M (Asterisks indicate glossary entries)
Machinery: in cigar industry, 304-5, 308n; in garment industry, 306; in glass bottle blowing industry, 305; in
mining industry, 306; in printing industry, 305-6; SG and, 304-8; in shoe industry,
306; in textile industry, 304
Machinists, International Association of,* 66n, 91n,
96, 337n, 349-50; and black workers, 148, 341, 342-43n; and
industrial unionism, 62-63
MacIntyre, Frank, 200, 202n
MacKay, Florence Gompers (SG's granddaughter), 11:54n,
457n
MacKay, William H., 11:487n, 457n
Macrae, John, 11:523n, 322n, 378; letters to, 321,
365, 384-85, 533-35
Madden, Martin B., 346, 349n
Mader, Fred, 56, 61n
Madras (India) Labor Union, 241n
Madsen, John A., 389-90, 390-91n
Mahon, William D.,* 23n, 87n, 295; and death of SG,
541; elected AFL vice-president, 97n; letter from, 21-23
Mahoney, William, 431, 433-34n
Manion, Edward J., 11:*, 467n
Manley, Joseph, 431-32, 434n
Manly, Basil, 11:471n, 167; and election of 1924,
431-33, 433n, 474, 476n, 478
Manning, John J.,* 126, 127n, 301, 443-45, 445n, 450,
461n; and death of SG, 543
Manrique, Aurelio, 392n
Markel, Lester, 228n; letter to, 227-28
Marsh, Benjamin, 433n
Marshall, John, 250
Martin, James, 8, 10n
Mason, Arthur, 426n
Masons, Ancient Free and Accepted:-- lodges: Dawson Lodge 16 (Washington, D.C.), 517; St. Cecile Lodge 568 (New York City), 550
Maurer, James H.,* 388, 389n
Maximon, Selma C., 321n; and SG, meeting with, 320
May, Mathilde H., 462n, 503, 504n, 541-42
May Day, celebration of, in Seattle, 254, 266-67, 272
McAdoo, William G., 9:299n, 409, 467
McCarthy, Daniel J., 56, 61n
McCarthy, Frank H.,* 53, 54n
McClintic, George W., 169, 171n
McCormick, Joseph M., 11:454n, 82n
McDonald, Duncan, 9:*, 433n
McDowell, Claude K., 99n
McDowell, William, 82n
McGivern, Edward, 225n
McGrady, Edward F., 10:77n, 147n, 212n, 347, 423,
424n, 452n, 550; and election of 1924, 184n, 433, 433n, 456, 461n,
467n, 474, 483
McGrath, William J., 551, 554n
McKinley, William, Jr., 3:19n, 511
McMahon, Thomas F.,* 53, 54n, 97n, 550; and AFL
women's department, considered, 406, 408n, 445, 450, 451n
McNally, Gertrude M.,* 245-47, 247n, 347
McQuade, Thomas J., 541, 541-42n
McVey, David A., 332-33, 333-34n
McWhinney, Thomas A., 69, 74n
Meadows, Spurgeon P., 364n; letter from, 362-64
Mediation of industrial disputes, 6
Melville, Albert L., 390n; letter from, 389-90
Mergenthaler typesetting machine, 306
Merrill, Oscar C., 347, 348-49n
Merritt, Walter G., 9:285n, 398n
Mertens, Corneille, 11:*, 369n
Mexican workers, 32, 282-83; and railroad shopmen's strike, 120
Mexico: agrarian reforms in, 391, 392n; government of, U.S. recognition of, 100, 100-101n; labor reforms in, 391, 392n;
uprising against Obregón in, 391-92, 392n
Michaelson et al. v. U.S., 373, 373-74n
Mikel, George E., 88, 88n
Miller, Bert, letter to, 101-2
Miller, Charles, 39n
Miller, Joseph D., 33-34n; letter to, 32-33
Miller, Spencer, Jr., 191, 192n, 227
Milton Ochs Co. v. Amalgamated Clothing Workers of
America, 302, 303n
Milwaukee Building Trades Council, 4:183n, 122
Milwaukee Journal, 122-23
Milwaukee Leader, 122
Mine, Mill, and Smelter Workers, International Union of, 11:*; jurisdiction of, 396
Mine owners, profiteering by, 28-29
Miners: and machinery, 306; organization of, 280
Miners and mine operators, conferences of, 1923, 297
Miners' strike, 1902 (anthracite), 6:13-14n, 179
Miners' strike, 1922, 44, 47-48n, 86, 87n, 99n, 103, 127-28, 134, 140, 146, 179, 195, 285, 309, 311n, 328, 330n
Mines, government ownership of coal, 173-74
Mine Workers of America, United,* 30n, 96, 150-51,
264, 265n, 377, 440, 469, 495, 558-59; exposé on communist
activities in American labor movement, 310-11n, 329, 330n; industrial unionism
and, 62; and Japanese workers, 119; jurisdiction of, 396
-- conventions: 1919-20 (Cleveland and Columbus, Ohio), 11:138n, 236, 241n
-- strikes and lockouts: 1923, 315n. See also
Miners' strike, 1902 (anthracite); Miners' strike, 1922
Minimum wage legislation, state, 5; for women, 244, 246, 247n, 248-50
Minneapolis Central Labor Union, 337n
Minneapolis Trades and Labor Assembly, 337n; and
industrial unionism, 126, 127n
Minnesota State Federation of Labor, 7:227n
-- convention: 1922 (Crookston), 126, 127n
Minute Men of the Constitution, 366, 367n
Missouri and North Arkansas Railroad, strike against (1921-23), 192-95, 196-97n
Mitchell, Ethel, 11:24n, 517
Mitchell, Henrietta, 3:79n, 517
Mitchell, John, 11:*, 558
Moffitt, John A.,* 303n; letter to, 301-3
Molders' Union of North America, International, 11:*,
446n
Mondell, Frank W., 211, 213n
Monness, Harry M., 460, 461n, 543, 550
Mooney, Thomas J., 11:*, 90, 91n
Mooney-Billings case, 9:517-18n, 10:92-93n,
90, 91n
Moore, John B., 210n
Moore, Tom,* 20, 21n, 438-40
Moore Drop Forge Co., strike against (1920-21), 8-9, 9n
Moore Drop Forging Co. v. McCarthy et al., 10n
