The Coming Force

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Excerpt from The Coming Force: The Labour Movement If, in the course of this inquiry, we can establish some unity of motive and purpose between them, we shall have done something to justify the effort. Socialism and Trade Unionism are commonly regarded as distinct factors of modern industrial and social progress. A man may be both, it is true, but he is assumed to be under the obligation if not the necessity of sustaining a certain duality of idea and motive. We commonly refer to the Trade Union and the Socialist sections of a political party which represents both sections and endeavours to interpret two distinct ideas by a single public policy. That, subject to certain real or assumed reservations, there is a common interest and a common motive is conclusively established. How broad is the basis of agreement and how small and inconsequent are the points of disagreement it is my purpose to show. Modern Trade Unionism presents a spectacle of astounding futility except in those departments of effort which have been inspired by Socialism. Even in those, the leaven of the old thrift-promoting fallacies has beggared the movement of possible good results. Except for the coherence and forward direction that the growing Socialistic tendencies have given it, the Trade Union world is a mass of cross purposes, personal intrigue and overlapping. The integral parts of the Trade Union Movement have been drifting further apart with the rapid development of sectionalism. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.