The Labour Split • in America The issue betWeen craft
unions and industrial 'Unions, familiar in this country,• has come finally to a head in the United States, and the supporters of the industrial union principle (i.e., the inclusion in one union of all types of men doing any kind of work in connexion with a single industry like mining) under Mr. John Lewis have, to the number of over a million, been ejected from the. old- established American Federation of Labour, in which the craft union principle prevails. That still leaves the A.F.L. with a membership of Over two millions, but the split is obviously serious.. Outside the United States its interest lies in the effects it may have on the Presidential election in November. But the prospect is that they will be negligible. Neither Mr. Roosevelt nor Mr. Landon is concerned with this issue, and neither has expressed himself on it. But the Republican candidate is essentially the employers' man, and the expectation is that Labour will be solid for Roosevelt.
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