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President Roosevelt issues a statement justifying his intervention in the Anthracite Coal Strike and imploring the operators and miners to settle their dispute for the good of the public.
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1902-10-31
Summary of recent labor problems at the Alabama location of the Tennessee Coal, Iron, and Railroad Company. The company believes that the miners unjustly broke their contract.
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1902-10-06
Miles Menander Dawson sends a quotation from Jeremiah McLain Rusk, a former Governor of Wisconsin, regarding a labor strike and riot in which Rusk ordered the militia to fire on the rioters.
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1902-10-01
Interview with Senator Scott, who has been traveling in continental Europe. Scott believes that Grover Cleveland is a legitimate candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination and expects President Roosevelt to be the Republican candidate. During his travels, Scott has viewed labor conditions and is convinced that American labor is in a great position.
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1903-05-13
President Cassatt of the Pennsylvania Railroad asks to be excused from the meeting as his company primarily carries bituminous coal. He believes that the Anthracite Coal Strike is unwarranted and can only end when the miners return to work at their old wages.
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1902-10-02
Abram S. Hewitt offers his opinion on the Anthracite Coal Strike and opposes the consolidation of trade unions as a danger to the government.
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1902-09-09
Edward Henry Harriman offers criticism of President Roosevelt’s speech draft.
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1902-08-19
Memorandum with suggestions for how President Roosevelt should handle the Anthracite Coal Strike.
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1902
Several prominent labor leaders of the Chicago area recommend that President Roosevelt use his power and influence to bring about arbitration in the Pennsylvania coal strike.
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1902-06-06
Political cartoon featuring Senator Hanna asking a small boy, labeled “Political Meddler” who is calling for a Hanna presidency, to be quiet. Hanna is guarding a cradle with two babies labeled “Capital & Labor Cradle.”
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1902-04
William Caruthers shares his views on the relationship between labor and management. He further confides that he plans to devote his journal, The True Republic, to the 1904 re-election of President Roosevelt, and asks for the names of Roosevelt’s friends who can assist him in developing a business plan to achieve this goal.
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1902-04-04
Ambassador Choate requests that Assistant Secretary of War Sanger assist Alfred Mosely, who is visiting the United States to gather information concerning education and labor.
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1902-03-12
Lt. Gov. Woodruff explains to President Roosevelt comments made by Naval Officer Sharkey about Mr. McMackin, Commissioner of Labor, in a letter to Governor Benjamin B. Odell. In Woodruff’s opinion, Mr. McMackin had unfairly prosecuted some factory inspectors and Sharkey had reason to refer to “Mr. McMackin’s ‘vindictiveness.'”
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1902-01-15
Political cartoon regarding Senator Hanna and the “labor question.”
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1902
Henry T. Scott, president of Union Iron Works, is in Washington, D.C. Duncan Douglas Wilson suggests that President Roosevelt meet with Scott to discuss the trouble between Union Iron Works and the International Association of Machinists.
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1901-12-02
Senator Hanna has been thinking about President Roosevelt’s message regarding trusts, organized labor, and wages. He suggests that Roosevelt focus more on trusts and less on wages as the Democrats do not think trusts are an issue and focusing on wages would only help the Democrats.
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1901-11-10
Samuel Gompers met with President Roosevelt to discuss labor policy and protest the arrest of Santiago Iglesias Pantin in Puerto Rico. Iglesias Pantin had been sent by Gompers to organize the labor movement in Puerto Rico.
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1901-11-11
The labor press has generally commended President Roosevelt’s courteous treatment of Booker T. Washington. Some in the South will condemn Roosevelt, but those who stand for the working man will not.
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1901-10-30
George Gunton is at President Roosevelt’s service when needed. He has several speeches scheduled and believes this shows that employers have an “improved spirit” towards labor unions. Gunton asks whether his letters will reach Roosevelt or be intercepted by a secretary.
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1901-10-05
Ernest Howard Crosby does not believe the “economic game” is fairly played and must protest about the labor question to keep his convictions. Crosby is also distressed at American imperialism as the United States had an opportunity to set an example for the world but instead followed the methods of the British Empire.
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1901-09-29