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Addison, Dr., 178, 193

American public opinion, 306-307
Aliens in America, 307

Ammon, C. G., on Gompers' pro-
Allied diplomacy, 79

posal, 19
Allied governments, labor pressure Anderson, Mrs. W. C. See Mac-

on, for war aims statement, 320 arthur, Mary
Allied labor unity, 273

Anderson, W. C., 40; on industrial
Amalgamated Society of Engi- conscription, 132-133

neers, 199; constitution, 160, 161; Anthony, Susan B., 141

outline of workers' control, 179 Appleton, W. A., 57, 231, 244, 248;
American aliens and immigrant interview, 249
groups, 307

Arbeiter-Zeitung, 318
American Alliance of Labor and Asquith, H. H., 269

Democracy, 249, 266, 267, 268, Austria-Hungary, unrest, 310
308

Austrian peace note, 305, 321
American-Allied conference, Lon- Autocracy vs. democracy, 296-297
don, Sept., 1918, 238

Baine, C. L., 288
American delegates to England, Balfour, A. J., 159
249

Barnes, G. N., 226; on breaking
American Federation of Labor, 44,

the truce, 117;

on Stockholm
57, 125, 214; attitude toward in- conference, 13; War Cabinet
ternational conference proposals, labor delegates to America,
230; Blackpool meeting, 28; del- 244
egation to visit England, 249; Barr & Stroud, 184
difficulties

communication Belgian Labor Party, action at
with British labor, 241; invita- London conference, 63-64, 66
tions to European conferences, Belgian Prince (ship), 22
236-237; "Labor's War Aims,' Belgium, 297, 298, 301
239; London conference state- Berger, Victor, 282
ment on, 300; open diplomacy, Berne, 285; International meeting
230; peace terms, 238; political proposed for Sept., 1917, 232
activity, 280-281 ; position as to Birmingham, 208
British labor, 240; position in- Birmingham meeting, 1916, 18
terpreted by James Wilson, 251; Blackpool meeting, Sept.

, 1917, 16,
Stockholm project, 236

20; Henderson's speech, 27
American Federationist, 126, 230; Bolsheviki, 6, 7, 8, 62, 88

cables regarding international Bondfield, Margaret, 115, 140, 141,
labor conference, 230
American labor, antithesis to Brit- Boycotting Germany, 224; sailors,

ish, 255; coming into line, 273; 261
on the wrong side, 266; out of Branting, Hjalmar, 86, 87; at June,
it, 230

1918, conference, 99, 101
American labor bodies, 125

Brest-Litovsk, 8, 17, 62, 89, 96, 293,
American labor movement, 126, 294

127; statement at London con- Bridgeman, Mr., 189
ference, 288

Britannic Alliance, 224

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British delegates to America, 244
British Socialists. See Socialists
British Workers' League, 34
Bromley, J., 115; at Blackpool

meeting, 23
Buffalo convention, Nov., 1917, 238
Bulgarian United Social Demo-

cratic Party, 316
Burnage Works, 181, 184
Burns, John, 40
Button, F. S., 179
Cachin, M., 292
Canada, 28
Canepa, 63
Cardiff, 212, 226
Carter, W.,
Caxton Hall meeting, 258, 259
Central Empires, Wilson's call to

working classes of, 309
Central Hall, Westminster, adop-

tion of war aims memorandum,
28; conference of Aug. 10, 1917,
12; Memorandum on War Aims,
adopted Feb. 20-24, 1918, 29, 67,
352; Statement of War Aims,
adopted at joint conference, Dec.
28, 1917, 343
Chéradame, André, 79,
Christian Commonwealth, 254
Churchill, Winston, 125
Civic Federation. See National

Civic Federation
Civil offensive, fruits, 322
Clyde Workers' Committee, 161,

162
Clynes, J. R., at Blackpool meet-

ing, 25; at Nottingham meeting,
43; biographical sketch, 120; in
controversy, 123; interview in
June, 1918, 122; message to rail-
way strikers, 212; on breaking
the truce, 118; on food control,
120; on labor setting an exam-
ple, 271; personality, 118, 121
Cocoa firms, 185
Cole, G. D. H., 155, 164, 174, 179,

