General Labor Organizations. AMERICAN FEDERATION OF LABOR. PRESIDENT, Samuel Gompers, 801-809 G Street, N. W., Washington, D. C.; Secretary, Frank Morrison, same address; Treasurer, John B. Lennon, Bloomington, Ill.; First Vice-President, James Duncan, Hancock Building, Quincy, Mass.; Second Vice-President, John Mitchell. 3 Claremont Avenue, Mt. Vernon, N. Y.; Third Vice-President, James O'Connell, 512 Ouray Building, Washington, D. C.; Fourth Vice-President, D. A. Hayes, 930 Witherspoon Building, Philadelphia, Pa.; Fifth Vice-President, Wm. D. Huber, Carpenters' Building, Indianapolis, Ind. Sixth Vice-President, Jos. F. Valentine, Commercial Tribune Building, Cincinnati, Ohio; Seventh Vice-President, John R. Alpine, 401 Bush Temple of Music, Chicago, Ill.; Eighth VicePresident. H. B. Perham, Star Building, St. Louis, Mo. The Federation is composed of 113 national and international unions, representing approximately 27,000 local unions, 5 departments, 41 State branches, 564 city central unions, and 616 local unions. The approximate paid membership is 2,000,000. The affiliated unions publish about 540 weekly or monthly papers, devoted to the cause of labor. The official organ is the American Federationist, edited by Samuel Gompers. There are 1,659 organizers of local unions acting under the orders of the American Federation of Labor. The objects and aims of the American Federation of Labor are officially stated to render employment and means of subsistence less precarious by securing to the workers an equitable share of the fruits of their labor. INTERNATIONAL UNIONS COMPRISING THE AMERICAN FEDERATION OF LABOR. Asbestos Workers, International Association of Heat and Frost Insulators and. Thomas G. McNamara, 2516 Slattery Street, St. Louis, Mo. Bakery and Confectionery Workers' International Union of America. Otto E. Fischer, 212 Bush Temple of Music, 221 Chicago Avenue, Chicago, III. Barbers' International Union, Journeymen. Jacob Fischer, 222 East Michigan Street, Indianapolis, Ind. Bill Posters and Billers of America, International Alliance of. William McCarthy, Fitzgerald Building, 1482-90 Broadway, New York City. Blacksmiths, International Brotherhood of. Wm. F. Kramer, Suite 570-585 Monon Building, Boiler Makers and Iron Ship Builders of America, Brotherhood of. W. J. Gilthorpe, Suite 7-12, Boot and Shoe Workers' Union. C. L. Baine, 246 Summer Street. Boston, Mass. Brewery Workmen, International Union of the United. Louis Kemper, Vine Street, near Hollister, Cincinnati, Ohio. Brick, Tile, and Terra Cotta Workers' Alliance, International. William Van Bodegraven, Room 409, 160 North Fifth Avenue, Chicago, Ill. Bridge and Structural Iron Workers, International Association of. H. S. Hockin, 422-424 American Broom and Whisk Makers' Union, International. C. T. Dolan, 3959 Lincoln Avenue, Chicago, Ill. Carriage, Wagon and Automobile Workers of North America, Cement Workers, American Brotherhood of. Frank Duffy, Carpenters' Building, International Union of. William P. Thomas J. Lodge, 10 Carlisle Street, Henry Ullner, Room 705 Clunie Building, California and Montgomery Streets, San Francisco, Cal. Cigar Makers International Union of America. George W. Perkins, Monon Building, Chicago, Ill. H. J. Conway, Lock Drawer 248, Laiayette, Cloth Hat and Cap Makers of North America, United. Coopers' International Union of North America. William R. Deal, Suite A, Board of Trade Building, Curtain Operatives of America, Amalgamated Lace. David L. Gould, 545 West Lehigh Avenue, Philadelphia, Pa. Cutting Die and Cutter Makers, International Union of. Harry Reiser, 616 Sixth Avenue, New York City. Diamond Workers' Protective Union of America. Andries Meyer, 323 Washington Street, Brooklyn, Electrical Workers of America, International Brotherhood of. Charles P. Ford, Pierick Building, Engineers, International Union of Steam. James G. Hannahan, 6303 Harvard Avenue, Chicago, Ill. Firemen, International Brotherhood of Stationary. C. L. Shamp, Rooms 2-4, 2502 North 18th Foundry Employés, International Brotherhood of. Geo. Bechtold, 200 South Broadway, St. 122 General Labor Organizations. GENERAL LABOR ORGANIZATIONS-Continued. Glass Bottle Blowers' Association of the United States and Canada. William Launer, Rooms 930932 Witherspoon Building, Juniper and Walnut Streets, Philadelphia, Pa. Glass Workers' International Association, Amalgamated. Joseph P. McArdle, 118 East 28th