Table of Contents
Introduction 1
1892
The Battle of Homestead 46
Public Opinion 52
The Pinkertons at Homestead 55
H. C. Frick 60
The Switchmen's Strike 63
The Homestead Horrors 66
H. C. Prick and Alexander Berkman 71
Magazine Editor's Biennial Report and Resignation to the Sixteenth Convention of the B of LF [excerpt] 73
"My Retirement Is Certain": Speech to the Sixteenth Convention of the B of LF, Cincinnati, Ohio 80
The End of the Switchmen's Strike 81
Homestead and Treason 84
The End of the Homestead Strike 87
1893
Evolution 92
The Labor View of the Election 95
The Death OF Jay Gould 97
A New Start: Statement to the Press 102
Industrial Peace 103
Standing Armies 105
Carnegie Returns 108
Coming Events 111
Congress, Pinkertons, and Organized Labor 113
The Hawaiian Islands 116
Law, Lawmakers, and Politics 118
Self-Made Men 121
A Workingman's Congress 125
ARU Permanently Organized: Statement to the Press 127
Labor Deliberation 128
The Plan of the ARU: Statement to the Press in New York City 130
"A Great Thing and Bound to Win": Statement to the Indiana Press 133
Labor and Legislation 135
Russianizing the United States 138
Chicago Anarchists Pardoned 140
The Organization of Workingmen: Speech to the Chicago World's Fair Labor Congress 145
The Money Question 150
The Pulpit and Socialism 155
Business Depression and Legislation 159
Labor and Capital and the Distribution of Property 164
The Teaching of Christ 169
Progress of the Union: Statement to the Press 171
The Columbian Fair 173
European Military, Money, and Misery 175
1894
Value of the Ballot 184
A Grand Beginning: Speech at the Formation of the ARU Lodge at Terre Haute 187
There Should Be No Aristocracy in Labor's Ranks: Speech in Fort Wayne, Indiana [excerpt] 191
Arbitration 193
T. V. Powderly and the Knights of Labor 200
A Free Press 201
The American Protective Association 203
The Despotism of Dundy 207
The Equality of Men and Women 211
Liberty and the Courts 216
The Northern Pacific 221
Furious Fanatics 225
Open Letter to Gov. Knute Nelson in St. Paul, Minnesota 227
ARU Purposes and Procedures 228
Government Control of Railroads and Employees 230
Objectionable Bosses 233
The Labor Problem 234
The St. Paul Victory: Speech in Terre Haute 237
First Speech to Striking Pullman Workers, Turner Hall, Kensington, Illinois [excerpt] 239
Second Speech to Striking Pullman Workers, Turner Hall, Kensington, Illinois [excerpt] 240
Judge Caldwell and the Union Pacific Employees 242
The Outlook of Labor 245
The Union Pacific and the United States 248
Keynote Address to the First Convention of the ARU: Uhlich's Hall, Chicago 251
The Race Line and the ARU: Statement to the Convention 264
The Coal Miners' Strike 265
Declaration at the ARU Quadrennial Convention Regarding a Potential Pullman Boycott [excerpt] 268
Speech on the Forthcoming Pullman Boycott to a Mass Meeting of Railroad Workers in Chicago [excerpt] 268
Telegram to Labor Leaders Announcing the Launch of the Pullman Boycott 269
Statement on the Strike to the Chicago Tribune 270
Statement on the Strike to the Chicago Inter Ocean 270
Speech to a Mass Meeting of Illinois Central Railroad Workers on the Pullman Strike, Fischer's Hall, Chicago [excerpt] 271
Message to the Railway Employees of America 272
Conditions 273
"All We Ask Is Fair Play": Message to the Public 277
Telegram to ARU Local Leaders on Status of the Pullman Boycott 281
Warning to All Striking Employees 282
"The Situation Is More Favorable Today": Interview with the Chicago Daily News 283
Open Letter to President Grover Cleveland 284
The Situation 286
Statement to the Press While Awaiting Release on Bail in Chicago 291
Proposal to the General Managers' Association from the Board of Directors of the ARU 292
Correspondence with P. M. Arthur, Chief Engineer of the B of LE 294
Brothers and Friends, the ARU Asks the Helping Hand 295
Statement to the Press from Cook County Jail 296
To the American Public 296
Labor Strikes and Their Lessons 299
A Military Era 307
Legislation 310
Probabilities and Possibilities 312
Populist Advice 316
Testimony to the United States Strike Commission [excerpt] 317
The Limit of Endurance 354
An Appeal to Labor 358
