A DEMONSTRATION OF WORKER PARTICIPATION IN COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION.

The article focuses on labor participation in community organization. It informs that labor unions are not philanthropic societies but mass organizations for mutual aid. Workers who join them do so, not out of a high-minded sense of moral responsibility, but because the union is seen as a means to the satisfaction of their own vital economic and psychological needs. This same point of view is reflected in the attitudes of working people and their leaders towards other institutions in community life. The most practical considerations of group self-interest motivate unions to claim a larger role in community life. To the intensely pragmatic trade union mind, this is the best way to begin. Most unions, no matter how pure and simple in their devotion to bread and butter objectives, have always been committed to broader community goals. It sprang from the war and from the acute health, housing, recreation and family adjustment problems, which emerged in cities swollen out of size with war industry and in-migration.