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.