TRANSPORTATION,LABOR: You Know Better

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Silk mill workers in New Jersey, steel workers in West Virginia, coal miners in Indiana and Pennsylvania, cotton pickers in California were still striking, picketing, rioting last week in spite of President Roosevelt's warning week before that "kickers" would be sent to the "corral" (TIME, Oct. 16). To lecture Labor about its unrest, a pair of Dutch Uncles marched over to the ballroom of Washington's Willard Hotel where the American Federation of Labor was concluding its 53rd annual convention. "The crucial point is that the strike...

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