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decide as to the hours of beginning and quitting work, always with the understanding that not more than eight hours shall be required, except as overtime, as herein provided for.

3. Night Work.

Eight hours to constitute a night's labor. When two gangs are employed, working hours to be from 8 P.M. to 12 M., and from I A.M. to 5 A.M.

4. Over-time.

Over-time to be paid for as time and one-half.

5. Double Time.

Work done on Sundays, Fourth of July, Labor Day, Thanksgiving and Christmas days to be paid for as double time.

6. Wages.

From date of this agreement to May 1, 1903, the minimum rate of wages to be 35 cents per hour. From May 1, 1903, to May 1, 1904, the minimum rate of wages to be 37 cents per hour.

7. Pay Day.

Wages to be paid weekly at or before 5 P.M. of the established pay day of each employer.

8. Waiting Time.

If any workman is discharged, he shall be entitled to receive his wages at once, and failing to so receive them, he shall be entitled to payment at regular rate of wages, for every working hour of waiting time which he may suffer by default of the employer. If any workman is laid off on account

of unfavorable weather, he shall not be entitled to waiting time. If any workman is laid off on account of lack of materials, he shall be entitled to receive pay for every working hour at the regular rate of wages until notified that work must be temporarily suspended, and in that event he shall be entitled, on demand, to receive his wages at once, the same as in case of discharge. Should an office order be issued to a workman in payment of his wages, the workman shall be entitled to additional time sufficient to enable him to reach the office to receive payment.

9. Business Agent.

The Business Agent of the Carpenters' Union shall be allowed to visit all jobs during working hours to interview the Steward of the job, and for this purpose only. Nothing in this Rule shall be construed as giving such Agents any authority to issue orders controlling the work of workmen, or to interfere with the conduct of the work, and any infringement of this Rule shall make the Agent so infringing liable to discipline after investigation.

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Anarchists, artists posing as social- Barnett, Canon, on the social ques-

ists really are, 273.

Andros, Sir Edmund, 73.
Anseele, Edouard, 314-315, 377.
Antwerp, International Congress at,
in interests of small traders, 323.
"Application of Socialism to Par-
ticular Problems," cited, 278.
Apprentices, limitation of, 4-5.
"Arbeiter Frage, Die," Lange's, 155.
Arbitration, necessity for, shown by

coal strike of 1902, 20-21.
Aristocracy, Jefferson's natural, 244–
245.

tion, 166.

Bars, private, in coal fields, 12-13.
Barton, Sir Edmund, quoted, 41.
Bebel, 241 n., 299, 302, 303, 309.
Beer boys, 250.

Belgium, government interference in
industrial affairs in, 52; socialism
in, 56, 57-59, 289, 313-343.
Bellamy, Edward, 136, 230-232, 240-
241, 299.

Benton, Thomas H., on land grants
to railroads, 114-115.
Berkeley, Governor, 72-73.

Arnold, Matthew, on social inequal- Berlin, high death-rate in, due to

ity, 160.

Arnold, Thomas, quoted, 160.

Art, for working people in Belgium,

319; socialistic views about, 320.
Asquith, Herbert, on laws concern-
ing industrial accidents, 214.
Atheism, of older German socialists,
302; later modification of views
concerning, 303-305.

overcrowding, 247.

Bernstein, 309, 377.

Bishop of Durham quoted by labor
editors, 167.

Bismarck, Prince, on social democ-
racy, 287; effect of fall of, on
social democracy, 311.
Blacklist, the, 35.

Bon Marché, coöperative method in
the, 350-351.

Australia, compulsory arbitration in,
41; social legislation in, 104; pol-Boston, legal checks on sweating in,

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29; early labor discussions in, 84- | Chase, Salmon P., quoted, 77.

Chevalier, Michel, 85.

85.
Boston and Maine Railroad and New Chicago, characteristics of trade

Hampshire politics, 57.
Boston Building Trades, working of
joint-agreement in the, 367–368.
Boycott, the, 35; use of, in early
strikes, 86; one weakness of trade
unions, 356.

Brace, Charles Loring, quoted, 87.
Breaker boys, 18, 256.

unionism in, 361.

Child labor, 27-28, 29, 207-208, 252-
256.

Civic Federation, the, 51.

Clark, Chief Justice (of Tasmania),

270 n.

Clay, Henry, on land grants to rail-
roads, 113-114.

Brewery, a coöperative, at Joliment, Club-houses for working people in
319.
Belgium, 316-317.
Brockton, socialism in, 64-65; strike Coal mining in Belgium, 313.

