The Armies of Labor: A Chronicle of the Organized Wage-EarnersOrth, Samuel Peter
History
The Armies of Labor: A Chronicle of the Organized Wage-Earners
Orth, Samuel Peter
Labor unions -- United States -- History
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.
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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.
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Edison, T. A., 64.
Education, condition before 1840, 28; issue with labor, 36, public school improvement, 42; Paris peace treaty and, 107.
Edward III, proclamation of 1349, 12.
Eidlitz, O. M., 146.
Eight-Hour League, 70; see also Hours of labor.
Elevator Constructors' Union, 118
Eliot, C. W., and Gompers, 98.
Ely, R. T., quoted, 21.
Emerson, R. W., on communistic experiments, 41.
Employers' organizations, 249.
Erdman Act, 146, 162.
Erie Railroad, firemen organize Brotherhood, 152.
Erne, Lord, Irish landlord, 177 (note).
Ettor, J. J., 204.
Evans, G. H., 48-49.
Evans, Samuel, 233.
Evening Post, account of mass meeting in New York, 32; quoted, 33.
Everett, Edward, 53.
Everett (Wash.), and I. W. W., 212.
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Factory Girls' Association (Lowell), 55.
Factory inspection, Paris peace treaty and, 107; as political issue, 231; provided by law, 249-250.
Farmers' Alliance, 233; and Knights of Labor at St. Louis, 235.
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