Street, New York City. Glove Workers' Union of America, International. Agnes Nestor, Room 506, Bush Temple of Music. Chicago, Ill. Granite Cutters' International Association of America, The. James Duncan, Hancock Building, Quincy, Mass. Grinders' and Finishers' National Union, Pocket Knife Blade. F. A. Didsbury, 508 Brook Street, Hatters of North America. United. Martin Lawlor, Room 15, 11 Waverley Place. New York City. Hotel and Restaurant Employés' International Alliance and Bartenders' International League of Iron, Steel, and Tin Workers, Amalgamated Association of. M. F. Tighe, House Building, Smith- Jewelry Workers' Union of America, International. Laundry Workers' International Union. Charles F. Bailey, 591 Second Avenue, Troy, N. Y. Leather Workers' Union of America, Amalgamated. James J. Brennan, 223 Perry Street, Lowell, Lithographic Press Feeders of United States and Canada, International Protective Association of. Longshoremen's Association, International. John J. Joyce, 702 Brisbane Building, Buffalo, N. Y. Machine Printers and Color Mixers of the United States, National Association of Charles McCrory, 81 John Street, Hudson Falls, N. Y. Machinists, International Association of. George Preston, 908-914 G Street, N. W., McGill Building, Washington, D. C. Maintenance of Way Employés, International Brotherhood of. S. J. Pegg, Vanol Building, 3900 Olive Street, St. Louis, Mo. Marble Workers, International Association of. Stephen C. Hogan, 406 East 159th Street, New York City. Meat Cutters and Butchers' Workmen of North America, Amalgamated. Homer D. Call, Cortland and Brighton Avenues, Syracuse, N. Y. Metal Polishers', Buffers, Platers', Brass and Silver Workers' Union of North America. R. Atherton, Neave Building, Cincinnati, Ohio. Charles Metal Workers' International Alliance, Amalgamated Sheet. John E, Bray, 325 Nelson Building, Mine Workers of America, United. Edwin Perry. State Life Building, Indianapolis, Ind. Moulders' Union of North America, International. Victor Kleiber, 530 Walnut Street, Cincinnati, Ohio. Painters, Decorators and Paperhangers of America, Brotherhood of. J. C. Skemp, Drawer 99, Lafayette, Ind. Paper-Makers, International Brotherhood of. J. T. Carey, 44 Bensen Building, Albany, N. Y. Pattern-Makers' League of North America. James Wilson, Second National Bank Building, Ninth and Main Streets, Cincinnati, Ohio. Pavers, Rammermen, Flag Layers, Bridge and Stone Curb Setters, International Union of. Edward I. Hannah, 223 East 59th Street, New York. Paving Cutters' Union of the United States of America and Canada. John Sheret, Lock Box 27, Albion, N. Y. Photo-Engravers' Union of North America, International. Louis A. Schwarz, 228 Apsley Street, Philadelphia, Pa. Piano and Organ Workers' Union of America, International. Charles Dold, 1037 Greenwood Terrace, Chicago, Ill. Plasterers' International Association of the United States and Canada, Operative. T. A. Scully, 442 East Second Street, Middletown, Ohio. Plate Printers' Union of North America, International Steel and Copper. Charles T. Smith, 612 Plumbers, Gas Fitters, Steam Fitters, and Steam Fitters' Helpers of United States and Canada, Print Cutters' Association of America, National. Richard H. Scheller, 229 Hancock Avenue, Jersey Printing Pressmen's Union, International. Joseph C. Orr, Rogersville, Tenn. Pulp, Sulphite and Paper Mill Workers of the United States and Canada, International Brotherhood of. John H. Malin, P. O Drawer K, Fort Edward. N. Y. Quarryworkers' International Union of North America. Fred. W. Suitor, Scampini Building, Barre, Vt. Railroad Telegraphers, Order of. L. W. Quick, Star Building, St. Louis, Mo. Railway Carmen of America, Brotherhood of. E. William Weeks, 507 Hall Building. Kansas City, Mo. Railway Clerks, Brotherhood of. R. E. Fisher, 307-310 Kansas City Life Building, Kansas City, Mo. Railway Employés of America, Amalgamated Association of Street and Electric. Hodges Block, Detroit, Mich. W. D. Mabon, 601 GENERAL LABOR ORGANIZATIONS-Continued. William F. Morrison, 326 Lee Building, Railway Express Messengers of America, Brotherhood of. Seamen's Union, of America, International. Thomas A. Hanson, 570 West Lake Street, Chicago, III. Stage Employes' International Alliance, Theatrical. Lee M. Hart, 39 West Adains Street, Chicago, Ill. Stereotypers' and Electrotypers' Union of North America, International. George W. Williams, Room 29, Globe