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Wages, beginning of controversy, 11-12; in 1784, 21; result of tailors’ strike, 22; rise of, 22; in 1840, 28; carpenters’, 31; strikes to raise, 36; Mooney on (1850), 43; issue, 69-70; Paris peace treaty and, 106; United Mine Workers and, 129; Arthur and engineers’, 142; Stone and, 144; Eastern engineers demand standardization of, 145; Garretson and, 152; brakemen’s, 157; Wilkins and, 158; Adamson Law and, 166; further increase for railroad employees, 167; Trade unions and, 168-169; State regulation, 250.

Walling, W. E., 245.

Washington (State), “hobo” labor in, 190, and I. W. W., 216.

Washington, (D. C.), union in, 34; Knights of Labor, 84; headquarters of American Federation of Labor in, 97.

Weaver, General J. B., 232, 236.

Webb, Sidney and Beatrice, History of Trade Unionism, 14.

Weed, Thurlow, 24.

West Roxbury (Mass.), Brook Farm experiment at, 41.

Western Federation of Miners, 174, 189, 192, 194.

Whig party and ten-hour day, 53.

Wilkinson, S. E., 157.

Willard, Daniel, 146, 149.

Wilson, Woodrow, quoted, 72; and Clayton Act, 100; and Garretson, 152; and threatened strike of Brotherhoods (1916), 163-164; and eight-hour railroad law, 164-166.

Wisconsin, communistic experiment in, 41; eight-hour law for women and children (1867), 71; labor ticket (1888), 237; Socialist party (1918), 245.

Women, wages in 1840, 28; “new woman” movement, 43; conditions of labor, 44-45; in factories, 54-55; organizations, 55-56; Paris peace treaty and equal pay for, 107; State regulation of labor, 250.

Wood Workers in shipbuilding industry, 110.

Wood-Workers International Union, 125.

Wooden Box Makers, 110.

“Woodstock meetings,” 226.

Working Man’s Advocate, The, 223, 225.

Working Man’s Gazette, 226.

Workingman’s party, 220-221.

Workingman’s party of California, 239, 240.

Workingman’s Trade and Labor Union of San Francisco, 239.

Workingmen’s compensation, 250.

Wright, C. D., report quoted, 187.

Wright, Frances, 222, 225.