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A Study Of Accidents And Accident Insurance
George Edwin McNeill
Insurance Topics Co., 1900
Business & Economics; Insurance; General; Accident insurance; Business & Economics / Insurance / Casualty; Business & Economics / Insurance / General; Insurance, Accident
Factory Children: Report Upon the Schooling and Hours of Labor of Children
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George E. McNeill was a leader of American labor movements.
Background
George Edwin McNeill was born on August 4, 1836, in Amesbury, Massachusets. He was brought up in the midst of the anti-slavery agitation, of which his father, John McNeill, a friend and neighbor of John G. Whittier, was an active propagandist.
His mother was Abigail Todd (Hickey) McNeill.
Education
McNeill's formal education came from the public and private schools of Amesbury.
Career
McNeill was working in the woolen-mills of his native town at the time of the great strike in 1851. About this time he learned the shoemaker's trade. As secretary of the Grand Eight-Hour League (1863 - 64) and president of the Boston Eight-Hour League (1869 - 74), he was the oratorical, journalistic, and organizing influence which began to place eight-hour legislation on the statute books of state and federal governments as early as 1867, and which, after such legislation was shown to be ineffective, placed the issue at the front in trade-union programs during the eighties.
He organized several workingmen's associations, acting as president of one of these, the Workingmen's Institute, from 1867 to 1869. As a member of the school committee of Cambridge, Massachusetts (1872 - 75), he succeeded in establishing free evening drawing-schools. The declaration of principles which was adopted by the Knights of Labor Assembly in 1874 had been written in substance by McNeill for a labor congress at Rochester earlier the same year. It became from this time the platform of the order.
Beginning as early as 1865, he was connected in an editorial or associate editorial capacity with the labor papers of the day in New York, Fall River, and Paterson, New Jersey. On account of his eight-hour philosophy of more leisure for workingmen, he opposed vigorously the far more popular greenback and cooperative programs of the labor organizations of his time.
While joining with Wendell Phillips in starting a labor party he separated from Phillips when the latter espoused the greenback movement; and with Steward, he organized the hostile Eight-Hour League. The antagonism of the two organizations reached its height in 1872 and meanwhile had much to do with the failure of the political movement led by Phillips.
Yet to Phillips and McNeill was due to the creation, by the Massachusetts legislature, in 1869, of the first Bureau of Labor Statistics, which has been copied by other states and nations. In 1869, he was appointed the first assistant chief of that bureau but in 1873, on account of his labor activities, he was dropped from the position.
In 1878, McNeill became the president of the newly founded International Labor Union, a precursor in some respects of the American Federation of Labor, in that it eschewed politics and directed its attention to the organization of all classes of labor for strictly economic gains of shorter hours and better wages. It did not reach far beyond the textile industries, but in these industries, McNeill showed unusual organizing ability.
He was an active member of the Knights of Labor, having joined in 1883, and was treasurer of District 30 of that order, 1884-86. He resigned because he favored the principle of trade autonomy for each trade. When the contest between the Knights and the American Federation of Labor reached its crisis in 1886, it was McNeill, as a member of the Committee on the State of the Order, who, at the special session of the General Assembly of the Knights in May 1886, drafted the plan of cooperation with the Federation.
This was destined to failure, and in July of that year he resigned from the Knights and went over to the Federation, whose non-political program fitted his original ideas of a labor organization. Henceforth he was prominent as writer and speaker for that organization, supporting himself as treasurer and general manager of the Accident Insurance Company after 1883. In 1886, he was the United Labor Party's candidate for mayor of Boston, at which time he was also editor and proprietor of the Labor Leader, Boston.
From 1886 to 1898, he was a delegate to the conventions of the American Federation of Labor and was sent by it as a fraternal delegate to England in 1898. He served the state of Massachusetts as commissioner of manual training in 1893-94 and on other commissions till his death on May 19, 1906, in Somerville. He edited and wrote the larger portion of The Labor Movement.
Achievements
George Edwin McNeill is known as one of the founders of the American Federation of Labor. His main renown came through his espousal of the eight-hour philosophy of Ira Steward. He was successful as arbitrator of differences between employers and employees, notably in the great horse-car strike in Boston in 1885. In 1903, he contributed to the publications of the American Economic Association a paper on "Trade Union Ideals. "