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...elected legislative representative of the Illinois miners. For 5½ years he was general organizer and field representative of the American Federation of Labor, in which capacity he handled the Calumet copper strike and the Akron rubber workers' strike. In 1913 he handled the unsuccessful campaign to unionize the steel industry...
...report was read by Judge Elbert H. Gary, 76 years old, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the United States Steel Corporation...
...Steel directors unanimously declare that steel workmen shall work 12 hours per day. The morality of the steel business becomes at once a subject for salon, schoolroom and soap box debate...
Three years ago was published the report of the Interchurch World Movement condemning the steel business as unchristian, particularly in respect of the 12-hour day. The 12-hour day, it said, injured health and ruined home life...
...year ago the President asked the steel directors to investigate. They did. Last week their committee reported that the 12-hour day was in no way injurious, and was essential to the economic happiness of the United States. The report was unanimously accepted by 130 steel directors, assembled at the Hotel Commodore, Manhattan. President Harding is deeply disappointed...