ‘’The Trade-Union Question’’ (1926)
“Trade unions up to a certain point have been recognised now as organs for good. They are the only means by which workmen can protect themselves from the tyranny of those who employ them. But the moment that trade unions become tyrants in their turn, they are engines for evil: they have no right to prevent people from working on any terms that they choose.”
— Nathaniel Lindley, Baron Lindley, J., Lyons & Sons v. Wilkins (1896), 74 L. T. Rep. (N. S.) 364; reported in James William Norton-Kyshe, The Dictionary of Legal Quotations (1904), p. 238. See also Mogul Steamship Co. v. MacGregor, Gow, & Co., 66 L. T. Rep. (N. S.) 1; Temperton v. Russell and others, 69 L. T. Rep. (N. S.) 78.
“In 2018, unionized service workers earned a median wage of 802 dollars a week. Non-unionized service workers made on average, $261 less... almost a third less. In 2018, women who were in unions earned 21 percent more than non-unionized women. And African-Americans who were unionized earned nearly 20 percent more than African-Americans who were non-unionized.”
— Robert Reich in 5 Biggest Corporate Lies About Unions, Common Dreams, September 03, 2019
“When the factory came into existence... work became an indignity rather than a matter for pride. ... Organized labor has always consented to this entirely uncreative subjection.”
— Rexford Tugwell, The Industrial Discipline and the Governmental Arts (1933) as cited in Elements of Refusal (1999), p. 102

Quotes via Wikiquote (CC BY-SA), each with its original source.