Building, Boston, Mass. Stonecutters Association of North America, Journeymen. James F. McHugh, 520 Sixth Street, Stove Mounters' International Union. J. H. Kaefer, 1210 Jefferson Avenue, E., Detroit, Mich. Textile Workers of America, United. Albert Hibbert, Box 742, Fall River, Mass. Thomas Tile Layers' and Helpers' International Union, Ceramic, Mosaic, and Encaustic. James P. Reynolds, Blair Building, 12 Federal Street, Pittsburgh, Pa. Tin Plate Workers' Protective Association of America, International. Arthur Watkins, Box 155, Tip Printers, International Brotherhood of. T. J. Carolan, 6 Plum Street, Newark, N. J. Travellers' Goods and Leather Novelty Workers' International Union of America. 191 Boyd Street, Oshkosh, Wis. Murt Malone, Tunnel and Subway Constructors' International Union. Michael Carraher, 150 East 125th Street, New York City. Typographical Union, International. J. W. Hays, Newton Claypool Building, Indianapolis, Ind. Weavers' Amalgamated Association, Elastic Goring. Alfred Haughton, 50 Cherry Street, Brockton, NATIONAL UNIONS NOT AFFILIATED WITH THE AMERICAN FEDERATION OF LABOR. American Flint Glass Workers' Union, William P. Clarke, Ohio Building, Toledo, Ohio. Bricklayers' and Masons' International, William Dobson, Odd Fellows' Building, Indianapolis, Ind. Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers. Warren S. Stone, Grand Chief Engineer, Cleveland, Ohio. ; W. B. Prenter, General Secretary, Cleveland, Ohio. Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen. W. S. Carter, President, Peoria, Ill.; A. H. Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen. W. G. Lee, President, Cleveland, Ohio; A. E. King, General KNICHTS OF LABOR. General Master Workman, Thomas H. Canning, Boston, Mass.; General Secretary-Treasurer, J. Frank O'Meara, Bliss Building, Washington, D. C.; National Organizer, Thomas Sheehan, Washington, D. C.; General Executive Board, J. B. Lenau, Chicago, Ill.; Jos. P. Tierney, New York City; George W. Young, Brooklyn, N. Y. Population Engaged in Endustrial Occupations. THE following table gives the percentages of total occupied population for the principal groups in the eight leading industrial countries: OCCUPATION GROUP. Agriculture 41.42 35.11 Commercial occupations 6.54 6.30 Ger- Aus- HunBel- United Great France. many. tria. gary. Italy. glum. States. Britain. 60.80 12.00 3.34 70.15 59.06 21.90 35.64 9.91 11.39 Conveyance of men, goods and messages. Mines and quarries. 6.46 2.09 5.00 Metals, machines, implements, and conveyances. Building and works of construction Textile fabrics. 5.39 3.92 2.85 6.64 7.86 4.29 7.23 So diverse are the views on Syndicalism held by Syndicalists and their avowed enemies that a middle course will give a clearer outline of its alms and expectations than would a full statement drawn from the many and conflicting reports available to date. Syndicalism was born of the growing differences and controversies within labor and trade unions. The first symptoms appeared in France, whence the doctrine soon spread to Italy, to England, and thence to America. Syndicalism is antagonistic to government, to existing labor unions and to capital alike, and is even designed to supplant socialism. Born in the brain of the intellectuals within the great uniors, Syndicalism has made a profound Impression upon workers within and without the unions in a remarkably short time. The doctrine of Syndicalism demands the turning over of every and all means of production and distribution to the Syndicalist trade unions, to be controlled by said unions so that the workmen will become their own employers, thus securing the whole product for themselves. The first objective aim is to eliminate the present owners, but means to accomplish this vary. In France the Syndicalists adopt the general "strike," but in a different sense from which strikes are known in America. For instance, the Syndicalists strike not for higher wages. Primarily they aim at the total cessation from all activity, stoppage of malls, lighting, transportation and every activity that now binds society together. They depend upon non-interference or co-operation of the army (in Europe) and upon crippling the power of all established government wherever the army is not a factor. They rely upon the consequent uprising of all society wherever active Syndicalism prevails, and trust to the peaceful reapportionment of all authority and