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
New York City, early labor organizations, 21, 22; cordwainers' strike (1809), 23-24; growth, 25; strikes (1833), 31; General Trades' Union organized, 31; tailors' strike (1836), 32; union in, 34; boycott of convict labor, 37; sabotage in (1835), 38; strike benefits, 39; coöperative movement, 47-48; women's organizations (1825), 55; Female Industry Association organized (1845), 56; strikes (1853), 57; national meeting of carpet-weavers (1846), 60; demonstration in 1857, 61-62; unemployment, 62; ribbon weaver' strike (1880), 67; stablemen's strike (1880), 67; tailors' strike (1880), 68; Third Avenue Railway strike (1886), 83; Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers expels members (1905), 138 (note); garment makers' strike (1915), 169; bakers strike (1741), 172; Mrs. Grey boycotted, 178-179; "floaters" winter in, 190; "army of the unemployed" (1913-1914), 209; labor politics, 222; election (1886), 234; Socialist-Labor convention (1892), 242; movement to form American Labor party, 255.
New York Masons Society (1807), 22.
New York Protective Union, 48.
New York Society of Journeymen Shipwrights (1807), 22.
New York Typographical Society, 24.
Newark (N. J.), union in, 34.
Newlands Law, 162.
Noble Order of the Knights of Labor, see Knights of Labor.
Northern Pacific Railroad, Clark on, 151.
Norway, syndicalism in, 189.
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O'Connell, James, 125.
O'Conor, Charles, of New York, 230.
Ohio, communistic colonies in, 41; ten-hour law (1852), 54; strikes, 66, 67; in election of 1916, 166; labor ticket (1888), 237.
Oklahoma, I. W. W. and draft, 216.
Omaha, stockyards strike (1880), 67; People's party convention (1892), 236.
Oneonta (N. Y.), Brotherhood of the Trainmen organized at (1883), 156.
Orange (N. J.), Hatters' Union victory in, 182.
Order of Railway Conductors, 150-152.
Oregon, "hobo" labor in, 190; and I. W. W., 216.
Original Working Man's party, 224.
Osceola (Ia.), Garretson born in, 151.
Oshkosh (Wis.), Kidd arrested in, 25.
Owen, Robert, Place and, 17; in America, 40-41, 58.
Owens, R. D., 222, 225.
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Panics (1837), 34, 35, 40, 50-51; (1857), 61-62; (1873-1874), 66; (1893), 158.
Paris Peace Conference, Commission on International Labor Legislation, 105; Gompers and the treaty, 106-107.
Parker, Joel, Governor of New Jersey, 230.
Paterson (N. J.), ribbon weavers' strike (1880), 67; silk mills strike (1913), 207-209.
Pennsylvania, communistic colonies in, 41; ten-hour law, 53; child labor law, 53; coal miners (1873), 66; strikes, 67; labor party (1878), 232; labor ticket (1872), 237; labor code, 249; mounted constabulary, 254.
Pennsylvania Railroad, Brotherhood and, 141.
People's Council, 101.
People's party, 235, 236; see also Populist party.
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