Moral Overstrain (Alger), 8:493n, 69, 74n
"More," 222
Morgan, J. Pierpont, 5:335n, 121, 123
Morgan, William Y., 169, 171n
Morones Negrete, Luis N.,* 360n, 525, 526n
Morris, Gouverneur, 294n
Morris, James, 195, 197n
Morrison, Alice Boswell, 7:482n, 251
Morrison, Frank,* 21n, 190, 212n, 221n, 344-45, 347,
373, 398n; and black workers, 341-42, 342-43n; and communist
sympathizers in labor movement, 295; and Coolidge, meeting with, 296, 298,
298-99n; and death of SG, 541, 543; elected AFL secretary, 97n, 338n; and
election of 1924, 184n, 433, 433n, 456, 459-60, 461n, 464, 466, 467n, 468,
468n, 470n, 472n, 474, 480-83, 483n, 489-92; and election of successor to SG,
555, 559-60; and Iglesias, 197, 201; and railroad shopmen's strike, 106n, 155n;
and SG, illness of (1923), 218, 219n, 221; and SG, illness of (1924), 503,
503n, 504, 514, 539; and Trades and Labor Congress of Canada, 20; tribute to
SG, 554-55; trip to Northwest (1922), 236, 241n, 252, 252n; and women workers,
238, 246-47, 247n; address, mentioned, 236, 241n, 252, 252n; letters to,
219-21, 251-52, 394-98, 544-45; statement by, 540-41; wire to, 338-39
Morrow, Jay J., 383n, 410-11, 411-12n
Morse, Sidney, 51n; letter to, 49-51
Mosher, Aaron A. R.,* 20, 21n
Moskowitz, Henry, 529, 533n
Motion picture industry, and trade unions, 261-62
Mott, Luther, 39n
Mulholland, Frank, 8:131n, 152, 154-55, 155n, 196n
Murphy, Joseph F., 220, 221n
Murray, James, 196n
Murray, Philip,* 327-28, 330n, 550
Mussolini, Benito, 255, 256n, 415
Myrup, Andrew A.,* 406, 408n
N
Nation, 41-43
National American Council, 49-51, 51n
National Association of Colored Women, 83, 84n
National Catholic Welfare Council, and AFL Permanent Conference for Abolition of Child Labor, 82n
National Child Labor Committee, and AFL Permanent Conference for Abolition of Child Labor, 82n
National Civic Federation, 5:218n; and unemployment insurance, 17-20
-- annual meetings: 1922 (New York City), 17-20, 20n
National Committee for Constructive Immigration Legislation,
415, 417n
National Committee on American-Japanese Relations, 415, 417n
National Congress of Mothers' and Parent-Teachers' Associations, and AFL Permanent Conference for Abolition of
Child Labor, 82n
National Council for Limitation of Armaments, 310, 311n
National Council for Prevention of War, 310, 311n
National Council of Catholic Women, and AFL PermanentConference for Abolition of Child Labor, 82n
National Council of Jewish Women, and AFL Permanent Conference for Abolition of Child Labor, 82n
National Council of Women, and AFL Permanent Conference for Abolition of Child Labor, 82n
National Federation of Afro-American Women, 84n
National Founders' Association, 5:368n, 261-62
National Labor Union, 3:204n, 521
National League of Colored Women, 84n
National Organization for Public Health Nursing, and AFL Permanent Conference for Abolition of Child Labor, 82n
National War Labor Board, 10:408n, 450
National Wheat Conference (1923, Chicago), 285, 286n
National Woman's party, 31n, 372, 373n
National Women's Relief Society, and AFL Permanent Conference for Abolition of Child Labor, 82n
National Women's Trade Union League, 6:483n, 245,
247n, 404, 406, 417-18, 418n, 449-51; and AFL Permanent Conference
for Abolition of Child Labor, 82n
-- conference: 1923 (Washington, D.C.), 244, 247n
Neary, Anna, 11:526n, 38n
Neely, Matthew M., 171n
Nelson, John M., 346, 349n; and election of 1924,
430, 432, 433n, 481, 484n, 491
Nelson, Knute, 8:363n, 39n
Nelson, Oscar F.,* 67, 68n, 490
Nestor, Agnes,* 418n, 451, 451n
New Majority, 311
New York, election of 1922 in, 169
New York and Vicinity, Central Trades and Labor Council of Greater, 11:357-58n, 170n
New York City Building Trades Council, 75
New York Railways Co., strike against (1916), 9:492n,
23n
New York State Board of Trade and Transportation, 39n
Nicaragua, 389n
Nichols, Alvah E., 552, 554n
Nishimura, Yoshio, 120n; letter from, 119-20
Nockels, Edward N., 6:342n, 55, 55n, 311-12, 315n;
circular by, 312-15
Noe, Ralph W., 217n; letter to, 215-17
Non-partisan political campaign committees, local, 40, 160-61, 170
Non-Partisan Successes (AFL National Non-Partisan
PoliticalCampaign Committee), 170, 172n, 186-87, 437, 438n
Noonan, James P.,* 104-5, 107n, 280, 349n, 433n, 550
Noonan, John J., 551, 554n
Noriega, R. F., 412n; letter to, 410-11
Norman, Carl A., 414n; letter to, 412-14
Northwestern Federation of Colored Women's Clubs, 83, 83-84n
Norton, Miner G., 26n; letter to, 25-26
O
Obregón Salido, Alvaro, 9:307n, 121n, 392n, 525; and
U.S. recognition of government of, 100, 100-101n; letter to,
391-92
O'Connell, James,* 246, 247n; and election of 1924,
184n, 433n, 456, 459-60, 461n, 481, 489-90
Olander, Victor A.,* 38, 40n, 295, 311-12, 315n, 333,
334n; letter to, 366-67
Old-age benefits, 6
Omholt, Andrew, 49n
"One Big Union," 63, 87-88, 101-2, 219-20, 234,
307, 438, 442n
