1. This is an excerpt from the report of the Committee on the Report of the President. Frank Foster was chairman and Andrew Furuseth secretary of the committee.

2. Resolution 47, introduced by John Pfeiffer of the United Brotherhood of Leather Workers on Horse Goods on Nov. 14, 1906, proposed that a committee investigate all political parties and recommend for endorsement by the AFL the party with the platform most favorable to the legislative agenda of organized labor. The resolution was not adopted by the convention.

3. Resolution 3, introduced by E. Gerry Brown of the Brockton (Mass.) Central Labor Union (CLU) on Nov. 13, 1906, called for a committee to report on the results of organized labor's political action in the recent campaign and to recommend the organization that would enable labor most effectively to "take political action as an auxiliary force without endangering or committing unions as organizations" (AFL, Proceedings, 1906, p. 89). The convention adopted a substitute presented on Nov. 21 by the Committee on the Report of the President to instruct the Executive Council to tabulate and publish the results of the 1906 campaign from labor's standpoint.

4. The tabulated results of the 1906 election, compiled by the AFL Legislative Committee, were printed in the May 1908 issue of the American Federationist with an article by Gompers ("Labor's Political Campaign" [15: 341-53]). The tables showed the vote received by the victorious congressional candidates in 1904 and 1906 with the respective increase or decrease in the plurality of votes received. Although the tables did not indicate which candidates were supported or opposed by organized labor, Gompers claimed that they showed "enormous reductions in pluralities of some of the candidates who were not friendly to labor's interests and the defeat of others either for renomination or election" (ibid., p. 342).

5. Charles Lavin, a tailor, represented the Wilkes-Barre (Pa.) CLU.

6. Charles Dold (b. 1860) was president (1904-21) of the Piano, Organ, and Musical Instrument Workers' International Union of America (before 1904, the Piano and Organ Workers' International Union of America).

7. J. Mahlon Barnes (1866-1934), a Philadelphia cigarmaker, was executive secretary of the Socialist Party of America (SPA) from 1905 to 1911. He represented the Cigar Makers International Union.

8. Victor Luitpold Berger (1860-1929) of Milwaukee was editor of the Vorwärts (1893-1911) and the Social Democratic Herald (1901-13), and served on the executive board of the SPA from 1901 until 1923. He represented the Wisconsin State Federation of Labor. He later served as the first Socialst congressman (1911 to 1913). After his reelection to Congress in 1918, he was found guilty of conspiracy to violate the Espionage Act and sentenced to twenty years imprisonment in early 1919. He was released on bail pending review of the case, but Congress refused to seat him. Reelected in 1919, he was again denied his congressional seat. The U.S. Supreme Court overturned Berger's conviction in 1921, and he was elected to Congress again the following year, serving from 1923 to 1929.

9. The chairman was AFL first vice-president James Duncan; he represented the Granite Cutters' International Association of America.

10. Berger had previously submitted this as resolution 131 on Nov. 15, 1906. It was referred to the Committee on Resolutions.

11. Five candidates of the Social Democratic Party of Wisconsin were elected to the state assembly: William Alldridge, Edmund Berner, Frederick Brockhausen, Carl Thompson, and Frank Weber. Another Social Democrat, Jacob Rummel, served in the state senate.

12. Thomas Nicholls, a member of the United Mine Workers, was elected to Congress in 1906 as an Independent Democrat and served two terms. William Wilson, a a founder of the United Mine Workers, was also elected to Congress that year as a Democrat, and served from 1907 to 1913 when he was appointed the first U. S. secretary of labor. Both congressmen represented Pennsylvania districts.

13. A reference to the defeat of resolution 72, introduced by Max Zuckerman at the 1905 AFL convention, which proposed that the AFL use political as well as economic methods to restore the means of production and distribution to the people.

14. James Keir Hardie (1856-1915), a Lanarkshire, Scotland, miner, founded the Scottish Labour Party in 1888 and in 1893 helped organize the Independent Labour party (ILP) serving as chairman from 1893 to 1900. In 1900 he helped organize the Labour Representation Committee whicht evolved into the Labour party in 1906. Chairman of the Labour party in 1906-7, and again in 1913-15, Hardie was also a member of Parliament from 1900 to 1915.

15. A reference to Frank Foster, a delegate of the International Typographical Union (ITU). Foster had read the report of the AFL's fraternal delegates to the TUC's 1906 meeting at the AFL convention on Nov. 13.

16. William B. Wilson represented the United Mine Workers of America at the convention.

17. John Sharp Williams (1854-1932), a Democratic congressman (1893-1909) and senator (1911-23) from Mississippi, was the minority leader in the House of Representatives from 1903 to 1909.

18. William Joseph Cary (1865-1934), a former railroad telegrapher who had served as a Milwaukee alderman (1900-1904) and as Milwaukee county sheriff (1904-6), was elected to Congress as a Republican, serving from 1907 to 1919. Among his opponents in the election was Edmund T. Melms, an organizer and editorial writer for the Social Democratic Party of Wisconsin, who ran on that party's ticket.

19. Probably ITU 23 of Milwaukee.

20. SG to Cary, July 20, 1906, Files of the Office of the President, General Correspondence, reel 61, frames 419-20, AFL Records.

21. The Piano, Organ, and Musical Instrument Workers' International Union of America.

22. John Lennon(1850-1923), AFL treasurer from 1891 to 1917, represented the Journeymen Tailors' Union of America.

23. Andrew Furuseth (1854-1938) represented the International Seamen's Union of America.

24. Joseph C. Skemp served as vice-president (1902-4) and secretary-treasurer (1904-22) of the Brotherhood of Painters, Decorators, and Paperhangers of America and represented the union at this convention.

25. James O'Connell represented the International Association of Machinists (IAM).

26. John Walker represented the Illinois State Federation of Labor.

27. During a debate on Nov. 20, 1906, on the section of the report of the Committee on the Report of the President dealing with labor's political campaign, Walker made the statement that if the AFL were to start a national labor party, and the socialist party failed to cooperate, he would leave the socialist party and vote for the labor ticket.

28. Harry J. Whitlam was a member of IAM 83 of Cleveland and represented the Cleveland CLU.

29. Daniel J. McGillicuddy ran against Charles Littlefield as the Democratic party's nominee for congressman from Maine's Second Congressional District.

30. On Nov. 14, 1906, Republican Congressman Charles Littlefield of Maine spoke at the dinner of the National Founders' Association at the Hotel Astor in New York City, where he ridiculed SG's unsuccessful effort to prevent his reelection to Congress. He denounced the anti-injunction bill favored by the AFL as class legislation, calling legislators who supported it cowards who had given in to the AFL's efforts to "terrorize" Congress (New York Times, Nov. 15, 1906).

31. William Darroch, a judge, was the Democratic candidate who unsuccessfully challenged Edgar Crumpacker's reelection to Congress from Indiana.

32. Edgar Dean Crumpacker (1851-1920), a lawyer, was a Republican congressman from Indiana (1897-1913).

33. Edward Livernash prepared arguments for higher wages on behalf of Division 205 of the Amalgamated Association of Street and Electric Railway Employes of America (AASERE) without compensation and traveled to New York City at his own expense in October 1903 to argue the AASERE's case.

34. George H. Warner represented the IAM.