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President Roosevelt runs away as an overloaded boat full of misery, representing his peace conference between coal miners and operators, breaks apart. Caption: What is the next step to avert the calamity?
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1902-10-04
President Roosevelt watches as men representing the coal miners and operators walk out opposite doors. Uncle Sam stands behind Roosevelt. The cartoon is regarding the presidential conference on the coal strike.
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1902-10-04
President Roosevelt stands between John Mitchell and various coal operators. The cartoon is regarding the presidential conference on the coal strike.
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1902-10-05
President Roosevelt shakes his finger over a coal miner and coal operator. The cartoon is regarding the presidential conference on the coal strike. Caption: President Roosevelt – Stop a minute; let’s see what this row’s all about!
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1902-10-03
Uncle Sam speaks to a destitute miner’s family as President Roosevelt can be seen lecturing John Mitchell and mine operators through the window.
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1902-10-03
Cartoon shows a coal operator and miner being held face to face by giant hands belonging to President Roosevelt. The cartoon is regarding the presidential conference on the coal strike.
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1902-10-02
President Roosevelt is shown dragging out representatives of the coal miners and operators onto a board between two cliffs.
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1902-10-02
President Roosevelt asks a well-dressed gentleman, “Baer,” to leave his case labeled “Divine Right” outside on his way to the “Conference.” Cartoon is regarding the presidential conference on the 1902 Pennsylvania coal strike.
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1902-10-03
President Roosevelt holds John Mitchell and a coal mine owner by their shirt collars as the crowd in the background demands coal.
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1902-10-02
President Roosevelt invites Jacob A. Riis to stay at the White House while he is in Washington, D.C., on December 14 and 15. He would like to discuss the Anthracite Coal business.
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1903-11-04
President Roosevelt enjoyed reading the book by George Otto Trevelyan’s son, George Macaulay Trevelyan, and comments that he finds reading a great comfort, a “dissipation which I have to sometimes try to avoid, instead of an irksome duty.” The presidential campaign is now opening and Roosevelt has been told he will be nominated without opposition, although he does not know who the Democrats will nominate and what the ultimate result of the election will be. Roosevelt feels that the American system of government is somewhat inferior to the British system in that “the Presidential office tends to put a premium upon a man’s keeping out of trouble rather than upon his accomplishing results,” whereas this is not as much the case for Prime Ministers. Roosevelt feels that his actions in ending the anthracite coal strike, and his dealings in Cuba and Panama, speak for themselves and have been for the good of the American people, but he knows that his actions have also earned him opponents.
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1904-05-28
President Roosevelt praises Judge George Gray’s work on the Anthracite Coal Strike Commission and agrees with his opinion on the composition of the arbitration conciliation committees.
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1903-07-31
Through a series of excerpts from personal letters, President Roosevelt refutes reports in The New York Sun and Harper’s Weekly that Grover Cleveland had never been offered a position on the Anthracite Coal Strike Commission. President Roosevelt argues that in fact Cleveland was offered the position and accepted it, and describes the details of the incident.
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1908-08-06
President Roosevelt sends reporter Edward G. Riggs a letter that was sent to him by former President Grover Cleveland about the Anthracite Coal Strike. Roosevelt emphasizes Cleveland’s endorsement of a pamphlet that urged Roosevelt to confiscate the operators’ property.
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1904-09-02
President Roosevelt finds reading a great comfort, a “dissipation which I have to sometimes try to avoid, instead of an irksome duty.” Roosevelt mentions that the presidential campaign is now opening and he will be nominated without opposition. He points out an inferiority with the American electoral system in comparison to the British system. Roosevelt feels his actions in ending the anthracite coal strike, and his dealings in Cuba and Panama, speak for themselves and the “rest must take care of itself.”
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1904-05-28
Theodore Roosevelt has spoken to Senator Boies Penrose, who would like to add two planks to the party’s platform in Pennsylvania regarding coal and labor strikes. Roosevelt thinks this is a “first-class” idea and asks Attorney General Knox to write a rough draft and deliver it to Penrose.
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1904-03-24
President Roosevelt thanks Judge Gray and the members of the Anthracite Coal Commission for their “important piece of public service.”
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1903-03-24
President Roosevelt was pleased to hear Mr. Gayley’s opinion because the “Wall Street people” have been bitter over Roosevelt’s action, most likely referring to the intervention in the Anthracite Coal Strike.
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1902-11-05
President Roosevelt is unsure of the ultimate effect of the settlement of the Anthracite Coal Strike but believes it will conclude positively.
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1902-10-28
President Roosevelt would like to speak with Emlen Roosevelt regarding the recently concluded Anthracite Coal Strike.
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1902-10-27