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This cartoon from a CPLA monthly magazine illustrates its view of the AFL.

The Conference for Progressive Labor Action (CPLA) was a left-wing American political organization established in May 1929 by A. J. Muste, the director of Brookwood Labor College. The organization was established to promote industrial unionism and to work for reform of the American Federation of Labor. It dissolved itself in December 1933 to form the American Workers Party.

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Jacob Benjamin Salutsky

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criminal rather than labor issues. These new initiatives by the United Nations would lead to later debates at the World Conference on Women in Mexico City...

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Unemployed Councils

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nationalism Movement for Greater Israel Partners for Progressive Israel Rome and Jerusalem (text at Wikisource), a classic 1862 work on Labor Zionism by Moses...

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