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,
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
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, 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
Newspapers, Nottingham, 46
"No annexations and no indemni- ties," 13, 34, 65, 234 Nottingham, 45
Nottingham meeting of Jan., 1918, 35, 42, 372; international labor conference, absentees, 85, 86; resolutions on war aims, 50 Observer, The, 260, 271
Ogden, J. W., 61; at Derby meet- ing, 198; on labor split, 260; on world brotherhood, 341 Old order and the new, 326 Oldham, 228
Open diplomacy of labor, 253 Opinion, L', on Gompers, 274 Orage, A. R., 335 "Our country," 128 Pacifism, 163
Pankhurst, Mrs., 202 Pankhurst, Sylvia, 116
Parkhead Engineering Works, 161, 162
Parliament and labor representa- tion, 110, III
Passports, 202, 302, 303, 308 Patriotism, 128 Patterson, Miss, 141
Peace, American Federation of Labor formulation, 238; ground- work, 299; I. L. P. resolution, 216, 218; President Wilson's ad- dress of Sept. 27, 1918, 321, 327; resolution at Derby meeting, 264 Peace Conference, labor represen- tation, 300
Peace proposals, labor's joint state- ment, Oct. 9, 1918, 325 Peace without victory, 218 Petrograd, 236
Phoenix Dynamo Co., 184
Party Ploughshares, 74 Political action, American Federa- tion of Labor, 280-281; labor or- ganizations united for, 145; rise in labor movement, 110; variance of British and American labor policies, 127
Political rights, 133 Politics, labor, 221
Pottery industry, National Coun- cil, objects and constitution, 449 Product, control of, 193
Prohibition, 138
Protective tariff, 339 Prussian-Australianism, 339 Prussianism, industrial, 159 Purdy, W. F., at Nottingham mid- ing, 48; on reconstruction, 13) Quaker employers, summary conclusions reached, 477 Railway unions, 172 Railwaymen's flare-up, 209 Reactionaries, 255 Reconstruction, democracy's work, 333; draft report submitted Nottingham, Jan. 23-25, 1918, 372; economic reforms, 133-134 labor report on, 125; labor's ap proach, 130; resolutions adopted by the conference of the Labos: Party, London, June 26, 19:3 395; Smillie on, 176; unity of l- bor parties, 128-129 Reconstruction, Minister of, Me orandum, etc., 440 "Red Flag," 44
Rees, David, 28
Renaudel, Pierre, at June, 1918 conference, 97; at Nottingham 91-92
Renold, C. G., 181, 183; Worksho Committees Suggested Lines c Development (from the Survey, Oct. 6, 1918), 452
Representation of the People Act, 105
Restrictions on freedom, 132 Revenue, 135
Revolution, 333
Revolutionary forces, 334 Revolutionists, 139
Roberts, George H., 112, 190, 20 261; on Gompers, 276; on Gom pers' proposal, 20; on Stockholm conference, 13; on the war aims memorandum, 226
Robinson, W. C., 12 Rolls-Royce works, 184
Root, Elihu, on British Labour Party, 112 Root Mission, 236 Roubanovitch, 88 Round Table, 85
Rowntree, Seebohm, 189 Russell, C. E., 308
Russia, 236; committee from, 259; committee to visit, II; Gompers greetings, 234; Henderson's
views in Aug., 1917, 11; interven- tion, 293, 294; Kerensky on, 96; labor opinion on government mishandling, 54; Litvinoff on the workers and revolution, 88; res- olution on, at London confer- ence, 293; Times on, 294 Safeguards of labor, lost, 151, 158 Sailors' and Firemen's Union, 21 Sailors' boycott, 261
St. Paul convention, 278, 280, 284 Scheidemann, Philip, 268, 314, 315 Scientific management, 180 Secret treaties, 76, 82, 297 Seddon, J. A., 257 Self-determination, 68 Self-government in industry, 178, 338; extension, 194; programs, 179-180
Sexton, James, 12, 205, 291, 298 Sherman, Camp, 307 Shop Committees Boards (article by Arthur Glea- son, reprinted from the Survey, May, 1917), 488 Shop organization, 181 Shop stewards, Amalgamated So- ciety of Engineers and, 161; ex- tension of movement, 163, 164; significance, 149, 164 Shop stewards committees, 178- 179, 181
Smillie, Robert, 16, 145, 168, 173, 174, 335; at June conference, 1918, 115; at Nottingham conven- tion, 35; on reconstruction, 176; peace resolution of the I. L. P., 216-217; personality, 114-115; personality and family, 169; re- election, 270
Smuts, General, 316, 323 "Sniping," 221, 226 Snowden, Philip, on
conference, 34; position, 214, 220 Social order, old and new, 130, 136 Socialism, issue between American and British labor, 278 Socialists, Allied, and Gompers, 284; American, 281; English parties, 43; German rift, 313; Germany, majority, 311, 315; mi- nor British parties, 57 Society, democratic control, 131 Soldiers, returned, 139 Soldiers' charter, 216 State ownership, 176
