The Tobacco Workers International Union

Abstract

I. Conditions in the tobacco industry, 606. — II. The TWIU before the First World War, 607; thereafter, 607. — III. Reasons for the Union's policy, 612. — IV. The problem of organizing the Negro workers, 613. — V. Development of a rival union, 615. — VI. The TWIU convention in 1939 and the developments preceding it, 618. — VII. The TWIU under the new administration, 622. — VIII. Reasons for the displacement of the old leaders, 625.