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Cahoon, J. B., on state regulation of Community of Equality, Owen's,

semi-public industries, 125.
Cairns, Professor, quoted, 162.
California, subserviency of, to rail-

roads, 47.

Campanella, Tommaso, 259.
"Canons of Etiquette," Jefferson's,
228.

Carlyle, Thomas, 51 n., 159.
Carnegie, Andrew, quoted on trade

unions, 37; on speculation versus
legitimate business, 276-277.
"Case against Child Labor, The,"
Murphy's, 254.
Cass, Lewis, 115.

Catholics, lower ratios of insanity

and suicide among, than among
protestants, 97 n.; opposition of,
to socialists in Belgium, 322.
Chamberlain, Joseph, 214.

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Cooperatives, Belgian, 317-319; oppo-
sition of small traders to, 323;
commission for taking evidence
against, 324.
Cordwainers, strike of, in Philadel-
phia (1805), 86.

Cotton gin as illustrating benefits of
machinery, 177–178.

Courts, trade-union suspicion of, 34-
35, 41-42.
Craft, John, 254 n.

Chance, the demand for equality of, Crank, one definition of, 89.

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Debt, imprisonment for, 86-87; cases | Equality, the desire for, 222-225; Jef-

of destitution traceable to, 248.
Denis, Hector, 346, 377; concerning
Belgian socialist party, 326.
Denmark, legislation concerning in-

dustrial accidents in, 213.

Department stores, 268-269.
Deschanel, 54.

De Vogüé, 55; quoted, 167 n.
Dicey, Edward, 56, 60.

"Die Frau," Bebel's, quoted, 299.
Dietzgen, 300, 302, 303.
Disarmament urged by French so-
cialists, 295-296.

Discontent, the origin of the social

question, 68-69; early examples
of, 72-85; rise in standard of liv-
ing a cause of, 93-96; education
as a cause of, 96-97; in Germany,
98-100; politics as an outlet for
modern, 105-106.

Dole, Charles F., quoted, Ico n.
"Domestic Service," Salmon's, 109-

IIO.

ferson's effort for social, 227-228;
Owen's experiment in, 228-229;
communism the literal interpreta-
tion of, 241-243; of opportunity
real object of socialists, 244-245.
Experience, American disregard for
lessons of, 24-25.

F

Fabians, the English, 269, 273, 340;
municipalization of drink traffic
demanded by, 278.

Factory legislation, 28-29, 46, 207-

208; in England, 255; approved
by social democrats, 311-312.
Farm, argument by German socialists
over "the big," 306-307.
Farmers, feeling among, concerning
the "money power," 133-140; dis-
content of, really due to monopoly
privilege, 142-143; German so-
cialists and the, 306–308.
Farmers' Alliance, the, 132-133.

Douglas, Stephen A., on land grants Farmers' organizations, 131; politics

to railroads, 115.

Drink traffic, municipalization of,
278.

Drinking, formation of habits of,

250-251.

Dwight, President Timothy, 80.

E

in, 131-133; errors of, due to
ignorance of real issues, 141-142.
Farms, deplorable influence of large
Western, on country life, 188-189;
coöperative, in Belgium, 317, 321,
325.

Federation of Labor, the, 346, 357.
Ferri, 346.

"Earthly Paradise," Morris's, quoted, Fiske, John, quoted by socialist

170.

Education, critical discontent with,
at present, 70; as a cause of dis-
content, 96-97; necessity of, for
social betterment, 347-349; the
kind of, needed, 350-352.
Eliot, President, 35.
Ely, Richard T., 118-119.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, use of, in
labor literature, 160; on ma-
chinery, 170, 172.

England, trade unionism in, 3; fac-
tory legislation in, 27, 29, 30, 50-
51, 255; legislation in, concerning
industrial accidents, 213, 216.
Engels, 51 n., 302, 310, 346.

speakers, 165-166.

Foreigners, in trade unions, 3; lead-
ership of, in trade unions, 3; as coal
miners, 20; effect of, on wages,
48, 344; encouragement given, to
come to the United States, 354;
responsibilities incurred by en-
couraging, 354-355.

Forests, socialist views of, 277.
Fourier, the Utopian conception of,
260-261.

France, Le Play societies in, 42; gov-
ernment interference in industrial
affairs in, 52-55; legislation con-
cerning industrial accidents in,
213, 216; political rise of socialism

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