rights to the associated labor and trade unions true to the doctrine of Syndicalism. The government is regarded as the greatest enemy by the Syndicalists. They claim that corrupt political control makes just economic control impossible. While the objects to be attained seem reasonable enough, the means of accomplishing these objects are dangerously speculative and appear to threaten society with anarchy in its direst form. Syndicalism demands that social revolution come through labor unions in order to abolish capitalism, whereas Socialists expect to work reform by political agitation through Parliamentary majorities. Syndicalists see the futility of all endeavor to obtain government majorities and hence Ignore the government altogether in their propaganda, relying upon the genius of Syndicalism to permeate the mind of the masses sufficiently to sap the strength and power of government opposition and thus obtain all their demands by a bloodless revolution. France now counts some 600.000 avowed Syndicalists.. Agricultural Italy is a veritable hotbed of Syndicalism. Organized farm laborers now control over 200,000 acres of tillable land, which are farmed on the co-operative plan, and the entire Italian railway system is under the influence of advanced Syndicalism. At a conference of Syndicalists held in England in November, 1910, 60,000 professed followers attended, since which date their doctrine has spread considerably, especially among the more intelligent of the industrial workers. Here In America Syndicalism first showed its head during the labor troubles at Lawrence, Mass., under direction of the Industrial Workers of the World. The Syndicalists have also widened and extended the definition of the word labor by including in its comprehension all workers who are actively useful within the community. This includes the physician, teacher, artist and those engaged in other professions. L. F. B. INDUSTRIAL WORKERS OF THE WORLD. (A distinct organization from that given on following page bearing same name.) HEADQUARTERS, 160 North Fifth Avenue, Chicago, Ill. Vincent St. John, General SecretaryTreasurer; James P. Thompson, Assistant Secretary and General Organizer. Executive BoardJ. J. Ettor, Phineas Eastman, F. H. Little, Ewald Koettgen, John M. Foss. PREAMBLE-The working class and the employing class have nothing in common. Between these two classes a struggle must go on until the workers of the world organize as a class, take possession of the earth and the machinery of production, and abolish the wage system. We find that the centring of the management of industries into fewer and fewer hands makes the trades unions unable to cope with the ever-growing power of the employing class. The trades unions foster a state of affairs which allows one set of workers to be pitted against another set of workers in the same industry, thereby helping defeat one another in wage wars. Moreover, the trades unions ald the employing class to mislead the workers into the belief that the working class have interests in common with their employers. These conditions can be changed and the interest of the working class upheld only by an organization formed in such a way that all its members in any one industry, or in all industries, if necessary, cease work whenever a strike or lockout is on in any department thereof, thus making an injury to one an injury to all. Instead of the conservative motto, "A fair day's wages for a fair day's work," we must inscribe on our banner the revolutionary watchword, "Abolition of the wage system." It is the historic mission of the working class to do away with capitalism. The army of production must be organized, not only for the every day struggle with capitalists, but also to carry on production when capitalism shall have been overthrown. By organizing industrially we are forming the structure of the new society within the shell of the old. The organization differs from syndicalism in that great stress is laid upon having a form of organization to correspond, cell for cell, tissue for tissue, with capitalist industry itself, and also because It seeks to build a new union on revolutionary lines rather than to attempt to change the present reactionary and out-of-date craft unions. The organization claims to have blended the practical features of socialism, anarchism, and syndicalism, and yet it is distinct from all three. The I. W. W. is