"Tag Days becoming positive nuisance in Vancouver City: Growing Menace of Low Wages to Women Workers are Being Accentuated by Idlers." The BC
Federationist. Vancouver, BC.
In a series of
Federationist editorials published during World War I, Gompers opposed various government mandate measures being considered in the capitals of industrial states such as Massachusetts and New York that would have mandated certain provisions for manual laborers and other select groups of workers: "The workers of America adhere to voluntary institutions in preference to compulsory systems which are held to be not only impractical but a menace to their rights, welfare and their liberty."
In an editorial in the AFL journal the American
Federationist, Samuel Gompers pointed out that the law under which Santiago Iglesias and the others had been convicted was a remnant of Spanish legislation in Puerto Rico.
"Federal" is not in reality a broad church; it is a narrow church at one end of the "
federationist" continuum or spectrum.
Johnson, "Minimum wage Legislation," American
Federationist, July 1936, p.
He was an ardent
federationist, but when the Caribbean Federation failed, he led Trinidad and Tobago to independence in 1962.
Federationist 111, 113 (1896) (warning of the antiunion design of "paternal" social insurance schemes).
In an article for the American
Federationist, Gompers argued that "regulation of industrial relations is not a policy to be entered upon lightly -- establishment of regulation for one type of relation necessitates regulating of another, until finally all industrial life grows rigid with regulation."in California originated?
The reader can at times feel lost in a tangle of naval negotiations, racial tensions, labour struggles, capital movements, political manoeuvrings, nationalist rhetoric, and
federationist initiatives.
53 Samuel Gompers, "Proof of the Pudding," American
Federationist, June 1920, 541 (quotation), 541-42; National Industrial Conference Board, Unwarranted Conclusions Regarding the Eight-Hour and Ten-Hour Workday, Special Report 14 (New York, 1920), v (quotation), 2, 4, 17-21; C.