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Upshot was that President Roosevelt personally requested the steelmasters to keep their plants closed until his Steel Mediation Board had done its work. And Ohio's Governor Davey dispatched 4,800 militiamen into the Mahoning & Trumbull Counties with orders to preserve the status quo. The plants stayed closed and, rare in U. S. history, the strikers greeted the arrival of troopers with loud cheers...
...gone to Washington early in the week to confer with Secretary of Labor Perkins on the idea of appointing a Federal mediation board. She, a Joan of Arc to many a worker, was eager to do so, but Franklin Roosevelt had wanted to give Ohio's Governor Davey a chance to bring peace locally, as Michigan's Murphy had done in the motor strikes. Meantime, while Governor Martin Davey tried and failed, Franklin Roosevelt personally and conversationally arbitrated the central issue of the steel war, unmistakably indicating the course that any mediation by his representatives would take. This...
...Ohio, Governor Martin Luther Davey called his own meeting. Chairman Tom Girdler of Republic and President Frank Purnell of Youngstown declined to attend in person but sent deputies to meet with Philip Murray and John Owens of the Steel Workers. Governor Davey proposed a compromise: let the companies sign a labor contract, and let the union promise not to demand the closed shop or checkoff. The meeting was adjourned without result but another was arranged for this week...
Oberlin's jewels are such children as Feminist Lucy Stone, Physicist Robert Millikan, Prohibitionist Wayne B. Wheeler, Ohio's Governor Martin Luther Davey, Chinese Finance Minister H. H. Kung...
...were all awake, too; Paul and John, the 8-month-old twins, were on the daybed in the living room, crying. Little Davey, he's 2½, was shrieking and Jimmy, he's 9, was getting in everybody's hair...