A History of the Organized Business of Beer | Beer Brewers and The History of Their Work

Not only for the brewery workmen, but for workmen of other trades, this history of the brewery workmen's movement contains many a valuable lesson and many a good example. The progressive and militant spirit of the organization, especially the extraordinary solidarity which has obtained in the brewery workmen's movement, were the causes of the rapid success which was achieved. Without these it would have been impossible to gain the advantages which the Brewery Workmen's Union has won-that improvement which has actually come about in the condition of the brewery workmen in the last quarter of a century. The whole working class can learn from the history of the brewery workmen how and in what spirit trade struggles must be conducted. Not only the working class, however, but the capitalists also, may be able to learn something from this work. It is possible that there are still a few brewery capitalists here and there who imagine that the time will come when the brewery workmen's organization will be annihilated and the former idyllic conditions will return. If any such there be, let it be said to them here that in reading this book they may learn that modern industry and the modern labor movement are indissolubly connected, that the existence of the one without the other is hardly conceivable,