President's Mediation Commission records, 1917-1918 (inclusive), [microform].

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President's Mediation Commission records, 1917-1918 (inclusive), [microform].

The records consist of reports, witness statements, and other records of the President's Mediation Commission. The Commission operated on the basis of guidelines set by Felix Frankfurter, secretary to the Commission. Those guidelines recommended the promotion of AFL-style trade unionism, the elimination of subversive IWW locals, and the encouragement of industrial democracy.

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Yale University Library

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United States. Dept. of Labor. President's Mediation Commission.

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The President's Mediation Commission represented a partial federal response to two aspects of wartime labor policy: 1) the spreading wave of strikes which interfered with the production of goods deemed vital to the war effort, and 2) the growth of labor radicalism associated with the IWW which precipated widespread state and local repression of labor's rights and vigilantism. From the description of President's Mediation Commission records, 1917-1918 (inclusive), [microform]. (Unknow...

Frankfurter, Felix, 1882-1965

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Felix Frankfurter (November 15, 1882 – February 22, 1965) was an American lawyer, professor, and jurist who served as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. Frankfurter served on the Supreme Court from 1939 to 1962 and was a noted advocate of judicial restraint in the judgments of the Court. Frankfurter was born in Vienna, Austria, and immigrated to New York City at the age of 12. After graduating from Harvard Law School, Frankfurter worked for Secretary of War Henry ...

Industrial Workers of the World

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The IWW is a labor organization dedicated to uniting laborers around the world into a single large union. From the description of Collection 1916-1939. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 778701431 Established in Chicago in 1905 by sponsors of socialism and the remnants of previous labor unions, including the Knights of Labor, Western Federation of Miners and the American Labor Union, the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), or "Wobblies", evolved into a radical industrial unio...