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This document details how President Roosevelt would like the Nobel Peace Prize award money to be used. The money, totaling around $40,000, is to be used in the creation of an Industrial Peace Committee. The committee is to have representatives from labor and capital, addressing the concerns of each and bringing about industrial peace.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-12
President Roosevelt writes to William Woodvill Rockhill to detail the background behind a misunderstanding with Chinese missionaries, citing a previous incident where they felt brushed aside by Rockhill, the American Minister to China. Roosevelt also asks Rockhill to explain a rumored rivalry between the Chinese and the Japanese. Roosevelt further mentions his desire to keep Chinese laborers out of the United States while supporting Chinese students, travelers, and businessmen.
1905-05-18
A cat wearing a hat labeled “American Labor” reaches for a toy labeled “Tariff Benefits” that is very close to a fire labeled “Politics.” Sitting to the right of the fireplace, in the background, is a large ape wearing a crown shaped like a money bag labeled “Protected Monopoly.” Next to it are many bags of money. Caption: Isn’t it about time that the American workingman got wise?
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1912-09-18
An animated letter “K” labeled “Schedule” (Schedule K of the Payne/Aldrich Tariff Act) sits at a table spread with food and wine labeled “Benefits of Protection” and offers a bone labeled “Starvation Wages” to a diminutive man labeled “‘Protected’ Labor.”
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1912-03-13
A gigantic, two-faced man, wearing a money-bag crown with “$” around it, sits on a U.S. Custom House on the shore of U.S.A. He is holding up two pieces of paper. One is addressed “To American Working Men” and states “Preserve the high tariff and protect yourselves from the competition of foreign cheap labor. The tariff maintains for you the American standard of living.” The other, addressed “To Foreign Labor,” states “Come over to free America and work. High wages and steady employment. You will make more here in a week than you can there in a month.” Gathered on the shores are American laborers and foreign laborers. Caption: The tariff protects the American worker from competition with foreign cheap labor abroad, but not from competition with foreign cheap labor here at home.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1912-03-13
Laborers watch a parade of workers from the advertising and journalism trades marching under banners that state, “Short Story Carpenters Union No. 17 Red Blood Chapter,” “Pretty Girl Cover and Clothing ‘Ad’ Makers Exclusive Guild,” “Sob Sisters of the Daily Press – Winnifred Dashitall Chapter,” “Journeymen Journalists and Word Painters – Down with the Copy Reader – Accuracy Terseness Accuracy,” and “American Illustrators and Consolidated Horse Shoers – Down with the High Price of Food, Bristol Board and 290 Pens.”
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1911-08-30
Uncle Sam, as Laocoön, is pictured with two men, one labeled “Business” and the other “Labor,” entwined with snakes labeled “Tariff Uncertainty” in front of the U.S. Capitol.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1911-10-11
President Roosevelt replies to Samuel W. Marvin’s inquiry on New York Governor Charles Evans Hughes and his position on the drafting of legislation relating to the railroads. Roosevelt gives his opinion on Hughes’ divisive effect within the Republican Party and advises that he will pass along Marvin’s letter to the New York Republican State Committee Chairman, Timothy Lester Woodruff.
1908-08-14
Theodore Roosevelt compares the Progressive Party’s platform to the Democrats’ platform, highlighting areas where it stands “silent” on protecting the public and conditions for workers.
1912-10-12
Secretary of Agriculture Wilson reports that he will travel to the South to assess boll weevil damage to cotton crops. Wilson will arrive in Washington, D.C., to meet with the United States Congress regarding Cuban legislation. Wilson is confident of Senator Marcus Alonzo Hanna’s win in the upcoming election and mentions railroad men and labor unrest.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-10-25
Henry W. Taft sends a speech by his brother, Governor of the Philippines William H. Taft, on corporate and labor matters that may be of interest.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-01-22