The Armies of Labor: A Chronicle of the Organized Wage-Earners

by Samuel Peter Orth

[INDEX]

A

Aberdeen (S. D.), I. W. W. in, [212].
Adamson Law (eight-hour railroad law), [133] (note), [160], [164]-[166], [247].
Agrarian Party, [224].
Akron (O.), strike in rubber works, [206]-[207].
Albany, trade unions in, [34].
Albany Mechanical Society (1801), [22].
Allegheny City, ten-hour controversy in cotton mills, [54].
Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers, [126].
Amalgamated Labor Union, [88].
Amalgamated Wood Workers’ Association, [109].
Amboy (Ill.), Conductors’ Union organized (1868), [150].
American Alliance for Labor and Democracy, [101]-[102].
American Association for Labor Legislation, [251].
“American Cossacks”, [254].
American Federation of Labor, suggested at Terre Haute (1881), [88]; established (1886), [89]; growth, [89]-[90], organization, [90]-[93], [112]; Gompers and, [94] et seq.; financial policy, [97]; and Great War, [100] et seq.; and labor readjustment, [107]; attitude toward socialism, [108], [111], [245], [256]; tendency toward amalgamating allied trades, [109]-[110]; and unskilled labor, [109]; importance, [110]-[111]; Mitchell and, [128]; and Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, [133] (note); and Buck’s Stove and Range Company boycott, [181]; and Danbury Hatters’ case, [184]; and I. W. W., [194]; and Lawrence Mill Workers, [203]; and politics, [242], [245]-[246], [256]; influences legislation, [246]-[252]; and American Labor Party movement, [255]-[256].
American Federationist, organ of American Federation of Labor, [92], [181], [195].
American Labor Party, movement for forming, [255].
America Newspaper Publishers Association, [169].
American Railway Union, and strikes, [158], [159]; Debs president of, [243].
Anthracite Coal Strike (1902), [113], [129]-[130], [174]; Commission cross-examines Mitchell, [130] (note).
Anti-Boycott Association, [180].
Anti-Monopolist Party, [233].
Arbitration, [85]-[86]; law providing for settlement of railway disputes (1888), [85]; in Anthracite Coal Strike, [129]-[130]; Board to deal with railway problems (1912), [146]-[150]; Erdman Act (1898), [146], [162]; Federal legislation (1883), [161]-[162]; Newlands Law (1913), [162]; Brotherhoods refuse (1916), [163]-[164].
Arizona, “hobo” labor in, [190].
Arkwright, Sir Richard, invents roller spinning machine, [7].
Arnold, F. W., [154].
Arthur, P. M., [141]-[143].
Association of Longshoremen, [117].
Aurora, Philadelphia newspaper, [23].

B

Baltimore, guilds before Revolution in, [21]; tailors’ strike (1795), [22]; early unions in, [34]; Baltimore and Ohio strikes, [57], [67]; Labor Congress (1866), [73].
Bancroft, H. H., quoted, [241]-[242].
Bank, United States, as political issue, [27].
Beecher, H. W., and eight-hour day, [71].
Belgium, syndicalism in, [189]; general strikes, [200].
Bell, A. G., and the telephone, [64].
Benson, A. L., presidential candidate (1916), [243]-[244].
Bentham, Jeremy, Place and, [17].
Berger, Victor, [244], [245].
Berne (Switzerland), labor conference at, [105]-[106].
Billings (Mont.), treatment of I. W. W. leaders in, [216].
Bisbee (Ariz.), I. W. W. strikers in, [216].
Bolshevists, Gompers’s attitude toward, [108]; and I. W. W., [218].
Boston, early trade unions in, [34]; strike benefits in, [39]; coöperative movement, [46]-[47]; strikes because of cost of living (1853), [57]; eight-hour societies, [70]; workingman’s party, [227].
Boston Labor Reform Association circulates Steward’s pamphlet, [71].
Boston Trades Union, [33].
Bowerman, Charles, [257].
Boycott, Captain, [177] (note).
Boycott, [177] et seq.; used against convict labor, [37]; union label as weapon, [184]-[186]; court injunction to prevent, [252].
Braidwood (Ill.), Mitchell at, [127]-[128].
Brewer, Justice D. J., on strike violence, [174].
Brewery workers and control of coopers, [118].
Brisbane, Albert, [47].
Brissenden, J. G., The Launching of the Industrial Workers of the World, cited, [196] (note).
Brook Farm experiment, [41].
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, origin, [133]; and American Federation of Labor, [133] (note); character, [134]; supervision of members, [135]-[136]; excludes firemen, [136]; attitude toward nonmembers, [136]-[137]; business policy, [137]-[138]; activities, [138]-[140]; organization, [140]; and Firemen’s Brotherhood, [154].
Brotherhood of the Footboard, [133].
Brotherhood of Trainmen, [156].
Brush, C. F., and electric lighting, [64].
Buck’s Stove and Range Company of St. Louis, boycott case, [180]-[182], [254].
Buffalo, machinists’ strike (1880), [67]-[68]; annual convention of Federation of Labor (1917), [101]; railway strike (1877), [174]; I. W. W. disclosures, [217].
Burns, John, [123].
Butler, General B. F., [232]-[233].
Butte (Mont.), Western Federation of Miners organized at, [192].

