Industrial Union Convention

Industrial Union Convention has a number of meanings. Among them are:

  • First Convention of the Industrial Workers of the World, also known as the Industrial Union Convention, was the founding convention of the Industrial Workers of the World.
  • The founding convention of the Congress of Industrial Organizations, also known as the industrial union convention.
  • Any convention by an industrial union.

Famous quotes containing the words industrial, union and/or convention:

    I am convinced that ... we have reestablished confidence. Wages should remain stable. A very large degree of industrial unemployment and suffering which would otherwise have occurred has been prevented.
    Herbert Hoover (1874–1964)

    Some are petitioning the State to dissolve the Union, to disregard the requisitions of the President. Why do they not dissolve it themselves,—the union between themselves and the State,—and refuse to pay their quota into its treasury? Do not they stand in the same relation to the State that the State does to the Union? And have not the same reasons prevented the State from resisting the Union which have prevented them from resisting the State?
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    No convention gets to be a convention at all except by grace of a lot of clever and powerful people first inventing it, and then imposing it on others. You can be pretty sure, if you are strictly conventional, that you are following genius—a long way off. And unless you are a genius yourself, that is a good thing to do.
    Katharine Fullerton Gerould (1879–1944)