Official Organ and Other Periodicals

The official organ of the Trade Union Educational League was a monthly magazine called The Labor Herald, edited by William Z. Foster. Managing Editor of the publication was Earl Browder. The publication was issued from an office at 106 N LaSalle Street in Chicago, with the first issue put on the street in March of 1922.

In 1924, the magazine was merged with The LIberator and Soviet Russia Pictorial in a 3-to-make-1 amalgamation to form The Workers Monthly.

There were also at least half a dozen periodicals issued by TUEL affiliates. The oldest was The Industrialist, devoted to the printing industry. This publication seems to have predated TUEL itself and in 1923 became the official organ of the International Committee for Amalgamation in the Printing Trades Unions. It was a monthly, published by E.L. Lee, 520 W 163rd Street in New York.

The Railroad Amalgamation Advocate was established in 1922 and published twice a month. It was the official organ of the International Committee for Amalgamatioin in the Railroad Industry, Otto H. Wangerin, Secretary. Its editorial office was located at 411 Dakota Bldg., St. Paul, MN.

The Progressive Miner was published by the Executive Committee of the Progressive International Committee of the United Mine Workers of America. This paper was issued twice a month in seven different languages. Its editorial office was located at 35 Miller Street, Pittsburgh, PA.

The Metal Trades Amalgamation Bulletin was issued by John Werlik, Secretary of the International Committee for Amalgamation in the Metal Industry. The publication was a four page newspaper, established in the latter half of 1923 and projected as a monthly -- although no information is available as to whether this production cycle was maintained. The editorial office was located at 1432 S Keeler Avenue in Chicago.

The Needle Trades Worker was the organ of the Needle Trades Section of TUEL and was established in October of 1923.The publication was produced in an office loated at 208 E 12th Street, New York City.

The Progressive Building Trades Worker was the publication of the International Committee for Amalgamation of the Building Trades. The first issue of this publication was published on Nov. 1, 1923. The cause of amalgamation in the building trades was the key cause advanced in this publication's pages. The paper was produced from an office located at 156 W Washington Street, Chicago.

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In 1927, a new TUEL monthly magazine was launched, a publication called Labor Unity. This magazine continued publication into the middle 1930s as the official organ of the Trade Union Unity League (TUUL), the successor to TUEL.

 

Pamphlets and Book

Foster, William Z. --- The Railroaders' Next Step --- n.d. [1921] Labor Herald Library no. 1. -- Note: Revised Second Edition of this was entitled The Railroaders' Next Step -- Amalgamation (c. 1922). Price: 25 cents, 15 cents in bulk.

Foster, William Z. --- The Russian Revolution. --- n.d. [1921]. Labor Herald Library no. 2. -- hc and pap (hc issued w/dj as above).

Foster, William Z. --- The Revolutionary Crisis of 1918-1921 in Germany, England, Italy and France. -- n.d. [c. 1922]. Labor Herald Library no. 3. Price: 25 cents, 15 cents in bulk.

Foster, William Z. --- The Bankruptcy of the American Labor Movement. --- Written Oct. 1922. Labor Herald Library no. 4. Price: 25 cents, 15 cents in bulk.

Fox, Jay --- Amalgamation. --- n.d. [1922]. Labor Herald Library no. 5. Price: 15 cents, 10 cents in bulk.

Resolutions and Decisions, Second World Congress of the Red International of Labor Unions, Held in Moscow, November 1922. --- n.d. [1923] Labor Herald Library no. 6. Price: 15 cents, 10 cents in bulk.

Tomsky, M. [Mikhail] --- The Russian Trade Unions in 1923. --- n.d. [1923]. Labor Herald Library no. 7. Price: 10 cents, 7 cents in bulk.

Nin, Andreas --- Struggle of the Trade Unions Against Fascism. Introduction by Earl Browder -- 1923. Labor Herald Library no. 8. Price: 15 cents, 10 cents in bulk.

Dunne, William F. --- William F. Dunne's Speech at the AF of L Convention: Portland, 1923. --- 1923. Labor Herald Library no. 9. Price: 5 cents, 3.5 cents in bulk.

Losovsky, A. --- The World's Trade Union Movement. M.A. Skromny, trans.--- 1924. Labor Herald Library no. 10.

Foster, William Z. --- Russia in 1924. --- n.d. [1924]. Labor Herald Library no. 11. This was OOP by Oct. 1924.

Resolutions and Decisions: Third World Congress of the Red International of Labor Unions, Held in Moscow, July, 1924. --- 1924. Labor Herald Library no. 12.

Losovsky, A. --- Lenin: The Great Strategist of the Class War. --- [Sept. 1924]. Labor Herald Library no. 13. 15,000 printed

Losovsky, A. --- Lenin and the Trade Union Movement. --- n.d. [1925]. Labor Herald Library no. 14.

Dunn, Robert W. --- Company Unions. --- n.d. [1926]. Labor Herald Library no. 15.

Foster, William Z. --- Russian Workers and Workshops in 1926. --- n.d. [1926]. Labor Herald Library no. 16.

Foster, William Z. --- Organize the Unorganized. --- n.d. [1926]. Labor Herald Library no. 17.

Foster, William Z. --- Strike Strategy. --- 1926. Labor Herald Library no. 18.

Foster, William Z. --- The Watson-Parker Law: The Latest Scheme to Hamstring Railroad Unionism. --- 1927. Labor Herald Library no. 19.

Foster, William Z. --- Wrecking the Labor Banks: The Collapse of the Labor Banks and Investment Companies of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers. --- n.d. [1927]. Labor Herald Library no. 20.

 

Leaflets

"A Political Party for Labor." --- [circa Dec. 1922] --- A manifesto by the National Committee of TUEL, 4 pp. Copy f. 515, op. 1, d. 210, l. 182.

"Is the Trade Union Educational League a Dual Union?" -- [circa Oct. 1923]

"The United Front." -- [circa Oct. 1923]

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