-- Lumber, Camp, and Agricultural Workers' Department, 442n
Open shop, 207, 284, 486; efforts by employers to impose, 58, 169, 216, 262, 408n, 451n; SG and, 174-76, 179, 181,
183n
Organize, right to, 174-76, 306, 486, 487n; AFL and, 91
Organizers, 279-81. See also American Federation of
Labor, organizers
Organizing Committee of the Mexican Liberal Party. See
Junta Organizadora del Partido Liberal Mexicano
Oudegeest, Jan,* 139-40n, 369n; letter to, 137-39
Overtime, on railroads, 27-28
Owen, Fred L., 38n
Oyster, Guy H., 10:524n, 12, 155n
P
Padrones, 210
Page, George, 30n
Painters, Decorators, and Paperhangers of America, Brotherhood of, 10:*
-- locals: local 47 (Indianapolis), 363
Panama Canal, 385-86
Panama Federation of Labor. See Federación Obrera de
la República de Panamá
Pan-American Federation of Labor, 319n, 356, 359n, 561
-- convention: 1924 (Mexico City), 536, 536n, 537-38, 538n
Parker, Alton B., 7:296n, 550
Parker, Gilman M., 173n; wire to, 172-73
Parker, John, 197n
Parks, Samuel J., 6:339n, 75
Paving Cutters' Union of the U.S. of America and Canada, International,* 223, 223n
Pearl, Jack, 80n
Pearl, Philip J., 10:186n, 322-24, 324n
Peavey, Hubert, 433n
Penates, 151, 152n
Pennsylvania, American Civil Liberties Union activities in, 309, 311n
Pennsylvania Giant Power Survey, 348n
Pennsylvania Railroad, 299-300; injunction, 27, 30n, 109, 115
Pennsylvania Railroad Co. v. U.S. Railroad Labor
Board et al., 30n
Pensions, 217, 218n; legislation to secure, 217-18, 218n; paid by international unions, 223
People's Legislative Service, 11:471n, 433n, 472n
Perkins, George W. (of Cigar Makers),* 66n, 133n,
190, 305, 312, 315n, 388, 471n, 550; and AFL women's department,
considered, 406-7, 408n, 443-45; letters from, 131-32, 544-45; letter to, 226-27;
wire from, 66
Permanent Court of International Justice (World Court), 209, 210n, 455
Perry, John B., 49n; letter from, 48-49
Pershing, John J., 10:567n, 13; bust of, 533n
Personnel administration, 419-20
Petkewicz, Joseph, 195, 197n
Phillips, James E., 241, 242n, 271, 274-75
Phillips, Wendell, 2:382n, 135
Phillips, William, 101n, 256n
Photo-Engravers' Union of North America, International,* 127n
-- convention: 1923 (Milwaukee), 299n
Piano, Organ, and Musical Instrument Workers' International Union of America, 7:*, 446n
Picketing, 154, 428n; judicial decisions regarding, 301-3, 303n
Pinchot, Gifford, 9:310n, 206n, 315n
Pinkofsky, Louis, 530, 533n
Pittman, Key, 170, 171n
"Pittsburgh Experiment," 382, 383n, 412-13
Plumbers and Steam Fitters of the U.S. and Canada, United Association of Journeymen,* 68-69, 72-73, 73n, 76
-- locals: local 463 (New York City), 76, 80n
Plunkett, Charles P., 546, 550, 552n
Poindexter, Miles, 10:420n, 11:407n, 169,
171n, 187, 436, 437n
Political action: non-partisan, AFL and, 332-33, 435-37, 467, 468n, 488; partisan, AFL and, 436
Political action by trade unions, partisan, 235-36
Political candidates, legislative records of, 34-35, 160-61, 169, 187, 436-37, 487-88
Political prisoners, wartime, 254; AFL conventions and, 90, 91n
Pomerene, Atlee, 9:472n, 169, 171n
Pomeroy, William C., 4:*, 516n
Post, Louis F., 9:321n, 34n
Powderly, Terence V.,* 344, 348n
Power network, expansion of, 344, 347, 348n, 376, 377n, 380-82, 382-83n
Powers, Richard, 4:*, 375n
Pratt, Henry W., 437n; letter to, 435-37
Preece, Thomas R., 550, 553n
Preparedness: SG and, 121; and wartime industrial production, 423
Prescott, William B.,* 305-6, 309n
Press, freedom of the, 454, 487, 510
Pressmen's and Assistants' Union of North America, International Printing,* 52n, 446n
The Price of Freedom (Coolidge), 510, 513n
Prices, 424
Prieto Laurens, Jorge, 391, 392n
Printing industry, machinery in, 305-6
Profintern. See Red International of Labor Unions
Profiteering, 25, 28-30
Profits, 413; wartime, taxation of, 424
Progress and Poverty (George), 33, 34n
Prohibition, 206, 454; AFL and, 270, 271n, 273-74n; SG and, 429
Protection or Free Trade? (George), 34n
"Protocol of Peace," 8:114n, 529
Providence, R.I., Central Federated Union, 39n
Psychological Examining in the United States Army
(Yerkes, ed.), 168, 168n
Public Education and Child Labor Association of
Pennsylvania, and AFL Permanent Conference for Abolition of
Child Labor, 82n
Public interest, and labor controversies, 178
Public works programs, 213-14, 454
Puerto Rico:
-- strikes and lockouts: 1923 (threatened), 201
Pulp, Sulphite, and Paper Mill Workers, International Brotherhood of, 10:*, 446n
Q
Quarry Workers' International Union of North America,* 129n, 223; jurisdiction of, 394-98, 398n
-- strikes and lockouts: 1921- , 127, 129n
R
Railroad brotherhoods, 3; and AFL Permanent Conference for Abolition of Child Labor, 82n; and election of 1924, 479
-- conference: Oct. 1922 (Washington, D.C.), 152-55, 155n, 159
Railroad Employees, Canadian Brotherhood of,* 20, 21n,
439-42, 442n
