The Industrial Union Party (IUP) was a
US DeLeonist political party
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. The party proclaimed itself on 7 July 1933 at 1032 Prospect Avenue,
Bronx
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, Branch headquarters of its predecessor Industrial Union League (IUL). The new IUP immediately announced candidates in the New York City elections:
Adolph Silver for
Mayor
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,
Irving Oring for Comptroller, and Sam Brandon for President of
Alderman
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.
The party's publication, the ''Industrial Unionist'', was published first in May 1932 with its final issue in 1950. Most of the IUP would later reconstitute itself as the
League for Socialist Reconstruction.
Noting the roots of IUP in the
Socialist Labor Party
The Socialist Labor Party (SLP)"The name of this organization shall be Socialist Labor Party". Art. I, Sec. 1 of thadopted at the Eleventh National Convention (New York, July 1904; amended at the National Conventions 1908, 1912, 1916, 1920, 1924 ...
(SLP), IUP's split from the SLP reflected the impact of the Great Depression and the inability of the SLP to adjust to new events. Yet the immediate roots of the Industrial Union League were in the SLP's mass expulsion of Section Bronx during the 1920s. (''Industrial Unionist'' did not appear until 1932, but its first issue included Louis Lazarowitz' review of Walter H. Senior'
''The Bankruptcy of Reform'' published by the Industrial Union League itself).
In November 1933 a furniture union in
Jamestown, New York
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, the
United Workers of America, was founded on industrial unionist principles compatible with the views of the IUP. The union affiliated with the Bronx-based party in December of that year, and soon formed a "mixed trades" local in
Erie, Pennsylvania
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.
[''The Industrial Unionist'' Vol. 1 #8 New York : Greenwood Reprint Corp 1968]
See also
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References
External links
''C.I.O.: promise or menace?'' Industrial Unionist, vol. 2, no. 3
Lead story is the reconstitution of League into Party.
Political parties established in 1933
Defunct De Leonist parties in the United States
1933 establishments in New York City
History of the Bronx
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