Harry Bridges by Cherny Robert W.;

Author:Cherny, Robert W.;
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Political Science / Labor & Industrial Relations
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 2022-10-17T00:00:00+00:00

In April 1953, at the convention, Bridges and the officers took a more serious look at the union, its origins, its struggles, and the principles that had guided its development over the previous twenty years. They listed these as “ten cardinal rules”; the ten were reduced to nine statements and unanimously approved in a resolution:

The membership is the best judge of its own welfare.

Labor unity is the key to successful economic advancement.

An injury to one is an injury to all.

No union can permit internal disunity.

Union organization must match employer organization.

Organize the unorganized.

Workers are workers the world over.

Social gains are as important as wage gains.

Jurisdictional warfare and raiding must be outlawed by labor itself.

These principles, including the officers’ original third cardinal rule, “Workers are indivisible. There can be no discrimination because of race, color, creed, national origin, religious or political belief, sex,” with more of the officers’ original text and periodic updating, became the ILWU’s Ten Guiding Principles that are still cited today.72

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