Railroad Labor Board, 3, 27-29, 30n, 86-87n, 103, 105, 106- 7n, 108-10, 112-16, 136, 137n, 203, 481,
486-87, 510
Railroad labor disputes, negotiation of, 26-28
Railroad shop craft workers, 30n
-- strikes and lockouts: 1922- , 86, 86-87n, 102-6,
106n, 107, 107n, 108-10, 112n, 113-21, 126-28, 130-31, 140, 147,
202-5, 206n, 285, 300, 341, 373-74n, 412, 414n; injunction, against shopmen, 87n,
133-36, 137n, 147, 147n, 152-55, 158-59, 161, 167, 248, 486
Railroad workers: black, organization of, 111-12, 112n, 148; industrial organization of, 45; Japanese, 119
Railway and Steamship Clerks, Freight Handlers, Express and Station Employes, Brotherhood of,* 21n, 87n, 97n,
439-40, 442, 446n; and black workers, 129-30; and women workers, 371n
Railway Carmen of America, Brotherhood of,* 148n; and
blackworkers, 148, 343n
Railway Conductors of America, Order of,* 348n
Railway Mail Association,* 430n
Rainey, Henry T., 7:98n, 40, 41n
Ralston, Jackson H., 4:294n, 208, 317
Ralston, Samuel, 427n
Randolph, Asa Philip,* 289n; letter to, 288-89
Rand Revolt (1922), 43, 47n
Rand School of Social Science, 8:398n, 388, 389n
Ransome, Arthur M., 231, 233n
Rathenau, Walther, 15n
Rauschenbusch, Walter, 250n
Raushenbush, Paul, 250n
Red International of Labor Unions (Profintern), 225, 235, 253, 267
Reed, John S., 11:432n, 232n
Reed, Stuart F., 346, 349n
Reeves, Ransom L., 23, 24n
Report on Economic Conditions in Russia with Special Reference to Famine of 1921-1922 and Agriculture
(League of Nations), 232, 233n
Republican party, 41; AFL demands of, 1908, 459; AFL demands of, 1920, 269; AFL demands of, 1924, 453-56, 458,
458n, 459-60; and election of 1924, 453-55, 455n, 456-57, 457n, 458, 458n,
459-60, 462-63, 467n, 472, 472n, 473, 481, 484, 486-87, 491-92, 501, 505-6,
508-11, 513, 518-19
-- conventions, national: 1920 (Chicago), 269; 1924 (Cleveland), 456, 458n, 459, 462-63, 481, 484,
486-87, 501, 519
Retirement, SG on, 16-17
Reynolds, S. M., 197n
Rhine, Jacob, 304, 308n
Rhode Island State Federation of Labor, 38n
Rice, Estill Lee, 540, 540n, 541; memorandum, 542
Richards, Thomas, 197n
Richardson, George J.,* 247, 247n
Richberg, Donald R., 152-55, 155n, 373; letter to,
317-18
Rickert, Thomas A.,* 117n, 163n, 406, 408n, 443, 493,
514; elected AFL vice-president, 97n, 338n; and election of
successor to SG, 555-60
Rico, Juan, 524-26, 526n, 537, 538n
Rikhoff, Herman F., 363, 364n
Riley, J. J., 332-33n
Riley, James W., 550, 552n
Roberts, James H., letter to, 207
Roberts, William, 383n
Roberts, William B., 283n; and SG, meeting with,
282-83
Roberts, William C., 4:381n, 11:403n, 202n,
212n, 356, 383n, 507, 517; and AFL women's department, considered,
445n; and death of SG, 541, 543; and election of 1924, 184n, 433n, 456, 460,
461n, 467n, 472n, 483n
Rochelle, Edyth, 427n
Rockefeller Foundation, 185
Rodarte, Fernando, 359n
Roosevelt, Franklin D., 10:54n, 11n
Roosevelt, Theodore, 1:443n, 85, 436, 507, 509
Roosevelt, Theodore, Jr., 200, 202n; and SG, meeting
with, 202n
Root, Elihu, 5:438n, 13, 69
Rosemund, Charles L.,* 246, 247n, 347
Rosenberg, Abraham,* 528, 532n
Rossdale, Albert B., 164, 166n
Rouse, Arthur B., 184, 184n
Rubin, William B., 8:459n; letter to, 149-50
"Rule of reason," 85, 85n
Russ, Witten B., 540, 540n, 542
Russell, Charles E., 9:382-83n, 11, 11n
Russia, October 1917 Revolution in, 10:279n, 13. See
also Soviet Union
Ruthenberg, Charles E., 132n, 403n, 431-32, 434n,
490; wire from, 484-85
Ryan, John A., 11:155n, 82n, 265n
Ryan, Joseph J., letter from, 8-9
Ryan, Joseph P.,* 8n
Ryan, Martin F.,* 128n, 324, 324n, 345, 348n, 461n,
467n, 493; and death of SG, 541; elected AFL vice-president, 338n;
and election of successor to SG, 555, 557-60
S
Sacco, Nicola, 11:550n, 90, 91n
Sacco-Vanzetti case, 11:550n, 90, 91n, 320, 321n
Sales tax, 25-26, 26n, 38, 39-40n, 169, 344, 454
Salvation Army, 360
Samuel Gompers Fellowship, 530, 533n
Sanchez, José Maria, 526n
San Pedro (Calif.) and Wilmington Central Labor Council, 389, 390n
Sassenbach, Johann, 9:*, 369n
Savanarola, Girolamo, 548, 552n
Saylor, John C., 373n; letter to, 372-73
Sayre, Francis B., 208, 209n, 317
Schieffelin, William J., 529, 532n
Schneider, George, 433n
Schneiderman, Rose,* 406, 408n
Schwartz, Maude, 247n, 418n
Scientific management, 142, 420
Scott, John,* 158-59, 159n
Scott, Melinda, 9:110n, 38n, 406, 408n
Scranton Declaration, 8:106n, 102, 102n, 126
Scully, Mary P., 9:99n, 427n
Searles, Ellis, 264, 265n
Seattle and Vicinity, Central Labor Council of, 10:400n,
272-75, 336; AFL Executive Council and, 223-25, 233-41,
252-55, 266-71, 271n, 274n, 322-26, 326n, 340n; and Seattle Union Record,
257-59, 259n; SG and, 223-25, 233-41, 252-55, 266-71, 271n, 274n, 322-26, 326n,
340n; letters from, 233-41, 266-71; letters to, 223-25, 252-55
Seattle Building Trades Council, 274
Seattle Metal Trades Council, 266, 272