Separate Organizations Can Never Succeed: Speech to the Seventeenth Convention of the B of LF, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania 360
Altgeld and Pullman 369
An Era of Bloodhoundism 372
A Larger Standing Army 375
Open Letter to a Milwaukee ARU Member on the Results of the Election 378
Denial of News Reports Alleging Hostility Toward Samuel Gompers 379
Statement to the Press on the Decision Finding ARU Leaders Guilty of Contempt 379
1895
Accused of Every Crime but Selling Out: Speech at St. Paul, Minnesota 390
Address to the American People: A Manifesto from Woodstock Jail 394
Our First Great Need 395
The Political Lesson of the Pullman Strike 397
"The Liberty We Enjoy Is a Hollow Mockery": Message to the People 401
The ARU's Fight Is for All Humanity: Speech at the Fargo Opera House, Fargo, North Dakota 404
The Solidarity of Labor 426
New and Old: The Dead Past Must Bury Its Dead 429
"Every Federal Judge Now Constitutes a Tsar": Statement to the Press on the Supreme Court's Verdict 431
"Even in Defeat Our Rewards Are Grand": Circular Letter to Members of the ARU 433
Statement to the Press While Awaiting Recommitment to Jail 437
Cooperation Not Competition: An Interview with the Cincinnati Enquirer 437
Liberty's Anniversary 440
The Coming Workingman 443
Success and Failure 446
Open Letter to the State Convention of the People's Party of Texas 452
Slaves and Cowards 456
Prison and Pardon: Open Letter to William C. Endicott, Jr. 457
"The Old Brotherhoods Are Disgraced or Dead": From a Circular Letter of the ARU 458
Labor Omnia Vincit 460
Open Letter to the Evansville Tribune 462
The People's Party's Situation in 1896 465
Term Half Over: Interview with the Chicago Chronicle at Woodstock Jail 467
Open Letter to Jacob S. Coxey 470
Open Letter to W. L. Rosenberg 472
The Pullman Strike After One Year 473
Open Letter to the 1895 Labor Day Celebration in Terre Haute 483
The Outlook for 1896: Interview with the Saint Louis Chronicle 487
Current Topics: The New Woman, Bicycles, Bloomers 489
"In Unity There Is Strength": Open Letter to the Chicago Evening Press 492
Myron Reed and Labor Unification 494
"Stand Together": Open Letter to W. W. Williams, Editor of Quincy Labor News 496
The Minds Workshop 498
Conditions 501
Regarding Finances: Letter to the Directors of the ARU 503
The Aristocracy of Wealth 504
Letter to Thomas J. Elderkin in Chicago 507
"The Policy of the Great Northern Is Dishonest and Disreputable": Statement to the Associated Press 509
Liberty: Speech Delivered on Release from Woodstock Jail at Battery D, Chicago 511
Shall the Standing Army of the United States Be Increased? 525
The Ways of Justice 529
1896
Consolidation 540
"Better to Buy Books Than Beer": Speech at Music Hall, Buffalo, New York 543
Centralization and the Role of the Courts: Speech at Germania Hall, Cleveland 549
The American University and the Labor Problem 571
Competitive System Pressing Labor Down: Interview with the Atlanta Constitution 575
What Can the Church Do to Benefit the Condition of the Laboring Man? Speech at First Baptist Church, Terre Haute 578
ARU Ready for Another Fight: Interview with the Associated Press 583
"I Will Not Serve for Public Office": Statement to the Press, Birmingham, Alabama 584
Open Letter to Alfred S. Edwards, Editor of the Coming Nation 584
Telegram to Henry Demarest Lloyd, Delegate to the People's Party Convention, St. Louis 586
Without the Populists, the Democrats Cannot Win: From a Letter to George P. Garrison 586
"Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death": A Labor Day Message 587
Endorsement of William J. Bryan for President of the United States 590
"I Have No Prejudice Against the Rich": Speech at Houston, Texas [excerpt] 594
An Uprising of the People: Campaign Speech for William Jennings Bryan at Duluth, Minnesota 598
Patriotism Versus Plutocracy: Speech for William Jennings Bryan in Cleveland [excerpt] 603
Appendix
Declaration of Principles of the American Railway Union, Embracing All Classes of Railway Employees 616
Interview with Eugene V. Debs at Woodstock Jail Nellie Bly 623
Debs's Busy Life in Jail: Interview with the Chicago Chronicle 635
How I Became a Socialist 640
The Federal Government and the Chicago Strike: A Reply to Grover Cleveland 645
A Sheriff I Loved 665
Index 671
