Item #13916 Report to the President on the Anthracite Coal Strike of May-October, 1902, by the Anthracite Coal Strike Commission contained in State Documents No. 1 Nos. 1-12, Except Nos. 3, 11, Miscellaneous, 58th Congress, Special Session. Anthracite Coal Strike Commission.

Report to the President on the Anthracite Coal Strike of May-October, 1902, by the Anthracite Coal Strike Commission contained in State Documents No. 1 Nos. 1-12, Except Nos. 3, 11, Miscellaneous, 58th Congress, Special Session

Washington DC: Government Printing Office, 1903. Senate Issue. Hardcover. Octavo; pp; 257; color frontispiece map; three quarter red leather and red pebbled cloth boards, gilt lettered spine, marbled edges, marbled endpapers; Ownership stamp of "Glad Tidings Bible Institue 1441 Ellis St. San Francisco, Cal." No other markings. Very good, rubbed at extremities, overall a very nice copy. Very good. Item #13916

The official report of Theodore Roosevelt's Independent Commission. TR extended the power of the Executive by his pronounced hands-on approach to the negotiations that eventually settled this strike. Overall it was a win for Labor but a bigger win for the American people. The spectre of a winter of coal shortages in urban America motivated TR to take a larger and more forceful role. See Morris' "Theodore Rex" pp. 131-137, 150-169, for a blow by blow description. The Commission's report was ground breaking, it marked the first instance of the Federal government acting as an independent arbitrator in a labor dispute. The UMW members negotiated and were awarded a 10% pay increase and a reduction in working hours.

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