Excerpt from Admission to American Trade Unions Another form of cooperation, which appeared with the movement toward general union from 1830 on, was the recommendation by a central convention Of trades Of the organization of certain classes of workers. For example, the National Trades' Union, although in 1835 it directed the workingmen of its constituent societies to oppose by all honest means the multiplying of all descriptions Of labor for females,2 and in the following year again deplored the evil of competition with women, advised the trades afiected by the work Of women to admit them to membership or to organize them into auxiliary societies.3 Furthermore, the National Trades' Union at this time sanctioned the forma tion of societies composed Of workmen from more than one trade, or the admission into any trade society of workmen from difi'erent trades.4 The Boston cordwainers' society in 1840 thus extended the privileges of membership to out side workmen Of unorganized trades. This liberal policy was seldom adopted as a means Of securing members, inas much as it involved a disregard of trade lines. The local character of unionism rendered as yet impossible the formu lation, and much less the enforcement, of a concerted plan with reference to the composition Of union membership. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.