composed of 160 local untons, two National Industrial unions (textile indus try and lumber Industry), having a total membership of 70,000, four National administrations, Hawallan, Australian, New Zealand and South African. Excerpts from Constitution and By-Laws follow: The Industrial Workers of the World shall be composed of actual wage-workers brought together in an organization embodying thirteen National industrial departments, National industrial unions, local industrial unions, local recruiting unions, industrial councils, and individual members. The annual convention of the Industrial Workers of the World shall be held on the third Monday of September each year at such place as may be determined by previous convention. Members-at-large shall pay an initiation fee of $2.00 and $1.00 per month dues and assessments. No working man or woman shall be excluded from membership in local unions because of creed or color. That to the end of promoting industrial unity and of securing necessary discipline within the organization, the Industrial Workers of the World refuse all alliances, direct or indirect, with existing political parties or anti-political sects. INDUSTRIAL WORKERS OF THE WORLD. (A distinct organization from that given on preceding page bearing same name.) HEADQUARTERS, Detroit, Mich. General Secretary-Treasurer, H. Richter, Detroit; Assistant Secretary and General Organizer, Adolf S. Carm, Chicago, Ill. PREAMELE The working class and the employing class have nothing in common. Between these two classes a struggle must go on until all the tollers come together on the political, as well as on the Industrial feld, and take and hold that which they produce by their labor through an economic organization of the working class, without amliation with any political party. The rapid gathering of wealth and the centring of the management of Industries into fewer and fewer hands make the trades unions unable to cope with the ever-growing power of the employing class, because the trades unions foster a state of things which allows one set of workers to be pitted against another set of workers in the saine Industry, thereby helping defeat one another in wage wars. The trades unions ald the employing class to mislead the workers into the bellef that the working class have interests in common with their employers. Excerpts from Constitution and By-Laws follow: The Industrial Workers of the World shall be composed of actual wage-workers brought together In an organization embodying thirteen national industrial departments, national industrial unions, local industrial unions, local recruiting unions, industrial councils and Individual members. A national Industrial union shall be comprised of the local industrial unions of the various localities in America in a given industry. The industrial departments shall consist of not less than ten local unions, aggregating a membership of not less than ten thousand members. The Industrial departments shall be sub-divided in industrial unions of closely kindred Industries in the appropriate organizations for representation in the departmental administration. The departments included are: Department of Mining Industry; Transportation Industry; Metal and Machinery Industry; Glass and Pottery Industry; Food-Stuffs Industry; Brewery, Wine and Distillery Industry; Floricultural, Stock and General Farming Industries; Building Industry: Textile Industries; Leather Industries; Wood Working Industries; Public Service Industries; Miscellaneous Manufacturing. The annual convention shall be held on the third Monday In September of each year at such place as may be determined by previous convention. Individual members may be admitted to membership-at-large in the organization on payment of 50 cents initiation fee and 25 cents per month dues, together with assessments. None but actual wage-workers shall be members of the Industrial Workers of the World. Νο member of the Industrial Workers of the World shall be an officer in a pure and simple trade union. No member of one industrial or trade organization in the Industrial Workers of the World can at the same time hold a card in another industrial or trade organization of this body. No workingman or working woman shall be excluded from membership because of creed or color. Commission on Endustrial Relations. THE Sixty-second Congress of the United States, Second Session, passed