Seattle Union Record, 257-59, 259n, 388, 389n
Segenfeld and Kalin v. Friedman, 302, 303n
Seldner, Enrique, 391, 392n
Sellars, W. Carroll, 53n; letter to, 52-53
Semprevivo, Samuel, 255, 256n
Shakespeare, William, 33, 34n, 71, 74n, 76, 136, 137n
Shanessy, James C.,* 478n; letter to, 476-78
Shaw, Guy L., 34, 38n
Sheet Metal Workers' International Alliance, Amalgamated,* 148n; and black workers, 148, 343n; jurisdiction of,
73, 163n, 401n
-- locals: local 41 (Indianapolis), 363, 364n
Shelepina, Evgenia P., 233n
Shepherd, William, 427n
Sheppard, Lucius E.,* 212n, 345, 348n, 467n, 479
Sherman, John, 3:375n, 511
Sherman, W. T., 131n; letter from, 130-31
Shientag, Bernard L., 550, 553n
Shingle Weavers' Union of America, International,* 66n
Shipping Federation of British Columbia, strike against (1923), 442n
Shipstead, Henrik, 170, 171n, 433n
Shoemaking industry, machinery in, 306
Short, William M.,* 225n; and Seattle Central Labor Council, 225, 237, 257-59, 259n, 272-73, 273-74n, 274-75,
323-24; letters from, 257-59, 272-73, 273-74n
Should a Political Labor Party Be Formed? (SG), 188, 189n,
437
Sick benefits, 6
Siegel, Isaac, 164, 166n
Sigman, Morris S.,* 320, 321n, 405, 407, 408n, 550; address, 526-32, 534
Silver Bow Trades and Labor Council of Butte, Mont., 330n;
AFL Executive Council and, 326n; AFL 1923 convention and,
338-39 (see also Dunne, William F., expulsion from AFL 1923 convention);
SG and, 326n
"Silver roll" employees, in Canal Zone, 386, 386n,
410-11, 412n
Silzer, George, 206n
Sinclair, Harry F., 228n
Single tax, 33
Single Tax Review, 32-33, 34n
Slavic immigrants, 415
Smith, Alfred E., 8:472n, 316, 316n, 485n, 529; and election of 1922, 169, 170n; and election of 1924, 467n; and
giant power, 380-81, 382n; and railroad shopmen's strike, 206n; and SG, funeral
of, 546, 550; letter to, 380-81
Smith, Ethel M., 11:20n, 246-47, 247n
Smith, Paul J., 11:213n, 126, 149, 295, 340n, 431,
433n; letter from, 326-27; memorandum, 427-28
Smith, Reginald H., 73n
Smith, Robert M., 41n; letter to, 40-41
Smoot, Reed, 40n
Snowden, Ethel Annakin, 11:30n, 231
Snowden-Porter, Joanna C., 83-84n; letter from, 83
Snyder, Peter F., 166n; letter to, 164-66
Socialist Party of America, 6:204n, 40, 466; and
election of 1924, 508; and U.S. intervention in World War I, 452n
Socialists, SG and, 387-88
Some Reasons for Chinese Exclusion. Meat vs. Rice
(Gutstadt), 419, 419n
Southern Illinois Coal Co., strike against (1922), 99n
Soviet Union: aid to, 13-14, 15n; Bolsheviks in, 288n, 290, 293; British recognition of, 15n; communism in, 287;
conditions in, 286-87, 290-92; German recognition of, 15n; New Economic Policy
in, 287, 288n, 290; U.S. recognition of, 12-14, 15n, 96-97, 97n, 98, 223-24,
234-35, 253, 267, 270, 272, 286-88, 290-94, 452n. See also Russia
Speech, freedom of, 264, 454, 487, 510
Spencer, William J.,* 383n, 401n; letter from,
399-401
Spinning jenny, 304
Sprague, Norman C., 347, 349n
Spread the Light Club. See Knights of Labor, local
assembly 1562
Springfield (Mass.) Central Labor Union, 10n
Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey v. U.S., 8:155n,
8:276n, 85n
State federations of labor, affiliation of local unions in, 88
Statement of the Seattle Central Labor Council Relative
to Its Controversy with the Executive Council of the
American Federation of Labor (Seattle Central Labor Council), 266, 271n
Stead, Francis H., 10:525n, 222n
Steam and Operating Engineers, International Union of, 7:*;
jurisdiction of, 394-98, 398n
-- locals: local 103 (Indianapolis), 363, 364n
Steel strike, 1919-20, 11:126n, 279-80, 281n
Steelworkers' organizing campaign (1918), 279, 281n
Steelworkers' organizing campaign (1923-24), 278-81, 281n
Steenerson, Halvor, 187, 189n
Stephens, William D., 10:397n, 90, 91n
Stereotypers' and Electrotypers' Union of North America, International, 11:*
-- locals: local 30 (Indianapolis), 363
Stetten, DeWitt, 457n
Stevens, Daniel W., 334, 337n
Stevens, John, 250n; letter to, 248-50
Steward, Luther C.,* 89n, 383n, 445, 446n
Stone, Warren S.,* 467n, 468, 470n
Stone Cutters' Association of North America, Journeymen, 9:*, 398n
Street and Electric Railway Employes of America, Amalgamated Association of,* 23n, 223; injunctions
against, 21-22, 24n
-- strikes and lockouts: 1894 (Toledo), 24n; 1916
(New York City), 9:492n, 23n; 1918 (Indianapolis), 24n; 1918
(New York City), 23-24n
Streifler, Henry E., 8:476n, 221n; letter from,
219-21
Strike, right to, 108-10, 115, 181, 486-87, 510
Strike breakers, 109, 115-16, 119-20
Strikes, "snowballing," 75, 80n
Strikes and lockouts: AFL financial appeals for, 127, 129n; AFL financial support of, 127-28, 129n; statistics of, 4-5,
6-7n
-- bakers: 1923-24, 406, 408n
-- blacksmiths: 1920-21 (Springfield, Mass.), 8-9, 9n
-- brick workers: 1914 (Chicago), 353, 355-56n
-- building trades workers: 1921-22 (Chicago), 11:496-97n,
57-58
