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Labor, organizations in eighteenth century, 14-15; organizations in American before Revolution, 21; and politics, 68, 74, 220 et seq.; relations with capital, 69; number of wage-earners in United States (1860-1890), 69; Congress at Baltimore (1866), 73; Bureau of, established (1884), 85; and corporations, 87; and Paris peace treaty, 106-107; leaders, 121-123; Department of, and Brotherhoods, 163; “floaters,” 189-190; special report of United States Commissioners of (1905), 193; contract labor as political issue, 231; legislation, 247-252; see also Hours of labor; and the courts, 252-254; bibliography, 261; see also Child labor, Convict labor, Hours of labor, Strikes, Trade unions, Wages.

Labor Reform League, 51.

Labor Reform party, 74, 229-230.

Labour Party in England, 18.

Land, Evans and, 48-50; Homestead Act (1862), 50; forfeiture of grants as political issue, 231.

Lawrence (Mass.), unemployment (1857), 62; strike (1912), 202-206.

Lee. W. G., 160.

Lima (N. Y.), Clark at, 151.

Little Falls (N. Y.), strike in textile mills (1912), 206.

Littlefield, Congressman from Maine, 247-248.

Locomotive Engineers’ Journal, 136, 139.

Locomotive Engineers’ Mutual Life and Accident Insurance Association, 138-139.

Loeb, Daniel, alias Daniel DeLeon, 195.

London, Inter-Allied Labor Conference (1918), 256-258.

London Corresponding Society, 17.

Los Angeles, dynamiting of Times building, 175.

Lowell (Mass.), condition of women factory workers (1846), 44-45; women strike in (1836), 55.

Lowell Female Industrial Reform and Mutual Aid Society, 55.

Lynch, J. M., 126.