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Letter from Frank Robert Gooding to Theodore Roosevelt

Letter from Frank Robert Gooding to Theodore Roosevelt

Governor Gooding encloses secret reports from a Pinkerton agent who has immersed himself on the defense team of the Haywood Trial in Idaho. Gooding calls President Roosevelt’s attention to his understanding that during the trial, the defense plans to release information about Governor Steunenberg’s supposed fraudulent activities in timber land sales. Gooding believes that the Department of Justice in Idaho is sympathetic to the defense.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-04-10

Creator(s)

Gooding, Frank Robert, 1859-1928

Finds packers break the laws

Finds packers break the laws

Mary Eleanor O’Donnell reports on the conditions found among women strike-breakers in the stockyard plants of Chicago. She describes her experience working as a strike-breaker in the kitchen at Swift & Co.’s, noting the unsanitary environment and difficult working conditions. O’Donnell provides 15 facts she found from her investigation into the condition the strike-breakers housed in stock yard plants, including the violation of city laws, “the bringing of paupers and criminals to the city to fill the places of strikers,” the “distribution of impure, vile foodstuffs,” unsanitary conditions likely to spread disease, and the disregard of moral laws.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1904-08-19

Creator(s)

O'Donnell, Mary Eleanor, 1877-1913