Labor

William Emlen Roosevelt informs President Roosevelt that he will be unable to go on the trip with him to Indianapolis, Indiana. Roosevelt has business that he needs to attend to due to the passage of new legislation which “is very disturbing, and much of the recent legislation in many parts of the country has been most unwise.” Laborers are asking for more rights and the crops have not been growing as well so William Roosevelt is forecasting a slow economy for the future.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-05-24

John Dunbar Pringle sends President Roosevelt a marked copy of The Labor World with an editorial about organized labor. The newspaper agrees with Roosevelt’s course of action and notes that such a position takes courage.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-05-04

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-04-29

Creator(s)

Taylor, Knox, 1873-1922

Recipient

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Henry Lee Higginson offers President Roosevelt his opinions and critiques about current economic policies in the United States, especially pertaining to the Treasury Department and to railroads. Higginson believes the Treasury should circulate more money and is against the policy of holding it out of circulation. He also believes that railroad owners and investors should be able to reap the benefits of the risks they take in investing in railroad stock.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-04-24

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-04-24

Creator(s)

Schneider, Joseph P.

Recipient

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Frank M. Annis communicates to William Loeb that he wants President Roosevelt to stand his ground. The president claimed impartiality in the New York Tribune in the Charles Moyer and Big Bill Haywood murder trial.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-04-24

The Secretary of the Isthmian Canal Commission, Joseph Bucklin Bishop, informs President Roosevelt that the missing memorandum has arrived. Bishop informs Roosevelt that Chief Engineer Stevens will have the arrangements for feeding laborers at Culebra complete by January 1, and that he will concrete the floors in all of the labor camp kitchens. Bishop also sends Roosevelt rainfall statistics.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1906-12-05

Edgar E. Clark writes to President Roosevelt regarding his request for a favor about the situation in House Speaker Joseph Gurney Cannon’s district. Clark is happy to help and will write to those whom he thinks can exert influence. Clark also expresses some concern about Charles E. Littlefield’s majority and his position on the questions of prohibition and labor.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1906-09-11

Van Leer Polk advocates for the use of Chinese laborers in building the Panama Canal. Polk believes Chinese workers are the most efficient labor force and that workers from areas in China with a similar climate to Panama would be the most suitable choice. Polk describes the nature of recruitment and employment of Chinese laborers by the French government and makes suggestions for how to secure satisfactory results from Chinese laborers. He encloses several documents, including a copy of a Chinese Labor Contract.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1906-03-09

John F. Kearney chose extracts from the Miner’s Magazine from the past five years, most of them specific to the death of ex-Governor of Idaho Frank Steunenberg and organized labor disputes.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1906-01

President Roosevelt informs Samuel Gompers he is unable to attend the annual meeting of the National Civic Federation, but fully supports its mission of “more rightful relations between employers and employees.” Roosevelt believes the federation has done good work already, particularly under the leadership of late Ohio Senator Marcus Alonzo Hanna. He hopes the federation will elect a president that will carry on in Hanna’s spirt.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1904-12-14

William H. Moody informs Theodore Roosevelt that the advertisement for Panama labor is in conformity with the laws of the United States.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1905-07-22

President Roosevelt writes that Warren C. Browne was one of the best men on his campaign and attended to the bulk of his labor work in New York State.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1905-05-22

James Bronson Reynolds has returned from a trip to the Philippines, China, and Japan, and is interested in future trade relations with China. He thinks America needs to modify its attitude about “coolie labor” and treat Chinese gentlemen with the same respect Americans receive when in China. Roosevelt’s recent consular changes in China are well-received. Reynolds thanks Roosevelt for his actions related to a ministry of Romania. He is traveling to Europe but hopes to return in time to take part in city campaigns. He has enclosed memoranda including recommendations related to the consular service and China.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1905-05-16

James Bronson Reynolds reports of his travels in the Philippines, where he believes Filipinos have just complaints regarding liberty, with the powerful taking the spoils. Reynolds also spent time in China and believes there is great opportunity for trade in China, especially in cotton. He applauds setting up a commission or investigator there. Reynolds also writes of Chinese students in Tokyo.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1905-05-07

Henry White sends President Roosevelt a message from Edward VII. The King wanted to convey his regards and his best wishes for Roosevelt’s success with his second administration and hopes Roosevelt will never be persuaded by any other sovereign or government. The King intends to write Roosevelt shortly. White asks that when Roosevelt replies to the King, he mentions that White delivered the message. White saw Cecil Spring Rice, Arthur James Balfour, and Henry Lansdowne before leaving London, and they were all interested in Spring Rice’s trip to Washington. White also writes that the British government has had two votes of want of confidence in the House of Commons and again in the House of Lords.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1905-02-25

Representative Littauer endorses the candidacy of Marcus M. Marks for Postmaster of New York City. He believes that Marks’s appointment would positively effect the political campaigns that are ongoing there. Although the campaign in New York has been hard-fought, Littauer assures President Roosevelt of their ultimate success. 

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1904-10-29

Daniel Edgar Sickles asks President Roosevelt to consider his views on labor and urges Roosevelt to make a statement supporting workers’ rights. Sickles discusses mob rule, claiming that there have been no mobs in New York since 1863 and mentioning the conditions in Georgia. Sickles notes that he is helping to prepare an address to veterans. Sickles encloses a published letter from 1896, noting that he believes “Bryanism is as much an issue now as it was then.”

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1904-08-18

Senator Bard informs William Loeb that he is happy with President Roosevelt’s choice of Victor Howard Metcalf as Secretary of Commerce and Labor.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1904-06-24

The top left-hand corner includes a cartoon from the New York Herald on July 9, 1904, in which William Jennings Bryan takes the “money” plank away from a platform where William F. Sheehan and David B. Hill are nailing different planks down. In the larger cartoon, Alton B. Parker tells Bryan to return the “money” plank. Sheehan, Hill, Charles Francis Murphy, Thomas F. Grady, William Bourke Cockran, and a Tammany tiger look on.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1904-07-12