Labor Age
Labor Age was a monthly political magazine published from 1922 to 1933. The publisher was by the Labor Publication Society. It succeeded the Socialist Review, journal of the Intercollegiate Socialist Society. Labor Age advocated industrial unionism, economic planning, and workers' education. It reported extensively on innovative tactics for organizing nonunion workers in mass production industries, identifying tactics that would become standard procedure for union organizers in the 1930s and 1940s. Important figures associated with Labor Age were A. J. Muste, James Maurer, Harry W. Laidler, Fannia Cohn, and Louis Budenz.
The Socialist Review and Labor Age were the official publications of the League for Industrial Democracy from 1921–1929. In May 1929, the editors of Labor Age helped to form the Conference for Progressive Labor Action in order to counter what they considered growing pro-business tendencies in the American Federation of Labor.
In 1932, the CPLA voted to supplement the monthly Labor Age with a daily newspaper, called Labor Action, but that was never realized. Labor Age ceased publication after the February-March 1933 issue.
