COPYRIGHT, 1918

BY THE MACMILLAN COMPANY

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Set up and printed. Published, April, 1918

PART II. CITIZENSHIP (1827-1833)

BY HELEN L. SUMNER

I, 153

CHAPTER III

WORKINGMEN'S PARTIES IN NEW YORK.

CHAPTER IV

SPEED OF THE MOVEMENT

CHAPTER V

NEW ENGLAND ASSOCIATION OF FARMERS,
MECHANICS AND OTHER WORKINGMEN

CHAPTER VI

I, 231

I, 285

I, 302

PART III. TRADE UNIONISM (1833-1839)
BY EDWARD B. MITTELMAN

I FIRST DATES ON WHICH TRADE SOCIE-

TIES APPEARED IN NEW YORK, BAL-

TIMORE, PHILADELPHIA, AND BOS-

TON, 1833-1837.

II STRIKES, 1833-1837

I, 472

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I, 478

PART IV. HUMANITARIANISM (1840-1860)
BY HENRY E. HOAGLAND

New Conditions. Railway construction, 3. Through-freight lines, 4.

Railway consolidations, 4. Appearance of the wholesale jobber, 5. The

first national trade unions, 5.

The Moulders. William H. Sylvis, 6. The effect of the extension of the

market on the moulder's trade, 6. The national union, 7. Its weakness, 7.

The Machinists and Blacksmiths. Evils in the trade, 8. The national

union, 9. Strike against the Baldwin Locomotive Works, 9. Outbreak

of the War depression, 9. Other national unions, 10.

Unemployment and Impending War. The workingmen's opposition to

war, 10. Louisville and Philadelphia, 10. Fort Sumter and labour's

change of attitude, 11.

CHAPTER II

THE WAR PERIOD, 1861-1865.

II, 13

War and Prices. The lethargy of the trade unions, 13. Legal ten-

der acts, 14. War prosperity and its beneficiaries, 14. Cost of living and

wages, 15.

The Labour Press. Fincher's Trades' Review, 15. The Workingman's

Advocate, 16. The Daily Evening Voice, 16. Other papers, 17.

Local Unions. The incentive for organisation, 17. The wave of or-

ganisation during the war, 18.

The Trades' Assemblies. Progress of the trades' assemblies, 22. Strikes,

23. Functions of the trades' assemblies, 23. The Philadelphia trades'

assembly, a typical assembly, 24.

Employers' Associations. Local and national associations, 26. The

Employers' General Association of Michigan, 26. The reply of the trade

unions, 29. Richard F. Trevellick, 29. New York Masters Builders' Asso-

ciation, 29. Master Mechanics of Boston, 30. The associated employers

and the eight-hour movement of 1872, 31. The attempted "exclusive agree-

ment," 32. Attitude towards trade agreements, 33.

International Industrial Assembly of North America. The national

trade unions and federation, 33. The trades' assemblies and federation,

34. The Louisville call, 34. The convention in Louisville, 35. Assistance

during strikes, 36. Attitude towards co-operation and legislation, 37.

The constitution and the national trade unions, 37. Politics, 38. Causes

of failure, 38.

Distributive Co-operation. Cost of living, 39. Thomas Phillips, 39.

The Rochdale plan, 40. The turn towards productive co-operation, 41.

CHAPTER III

THE NATIONAL TRADE UNIONS, 1864-1873 . II, 42

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Causes and General Progress. Effect of the nationalisation of the mar-

ket, 43. National trade unions in thirties, 43. The effect of national

labour competition, 44. Effect of employers' associations, 44. Effect of

machinery and the division of labour, 44. Organisation of national trade

unions, 1861-1873, 45. Growth of their membership, 47. The national

trade union the paramount aspect of nationalisation, 48.

The Moulders. Epitomise the labour movement, 48. Activities during

the war, 48. Beginning of employers' associations, 49. Lull in the organ-

isation of employers during the period of prosperity, 49. West and

East, 50. American National Stove Manufacturers' and Iron Founders'

Association, 50. Apprenticeship question, 50. The strike in Albany and

Troy, 51. Withdrawal of the Buffalo and St. Louis foundrymen from

the Association, 51. The general strike against wage reductions, 51.

Defeat of the union, 52. Restriction on strikes by the national union,

52. Turn to co-operation, 53. Sylvis' view on the solution of the labour

question, 53. Co-operative shops, 53. The Troy shops, 54. Their busi-

ness success but failure as co-operative enterprises, 54. Disintegration

of the employers' association, 55. Revival of trade unionism, 55.

Machinists and Blacksmiths. The intellectual ascendency in the labour

movement, 56. Employers' associations, 56. Effect of the depression, 57.

Effect of the eight-hour agitation on the union, 57. Revival in 1870,

58.

Printers. The National Typographical Union, 58. "Conditional mem-

bership," 58. The national strike fund, 59. The persistent localist ten-

dency, 59. Northwestern Publishers' Association, 61.

Locomotive Engineers. The cause of nationalisation, 61. Piece work,