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The article outlines the platform of the Kentucky Republicans. Judge Edward C. O’Rear is running for governor on this platform.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-07-14
A collection of editorials by Alfred H. Holman in The Argonaut covers politics and industrial topics in the San Francisco Bay area. Mayor Eugene E. Schmitz is on trial and control of mayoral power lies in the balance. Strikes affecting streetcar and telephone service are losing steam, with employers claiming that the unions are acting in bad faith. The involvement of Rudolph Spreckels and Patrick Calhoun in the prosecution of Schmitz is examined. Holman has little faith in the industrial conciliation meeting to be held in San Francisco. Holman also makes recommendations regarding fire safety and railroad management.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-06-29
President Roosevelt describes to Senator Lodge the difficulties he has had in negotiating the composition of the commission to examine the Anthracite Coal Strike. The mine operators did not want a representative of labor included. Roosevelt discovered the importance of labeling and perception, however, in that they would protest his appointment of Bishop John Lancaster Spalding as “eminent sociologist” and the addition of a representative of labor, yet they would happily accept the representative of labor being labeled an “eminent sociologist” and the addition of Bishop Spalding.
Massachusetts Historical Society
1902-10-17
John Campbell Greenway describes the recent labor disputes in the Arizona copper mines. He was hoping that Theodore Roosevelt could work something out whereby Greenway could go with him to the French or Russian fronts. Greenway encloses a letter from a geologist about conditions in Petrograd and writes briefly about the situation on the Mexican border.
1917-07-06
Partial page of The Commercial Advertiser with articles relating to Cuban annexation, a controversy surrounding President Roosevelt hosting labor leaders, John Mitchell’s views on various labor tactics, and a defense of the government’s actions with Panama and Colombia.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-11-24
Benjamin Franklin Tracy suggest to President Roosevelt that he advise Judge Gray to accept the position of mediator in the labor disputes at the Tennessee Coal and Iron Company in the anthracite regions of the Appalachian Mountains.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-07-27
British newspaper article praising President Roosevelt’s handling of the Anthracite Coal Strike. The author compares Roosevelt’s active and forthright approach to that of local politicians. After explaining the negotiations and concessions, the author encourages Americans to stick with Roosevelt to lead the way out of dangerous situations.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1902-10
Walter Wellman agrees to Secretary Cortelyou’s recommendation about not presenting John Mitchell’s propositions regarding the board of arbitration to President Roosevelt. Wellman will continue to discuss the matter with Mitchell.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1902-10-16
Whitelaw Reid has been following the events of the Anthracite Coal Strike and is concerned that the strike’s length will hurt the Republican Party in the upcoming election.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1902-10-13
John Markle requests that President Roosevelt use the military to stop the “anarchistic condition of affairs” in the anthracite coal fields. He reports widespread lawlessness and twenty one murders committed by the striking miners. Markle claims that a majority of miners are still trying to work and that John Mitchell’s organization is a small minority which is holding fellow workers and the nation hostage through violence.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1902-10-03
Nine conditions from representatives of the anthracite mine workers that could set the stage for ending the Anthracite Coal Strike.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
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.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1901-12-02