President's annual message calls for labor laws and trust reform
The president's annual message to Congress urges amendment of the Sherman Act, stronger public control over interstate commerce, and expanded supervision of railways and utilities. It notes a seven year financial surplus, reduced interest debt, and no new taxes while advocating broader regulatory powers and publicity for corporate dealings.
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Currency Commission
Treasury Department
United States
Panama Canal
Congress
Commission
Interstate Commerce Commission
Great Corporations and Democratic Fair Dealing
A long discourse argues for balanced oversight of large firms, condemning both unregulated capitalism and demagogic attacks on business. It insists on protecting property rights while pursuing misconduct, urging premium for initiative and capacity, and warning against corruption and demagoguery from all sides.
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Republic
Government control and the states' rights argument
The piece argues for strong national oversight of interstate commerce, challenging states rights critiques. It contends central government must regulate railroads and large corporations, arguing state fragmentation harms public interest and urging publicity, uniform accounting, and broad federal powers to curb concentration.
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Union
Great Corporation
Commonwealth
Labor Reform Debates and Worker Protections in Nation and States
A broad address urges legislative action to improve worker conditions, expand wageworker rights, and modernize industry. It calls for child labor limits, shorter hours, wage protections, unemployment care, employer liability, and an extended federal role in interstate commerce, with emphasis on pensions and taxation reforms. It criticizes class-based pressure, defends courts, and urges swift passsage of a District of Columbia employer liability law and other protections.
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Congress
Massachusetts
The
Bureau of Labor
Germany
United States
Europe
District of Columbia
Prac
Lfe
Reform of the Courts and Labor Demands
The piece outlines a 1900s era clash over judiciary reform. Labor leaders attack the entire bench while defending a hard line bill that bars injunctions in labor disputes except to protect property rights and business continuation, framing the issue as a fight over justice and reform.
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House Committee On the Judiciary
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