-- general strikes: 1922 (South Africa), 47n; 1922 (threatened), 133-34, 136-37, 137n, 147
-- glove makers: 1920-21, 451, 451n
-- granite cutters: 1921- , 127, 129n
-- iron and steel workers: 1919-20. See Steel strike,
1919-20
-- ladies' garment workers: 1910 (New York City), 8:114n,
528-29, 531; 1924 (Chicago), 427-28, 428n
-- longshoremen: 1923 (Vancouver), 442n
-- miners: 1922 (see Miners' strike, 1922); 1923, 315n
-- quarry workers: 1921- , 127, 129n
-- railroad shopmen: 1922- . See Railroad shop craft workers, strikes and lockouts, 1922-
-- railroad workers: 1916 (threatened), 9:450n, 499; 1921-23 (Harrison, Ark.), 192-95, 196-97n
-- Rand strike, 1922 (South Africa), 43, 47n
-- street railway workers: 1894 (Toledo), 24n; 1916
(New York City), 9:492n, 23n; 1918 (Indianapolis), 24n;
1918 (New York City), 23-24n
-- textile workers: 1922, 127, 128-29n, 140
Strong, Anna Louise, 235, 241n
Strong, Sidney D., 235, 241n
Suitor, Frederick W.,* 398n; letter from, 394-98
Sullivan, Denis E., 366, 367n, 428n
Sullivan, Jere L.,* 97n, 265n; letter to, 265
Sullivan, John,* 461n, 524, 526n
Sunday, William A. "Billy," 207, 207n
Sutherland, Howard, 169, 171n, 250
Swain, Albert, 240, 241n, 270
Swales, Alonzo B.,* 526, 526n, 534
Swift and Co. v. U.S., 302-3, 303n
Swinton, John, 3:*, 34n
Swope, Gerard, 550, 552n
T
Tacoma (Wash.) Central Labor Council, 11:50n, 237,
326n, 339, 340n
Taft, William H., 6:383n, 69, 250
Tailors' Union of America, Journeymen,* 98n
Tansey, James,* 251-52, 252n
Tawney, Richard H., 191, 192n
Taylor, Frederick W., 8:202-3n, 142
Teamsters, Chauffeurs, Stablemen, and Helpers of America, International Brotherhood of,* 88, 89n
Teapot Dome scandal, 228, 228n
Teigan, Henry G., 431, 434n
Tekulsky, Solomon, 550, 552n
Tennessee State Federation of Labor, 31n
Terry, Winfield C., 551, 554n
Textile industry, machinery in, 304
Textile Operatives, American Federation of, 251-52
Textile workers, organization of, 251-52
Textile Workers of America, Amalgamated, 128n
Textile Workers of America, United,* 54n, 62, 404,
446n
-- strikes and lockouts: 1922, 127, 128-29n, 140
Thiel detective agency, 132n
Third Avenue Railway Co., 21; strike against (1916), 23n; strike against (1918), 23-24n
Third Avenue Railway Co. v. Patrick J. Shea et
al., 21-23, 24n
Third (Communist) International (Comintern), 253, 267
-- congresses: fourth, 1922 (Petrograd, Moscow), 293, 294n
Third party movements, 170, 187-89, 409, 410n, 488. See also Labor party
Thomas, Albert A.,* 189-90, 190-91n, 232n; letter to,
231-32
Thomas, James D., 552
Thomas, Norman M., 452n; letter to, 452
Thompson, Miss, 461, 462n
Thorne, Florence C.,* 365n, 378n, 433n; and AFL
women's department, considered, 404, 408n, 445n, 447-49; and death
of SG, 541, 543; and SG memoirs, 322n, 365, 385n; letter to, 447-49
Threat, Eugene, 341, 342n
Tighe, Michael F.,* 278-79, 281n, 550
Timber Workers, International Union of,* 66n, 234;
and industrial unionism, 62
Tobin, Daniel J.,* 88, 89n, 163n, 295; elected AFL treasurer, 97n, 338n; and election of 1924, 461n, 489,
491-93; and election of successor to SG, 555, 558-60; and SG, illness of
(1924), 471n, 503n
Toledo Electric Street Railway Co., strike against (1894), 24n
Torres, Reynaldo C., 359n
Towner, Horace M., 200, 202n
Tracy, Edward J., 424n, 433n, 517, 517n, 541
Tracy, Thomas F., 9:*, 517n
Trade Press Publishing Co. et al. v. Milwaukee
Typographical Union No. 23 et al., 302, 303n
Trades Union Congress of Great Britain, 4:*, 521;
Women's Bureau, 376; and women workers, 361n, 376
-- meeting of: 1921 (Cardiff), 18, 20n
Trade Union Educational League, 11:561n, 44-47, 47n,
64, 126n, 311, 403; raid on Chicago office of, 131, 132n
Trade unions: benefits of, 178, 180-81, 210; constitutional amendment on rights of, 208; education in, 425-26; judicial
regulation of, 68-72, 74; legislative regulation of, 74, 76; membership in,
estimate of, 3; membership in, limitation of, 69-70; membership in, SG on,
306-7; and "outsiders," 309-10, 372
Treaty of Rapallo, 15n
Treder, Oscar F. R., 551, 554n
Trevino, Ricardo, 515n, 524-26; letter to, 515
Trotsky, Leon, 10:512n, 64, 96, 98, 233n, 293
Truax, Edna, 419n; letter to, 418-19
Truax, William, 93n
Truax et al. v. Bisbee Local No. 380, Cooks' and
Waiters' Union et al., 94n
Truax et al. v. Corrigan et al., 93-94n
Truth, 34n
Tucker, Edward L., 347, 349n
Typographical Union, International,* 66n, 127, 223;
and industrial unionism, 62; and machinery, 305-6
-- locals: local 1 (Indianapolis), 363
U
Underwood, Oscar W., 9:68n, 215-17
Unemployment, 213-16, 242, 284
Unemployment Conference (1921, Washington, D.C.), 11:532n,
143, 297, 413
Unemployment insurance, 17-20, 213-15, 215n
Union label, 4; universal, 87-88, 88n
Union shop, 3-4, 216; SG and, 174-76, 182
The Union Shop and Its Antithesis (AFL), 216, 217n
United Mine Workers of America, Dist. No. 17, et al.