193, 335, 336
Collective bargaining, 127, 180
Collectivism, 333, 335
"Common sense,

128
Communal idea in labor policy, 339
Compromise, British genius for,

266
Conference projects, characteris-

tics of British labor, 17
Conscientious objectors, 132

Conscription, Thomas and the

Irish crisis, 205
Conscription of wealth, 135, 136,

336
Constitution of the British Labour

Party, 367
Control. See Self-government in

industry
Cooperative movement, 143; aims

of members, 144-145; conference

of Oct., 1917, 144
Cotter, J., 22
Coventry, 207
Cramp, C. T.,
Crises, 333-334
Czechs, 86
Daily News, on the British dele-

gates to America, 248; on the

London conference, 78
Davis, W. J., 201; at Caxton Hall

meeting, 258-259
Debs, E. V., 282, 297
Democracy, autocracy vs., 296-297;

diplomacy of, 300-301 ; industrial,
194; place in reconstruction, 333;
test, 305, 326; triumph in Sept.,

1918, 305
Deportation, 163
Derby meeting of 1918, 25; Gom-

pers, 285, 286; resolution for a
trade union party, 266; speakers
and discussions, 197
"Dilution," 152, 157, 162
Diplomacy, new vs. old, 326
Diplomacy of labor, democratic

results, 300-301, 305-306; replies
from German and other minor-

ity groups, 316
Diplomatic offensive, results, 322
Drake, Mrs. Barbara, 155
Duncan, James, 236, 249
Easley, R. M., 245
Education, 131
Elections. See General elections
Embargoes, 207; situation from

different angles, 208
Employers, new type, 181; sum-

mary of conclusions of group of

Quaker employers, 477
Engineering trades, conference of

employers and employees, Dec,
1917, 165; unions, 160; women

in, 152, 157
England, old order and new, 136;

political and industrial develop-
ments, 105

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English Round Table, 85
Europe, labor movement in West-

ern, 334

Fairchild, E. C., 31

Finance, democratic, 135, 136
Fisher, Victor, 34, 257
Fitch, J. A., 308
Foch, Marshal, 66

Food control, J. R. Clynes on, 120

Force, 82, 323

Franklin, Benjamin, 273

Freedom, restrictions on, 132, 133
Freedom of the press, 308
French Socialists, 62, 63, 91, 92
Frey, J. P., 296, 297

Friends. See Quaker employers
Garton Foundation, 159
Garvin, J. L., 271

Gaunt (Reuben), & Sons, 189
General elections, Dec., 1918, 223;
Labour Party's platform, 413;
results, 269

General Federation of Trade
Unions, 18, 56, 201

German boycott. See Boycotting
- German people vs. German govern-
ment, 306, 309, 324

German Social Democratic Party
of Austria, 318, 320

German workers, 240, 251, 254, 255
Germany, Majority Socialists, 311,
315; Socialism, 65, 335; Social-
ism, rift, 313; unrest and upris-
ing, 310

Glasgow, 163

Glazier, Bruce, 267
Gleason, Arthur, Shop Committees

and Labour Boards (reprinted
from the Survey, May, 1917),
488

Glenn, General, 307

Golden, John, 28

Gompers, Samuel, 13, 249; address
on Feb. 22, 1918, 83; at Derby,
Sept., 1918, 196-197, 200; cable-
grams to French and to British
labor, 234; circular, 18; com-
pared to Franklin, 273; ex-
changes with German labor, 230;
"Garbled text" cablegram, 241;
Henderson and, 237; leadership,
283; part in the London confer-
ence, 275, 302, 303; personality,
274, 276, 277; policy, 126
Government and labor delegations,
250

Government Commission of In-
quiry into Industrial Unrest, 157
Governments, labor pressure on Al-
lied, to state war aims, 320
"Gray hairs," 128
Greenwood, G. A., 193
Guild-Socialists, 336
Hall, Martin, 185
Hanley, 225
Hardie, Keir, 33

