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JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY STUDIES

IN

HISTORICAL AND POLITICAL SCIENCE

Under the Direction of the

Departments of History, Political Economy, and
Political Science

THE WAGE POLICIES OF LABOR
ORGANIZATIONS IN A PERIOD OF
INDUSTRIAL DEPRESSION

BY

VERTREES J. WYCKOFF, PH. D.
Assistant Professor of Economics, St. John's College

BALTIMORE

THE JOHNS HOPKINS PRESS

COPYRIGHT 1926 BY

THE JOHNS HOPKINS PRESS

J. H. FURST CO., PRINTERS, BALTIMORE

PREFACE

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The principal work on this monograph was carried on while the author was a member of the economic seminary at the Johns Hopkins University, where the study of American trade unions has been pursued for some years. It was originally planned to consider the general subject of the wage policies of labor organizations, but it was later found advisable to limit the scope of the present investigation to the industrial depression of 1920.

The policies of the unions have been either ill-defined or concealed, as might be expected. Although the limitations of this study are recognized, it is believed that there has been sufficient uniformity in the content of the collected material to encourage the conclusions set forth in chapter IX.

Whatever intimacy may be shown in the text with material not usually found in the publications of the unions or the employers' associations has been due in a large measure to the coöperation of the officers of the respective organizations. The writer is indebted to President W. G. Lee of the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen, Mr. H. K. Herwitz of the Research Department of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers, President W. P. Clarke of the American Flint Glass Workers, Mr. G. G. Dyer, Secretary of the Sanitary Potters' Association, and Mr. William Green, SecretaryTreasurer of the United Mine Workers. In particular he wishes to express his appreciation of the unfailing interest and assistance of Mr. John P. Frey of the International Molders' Union. For supplementary information concerning the Operative Potters acknowledgement is made to Professor David A. McCabe of Princeton University.

The writer is indebted to Professor J. H. Hollander, Professor G. E. Barnett and Associate Professor W. O. Weyforth

for their guidance and suggestions in the course of this research and during the period of graduate work. In the preparation of the manuscript the assistance and criticism of Miss H. J. Malone, Miss M. C. Stokes, and Dr. Broadus Mitchell have been of marked aid.

V. J. W.

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