Abstract
SOME SIXTY years AGO, Charles Beard and Mary Beard speculated in The Rise of American Civilization that when the full story of self-government in America is written, reviewing the commonplace no less than the spectacular, pages on the cellular growth of local craft unions will be placed besides the records of town meetings; while chapters on the formation of national labor structures will comple ment the sections on the origin and development of the federal Constitution. Someday historians would recognize and document the prosaic effort of trade union agents and secretaries that had helped bring about an immense and compact organization of industrial workers capable of supporting their demands
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