Contents

Introduction

1877

Letter to the Editor of Locomotive Firemen’s Monthly Magazine

Our Brotherhood

To the Friend of My Bosom

Further Suggestions on Insurance

Grand Lodge Address to the Fourth Convention of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen, Indianapolis, Indiana

1878

The Future Prospects of Our Order: Letter to the Editor of Locomotive Firemen’s Monthly Magazine

Closing Address to the Fifth Annual Convention of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen

1879

Benevolence

Sobriety

Industry

The Labor Problem

Temperance

The Rights of Labor

The Misrepresentations of Evil Thinkers

1880

Letter to the Seventh Convention of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen

Organize!

1881

The Power of Persistent Effort

A Gentleman

United Again

1882

The Square Man

United Efforts

Masterful Men

Sand

Labor’s Reward

A Feeling of Success

The Last Ride

1883

Labor, the Genius of Civilization

Man’s Power and God’s Power

Honesty

The Rights of Labor

Self-Respect

Old Time Prejudice

Backbiting a Calamity

Railway Officials

1884

The Mission of Our Brotherhood

Intoxication

Truth

Railroad Managers and the B of LF

Employer and Employed

Tramps and Tramping

What Is Success?

Labor and Law

1885

Speech to the Indiana Legislature Nominating Daniel W. Voorhees for the US Senate

Capital and Labor

The Lessons of Elections

Progress and Poverty

The Attempted Blacklist Degradation of Employees

War Clouds

When a Hundred Years Are Gone

Standing Armies

Dynamite and Legitimate Warfare

Railroad Kings

1886

William H. Vanderbilt

Employees the Wards of Employers

Overproduction

Reformations

Current Disagreements Between Employers and Employees 16

T. V. Powderly and the Knights of Labor

Boycotting

The Locomotive Engineers and the Locomotive Firemen [excerpt]

Why Eight Hours for a Day’s Work?

More Soldiers 19

1887

Politics

Pullman

Trial of the Chicago Anarchists

Abolitionists

Will Labor Organizations Federate?

The Situation in Europe

Labor and Station in Life

Labor Legislation

Opposites

Land, Labor, and Liberty

Child Labor

1888

Joining Labor Organizations

Federation, the Lesson of the Great Strike

The Policy of the Order of Railway Conductors

The Great Strike

The Scab

The Record of the CB&Q Strike

Federation of Labor Organizations for Mutual Protection

Invincible Men

The Common Laborer Is Essential

The Situation in the Great Strike

Home Rule in Ireland

The CB&Q and Pinkerton Conspiracy

The Pinkertons

Equality of Conditions

Federation

Night and Morning

General Benjamin Harrison—Relentless Foe of Labor: Speech in Terre Haute, Indiana

The Aristocracy of Labor

Necessary Strikes

1889

The Knights of Labor

The Progress of Federation

Triumph Through Federation

Termination of the Burlington Strike

The Future of the ORC

New Conductors’ Order Established

The Strength of All for the Good of All

Allegiance to Principle

The Brotherhood of Railway Conductors

Labor as a “Commodity”

The Labor Movement

The Church and the Workingman

Unmasking Hypocrisy

Jay Gould

Labor Organizations

Meeting to Perfect Federation

Pin and Principle

Truth and Fiction

Federation Inaugurated

Supreme Council of the United Orders of Railway Employees Established [excerpt]

The Johnstown Horror

Prize Fighting

Nationalism

The Dignity of Labor

The Sunday Question

Railroad Federation

Labor Day, 1889

The Triumph of Federation

Important Lessons

Land

The Tyranny of Austin Corbin

Open Letter to P. M. Arthur of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers

1890

The Knights of Labor and the Farmers

Carnegie’s “Best Fields for Philanthropy”

Looking Backward, 2000–1887

Knights of Labor to Shape Own Destiny

The Common Laborer

What Can We Do for Working People?

The Brotherhood of Railway Conductors and the Supreme Council of Federation

The Eight-Hour Movement

Mrs. Leonora M. Barry: General Instructor and Director of Woman’s Work, Knights of Labor

The Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Federation

The Buddhists of Burma

ORC Overwhelmingly Endorses Protection

Eight-Hour Day a Righteous Demand

The Higher Education of Women vs. Marriage

Is a Wrong Done to One the Concern of All?

Agitation and Agitators

Labor Day

Powderly and Gompers

Strike

The Supreme Council and the New York Central Strike: Statement to the Press

Clarification of the Supreme Council’s Position on the New York Central Strike: Statement to the Press

Promiscuous Striking

The Strike on the New York Central [excerpt]

Power vs. Power

The Machine and the Man

Locomotive Engineers and Federation

Parties

The Knights of Labor and the Right of Organization

Pictures

Plan of Federation

1891

Fair Wages

Life at Halfway Station

Protection

The Seventy Millionaires

Bellamy Launches The New Nation

The Canadian Pacific Railway and the Supreme Council

The Farmers’ Alliance

Labor Organizations and the Labor Press

Corporations vs. Federation

Dishonest Bankers

Free Speech

Mankind in a Bad Way

The Almighty Dollar

Foreign Pauper Immigration

Labor Leaders

The ORC and the B of RC

Conditions

A Crisis of Federation Affairs

A Plutocratic Government

The Tramp

An American Aristocracy

The People’s Party

Remedies for Wrongs

The Expulsion of the B of RT

From Americans to Slavs and from Independence to Slavery

The Unity of Labor

Caste

Facts About Federation

National Prosperity [excerpt]

Revolution and Rebellion vs. Stagnation

The Lessons Taught by Labor Day

Persecution Because of Religious Opinions in Labor Organizations

Child Labor—a Crime Against Humanity

1892

Liberating Convicts

Letter to E. E. Clark, in Cedar Rapids, Iowa

The Great Northwestern Conspiracy: Speech at a Mass Meeting of Railroad Workers, Battery D, Chicago

Is It Possible?

Is Legislation Needed? How Shall It Be Obtained?

Russia

Strikes

Arbitration

Rest

William Lloyd Garrison

Confederation Essential to Labor’s Prosperity

Labor Representatives in Legislative Bodies

May Day in Europe

Crimes of Christless Capitalists

Final Annual Meeting of the Supreme Council

Appendix

Official Circular No. 8 (1888–89)of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen

Official Circular No. 1 of the Supreme Council of the United Orders of Railway Employees

The Days of Long Ago: Letter to the Editor of Locomotive Firemen’s Magazine (January 1912)