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 8 (A) decreasing the hours of labor; (B) establishing governmental insurance against unemployment, at union rates, administered by the workers and financed by tax on profits and concentrated wealth; (C) temporary measures of relief (special works, etc.) pending achievement of more fundamental measures; (D) organization of unemployed workers to demand protection and relief, in close co-operation with trade unions and other workers' organizations.

(e) The very existence of the trade union movement is menaced by the rule of injunction law, together with other methods of depriving the workers of all civil rights. The immediate weapon of struggle against injunctions is, above all, by mass violations of all court orders which take away from the workers their hard-earned civil rights of organization, of striking, assemblance, picketing, press, etc. The T. U. E. L. calls for a well-organized campaign of mass-violation of injunctions against labor, and for all forms of intensive political struggle against injunctions.

(a) Company unionism is one of the most dangerous menaces against the labor movement. The T. U. E. L. calls for a militant fight against all its manifestations both inside and outside of the bona fide trade unions. The company unions established by the employers must be destroyed, if necessary by strikes and organization campaigns from the outside, and sometimes by working within them. The attempts of the reactionary officialdom to company-unionize the trade unions must be resisted, all class-collaboration theories must be fought against, and the trade unions made militant fighting organizations.

(b) A part of the general surrender-policy of trade union officialdom has been the adoption of the so-called Baltimore & Ohio Plan and similar schemes (including laws for collaboration, against strikes, etc. such as the Watson-Parker Law). Such plans, intruding the authority of the employer into the union machinery, transforming the union into an instrument of speeding-up workers and preventing strikes, constitute a perversion of unionism, a process of "company-unionizing" the trade unions, which, if continued, will ultimately destroy the labor movement. We must abolish the B. & O. Plan and similar schemes.

(c) Establishment of so-called