The I. W. W.: A Study of American SyndicalismBrissenden, Paul F. (Paul Frederick)
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The I. W. W.: A Study of American Syndicalism
Brissenden, Paul F. (Paul Frederick)
Industrial Workers of the World; Syndicalism
[8] Commons (Ed.), _Documentary History of American Industrial Society_
(Cleveland, O., A. H. Clark Co., 1910-11), vol. vi, pp. 211-16.
Reprinted from The Man (New York), September 6, 1834.
[9] Ely, _Labor Movement in America_ (New York, 1890), p. 69. Tridon
(_The New Unionism_, p. 92), claims that by 1868 it had a membership
of 640,000. It was apparently represented at the Basle convention of
the International in 1869. _Cf._ also Hillquit, Morris, _History of
Socialism in the United States_ (5th ed., New York, 1910), p. 193.
[10] One of the Knights stated to the U. S. Industrial Commission
(_Report_, vol. vii [1900], p. 420), that in 1888 the Knights of Labor
had 1,200,000 members. In 1886 the organization contained nearly 9,000
local unions.
[11] Testimony before U. S. Industrial Commission, Washington, D. C.,
Dec. 15, 1898. _Report of the Industrial Commission_, vol. vii, p. 94.
[12] _Constitution, Knights of Labor_, pp. 3-6.
[13] T. V. Powderly, _Thirty Years of Labor_ (Columbus, O., 1889), p.
151.
[14] Vol. xix (1902), p. 798.
[15] New York _Sun_, March 29, 1886, p. 1, col. 5. (Interview.)
[16] J. G. Schonfarber, testimony before U. S. Industrial Commission,
Washington, D. C., Dec. 5, 1899. _Report_, vol. vii (1901), p. 423.
[17] Quoted by McNeill (Ed.), _The Labor Movement: The Problem of
To-day_ (New York, 1887), p. 410.
[18] Perlman, S., "Plan of an Investigation of the I. W. W." (MS.
report to U. S. Commission on Industrial Relations), p. 1.
[19] "Labor Knights Dispute," _The New York Times_, Jan. 12, 1902, p.
24. For an excellent short historical sketch of the Knights of Labor,
see _Report of the Industrial Commission_ (1901), vol. xvii, pp. 3-24.
[20] Commons, _Documentary History of American Industrial Society_,
vol. ix, p. 358.
[21] Tridon, _op. cit._, pp. 93-94.
[22] _Ibid._
[23] Cf. Ebert, Justus, _American Industrial Evolution_ (New York: New
York Labor News Co., 1907), p. 64.
[24] Tridon, _op. cit._, p. 93.
[25] _Cf. Compte-rendu officiel du sixième congrès générale de
l'association internationale des travailleurs_.... Geneva, 1873 (Locle,
1874).
[26] June 18, 1910, p. 2.
[27] _L'Internationale: documents et souvenirs 1864-78_ (Paris,
Cornély, 1905-10), vol. iv, p. vii.
[28] James Guillaume, _op. cit._, vol. i, pp. 132-133.
[29] _Loc. cit._, pp. 132-133.
[30] F. T. Carlton, "Ephemeral labor movements," _Popular Science
Monthly_, vol. lxxxv, p. 494 (November, 1914).
[31] _Vide_ reprint of its General Rules, published in 1874, Commons,
_Documentary History of American Industrial Society_, vol. ix, pp.
376-8.
[32] _Report of the Industrial Commission_, vol. xvii, p. 3, and
Powderly, T. V., _Thirty Years of Labor_ (Columbus, Ohio, 1889), p. 126.
[33] Now the International Union of United Brewery, Flour, Cereal and
Soft Drink Workers of America.
[34] "The decay of trade unions," _Justice_, June, 1887, quoted by
Webb, _History of Trade Unionism_, p. 396.
[35] Webb, _op. cit._, pp. 396-397.
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