National Association of Manufacturers (U.S.)

President Roosevelt informs Charles M. Harvey that he has not seen James Creelman’s article. While Creelman likely does not quote Roosevelt directly, he did say something to that effect. He stated he had as much difficulty with James Wallace Van Cleave, David M. Parry, and their association as he did with Samuel Gompers and his association. It concerns Roosevelt that the National Association of Manufacturers opposes measures benefiting workingmen.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1908-08-29

President Roosevelt hopes that Frank B. Kellogg is not moved by the clamor surrounding the injunction plank, as it has been stirred up by the Manufacturers’ Association. The plank will try to call the attention of the courts “to a bad habit into which some judges have fallen,” and Roosevelt expects that they will neither satisfy the extreme labor agitator nor the extreme representatives of the Manufacturers’ Association, but will be seek to be fair to all American citizens.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1908-06-16

President Roosevelt tells Senator Lodge that he would oppose a party plank against the use of the labor injunction that would satisfy Samuel Gompers, but he thinks that rather than a colorless plank the Republican Party should take a moderate stance on the issue. He does not expect to satisfy radical labor leaders, but he also does not want to yield entirely to the demands of the Manufacturers’ Association.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1908-06-16

Since President Roosevelt wrote a letter on the Moyer-Haywood matter, the National Association of Manufacturers have been active. Although James Wallace Van Cleave’s statement on the matter was denied publication by the Associated Press, he trusts it will be reported on after their convention. Elliott Durand concludes that eighty percent of trade union members agree with Roosevelt, leaving only the professional labor politicians as his enemies.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

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1907-05-02

Francis B. Loomis writes to President Roosevelt about the upcoming return of Secretary of State Root from his Pan-American visit. Loomis calls it an “important international event” that is receiving much press coverage. He hopes Root’s return is met with equal fanfare. Loomis envisions a homecoming event that is national and bipartisan, and suggests names for speakers and organizations to involve.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1906-09-20

Charles C. Goetsch examines the legal, philosophical, and political dispute between Theodore Roosevelt and Simeon E. Baldwin, a Yale Law School professor, Chief Justice of the Connecticut Supreme Court of Errors, and Governor of Connecticut. He details the conservative legal outlook of Baldwin and how this view clashed with the progressive political beliefs of Roosevelt. Goetsch shows how a legal dispute over the constitutionality of the Federal Employers Liability Act extended from the courts to the 1910 election campaign where Roosevelt’s rhetoric prompted Baldwin to consider a libel suit against the former president.

Two pictures, one of Simeon E. Baldwin and the other of Theodore Roosevelt speaking from the platform of a train car, are included in the article.

A listing of the officers and the members of the executive, finance, and Theodore Roosevelt Birthplace committees of the Theodore Roosevelt Association is included in the article as well as an advertisement for the Roosevelt Savings Bank of Garden City, New York.

Theodore Roosevelt regretfully declines Albert A. Snowden’s invitation.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1916-04-12

Jams Sullivan Clarkson has been trying to protect President Roosevelt’s time by dissuading David M. Parry from meeting with him regarding the controversy in the Post Office and by encouraging Roosevelt to decline an invitation to a banquet of international insurance men. Clarkson remarks that the financial panic seems to have passed, the Democrats wish to nominate Judge Gray, the death of Judge Long was a serious matter, and that General Batcheller is in the country and can give Roosevelt valuable information about diplomatic and commercial matters in Egypt.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1903-07-29

Text of a speech delivered by F. C. Nunemacher at the annual convention of the National Association of Manufacturers regarding labor unions and industrial relations.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1903-07-22

Richard Young will be attending a conference in Buffalo, New York, to try and help settle the Anthracite Coal Strike. He would like to meet with President Roosevelt beforehand and would appreciate some confidential suggestions.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1902-10-04