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Organize! Join the Trade Union Educational League. This is an organization to carry on educational work in the trade union movement. It aims to infuse the mass with revolutionary understanding and spirit. It is working for the closer affiliation and solidification of our existing unions until they have been developed into industrial unions. Believing that all workers should stand together regardless of their opinions, it is opposed to the policy of radical and progressive-minded workers quitting the trade unions and starting rival organizations. That policy is one of the chief reasons why the American labor movement is not further advanced. Its principal effects are to destroy all radical organization in the old unions and to leave the reactionaries in undisputed control.

The Trade Union Educational League is in no sense a dual union, nor is it affiliated with any such organization. It is purely an informal, educational body of militants within existing unions, who are seeking through the application of modern methods, to bring the policies and structure of the labor movement into harmony with present-day economic conditions. It bespeaks the active co-operation of all militant union workers.

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