v. Chafin et al., 265n
United Mine Workers of America et al. v. Coronado
Coal Co. et al., 10:323n, 93n
Unskilled workers, 165
Untermyer, Samuel, 11:155n, 80n, 153; interrogation
of SG by, 68-80; letter from, 166-67
U.S. Bureau of Insular Affairs, 200
U.S. Coal Commission, 48n
U.S. Commission on Industrial Relations, 8:331-32n,
42
U.S. Constitution, amendment of, 91, 93; amendment curbing veto power of Supreme Court, 91, 94-95, 208, 209n, 230,
247n, 454, 487, 510, 512; amendment prohibiting child labor, 81, 82-83n, 91,
208, 276, 343, 346, 348n, 374, 453-54, 455n, 486-87, 510-11; amendment on
rights of trade unions, 208; equal rights amendment, 31, 31n, 37, 39n,
372
-- Thirteenth Amendment, 110
-- Fourteenth Amendment, 282
-- Fifteenth Amendment, 282
-- Eighteenth Amendment, 206
-- Nineteenth Amendment, 248
U.S. Department of Labor:
-- Bureau of Labor Statistics, 249
-- Children's Bureau, and AFL Permanent Conference for Abolition of Child Labor, 82n
-- Women's Bureau, and AFL Permanent Conference for Abolition of Child Labor, 82n
U.S. ex rel. Abern v. Wallis, 278n
U.S. House of Representatives:
-- Committee on the District of Columbia, 346
-- Committee on Foreign Affairs, 286, 288n, 291
-- Committee on Immigration and Naturalization, 348n, 417n
-- Committee on Insular Affairs, 200
-- Committee on the Judiciary, 82n, 147, 147n, 208
-- Committee on Military Affairs, 423, 424n
-- Committee on Rules, 346
U.S. Navy Department, 200
U.S. Railroad Labor Board et al. v. Pennsylvania
Railroad Co., 30n
U.S. Senate:
-- Committee on Education and Labor, 279, 281n
-- Committee on Immigration, 348
-- Committee on Insular Affairs, 200
-- Committee on the Judiciary, 208
U.S. Steel Corp., 5:335n, 140
U.S. Supreme Court, amendment to curb veto power of, 91, 94-95, 208, 209n, 230, 247n, 454, 487, 510, 512
U.S. v. Bricklayers', Masons', and Plasterers' International Union, 80n
U.S. v. Railway Employees' Department of American Federation of Labor et al., 87n
V
Vahey, James H., 21-23, 24n
Valentine, Joseph F.,* 117n, 461n; elected AFL vice- president, 97n, 338n
Valentino, John G.,* 336, 337n
Vancouver and District Waterfront Workers' Association, 440-41, 442n
Vanderveer, George F., 257-58, 259n
Van Horn, R. S., 447n
Van Kennen, George, 382n
Van Siclen, James C., 11:458n, 71, 74n
Vanzetti, Bartolomeo, 11:550n, 90, 91n
Vargas, Canuto A., 11:341n, 359n, 525
Versailles Treaty, labor clauses in, 561
Veterans, rehabilitation of those injured in service, 454
Villard, Oswald G., 11:472n, 43n; letter to, 41-43
Villarreal, Antonio I., 391, 392n
Virgin Islands, conditions in, 197-201
Volk, Lester D., 25, 26n
Voll, John A., 10:*, 97n
"The Voluntary Nature of the Labor Movement: A Trade
Union Creed" (SG), 520-23, 524n
Von Schriltz, G. A., 332n
W
Wadia, B. P., 234, 241n
Wages, 75-79, 284-85, 424; AFL investigation of, 7, 8n; reduction of, SG on resistance to, 245, 285; of women,
conference on, 244-47
"Wages" (AFL), 7, 8n
Wagner, Theodore H., 240, 241n, 270
Wald, Lillian D., 529, 533n
Walker, John H.,* 38n, 337, 337n, 409n; letters to,
34-38, 186-90, 409; wire to, 223
Walker, Meriwether, 412n
Wallace, Edgar, 9:341n, 11:153n, 184n, 212n,
345, 347; and death of SG, 543; and election of 1924, 432-33, 433n, 456,
461n, 467n, 468, 474, 483
Walling, William English, 6:413n, 145, 146n, 197n
Walsh, David I., 212-13n
Walsh, Francis P. (Frank), 9:117n, 132n
Walsh, Thomas J., 228n
Walters, Mrs. G., 315-16, 316n; letter to, 318-19
Waltham, Mass., Chamber of Commerce, 300-301
Waltham, Watertown, Newton, and Vicinity, Central Labor Union of, 301n
Walton, John C., 189n
Ward, Harry F., 265n; letter to, 263-64
Ward Baking Co., strike against (1923-24), 406, 408n
Warfield, S. Davies, 87n
Warfield, Solomon D., 204, 206n
War Industries Board, 10:21n, 423, 424n
Warinner, Allen W., 409, 409n
Washington, D.C., Central Labor Union, 1:229n, 2:71n,
4:171n, 245, 247n
Washington Post, letter to the editor of the, 192-96
Washington State Federation of Labor, 5:450n, 224,
237, 325
-- conventions: 1919 (Bellingham), 270, 271n; 1922 (Bremerton), 237, 241n; 1923 (Bellingham), 273, 274n
Washington Union Label League, 247n
Waste in Industry (Committee on Elimination of Waste
in Industry), 142-43, 146n, 297
Watson, James E., 348n
Webb, Beatrice, 377n
Weeks, John W., 11:521n, 383n, 410-11, 412n
Wefald, Knud, 432, 433-34n
Weikel, Frank, 543, 544n
Weisendanger, Ulrich, 551, 554n
Wells, Hulet M., 10:400n, 224, 234-35
West, Edwin H., 550, 554n
West, George P., 9:433n, 41-43