Hartshorn, Vernon, 168, 173
Health, 131

Henderson, Arthur, 6; at Black-
pool meeting, 27; at Derby meet-
ing, 200; at June conference,
1918, on breaking truce, 114; at
Oldham, 228; central policy, 267;
German estimate and American
radical estimate, 268; Gompers
and, 237; link of various ele-
ments, 49; on adoption of war
aims memorandum, 29; on war
and peace (Feb., 1918), 204; per-
sonality, 50, 94, 95; resignation
from War Cabinet, 16, 53; Rus-
sian views in Aug., 1917, 11;
speech at luncheon of London
Conference, 78-79
Henson, J., 21

Hertling cabinet, 315
Highton, Herbert, 157
Hill, J., on

dum, 31

war aims memoran-

Hillquit, Morris, 282

Hobson, J. A., 339

Hobson, S. G., 335, 336

Hodge, John, 50; to the iron and
steel workers, at Hanley, 225
Hotchkiss Co., 207-208

House, Colonel, 275

Hughes, W. M., 261, 263, 327, 340;
at Cardiff, 226

Hungarian Social

Party, 317, 320

Democratic

Huysmans, Camille, 311; at Not-
tingham meeting, 86, 87
Immigrant groups in America, 307
Imperial Federation, 224
Independent Labour Party, inde-
pendence, 219; leaders, 40; left
and, 33; Leicester conference
and soldiers' charter, 216; peace
resolution, 216, 218; resolution
on the war, 49
Independent Social
party of Germany, 319

Democratic

Individualism, 336, 337, 338, 341
Industrial conscription, 133
Industrial councils, 149, 190; gov-
ernment and, 191; Industrial
Councils and Trade Boards:
Memorandum by the Minister of
Reconstruction and the Minister
of Labour, 440; need for, 192;
See also Whitley Reports
Industrial unionism. See Trade
unionism

Industrial unrest, 137, 151, 155;
causes, 157-158, 337
I. W. W., 282

Industry, democratic control, 134,
153; reorganization, 134; see also
Self-government in industry
Inter-Allied conference in London,
Aug. 21, 1917, 44, 56

Inter-Allied labor meeting in 1915,
76
Inter-Allied Labour and Socialist

Conferences at London, 1917-18,
56, 61, 94; composition and dele-
gates, 286; five commissions and
their officers, 64, 65; harmoniz-
ing of principles, 340; Manches-
ter Guardian on, 71; platform,
67; Socialism the crux, 278;
Times on, 72

Inter-Allied trade union confer-
ence of Sept. 10, 1917, 233
Interbelligerent conference, Amer-
ican and British positions, 304;
passport question, 302, 303, 308;
project and issue, 289, 292
International Federation of Trades
Unions, 230
International

labor conference,
300; American labor position as
shown in the Federationist, 230;
German obstacle, 301; MacDon-
ald's vision, 85

International Socialist Bureau, 33,
66; conference of Aug. 21, 1917,
16
Internationale, 265

Ireland, 205

Iron and steel workers, 225
Italian Socialists, 62

Jingo press, 6, 76

Jingoism, 98

Joint memorandum.

War aims

See under

Joint standing industrial councils.

See Whitley Reports

Jones, Jack, 19, 115, 263
Jowett, F. W., 40

Jubilee year of the Trades Union
Congress, 197
Jugo-Slavs, 63
Kautsky, Karl, 311
Keighley, 113

Kerensky, at Labour Party confer-
ence, June, 1918, 90, 94, 95, 96, 97
Kipling, 146

Kirkwood, David, 161, 162, 336
Kneeshaw, J. W., 296, 298
Kropotkin, Prince, 333

Labor boards. See Shop Commit-
tees, etc.

Labor formations, various, 18
Labor members of the coalition,
220, 336

Labor movement, American. See
American, etc.

