Formation of non-party workers LEAGUE.
The ideological and organizational prerequisites for a Non-Partisan League Working
American Federation of Labor, which united in 1886. The majority of U.S. unions, since its inception has been involved in political activity, which was considered the leadership of the AFL as "an aid in relation to collective bargaining." The basis of this activity throughout the period from 1886 to 1935. Lay bourgeois ideological doctrine of voluntarism, professed leaders of the American Federation of Labor. According to the bourgeois ideology of voluntarism unions were committed to private property, the capitalist system of class collaboration in order to improve this system. The leaders of the American Federation of Labor successfully used the theory to justify voluntarism and separatism closed shop trade union movement, to ensure relative prosperity to a narrow circle of highly skilled workers, united in that period in American Federation of Labor. They opposed the participation of trade unions in the struggle for social progress and the advancement of the lower strata of American society. In accordance with the political activities of the American Federation of pile was limited and was subject to influence from the bourgeois parties, which found its clearest expression in two main areas of political activity of the American Federation of Labor: The fight for law and participation in election campaigns. The most important was the lobbying (the struggle for the adoption of laws favorable to trade unions), is a key form of political activity of the federation. Especially for this purpose in 1895. The American Federation of Labor was created by a legislative committee originally consisted of three. During the sessions of Congress, they were in Washington as a "legal representatives of the American Federation of Labor," to put pressure on members of Congress in the fight against any bill or for it in accordance with the position of the federation.