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

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The work surveys the origins, growth, and struggles of organized wage-earners in the United States, beginning with economic and institutional roots and the disruptions of industrial technology. It follows early labor formation, periods of social reform and experimental communities, and the revival of union activity amid economic crises. The narrative examines the rise of trade unions and railway brotherhoods, internal debates over consolidation and federation, confrontations between labor and capital including radical currents, and the movement's political engagements. Chapters combine chronological narrative with thematic analysis and conclude with bibliographical notes and an index.

Quinlan, Patrick, 208.

R

Railway Brotherhoods, 133 et seq.
Railway Conductor, The, 150-151.
Reading, railway strike (1877), 174.
Red Bank (N. J.), communistic experiment at, 41.
Referendum, National Labor party on, 230 (note).
Revolutionary War, new epoch for labor begins with, 21.
Rhode Island, ten-hour law (1853), 54; labor politics, 227.
Ripley, George, and Brook Farm experiment, 41.
Rock Island Railroad, Stone on, 143-144.
Roosevelt, Theodore, and Gompers, 98, 99; intervention in coal miners’ strike, 129, 130; and Clark, 151; and Sargent, 154; defeated as mayor of New York City, 234; Federation of Labor opposes, 248.
Ruskin, John, and labor conditions, 9.
Russia, general strikes, 200.

S

Sabotage, 38, 201 et seq., 211.
Sacramento (Cal.), I. W. W. trials (1919), 217; Workingman’s party convention (1878), 240.
St. Louis, union in, 34; Knights of Labor in, 82, 83; meeting of Knights of Labor and Farmers’ Alliance, 235.
St. Louis Central Trades and Labor Union, 181.
San Diego, I. W. W. in, 213-215.
San Francisco, stablemen’s strike (1880), 67; “floaters” winter in, 190; labor situation (1877), 238; Workingman’s Trade and Labor Union of, 239.
Sargent, F. P., 154.
Scandinavia, general strikes in, 200.
Schaffer, Theodore, 126.
Schenectady, union in, 34.
Scranton (Penn.), Powderly at, 79.
Seaman’s Act (1915), 247 (note).
Seamen’s Union, 117.
Sexton, James, 257.
Shaw, Albert, 146.
Shaw, Chief Justice of Massachusetts, opinion in Commonwealth vs. Hunt, 60-61.
Sherman Anti-Trust Law, Gompers and, 99; and boycott, 183.
Silver, free coinage, 236.
Simons, A. M., 195.
Skidmore, Thomas, 224; The Rights of Man to Property…, 222.
Smith, Adam, 10, 18; The Wealth of Nations, 1.
Smith, Sidney, quoted, 24-25.
Snowden, Phillip, 123.
Social Democratic party, 243.
Socialism, synonym of destruction, 62; organized labor and, 245, 258.
Socialist Labor party, 196, 243.
Socialist party, 196; Social Democratic party becomes known as, 243; in Milwaukee, 244; progress (1912), 244; and Great War, 244-245.
Socialist American Labor Union, 194.
Sorel, Georges, The Socialist Future of the Trade Unions, 188-189; Reflections Upon Violence, 189.
Spain, syndicalism in, 189.
Spargo, John, 245; Syndicalism, Industrial Unionism and Socialism, 201.
Spokane, I. W. W. in, 212.
Springfield Republican, on labor party, 226-227.
Stanwood, History of the Presidency, cited, 244 (note).
State Guardianship Plan, 225.
Statute of Laborers (1562), 12.
Stephens, U. S., founder of Knights of Labor, 76-77, 78, 79.
Steunenberg, Frank, Governor of Idaho, murdered, 193.
Steward, Ira, and eight-hour day, 70-71; A Reduction of Hours and Increase of Wages, 71.
Stone, W. S., 143-145, 149-150.
Strasser, Adolph, testimony before Senate Committee (1883), 120-121.
Strauss, O. S., 146.
Streeter, A. J., 233.
Strikes, weapon of self-defense, 14; tailors’ strike in Baltimore (1795), 22; cordwainers in Philadelphia (1805), 22-23; cordwainers in New York City (1809), 23; first general building strike (1827), 30; first general strike in America (1835), 30-31; (1834-1837), 32; issues not to be settled by, 36; use of militia, 37, 254-255; sabotage, 38, 201 et seq.; benefits, 39; Boston tailors (1850), 46-47; New York tailors, 47-48; Dover mill girls (1829), 55; Lowell womens factory workers (1836), 55; in 1853, 57; Baltimore and Ohio, 57, 67, 133; become part of economic routine, 66; increase in number and importance, 66-68; in 1880, 67-68; of 1886, 68, 82-84; Anthracite Coal Strike, 113, 129-130, 174; O’Connell leads, 125; New York City railway (1905), 138 (note); railroad, 141, 142, 145, 153, 158, 174; Brotherhood threatens (1916), 163, 165; New York City garment makers, 169; history in United States, 171-173; strike statistics of United States Bureau of Labor, 172, 173; violence, 174-176; Lawrence mill strike (1912), 202-206; Little Falls textile strike, 206; Akron rubber works, 206-207; Granite City (Ill.), steel mills, 210-211; court prevention, 252-253.
Supreme Court, Danbury Hatters’ case, 183; open shop decision, 252.
“Supreme Mechanical Order of the Sun,” 72.
Syndicalism, in Europe, 188; I. W. W. and, 198.