C

California, effect of discovery of gold on cost of living, [57]; “hobo” labor in, [190]; political labor movement, [238]-[242]; Workingman’s party, [239]; new constitution, [241].
Cannon, J. G., [248].
Carlyle, Thomas, [18]; and British industrial conditions, [9]; Emerson writes to, [41].
Carter, W. S., [154]-[156].
Cedar Rapids (Ia.), headquarters of Order of Railway Conductors, [150].
Charleston Navy Yard, eight-hour day in (1842), [70].
Chevalier, Michael, quoted, [37].
Chicago, stockyards’ strike (1880), [67]; Haymarket riots, [68], [83]-[84]; Railway strike (1877), [174]; “floaters” winter in, [190]; conferences organize I. W. W., [193]-[194]; revolutionary branch of I. W. W. in, [196]; I. W. W. offices raided, [217]; Labor Party conference, [235]; movement to form American Labor party, [255].
Child labor, [28]; in England, [9]; Greeley and, [52]-[53]; Paris peace treaty and, [107]; State regulation, [250].
Chinese denounced in California, [238], [239].
Cigar-makers’ International Union, Gompers and, [94].
Cincinnati, becomes manufacturing town (1820), [26]; early Unions in, [34]; coöperative movement in, [45], [46]; Railway strike (1877), [174]; National Union party organized (1887), [233].
Civil War, condition of the United States after, [63]-[64].
Clark, E. E., [151].
Clayton Act, [100], [184], [247].
Cleveland, Grover, Message (1886), [85]; and Pullman strike, [174].
Cleveland, Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers own building in, [140]; Firemen’s Magazine published in, [156]; I. W. W. disclosures, [217].
Clinton, De Witt, [23].
Collective bargaining, trade unions and, [168]-[171].
Colorado, miners’ strikes, [174], [193]; “hobo” labor in, [190]; labor ticket (1888), [237].
Columbia, puddlers’ strike (1880), [67].
Columbus, American Federation of Labor established (1886), [89]; Order of Conductors organized (1868), [150].
Combinations in restraint of trade, origin of doctrine, [16]; in England, [17].
Coming Nation, A. H. Simons editor of, [195].
Commerce of Great Britain, [6].
Commons, J.R., [29]-[30].
Communistic colonies, Owen’s attempts, [40]-[41]; Brook Farm, [41].
Comstock, Russell, [223].
Confédération Général du Travail, [189].
Congress, Homestead Act (1862), [50]; establishes eight-hour day for public work, [71]; Clayton bill (1914), [100], [184], [247]; eight-hour railroad law, [133] (note), [160], [164]-[165], [166], [247]; Wilson and, [164]; and I. W. W., [216]; American Federation of Labor, [247].
Connecticut, delegates to the national cordwainers’ convention (1836), [35]; labor politics, [227], labor ticket (1872), [237].
Conspiracy, legal doctrine in England, [15]-[16]; strikers tried for, [23]; trials in New York City, [23]-[24], [32]; acting in unison considered, [28].
Convict labor, [36]; boycott used against, [37].
Cooper, Peter, [231].
Coöperative movement, [45]-[48]; [58].
Corn laws, [6].
Cost of living, bread riots caused by high, [39]; Mooney on (1850), [43]-[44]; in 1853, [57]; Stone’s attempt to adjust wages to meet, [144].
Council of National Defense, [102]-[103].
Crompton, Samuel, and spinning machine, [7].

D

Daily Advertiser, New York, on strikes (1834), [172].
Daily People, DeLeon editor of, [195].
Danbury Hatters’ Boycott, [180], [182]-[184].
Daniels, Newell, [74].
Davis, Judge David, [230].
Debs, E. V., [154], [195], [243], [253].
Debt, imprisonment for, [36].
Declaration of Independence, [1].
Defoe, Daniel, on domestic system of manufacture, [4]-[5].
Delaware, delegates to national cordwainers’ convention (1836), [35].
DeLeon, Daniel, [195].
Democratic party and ten-hour day, [53].
Detroit, headquarters for Socialist factions of I. W. W., [196]; I. W. W. offices raided, [217].
Direct action, [200]-[201].
Dover, (N. H.), mill girls’ strike (1829), [55].
Duncan, James, [124].