Association of Catholic Trade Unionists

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The Association of Catholic Trade Unionists (ACTU) was a labor organization associated with

Catholic Worker newspaper (founded in 1933 by Dorothy Day and Peter Maurin
).

History

The Association of Catholic Trade Unionists, or ACTU, formed in founded in February 1937.[citation needed]

The ACTU encouraged

communists and other radical trade union organizers affiliated with the Communist Party USA.[1]
While not a union itself, the ACTU sought to "educate, stimulate, and coordinate on a Christian basis the action of the Catholic workingmen and women in the American labor movement."

The ACTU played an important role in opposing left-wings in a number of unions. Such unions including the United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America (UE) and Transport Workers Union of America (TWUA). It played a particularly important role in building the International Union of Electrical Workers, which split from UE. In late 1939, the ACTU described the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) as a "breeding nest of American Communism."[2]

Following World War II, the ACTU declined and eventually dissolved in the late 1960s.[2][3][4][5][6]

Notable members

References

  1. Commonweal Magazine
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  2. ^ a b Lubienecki, P. (2015). Catholic Labor Education and the Association of Catholic Trade Unionists. Instructing Workers to Christianize the Workplace. Journal of Catholic Education, 18 (2). http://dx.doi.org/10.15365/joce.1802062015
  3. JSTOR 44210275
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  4. ISBN 0-8387-2193-1
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  5. S2CID 153419111
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  6. doi:10.1080/00346765600000012
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