1. Carl Browne to SG, Aug. 27, 1902, Files of the Office of the President, General Correspondence, reel 59, frames 670-73, AFL Records. Browne, who was president of the United Labor party, requested a copy of a resolution passed by the AFL's 1893 convention that endorsed Jacob Coxey's "good roads plan" for public works projects for the unemployed. In a long postscript, he asked SG's support for his plan to unify the workers politically ("to do that which the Unions cannot do,--no, nor should not"), noted Eugene Debs's and Edward Boyce's criticism of SG, and argued that they should replace the label "Socialist" with one more neutral, such as "United Labor."

2. The AFL's 1893 convention met in Chicago, Dec. 11-19.

3. Eugene Victor Debs, a founder of the Socialist Party of America, was the party's candidate for president in 1904, 1908, 1912, and 1920. He joined with William Haywood and other radicals in 1905 to form the IWW.

4. Edward Boyce served as president of the Western Federation of Miners (1896-1902) and as editor of its official journal, the Miners' Magazine (1900-1902). In 1898 he was a founder of the Western Labor Union.

5. "Shall" is crossed out here in the original, and "to" (handwritten) is inserted.

6. The American Railway Union was founded in early 1893. Its defeat in the Pullman strike in the summer of 1894 brought on its decline, and it disbanded in June 1897.

7. The American Labor Union.