Logo
Unionpedia
Communication
Get it on Google Play
New! Download Unionpedia on your Android™ device!
Free
Faster access than browser!
 

Workers' Unity League

Index Workers' Unity League

The Workers' Unity League (WUL) was established in January 1930 as a militant industrial union labour central closely related to the Communist Party of Canada on the instructions of the Communist International. [1]

21 relations: All-Canadian Congress of Labour, American Federation of Labor, Canada, Communist International, Communist Party of Canada, Congress of Industrial Organizations, Entryism, Estevan riot, Fascism, Industrial unionism, Lumber Workers Industrial Union of Canada, Mine Workers' Union of Canada, National Minority Movement, On-to-Ottawa Trek, Popular front, Profintern, Relief Camp Workers' Union, Third Period, Tom McEwen (politician), Trade Union Unity League, Trades and Labour Congress of Canada.

All-Canadian Congress of Labour

The All-Canadian Congress of Labour (ACCL) was a Canadian national labour confederation, which existed from 1926 to 1940.

New!!: Workers' Unity League and All-Canadian Congress of Labour · See more »

American Federation of Labor

The American Federation of Labor (AFL) was a national federation of labor unions in the United States founded in Columbus, Ohio, in December 1886 by an alliance of craft unions disaffected from the Knights of Labor, a national labor union.

New!!: Workers' Unity League and American Federation of Labor · See more »

Canada

Canada is a country located in the northern part of North America.

New!!: Workers' Unity League and Canada · See more »

Communist International

The Communist International (Comintern), known also as the Third International (1919–1943), was an international communist organization that advocated world communism.

New!!: Workers' Unity League and Communist International · See more »

Communist Party of Canada

The Communist Party of Canada (Parti communiste du Canada, CPC/PCC) is a communist political party in Canada founded in 1921 under conditions of illegality.

New!!: Workers' Unity League and Communist Party of Canada · See more »

Congress of Industrial Organizations

The Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) was a federation of unions that organized workers in industrial unions in the United States and Canada from 1935 to 1955.

New!!: Workers' Unity League and Congress of Industrial Organizations · See more »

Entryism

Entryism (also referred to as entrism or enterism, or as infiltration) is a political strategy in which an organisation or state encourages its members or supporters to join another, usually larger, organisation in an attempt to expand influence and expand their ideas and program.

New!!: Workers' Unity League and Entryism · See more »

Estevan riot

The Estevan riot, also known as the Black Tuesday Riot, was a confrontation between the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and striking coal miners from nearby Bienfait, Saskatchewan which took place in Estevan, Saskatchewan on September 29, 1931.

New!!: Workers' Unity League and Estevan riot · See more »

Fascism

Fascism is a form of radical authoritarian ultranationalism, characterized by dictatorial power, forcible suppression of opposition and control of industry and commerce, which came to prominence in early 20th-century Europe.

New!!: Workers' Unity League and Fascism · See more »

Industrial unionism

Industrial unionism is a labour union organizing method through which all workers in the same industry are organized into the same union—regardless of skill or trade—thus giving workers in one industry, or in all industries, more leverage in bargaining and in strike situations.

New!!: Workers' Unity League and Industrial unionism · See more »

Lumber Workers Industrial Union of Canada

The Lumber Workers Industrial Union of Canada was a trade union of lumberjacks in Canada.

New!!: Workers' Unity League and Lumber Workers Industrial Union of Canada · See more »

Mine Workers' Union of Canada

The Mine Workers' Union of Canada was a trade union in the mining sector in Canada.

New!!: Workers' Unity League and Mine Workers' Union of Canada · See more »

National Minority Movement

The National Minority Movement was a British organisation, established in 1924 by the Communist Party of Great Britain, which attempted to organise a radical presence within the existing trade unions.

New!!: Workers' Unity League and National Minority Movement · See more »

On-to-Ottawa Trek

The On-to-Ottawa Trek was a long journey where a thousand unemployed men protested the dismal conditions in federal relief camps scattered in remote areas across Western Canada.

New!!: Workers' Unity League and On-to-Ottawa Trek · See more »

Popular front

A popular front is a broad coalition of different political groupings, usually made up of leftists and centrists.

New!!: Workers' Unity League and Popular front · See more »

Profintern

The Red International of Labor Unions (RILU) (Russian: Красный интернационал профсоюзов — Krasnyi internatsional profsoyuzov), commonly known as the Profintern, was an international body established by the Communist International with the aim of coordinating Communist activities within trade unions.

New!!: Workers' Unity League and Profintern · See more »

Relief Camp Workers' Union

The Relief Camp Workers' Union (RCWU) was the union into which the inmates of the Canadian government relief camps were organized in the early 1930s.

New!!: Workers' Unity League and Relief Camp Workers' Union · See more »

Third Period

The Third Period is an ideological concept adopted by the Communist International (Comintern) at its Sixth World Congress, held in Moscow in the summer of 1928.

New!!: Workers' Unity League and Third Period · See more »

Tom McEwen (politician)

Thomas Alexander "Tom" McEwen (February 11, 1891 – May 11, 1988) was a Canadian labour organizer and Communist politician.

New!!: Workers' Unity League and Tom McEwen (politician) · See more »

Trade Union Unity League

The Trade Union Unity League (TUUL) was an industrial union umbrella organization under the Communist Party of the United States (CPUSA) between 1929 and 1935.

New!!: Workers' Unity League and Trade Union Unity League · See more »

Trades and Labour Congress of Canada

The Trades and Labour Congress of Canada was a Canada-wide central federation of trade unions from 1883 to 1956.

New!!: Workers' Unity League and Trades and Labour Congress of Canada · See more »

Redirects here:

WUL, Workers Unity League, Workers’ Unity League.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Workers'_Unity_League

OutgoingIncoming
Hey! We are on Facebook now! »