I. Introduction, 231. — II. Occasions for suspension and receivership, 237. — III. Degrees of severity, 238. — IV. Initiative and authority, 240. — V. Provision for a trial or hearing, 243. — VI. Requirement of a two-thirds vote in the board, 246. — VII. Appeals, 246. — VIII. Status of unions and members during receivership, 248. — IX. Time limit, 249. — X. Constitutions cited as models, 251. — XI. Summary, 254.

I. Conditions favorable to union growth: unions as defensive organizations, 611; the “prosperity theory,” 614; union growth and price movements, 617. — Preliminary formulation of a theory of union growth, 619. — II. Booms in union growth, 620. — The influence of wars, 622. — Inertia, 623. — Employer opposition, 624. — The “welfare” approach, 625. — III. The importance of leadership, 625. — IV. The influence of industrialization, 628. — V. Conclusion: expansion of the preliminary theory of union growth, 632.