Radical Marxist and other African-American auto workers subsequently formed DRUM . From 1968 to 1971 DRUM and the league acted as a dual union, with black leadership, within the United Auto Workers.
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Their members were also active in the existing trade unions, in contrast to the KPD, which launched a policy of forming radical " dual unions " during the so-called Third Period between 1929 and 1934.
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Harriman broke with the SLP during the acrimonious split of 1899, which was largely linked to the SLP's insistence on establishing competing socialist dual unions with the existing trade unions affiliated with the American Federation of Labor.
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In the United States the principal impact of the Third Period was to end the CPUSA's efforts to organize within the AFL through the Trade Union Educational League and to turn its efforts into organizing dual unions through the Trade Union Unity League.
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In the field of trade unions, a move was made during the Third Period towards the establishment of radical dual unions under communist party control rather than continuation of the previous policy of attempting to radicalize existing unions by " boring from within ."
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The Foster and Ruthenberg factions likewise blamed each other for the defeat of the 1926 strike of textile workers in Passaic, New Jersey, in which the Ruthenberg leadership supported an overt Party role in the strike and what amounted to creation of a dual union.
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The convention repudiated the Socialist Trade and Labor Alliance, the hated " dual union " umbrella organization established by the regular SLP in 1896 in opposition to the AF of L, instead proclaiming its support for the struggles of all trade unions without regard to affiliation.
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Jakira was the Communist Party's District Organizer for the Pittsburgh district in 1928 and was influential in helping to organize the National Miners Union, a radical " dual union " established by the party through its Trade Union Unity League arm late in that year.
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Lenin and other Comintern leaders disagreed sharply with the demand of the left-wing communists that new explicitly revolutionary dual unions should be established and supported, arguing the 25 million workers participating in unions affiliated with the Amsterdam International had already made their basic organizational decision.
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While Foster and the CP had enjoyed a close relation with Sidney Hillman and the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America, it began organizing an opposition caucus within the ACWA . Hillman declared the TUEL formation to be a dual union and suspended its leaders, including Benjamin Gitlow.
