1. The AFL Executive Council met in Washington, D.C., May 9-17, 1912.

2. "Legislative Committee Report," American Federationist 19 (May 1912): 397-99.

3. SG to City Central Bodies and State Federations of Labor, Apr. 18, 1912, AFL Microfilm Circular and Neostyle File, reel 57, frame 1038, AFL Records.

4. William Edgar Borah (1865-1940) served as a Republican senator from Idaho from 1907 until his death.

5. The final version of the eight-hour bill (H.R. 9061 62d Cong., 1st sess.) that became law contained an amendment excluding the Panama Canal.

6. H.R. 9061.

7. George Pearre's anti-injunction bill was introduced successively as H.R. 18,752 (59th Cong., 1st sess.) and H.R. 94 (60th Cong., 1st sess.).

8. H.R. 11,032 (62d Cong., 1st sess.), William B. Wilson's anti-injunction bill, had been introduced in the previous Congress as H.R. 25,188 (61st Cong., 2d sess.).

9. H.R. 23,635 (62d Cong., 2d sess.).

10. Henry Clayton.

11. In 1912 Sen. Augustus Bacon of Georgia faced a challenge in the Democratic primary from H. H. Perry, a prominent state legislator who was running on a progressive platform. In the primary, which was held on Aug. 21, Bacon defeated Perry by a substantial margin.

12. Jerome Jones was editor of the Journal of Labor in Atlanta (1898-1940) and president of the Georgia Federation of Labor (1904-5, 1911-12) and the Southern Labor Congress (1912-19).

13. Augustus Octavius Bacon (1839-1914), a Georgia Democrat, served in the state legislature (1871-86) and as a U.S. senator (1895-1914).

14. Charles Lafayette Bartlett (1853-1938) served in the Georgia legislature (1882-85, 1888-89) and as a Democratic congressman from that state (1895-1915).

15. S. 6266 (62d Cong., 2d sess.), a bill to limit the use of injunctions and to exempt labor organizations from the provisions of the Sherman Antitrust Act, was introduced by Bacon on Apr. 11, 1912. The bill was not reported out of committee.

16. H.R. 23,189 (62d Cong., 2d sess.), a bill identical to S. 6266, was introduced by Bartlett on Apr. 11, 1912. It died on the House calendar.

17. Robert Lee Henry (1864-1931) served as a Democratic congressman from Texas (1897-1917).

18. H. Res. 520 (62d Cong., 2d sess.), providing for debate on the Clayton anti-injunction bill (H.R. 23,635), was introduced by Clayton on May 2, 1912, agreed to by the House Committee on Rules on May 7, and reported to the House on May 13. The House adopted the resolution on May 14 and passed the bill the same day.

19. Bartlett introduced his motion on May 7, 1912. The House, however, neither debated nor voted on H.R. 23,189 during the 62d Congress.

20. S. 3 (62d Cong., 1st sess.), to encourage and to appropriate money for instruction in agriculture, the trades, and home economics in secondary schools and state normal schools, and for the maintenance of extension departments in agriculture and mechanic arts in state colleges, was introduced by Republican Senator Carroll Page of Vermont on Apr. 6, 1911. The bill did not become law.

21. H.R. 21,094 (62d Cong., 2d sess.), a bill to create the U.S. Commission on Industrial Relations, was introduced by Democratic congressman William Hughes of New Jersey on Feb. 29, 1912, and became law on Aug. 23.

22. For Gompers correspondence to Prouty, see SG to the AFL Executive Council, Feb. 21, 1912, Executive Council Records, Vote Books, reel 12, frame 75, AFL Records.

23. Carroll Smalley Page (1843-1925) of Vermont served in the state legislature (1869-72, 1874-76), as governor (1890-92), and as a Republican senator (1908-23).

24. Victor Luitpold Berger was a member of the executive board of the Socialist Party of America (1901-23), a socialist congressman from Wisconsin (1911-13), and editor of the Social Democratic Herald (1901-13) and the Milwaukee Leader (1911-29).

25. H.R. 22,912 (62d Cong., 2d sess.), a bill to regulate lobbying, was introduced by Republican Congressman Solomon Prouty of Iowa on Apr. 5, 1912. The bill did not become law.

26. SG to Prouty, May 2, 1912, reel 165, vol. 177, pp. 534-37, SG Letterbooks, DLC.

27. Solomon Francis Prouty (1854-1927) served in the Iowa state legislature (1880-81), as a district court judge (1899), and as a Republican congressman from Iowa (1911-15).

28. Ellipses in original.

29. For Berger's remarks, see Congressional Record, 62nd Cong. 2d sess., 1911, vol. 48, pt. 1, pp. 383-84, 388-89.