Industrial unions serving the interests of the proletariat (working class) will bring about the change needed to establish a socialist system.
A strict adherent to pacifism, the NUP denounced political violence as a method of achieving revolution.
[1] The NUP was, like all similar organizations, based on the ideas on Karl Marx, Frederich Engels, and Daniel De Leon.
[6] The New Union Party, like other De Leonist groups, ran candidates for political office and organized workers outside of electoral campaigns.
Party ephemera and its publications are held at Washington State University Libraries Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections.