ABSTRACT
A closer resemblance to Fascist ‘Trade Unionism’ is to be found in the ‘Unions’ - “yellow Unions”, the French call them, which have been from time to time organised by employers in order to prevent their employees from joining real Trade Unions. ‘Company Unionism’ in the United States has been largely smashed. In the early months of the ‘New Deal’ the employers met the threat of unionisation by mass-enrolments of their employees in company Unions, which had at one time a larger paper membership than all the other Labour Unions in the country. The United Mine Workers had been driven by the necessities of their calling to organise the coal mines; and the Amalgamated Clothing Workers and, to a certain extent, the Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union had also created powerful societies on an inclusive basis. In France, Trade Unionism has been passing, during the last few years, through a remarkable process of regeneration.
