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Theodore Roosevelt provides direction for how Henry Beach Needham can answer Mr. Ommen. He offers evidence from a New York State Court and the United States Supreme Court that a woman’s right to work cannot be restricted, just like a man’s. Employers can choose to work their female employees haggard for 12-16 hours per day.
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1912-11-12
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.”
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1904-08-18
Harrison Gray Otis is confident in President Roosevelt’s reelection but is pleased that William Randolph Hearst has failed in his attempt to be a legitimate presidential candidate. Otis primarily reviews his beliefs on industrial freedom and its importance to the country and the Republican Party. He would like Republicans to make industrial freedom a plank in their party platform.
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1904-05-16
Arthur B. Farquhar speaks out against unionism.
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1903-11
Representative Edward James Livernash delivered a speech in the House on the hostility of the Republican Party towards labor and President Roosevelt’s acceptance of the open shop in government service.
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1904-04-05
Daniel Edgar Sickles is glad that General Wilson has been appointed to the Anthracite Coal Strike Commission. He believes the primary issue for the commission to consider is the right of every man to work for wages acceptable to him.
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1902-10-17
The Anthracite Coal Strike Commission needs to lay a “broad and durable” foundation for the reconstruction of the anthracite industry. Arbitration will bring the strike to an end but a major concern is now the protection of miners that continued to work outside of the strike. Employees that remained loyal are at the mercies of local sentiment.
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1902-10-17
Secretary of War Root encloses an article from the Scranton Tribune regarding the Anthracite Coal Strike Commission. He has marked some sections regarding the condition of non-union workers.
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1902-10-20