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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,
stand on war issues, 40
Machines, automatic, 151
McKerrell, T., 19
McManus, 163

Mallon, J. J., 188

93;

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

Piece rate, 155

Platform.

See under

Labour

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

and Labour

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

Stockholm

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

504

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

185-186

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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