Word: colorados
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...down to their suppers one evening last week with easy hearts. From now on they were going to be looked after by a woman who has spent all her life making other people happy. To be Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, President Roosevelt had appointed Josephine Aspinwall Roche, famed Colorado coal operator. Second woman ever to attain sub-Cabinet rank,* her special province was to be the U. S. Public Health Service, the welfare of Treasury employes...
...could do much for coal miners, but she did not forget them. The years between were busy. She took an A.B. at Vassar, an M.A. at Columbia in 1910 with Frances Perkins who became her fast friend. After some welfare work in New York she went back to Colorado, whither her parents had moved in 1906. As Denver's first policewoman, she cleaned up theatres and dance halls so thoroughly that their proprietors had her job abolished. Josephine Roche had herself made a deputy sheriff. She organized Colorado for Progressives, did Belgian relief work in England and New York...
From him Josephine Roche inherited a large but by no means controlling block of stock in Rocky Mountain Fuel Co., third biggest coal mining company in Colorado. Crushed and disorganized by long and bloody industrial warfare, Colorado miners were then brooding another strike. The strike broke. Six workers were killed, 35 injured at the Rocky Mountain Fuel Co.'s Columbine mine. Instead of scuttling back to the peaceful East, Josephine Roche bought control of the company, set out to create "a new era in the industrial relations of Colorado." She invited the dreaded United Mine Workers of America...
Sullen employes became her loyal partners. Up went efficiency and profits but down on her came the wrath of the industry. Led by the Rockefeller-owned Colorado Fuel & Iron Co., her competitors started a cutthroat price war. With a high wage scale, Operator Roche was not prepared to fight. Her friends fought for her. Employes volunteered to lend half their pay for three months. Colorado unionists launched a State-wide sales campaign for her coal. Her opponents crawled from the field...
Last summer Miss Roche campaigned for the Democratic nomination for Governor of Colorado on an out & out New Deal platform, lost by a close margin to Governor Edwin C. Johnson. Left without a campaign of her own, Miss Roche joined her warm friend Mrs. Roosevelt in stumping successfully for the election of Mrs. Caroline O'Day as U. S. Representative-at-Large from New York...