the following: Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That a commission is hereby created to be called the Commission on Industrial Relations. Said commission shall be composed of nine persons, to be appointed by the President of the United States, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, not less than three of whom shall be employers of labor and not less than three of whom shall be representatives of organized labor. The Department of Commerce and Labor is authorized to co-operate with sald commission In any manner and to whatever extent the Secretary of Commerce and Labor may approve. Sec. 2. That the members of this commission shall be paid actual travelling and other necessary expenses and in addition a compensation of ten dollars per diem while actually engaged on the work of the commission and while going to or returning from such work. The commission is authorized as a whole, or by subcommittees of the commission, duly appointed, to holu sittings and public hearings anywhere in the United States, to send for persons and papers, to administer oaths, to summon and compel the attendance of witnesses and to compel testimony, and to authorize Itg members or its employés to travel in or outside the United States on the business of the commission. Sec. 3. That said commission may report to the Congress its findings and recommendations and submit the testimony taken from time to time, and shall make a final report accompanied by the testimony not previously submitted not later than three years after the date of the approval of this act, at which time the term of this commission shall expire, unless it shall previously have made final report, and in the latter case the term of the commission shall expire with the making of its final report; and the commission shall make at least one report to the Congress within the first year of its appointment and a second report within the second year of its appointment. Sec. 4. That the commission shall inquire into the general condition of labor in the principal Industries of the United States, Including agriculture, and especially in those which are carried on in corporate forms; into existing relations between employers and employés; into the effect of industrial conditions on public welfare and into the rights and powers of the community to deal therewith; into the conditions of sanitation and safety of employés and the provisions for protecting the life, limb and health of the employés: into the growth of associations of employers and of wage-earners and the effect of such associations upon the relations between employers and employés; into the extent and results of methods of collective bargaining; into any methods which have been tried in any State or in foreign countries for maintaining mutually satisfactory relations between employés and employers; into methods for avoiding or adjusting labor disputes through peaceful and conciliatory mediation and negotiations; into the scope, methods and resources of existing bureaus of labor and into possible ways of Increasing their usefulness; into the question of smuggling or other illegal entry of Asiatics Into the United States or its insular possessions, and of the methods by which such Astatics have gained and are gaining such admission, and shall report to Congress as speedily as possible with such recommendation as said commission may think proper to prevent such smuggling and illegal entry. The commission shall seek to discover the underlying causes of dissatisfaction in the industrial situation and report its conclusions thereon. Sec. 5. That the sum of one hundred thousand dollars is hereby appropriated out of any money In the Treasury of the United States not otherwise appropriated for the use of the commission for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and thirteen: Provided, That no portion of this money shall be paid except upon the order of said commission, signed by the chairman thereof: Provided, That the commission may expend not to exceed five thousand dollars per annum for the employment of experts at such rate of compensation as may be fixed by the commission, but no other person employed hereunder by the commission, except stenographers temporarily employed for the purpose of taking testimony, shall be paid compensation at a rate in excess of three thousand dollars per annum. Approved, August 23, 1912. |