T

Taft, W. H., vetoes exemption bill for Anti-Trust Law, 99.
Tammany Hall, 32.
Tannenbaum, Frank, 209-210.
Tariff, demand for protective, 27.
Tax Reformers, 233.
Taxation, single tax, 234, 235; income tax, 231, 236.
Terre Haute (Ind.), convention (1881), 88-89.
Texas, I. W. W. and draft, 216.
Thomas, C. S., Senator, report on I. W. W., 216.
Times, Los Angeles, dynamiting of building, 175.
Toledo, (O.), conference of Labor Reform and Greenback parties, 231.
Trade unions, beginnings, 29-39; temporary eclipse, 40; new species in the early fifties, 58-59; organization of special trades, 60; organization, 112; conventions, 112-113; local unions, 114-116; characterization of different trades, 116-117; disputes as to authority, 117-118; adjustment to changing conditions, 117-118; advantages of amalgamation, 119; and labor leaders, 121 et seq.; purpose, 168; and collective bargaining, 168-171; question of monopoly, 170-171; and strikes, 173-177; local autonomy, 177; union label, 184-186; restriction of output, 186-187; oppose use of military, 254; bibliography, 262.
Trades’ Union of the City and County of Philadelphia, 30.
Transportation, demand for better, 27.
Trautmann, W. E., 195; quoted, 198.
Troy (N. Y.), union in, 34.
Tulsa (Okla.), treatment of I. W. W. in, 216.

U

Unemployment, in 1857, 61-62; in 1873-1874, 66; “floaters,” 190; among immigrants, 191; in San Francisco (1877), 238.
Union Labor party, 233, 237; see also National Union Labor party.
Union of Longshoremen, Marine and Transport Workers, 126.
United Association of Journeymen Plumbers, Gas Fitters, Steam Fitters and Steam Fitters’ Helpers, 119.
United Brotherhood of Carpenters, 109.
United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America, 110.
United Hatters of North America, 60.
United Labor party, 233, 234.
United Mine Workers, 112, 117, 128-129, 177, 181.

V

Van Buren, Martin, executive order for ten-hour day, 51.
Van Hise, C. R., 146.
Vermont, labor politics, 227.
Virginia, class distinction in, 20.

W

Wages, beginning of controversy, 11-12; in 1784, 21; result of tailors’ strike, 22; rise of, 22; in 1840, 28; carpenters’, 31; strikes to raise, 36; Mooney on (1850), 43; issue, 69-70; Paris peace treaty and, 106; United Mine Workers and, 129; Arthur and engineers’, 142; Stone and, 144; Eastern engineers demand standardization of, 145; Garretson and, 152; brakemen’s, 157; Wilkins and, 158; Adamson Law and, 166; further increase for railroad employees, 167; Trade unions and, 168-169; State regulation, 250.
Walling, W. E., 245.
Washington (State), “hobo” labor in, 190, and I. W. W., 216.
Washington, (D. C.), union in, 34; Knights of Labor, 84; headquarters of American Federation of Labor in, 97.
Weaver, General J. B., 232, 236.
Webb, Sidney and Beatrice, History of Trade Unionism, 14.
Weed, Thurlow, 24.
West Roxbury (Mass.), Brook Farm experiment at, 41.
Western Federation of Miners, 174, 189, 192, 194.
Whig party and ten-hour day, 53.
Wilkinson, S. E., 157.
Willard, Daniel, 146, 149.
Wilson, Woodrow, quoted, 72; and Clayton Act, 100; and Garretson, 152; and threatened strike of Brotherhoods (1916), 163-164; and eight-hour railroad law, 164-166.
Wisconsin, communistic experiment in, 41; eight-hour law for women and children (1867), 71; labor ticket (1888), 237; Socialist party (1918), 245.
Women, wages in 1840, 28; “new woman” movement, 43; conditions of labor, 44-45; in factories, 54-55; organizations, 55-56; Paris peace treaty and equal pay for, 107; State regulation of labor, 250.
Wood Workers in shipbuilding industry, 110.
Wood-Workers International Union, 125.
Wooden Box Makers, 110.
“Woodstock meetings,” 226.
Working Man’s Advocate, The, 223, 225.
Working Man’s Gazette, 226.
Workingman’s party, 220-221.
Workingman’s party of California, 239, 240.
Workingman’s Trade and Labor Union of San Francisco, 239.
Workingmen’s compensation, 250.
Wright, C. D., report quoted, 187.
Wright, Frances, 222, 225.

Y

Youngson, A. B., 143.
Youngstown (O.), I. W. W. at, 202.





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