Mill workers of the Northeast talk about industrial development, working conditions, and trade unions

A powerful portrait of Maceo, committed anti-imperialist and heroic independence fighter.

"Here is the story of a union of 100,000 members which was the first to win the five-day forty-hour week;drove the dreaded Lepke-Gurrah gangsters and other racketeers out of the fur industry; set the example for labor by winning wage increases and other improvements in the depths of the worst economic depression in American history; broke the stranglehold of one of the most bureaucratic machines in the labor movement; achieved the thirty-five-hour week, the best working conditions and the highest wage scales in any American industry; defeated the combined attacks of employers, AFL and Socialist Party leaders, police and underworld; organized the open-shop citadels in the leather industry which no other union for more than half a century had been able to unionize; maintains unity and guarantees democratic rights to all, regardless of face, creed, color, religious or political beliefs."--from the dust jacket.