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
Knights of Labor, 72; history of, 76-85; contrasted to American Federation of Labor, 90; Mitchell and, 127, 128; and Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, 133 (note); help organize National Union party, 233; and Farmers' Alliance at St. Louis, 235; and Socialist party, 245.
"Knights of St. Crispin," 72, 74-76.
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Labor, organizations in eighteenth century, 14-15; organizations in American before Revolution, 21; and politics, 68, 74, 220 et seq.; relations with capital, 69; number of wage-earners in United States (1860-1890), 69; Congress at Baltimore (1866), 73; Bureau of, established (1884), 85; and corporations, 87; and Paris peace treaty, 106-107; leaders, 121-123; Department of, and Brotherhoods, 163; "floaters," 189-190; special report of United States Commissioners of (1905), 193; contract labor as political issue, 231; legislation, 247-252; see also Hours of labor; and the courts, 252-254; bibliography, 261; see also Child labor, Convict labor, Hours of labor, Strikes, Trade unions, Wages.
Labor Reform League, 51.
Labor Reform party, 74, 229-230.
Labour Party in England, 18.
Land, Evans and, 48-50; Homestead Act (1862), 50; forfeiture of grants as political issue, 231.
Lawrence (Mass.), unemployment (1857), 62; strike (1912), 202-206.
Lee. W. G., 160.
Lima (N. Y.), Clark at, 151.
Little Falls (N. Y.), strike in textile mills (1912), 206.
Littlefield, Congressman from Maine, 247-248.
Locomotive Engineers' Journal, 136, 139.
Locomotive Engineers' Mutual Life and Accident Insurance Association, 138-139.
Loeb, Daniel, alias Daniel DeLeon, 195.
London, Inter-Allied Labor Conference (1918), 256-258.
London Corresponding Society, 17.
Los Angeles, dynamiting of Times building, 175.
Lowell (Mass.), condition of women factory workers (1846), 44-45; women strike in (1836), 55.
Lowell Female Industrial Reform and Mutual Aid Society, 55.
Lynch, J. M., 126.
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McAdoo, W. G., 166.
McCulloch, J. R., 18.
MacDonald, Ramsey, 123.
Machinists' Union, 118.
McKee, National Conventions and Platforms, cited, 233 (note), 244 (note).
McKees Rocks (Penn.), I. W. W. at, 202.
McMaster, J. B., quoted, 26.
McNamara, James, 175.
McNamara, J. J., 175.
Maine, labor politics, 227, labor party (1878), 232.
Mann, Horace, 42.
Manufacturers' Association, 249.
Manufacturing, guild system replaced by domestic, 4; introduction of machinery, 7-10; in United States, 24-26.
Martineau, Harriet, cited, 35-36.
Marx, Karl, 9; follower addresses meeting in New York, 47.
Maryland, class distinctions, 20; strikes, 66.
Massachusetts, factories in 1820, 25; first labor investigation, 51; women factory workers, 56; Bureau of Labor and collective bargaining, 169-170; labor politics, 227; labor party (1878), 232; labor code, 249.
Mechanics' Union of Trade Associations, 29.
Menlo Park, (N. J.), electric car in, 64.
Mercantile system, 5-6.
Metal Polishers' Union and Buck's Stove and Range case, 180.
Metal Trades Association, 249.
Mexican Central Railway, Garretson on, 152.
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