Excerpt from The American Labor Year Book: 1917-18 The book is again divided into six parts. Articles dealing with the effect of the war on labor, the extent of collectivism and the reaction of the Socialist and labor movements toward the war are included in the first part of the volume. Part II con tains material regarding the labor movement in the United States, including accounts of various strikes, labor trials, the railway labor dispute and brief histories of two leading inter national unions. The editor hopes to print in every edition of the Year Book short histories of different labor unions, written by their active members, which will in time make up a collection of valuable material for the student of labor union history. 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.