Resolutions and Decisions of the Second World Congress of the Red International of Labor Unions Held in Moscow November 1922. Labor Herald Library No. 6. Trade Union Educational League, Chicago. 1923.

Contents: Resolution on the Report of the Executive Bureau, Organization Problem of the Adherents of the R.I.L.U., The Capitalist Offensive and the United Front, R.I.L.U. and the Comintern, The High Cost of Living and Unemployment, The Struggle Against Imperialism and Militarism, The Trade Unions and the Co-operative Movement, The Trade Union Movement in Colonial and Semi-Colonial Countries, Appendix: Constitution of the Red International of Labor Unions. 46 pages.

The Labor Herald was the monthly publication of the Trade Union Educational League (TUEL), in immensely important link between the IWW of the 1910s and the CIO of the 1930s. It was begun by veteran labor organizer and Communist leader William Z. Foster in 1920 as an attempt to unite militants within various unions while continuing the industrial unionism tradition of the IWW, though it was opposed to “dual unionism” and favored the formation of a Labor Party. Although it would become financially supported by the Communist International and Communist Party of America, it remained autonomous, was a network and not a membership organization, and included many radicals outside the Communist Party. In 1924 Labor Herald was folded into Workers Monthly, an explicitly Party organ and in 1927 ‘Labor Unity’ became the organ of a now CP dominated TUEL. In 1929 and the turn towards Red Unions in the Third Period, TUEL was wound up and replaced by the Trade Union Unity League, a section of the Red International of Labor Unions (Profitern) and continued to publish Labor Unity until 1935. Labor Herald remains an important labor-orientated journal by revolutionaries in US left history and would be referenced by activists, along with TUEL, along after it’s heyday.

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