In 1913, Baine was the American Federation of Labor's (AFL) delegate to the British Trades Union Congress (TUC). He spoke at the TUC congress, where he advised that it avoid political activity.[3] In 1918, he accompanied AFL leader Samuel Gompers on another trip to visit the labor movement in Britain.[4]
Baine held his secretary-treasurer post until his retirement in 1931. He lived until 1962.[5]
References
^"Boot and shoe workers". Biloxi Daily Herald. October 26, 1904.
^The American Labor Who's Who. Hanford Press. 1925.
^"U.S. labor man gives plain talk to British". New York Tribune. September 5, 1913.
^"Will meet with British labor". Washington Post. August 14, 1918.
^"Charles L. Baine obituary". Boston Globe. March 2, 1962.