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CONTENTS

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I. What Are Company Unions? 4
The Definition.
Relation to Other "Welfare" Schemes.
Backed by the Open Shoppers.
II. Extent of Company Unions. 8
Developments 1917 to Date.
The Railroad Company Unions.
III. Why Company Unions Are Installed. 12
The Chief Aim.
The Employers' Interests Primary.
To Offset the Union.
Rubber Stamp Committees.
A Bit of Oil History.
Employers as Labor Leaders.
"Passing On" the Wage Cut.
Strike Breaking.—Union Smashing.
Promoting Efficiency.
IV. Some Specimens. 19
Packing House Councils.
General Electric Company.
General Atterbury's Pennsylvania.
The Rockefeller Plan.
The Steel Workers Fare No Better.
The Plan for Pullman Porters.
The Mitten Method.
A Kodak Company's Plan.
International Harvester Company.
Southern Mills and Dr. Frank Crane.
Peace at the Pacific.
Plans and Spies at Passaic.
The Midvale Method.
Bethlehem and Buffalo.
The Wheeling Steel Corporation.
The United States Steel Corporation.
Samuel Insull's Views.
A Standard Oil Device.
V. Tactics of Company Unions. 46
Introducing the Plan.
The Yellow Dog Contract.
Using the Sub-Committee.
Discharging Trade Unionists.
Company Union Plus Spies Equals "Cooperation."
Political Uses of a Company Union.
No Outsiders Allowed!
No Discrimination!
Vehicles of Economic Propaganda.
VI. Organized Labor's Relation to the Company Union 59
Labor's Argument.
Capturing the Company Union.
VII. The Fight Against Company Unionism. 61
Index and Bibliography 65

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