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William T. Pullen has received Theodore Roosevelt’s letter, but has been waiting to respond until he hears back from an officer about his reinstatement. He will inform Roosevelt about the result. This is in reference to Pullen losing his position with the railway service due to his large family.
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1911-09-22
F. C. Nunemacher approves President Roosevelt’s decision to reinstate William A. Miller to his position at the Government Printing Office. Miller lost his job after being expelled from the labor union. Nunemacher supports an employee’s right to join a union but does not believe that employees should be discriminated against due to union membership or their decision not to join a union.
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1903-07-22
Theodore Roosevelt has no means of investigating the case that Mrs. E. B. Summart has brought before him, and he cannot ask for a reinstatement as a favor. Roosevelt will write and place her letter before the head of the department, but that is all he is able to do.
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1911-05-19
President Roosevelt has received Oliver Cicero Wiley’s letter, but does not think that he would be able to approve a bill reinstating the person that Wiley asked about into the service. The person in question, Roosevelt recalls, “is the young man who used the obscene and abusive language to an enlisted man.”
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1908-11-30
President Roosevelt tells Colonel Goethals that he would like Gray to be reinstated to his position on the Isthmus.
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1907-03-29
President Roosevelt tells his sister-in-law, Emily Tyler Carow, that he has taken steps to have her friend restored to his position. He also updates her on the Roosevelt family’s summer activities at Oyster Bay and talks about how all of the children are doing.
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1905-09-23
President Roosevelt assures Senator Proctor that Converse J. Smith will have his case thoroughly heard. Roosevelt will treat Proctor’s letter as an application for reinstatement and see that a hearing is scheduled as soon as possible.
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1904-09-27
President Roosevelt objects to an editorial that appeared in The Outlook on the Miller case. Miller was reinstated, the labor union did not strike, and the case was closed. Roosevelt believes that he handled the issue “squarely” and brought about a final decision.
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1903-08-01
President Roosevelt instructs that William A. Miller be reinstated and kept at work during the investigation of the charges against him.
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1903-07-25
President Roosevelt believes that Public Printer Palmer is “worse than weak” for submitting to the pressure of the labor union and firing William A. Miller. Miller will be reinstated and Roosevelt is determined to prevent discrimination between union and non-union employees.
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1903-07-16
John F. O’Rourke recommends that Major Woodbury reinstate Major Samuel A. Russel to his position in the United States Army so that he may draw his pension. O’Rourke has developed a personal regard for Major Russel as an employee and friend, and is convinced of his good character.
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1907-12-04
Arthur MacArthur agrees with Generals Charles A. Coolidge and Henry W. Wessells in their support of reinstating Captain Russel into the Army on the retired list.
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1907-07-10
Retired Brigadier General Wessells testifies on behalf of Samuel A. Russel’s honorable conduct as an army officer, in support of Russel’s reinstatement to a post from which Wessells believes he was unjustly removed.
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1907-05-15
Asa Bird Gardiner introduces the letter bearer, Samuel A. Russel, a Civil War veteran and military career man, to Secretary of War Taft. Gardiner speaks highly of Russel’s reputation and character, and asks that he be restored to his rank and granted military retirement. Gardiner feels that Russel was wrongly discharged from service.
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1907-05-08
Newspaper article defending President Roosevelt’s decision in the case of William A. Miller.
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1903-08-06
President Roosevelt asks Oswald Garrison Villard to send his letter to General Leonard Wood. He discusses promoting Captain John J. Pershing to brigadier general. Roosevelt is interested in what the labor unions will do in the Printing Office, noting that he has instructed Francis Wayland Palmer to reinstate William A. Miller. He intends to “settle the question of the trades unions usurping governmental functions.” Emphasizing that every person is required to follow the law, Roosevelt notes that he will not “tolerate wrongdoing by a union one whit more than [he] would tolerate it from the biggest corporation.”
1903-07-25
The Lynn Central Labor Union passed a resolution urging President Roosevelt to remove William A. Miller from his position in the bindery of the Government Printing Office.
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1903-09-22
Francis C. Travers writes to William Loeb regarding the reinstatement of Lawrence J. Hanley, a Democrat and President Roosevelt man.
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1903-08-27
Edward B. Lott and Alfred G. Anderson write to President Roosevelt requesting reinstatement of William A. Miller as foreman in the Government Printing Office’s Book Binding Department after his dismissal by the Book Binders’ Union.
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1903-08-06
Gilman W. Avery approves of President Roosevelt’s action to reinstate William A. Miller as foreman in the Government Printing Office’s book binding department.
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1903-07-27