The trade unions, far from being content with these declarations, established international liaisons and supported every policy based on pacification and understanding.
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The working classes were becoming more and more sharply aware of the complex causes of international malaise.
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At Leeds the idea of an international labour organization appeared in a trade-union text which also drew attention to the danger to the working classes inherent in the existence of international capitalist competition.
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This led me to understand that trade unionism, the instrument of working-class liberation and of social change could, and indeed should, be also an instrument of industrial progress.
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On completion of my military service, I went back to the factory and to the trade union.
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We too, through lack of knowledge and of sufficiently mature reflection, mistook the visible outward appearance of the phenomenon for the phenomenon itself.
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