Labor movement, British, Amer-
ican antithesis, 255; American
comparison, 52; democratic prin-
ciples, 309; early development, 3;
England as contrasted with other
countries, 7; extreme left and
extreme right, 291; extreme
right motivations, 228; joint
statement of Oct. 9, 1918, 325;
leaders, 173, 266, 335; leadership,
340; majority course, 292; offen-
sive (rise of international pol-
icy), 3; organizing sentiment, 56;
peace objectives-summary, 83-
84; personal, 53; pressure on Al-
lied governments for war aims
statement, 320; separatist move-
ments, 220; so-called split, 257;
support of President Wilson's
course, 325; tendency, 335; three
steps, 9, 334; unity, 273, 285, 298;
vitality, 341; working class opin-
ion, 54

Labor movement in Western Eu-
rope, 334

Labor representation at peace ta-
ble, 300, 304

"Labor's War Aims," 239

Labour, Minister of, Memoran-
dum, etc., 440

Labour and the New Social Or-
der, 42, 45, 125, 224, 372
Labour Leader, 99

Labour Party, British, breaking of
truce with the government, III;
central policy, 267; constitution

as adopted by the party confer-
ence held in London, Feb. 21,
1918, 367; election in June, 1918,
257; gains in general election,
270; London conference, June,
1918, 94, 113, 128, 221, 395; make-
up, 7; membership fluctuations,
1900-1917, 107; new majority in,
II; Nottingham meeting, 42 (See
also Nottingham meeting); ob-
jects set forth, 106; organizers
of its central strength, 25; plat-
form at General Election, Dec.,
1918, 413; political nature, 107;
reconstruction resolutions adopt-
ed June 26, 1918, 395; reorgan-
ization in 1918, 105; resolution of
April, 1918, 75; rising power,
145-146; Socialism reported to
America, 278; summary of prin-
ciples, 336

Labour War Aims, 45
Labour Women, 142
Land, 337

Lansbury, George, 33, 40

Law, Bonar, 188; on conscription
of wealth, 135

Leading strings for labor, 244
League of Nations, 68, 69, 71, 73,
224, 228

Left, swing toward, 35, 45, 149, 216,

219

Legien, Carl, 230, 231

Legislation, III

Leicester conference, 216, 219
Liberties, 337, 338
Life, control of, 334

Litvinoff, on Russia, at Notting-
ham, 88

Lloyd George, David, on Gompers,
276; on statement of war aims,
29, 32; personality, 137-138;
Treasury Agreement, 153
London Conference. See Inter-Al-
lied Labour and Socialist Con-
ferences, etc.

London strike, 1918, 207
London Times. See Times

Longuet, Jean, at Nottingham
meeting, 93; on Russia, 294; per-
sonality and address on jingoism,
98

Lord, James, 28

Macarthur, Mary (Mrs. W. C. An-
derson), 140, 141

MacDonald, Ramsay, at Leicester

conference, 216; at Nottingham
meeting, 84; interview at Not-
tingham, 38; on reconstruction,
129; on Stockholm conference,
14; personal appearance, 93;
stand on war issues, 40
Machines, automatic, 151
McKerrell, T., 19
McManus, 163
Mallon, J. J., 188

Manchester Guardian, 71, 77, 313
Masaryk, T. G., 307
Maurice, General, 323
Maximalists and Minimalists, 90
Maxton, J., 297

Memorandum. See under War
aims

Merchant Seamen's League, 261
Middleton, James, 125
Militarism, 78

Military force vs. diplomatic, 324
Miller, H. A., 307

Milner, Lord, 55

Miners, 138, 168; conditions in the
industry, 169; in the war, 170
Miners' Federation, 168

Minimum wage, 156, 186
Ministry, labor members, 220

Mitchell, John, 245

Monopolies, 134

Mooney case, 297

Morning Post, 259, 260, 270

Munition workers, 157

Munitions, accelerating output, 153

Munitions of War Act, 155, 162
Murphy, J. T., 166

Nation (London), on Gompers, 285
Nation (New York), 308
National Civic Federation, 245
National Council of the Pottery
Industry, 449

National Federation of Women
Workers, 156

National Federation of Working
Women, 141

National Guild, 180, 336
Nationality of labor, 128
Naylor, T. E., 263
New Age, The, 181
New Republic, 77, 125,

New Social Order. See Labour
and the New Social Order
New Statesman, 47, 53

New York Tribune, 278, 280
Newcastle strike, 156
Newport, 210, 211

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