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Alfred R. Conkling, who has heard about Theodore Roosevelt’s upcoming lecture on “Conservation of Womanhood and Childhood,” wants to bring his attention to the State Factory Investigating Committee that is looking into better fire safety practices and preventions in New York factories.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-10-18
Print shows two large male figures, one, wearing business attire, is labeled “Commercial Trust,” he is holding paper labeled “Order to Raise Wages” and the other labeled “Labor Trust” is armed with a bomb, a handgun, and a rifle, and is holding paper labeled “Order to Strike.” Behind the “Labor Trust” are unemployed families, explosions, and anarchy; behind the “Commercial Trust” is order, as men head for factories. Caption: Commercial Trust (to Labor Trust) – While you are denouncing me, why don’t you include yourself? You use violence and destroy property, while I use peaceful methods and not only lower prices but raise wages, as the statistics of the last fifteen years will show.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1899-06-07
Bessie Van Vorst is writing a book on “the American factory girl” and would like to use part of a letter President Roosevelt wrote in the introduction. Van Vorst distinguishes the situation of the factory workers who are self-supporting and those who have a breadwinner and just want to earn extra money. She argues that there should be some sort of industrial art hand work for wage-earning women to earn and sell so that they can advance in life.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1902-12-13