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
Homestead strike (1892), 126, 174.
Homesteaders, 233.
Hoqiam (Wash.), sabotage in, 212.
Hours of labor, long hours, 28, 44; ten-hour day, 30-31, 32, 34, 35, 44, 50-54, 160; first ten-hour law (1847), 52; as issue, 69-70; eight-hour day, 70-72, 74, 129, 152; Paris peace treaty and eight-hour day, 106; eight-hour railroad law, 133 (note), 160, 164-166, 247; eight-hour law as political issue, 231; State regulation, 250.
Housing conditions about 1840, 27.
Hume, Joseph, 17-18.
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I. W. W., see Industrial Workers of the World.
Idaho, miners' strike, 174; "hobo" labor in, 190; violence in, 193; and I. W. W., 216.
Illinois, strikes, 66, 67; eight-hour law (1867), 71; I. W. W. and draft in, 216; United Labor party in, 235; labor code, 249.
Illinois Central Railroad, conductors organize union, 150.
Immigration, character of immigrants, 26; adds to armies of labor, 69; I. W. W. and, 191; People's party on, 236.
Indiana, strikes, 66, 67; shoemakers' strike (1880), 68; labor ticket (1888), 237.
Indianapolis, McNamara trial at, 175.
Industrial Commission, United States, 152; report quoted, 168; on union restriction of output, 186.
Industrial Revolution, 26.
Industrial Workers of the World, American Alliance for Labor and Democracy as an anecdote for, 101; and American Federation of Labor, 109; history of movement, 188 et seq.; factions, 196; and direct action, 200-201; and Socialist party, 245.
Industry, centralization of, 87-88.
"Infidel" party, 223, 224.
Inspection, see Factory inspection.
Insurance, Locomotive Engineers' Mutual Life and Accident Insurance Association, 138-139; Order of Railway Conductors, 150; Brotherhood of Trainmen, 160-161.
Inter-Allied Labor Conference, London (1918), 256-258.
International Association of Machinists, 125.
International Association of Steam, Hot Water and Power Pipe Fitters and Helpers, 119.
International Firemen's Union, 152-153.
International Typographical Union of North America, 60, 126, 169.
Interstate commerce, regulation as political issue, 231.
Interstate Commerce Commission, and wage increases, 145; Clark on, 151; Wilson asks for reorganization of, 164.
Ipswich (Mass.), meeting against I. W. W., 211.
Iron Molders' Union of North America, 60, 169.
Italy, syndicalism in, 189; general strikes, 200.
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Jackson, Andrew, and mechanics, 27.
Jay, John, on wages (1784), 21.
Jenkins, Judge J. G., of United States Circuit Court, on strike violence, 174.
Johnstown, puddlers' strike (1880), 67.
Journeymen, Stone Cutters' Association of North America, 60.
Judson, F. K., 146.
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Kansas, I. W. W. and draft, 216; labor ticket (1888), 237.
Kay, John, invents flying shuttle, 7.
Kearney, Dennis, 238.
Keefe, D. J., 126-127.
Kidd, Thomas, 125.
Knapp, Judge, of United States Commerce Court, 146.
Knights of Industry, 88.
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