LABOR: Steel Race

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Last week President Roosevelt and William Green ran an exciting relay race against a strike in the steel industry. The start was in Pittsburgh where the president of the American Federation of Labor went to try to persuade the Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel & Tin Workers to call off its strike plans. The finish was in Washington where President Roosevelt flashed across the Congressional adjournment deadline a winner with a new law to combat strikes in any industry. By the time Mr. Green reached the starting post Amalgamated was already in...

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