West Indian workers, in Canal Zone, 410-11
West Virginia, American Civil Liberties Union activities in, 264, 265n, 309
Wheeler, Burton, 468n; and election of 1924, 389n,
409n, 467-68n, 470n, 475-76n, 482, 484n, 487-89, 492-93, 505-6,
513
Wheeler Syndicate, 365
Whiteley, Joshua C., 339n; wire from, 338-39
Wiley, Louis, 550, 554n
Wilkerson, James H., 87n, 137n, 152-54, 155n, 158
Willard, Daniel, 10:79n, 87n, 204, 206n, 412, 414n,
499
"Will Labor Lead?" (West), 42
Wilmington (Del.) and Vicinity, United Labor League of, 373n
Wilmington (Del.) Central Labor Union, 372, 373n
Wilson, Edith Bolling, 11, 11n
Wilson, James A.,* 562n; and election of successor to
SG, 555, 557, 559-60
Wilson, Thomas Woodrow, 8:135n, 10-11, 122, 492, 499,
509, 511, 547-48
Wilson, William B.,* 217, 218n, 493, 502, 503n; and election of 1924, 495-501; and steel strike (1919), 279-80;
letter from, 495-98; letter to, 498-501
Wilson v. New et al., 9:450n, 10:17n,
11:259n, 497, 498n, 499
Winfield, Charles W., 132, 133n
Wise, Stephen S., 11:155n, 82n; eulogy for SG, 545,
547-49
Wolf, Robert B., 11:391n, 413
Wolfe, James H., 310n; letter to, 309-10
Woll, Matthew,* 51, 52n, 93n, 126, 190, 294, 312,
315n, 388; and AFL conventions, 87, 94-95, 333, 334n; and death of
SG, 541; elected AFL vice-president, 97n, 338n; and election of 1924, 456,
458n, 459, 461n, 465-66, 467n, 468-69, 470n, 471-72, 472n, 473, 473n, 474-75,
478-83, 483n, 489, 504-5, 507n; and election of successor to SG, 555, 559-60;
and railway shopmen's strike, 106n; and SG memoirs, 385n, 533, 535n; letters
from, 468-69, 473-75, 478-80; letters to, 208, 226-27, 472-73n; wires to, 218,
378
Woman suffrage, SG and, 426-27
Women's Committee for Recognition of Russia, 293, 294n
Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, 294n
Women's Temperance League, 360
Women workers: AFL and, 89, 89n, 334-37, 337n, 360-61, 361-62n, 370-71, 371n, 372, 376, 404-7, 408n, 417-18, 418n,
443-45, 446-47n, 448-49, 449n, 450-51, 451n; Barbers and, 476-78, 478n;
education of, 449, 449n; experience in trade union movement, need for, 448;
German Federation of Trade Unions and, 361n; hours of labor of, 5; membership
in trade unions, 370-71, 371n; organization of, 30-31, 89, 89n, 244-46, 247n,
249-50, 335-36, 337n, 360-61, 361-62n, 370-71, 371n, 376, 404-7, 408n, 417-18,
418n, 443, 445, 446-47n, 448-49, 449n, 450-51, 451n, 476-77, 478n; SG and,
361-62n, 370-71, 371n, 376, 404-7, 408n, 443-45, 446-47n, 449n, 450-51, 451n,
476-78; and Trades Union Congress of Great Britain, 361n, 376; wages of,
244-47, 247n, 248-50
Wood, James E., letter to, 429
Woodrow Wilson Foundation, 10-11, 11n
Workers' Education Bureau of America, 157n, 191, 226,
227n,382, 383n, 387-88, 389n
Workers' Federation of the Republic of Panama. See Federación Obrera de la República de Panamá
Workers' Party of America, 11:550n, 172-73, 296n,
309, 403; and election of 1924, 296n, 409, 431-32, 433n, 463, 484-85,
485n; program of, 172, 173n
-- convention: 1922 (New York City), 172, 173n, 403,
403-4n
Workers' Party of Canada:
-- convention: 1922 (Toronto), 48n
Workmen's compensation, 454
Workmen's compensation legislation, state, 4
World Court, 209, 210n, 455
World Power Conference (1924, London), 347, 348-49n; American Committee, 347, 348n
World War I: American involvement in, discussion of, 452n; postwar impact of, 156-57
A Worth-While Revolution (SG), 420, 421n
Wright, Chester M.,* 184n, 199, 202n, 359n; and death
of SG, 541; and election of 1924, 431, 433n, 461n, 467n, 468,
470n, 471, 474, 478-80, 502, 504; letter from, 478-80
Wright, Daniel T., 7:438n, 155, 156n
Wyoming State Federation of Labor, 191, 192n
XYZ
Yellow-dog contracts, 8-9, 9-10n
Yerkes, Robert M., 168n
Yonkers (N.Y.) Federation of Labor, 11:317n, 551
Young, Charles O.,* 225n, 339-40n; and Seattle
Central
Labor Council, 224-25, 237, 253, 259n, 273-74, 274n, 275,
324; letter from, 274-75
Young, Eugene J., 230n; letter to, 230
Young, Owen D., 550, 552n
Young Communist League, 277n
Young Communist League of the U.S., 277n
Young Men's Christian Association, and AFL Permanent
Conference for Abolition of Child Labor, 82n
Young Women's Christian Association, 360; and AFL Permanent
Conference for Abolition of Child Labor, 82n
Young Workers' Communist League of America, 277n
Young Workers' League of America, 277n; and SG,
meeting
with representatives of, 275-77
Yudico, Samuel O., 9:426n, 359n
Zinoviev, Grigory Y., 11:432n, 293, 294n
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