Status quo ante, 67, 228 Stockholm committee, Huysmans on, 87 Stockholm conference, discussion on attending, 12; minority labor view, 34; "Socialist Stockholm" and "trade union Stockholm," 235
Stockholms, the two, 234 Stoney, Gerald, 158
Strikes, Clyde District, 162; Lon- don traction, 1918, 207; railway- men, 209; Treasury Agreement, 153, 154
Strong, H. O., & Sons, 184 Stuart-Bunning, G. H., 286-287 Submarines, 22, 263
Suffrage. See Woman Suffrage Survey, The, 77, 452, 488 Sword or ploughshare, 74 Syndicalism, 334
Taff Vale case, 110, 172 Täglische Rundschau, 314 Taxation, 135, 336, 337 Telegraph, 119 Tennant, H. J., 152
Thomas, Albert, at London con- ference, Feb., 1918, 63; on French workers, 298; personal- ity, 98 Thomas, J. H., 101, 172, 173; at Blackpool meeting, 24; at Derby, 1918, 199; Dublin address, 205; on reconstruction, 129; on Stockholm conference, 15; on war aims memorandum, 31; peace resolution at Derby meet- ing, 264; personality, 53; railway strike, 209-210, 211, 212, 213 Thorne, Will, 16, 20 Tillett, Ben, 23
Times, on Gompers at London Conference, 277, 286; on London Conference of Feb., 1918, 72, 77, 78; on Russia, 294; on Stockholm conference, 15
Trade boards. See under Indus- trial councils
Trade Union Labour Party, pro- posed formation, 258 Trade union officials, 164 Trade unionism, 109, 110, 168; latent power, 174; reorganization, 175; trade unions, 107, 108; force of combinations, 176; influence in
Labour Party, 267; membership, | Whitley Committee, composition
174; women's, 141 Trades Union Congress, action on Stockholm conference, 16; jubi- lee year, 197; swing toward the left (three annual meetings, 1916- 18), 18
Treasury Agreement, 153 Triple Alliance, 168, 172 Triple Industrial Alliance, 177 Troelstra, 94, 100, 315 Trotsky, 7
Truce, breaking, 111, 119 Turner, Ben, on breaking the truce, 118
United States labor bodies and British policy, 126 Unity and uniformity, 298 Unskilled labor, 151, 157, 208 Vandervelde, Emile, 247; at June, 1918, conference, 99; at London conference, 74; at Nottingham, 86, 90
Vaughan, Crawford, 248 Victory, 79, 253
Vorwärts, 74, 311-312 Wages, 132; standard, 155 Walling, W. E., 247, 266, 268 Walsh, Stephen, 31 Wansbeck, 113, 115
War, civil offensive results, 322; new tactics, 323-324 War aims, 16, 298, 299: Allied la- bor's, 67; joint memorandum adopted at Central Hall, Feb. 20- 24, 1918, 29, 67, 352; joint state- ment adopted at Central Hall, Dec. 28, 1917, 343; labor and Al- lied governments, 320; Notting- ham resolutions, 50; Premier's letter, 29; President Wilson on (Sept. 27, 1918), 321, 327; Vor- wärts on the memorandum, 311- 312 War Aims Committee at London conference, Sept., 1918, 296 Watkins, W. H., 144 Wealth, conscription of, 135, 136, 336; socialization of, 337 Webb, Sidney, 53, 337; on Hender- son's resignation, 53; personal appearance, 90; position, 335 Whitefield, W., 116
Whitley Committees, 167 Whitley Reports, 149, 178, 183, 339; government and, 187; In- terim Report on Joint Standing Industrial Councils, 418; Second Report on Joint Standing Indes trial Councils, 427; Suppleme tary Report on Works Commit- tees, 436
Williams, J. B., attempt to disrup. labor unity, 258
Williams, Robert, 116, 173; at Blackpool meeting, 23
Wilson, J. Havelock, 30, 208-209; at Blackpool meeting, 22; at Derby meeting, 198, 203; Hughes of 261; in Scotland, 262; peace rë olution, 264
Wilson, James, at Whitehall, April 1918, 251; misleading report of British conditions, 214 Wilson, President, Baltimore speech in April, 1918, and ele ments of his offensive, 80; cal to working classes of Centra Empires (Sept. 27, 1918), 309: four propositions of, Feb. II 1918, 68; fourteen points, 8, 238, 273, 288, 299, 305, 321; lone hand, 309; war aims and peace (Sept. 27, 1918), 321, 327 "Win the War," 128 Woman suffrage, 142-143 Woman's Trade Union League, 141 Women, engineering trades, 152 157; movement in industry, 140- 141; new wage-earning, 140 Work for all, 337-338 Workers' control, 147, 335, 338; see
also Self-government in industry Workers' Union, 142 Works Committees, Ministry of
Labour on, 188; Whitley Report on Works Committees, 436 Workshop Committees, Suggested Lines of Development (article by C. G. Renold from the Survey Oct. 6, 1918), 452
World labor congress. See Inter- national labor conference Wright, Chester, 249 Zimmern, A. E., 145, 254
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