1. Andrew Furuseth (1854-1938) was president of the International Seamen's Union of America from 1897 to 1899 and from 1908 to 1938. From 1895 until 1902 he was an AFL legislative representative, continuing as legislative representative of the International Seamen's Union for the remainder of his life.

2. Frederick Brockhausen (1858-1929) was a member of Cigar Makers International Union 25 of Milwaukee and of the Social Democratic party. He served as secretary-treasurer (1900-1912) of the Wisconsin State Federation of Labor (FOL) and as a state assemblyman (1905-13). At this convention he represented the Wisconsin State Federation of Labor.

3. Andrew J. Gallagher, who served as a vice-president of the International Photo-Engravers' Union of North America (IPEU; 1906-9) and president of IPEU 8 of San Francisco (1906-7), was recording secretary of the San Francisco LC (1907-12). At this convention he represented the California State FOL.

4. Actually Joseph D. Cannon (1871-1952), a member of Western Federation of Miners 106 of Bisbee, Ariz., who served on the executive boards of the Western Federation of Miners (1911-12). He was an organizer (1907-20) for the Miners, and later served on the AFL Mining Department (1914-20). Cannon ran unsuccessfully as a socialist in the Territory of Arizona for a seat in the U.S. Congress (1906, 1908) and in New York for the U.S. Senate (1916) and for governor (1920).

5.Joseph W. Morton, president of International Brotherhood of Stationary Firemen 7 of Chicago and a vice-president of the Illinois State FOL, represented the Chicago FOL.

6.William E. Rodriguez, a Chicago attorney and a member of Brotherhood of Painters, Decorators, and Paperhangers of America 180 of Oak Park, Ill., represented the Painters and Decorators.

7. John H. Walker(1872-1955) served the United Mine Workers as an organizer for West Virginia (1900), president of the Danville, Ill., subdistrict of District 12 (Illinois; 1901), and executive board member (1902-3), vice-president (1904), and president (1905-8, 1909-13, 1931-33) of District 12. He also served as president of the Illinois State Federation of Labor (1913-19, 1920-30). He helped organize the Illinois State Cooperative Society in 1915 and served as its first president (1915-21). Until 1916 Walker was a prominent Illinois socialist, and he ran the Socialist Party of America ticket for a seat in the Illinois general assembly in 1904 and for the House of Representatives in 1906. Expelled from the party in 1916, he was in 1917 a founder of the American Alliance for Labor and Democracy. Disillusioned with Wilson and the Democrats by 1919, Walker joined the newly-formed National Labor party (after 1920, the Farmer-Labor party) and was its unsuccessful candidate for governor of Illinois in 1920.

8. Max Sebastian Hayes (1866-1945) joined International Typographical Union 53 in 1884 and served as an organizer for the international union for the next fifteen years. In 1891 he cofounded the Cleveland Citizen, and he later became the paper's associate editor (1892-94) and editor (1894-1939). He was active in the labor movement of Cleveland as corresponding secretary (1896-97) and recording secretary (1898-1901) of the Cleveland Central Labor Union, recording secretary (1902-3) of the United Trades and Labor Council, and recording secretary (1910) of the Cleveland Federation of Labor. Hayes was associated with the People's party campaign in 1896 and was active in the Socialist Labor party from 1896 to 1899 and then the Socialist Party of America. A leading socialist trade unionist within the AFL, Hayes was a Socialist party candidate for Congress in 1900 and for Ohio secretary of state in 1902, losing both races. He helped organize the Consumers' League of Ohio in 1900 and wrote the state's workmen's compensation bill that was passed in 1911. He was chairman of the executive committee of the newly formed National Labor party in 1919 and was the Farmer-Labor party's vice-presidential candidate in 1920.