Excerpt from Selected Articles on Trade Unions Out of the wealth of literature on trade unions, a limited selection for reprinting is planned to serve: 1. as a general historical, descriptive and critical exposition of the subject, 2. as the foundation for arguments on the benefits of trade unions to their members and to society. Advanced students of the subject may see no need of the general literature of so time-worn a subject, and no room for argument on what appears to be a one-sided topic. It should be remembered, however, that in many parts of our country, particularly where agriculture is the chief industry, trade unionism is absolutely unknown to the people, except through newspaper publicity given when some outrage of public welfare is charged against unionism. With a view to making this handbook useful to people whose sole knowledge has come from such sources, no blindly partisan literature has been reprinted. The publications of the American Federation of Labor and the National Association of Manufacturers are listed in the bibliography, and may be had by corresponding with the officers of those organizations. The bibliography is designed to be comprehensive enough to be of use to advanced students of the subject as well as to the general public and the debater. An earlier number of the Debaters' Handbook Series on the Open versus the Closed Shop contains an extensive bibliography. Duplication of reprints contained in the earlier number has been avoided. 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.