Word: prohibitional
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...subject of the debate tonight is: "Resolved, That Congress should pass, all necessary legislation to prohibit strikes in essential industries--constitutionality granted--essential industries being defined as public utilities, public service corporations and coal mines...
...first place, having failed to confirm our obligations to the world, we propose to wash our hands of the whole affair, at the same time compelling Germany to confirm her obligations to us. Secondly, in default of this confirmation by Germany, we propose to prohibit commercial intercourse with Germany, thus submitting her to a blockade which will stifle her industries, hamper the performance of her obligations to bur allies, and breed anarchy where stability is of all things o be desired. Thirdly, Congress, by imposing terms on Germany, proposed virtually to negotiate a treaty of peace, which power, under...
...prohibit strikes by law would be un-American; to continue with no agency for promoting industrial peace is suicidal. Only through the creation of a board with compulsory powers of investigation will the germs that breed industrial strife be destroyed. And with such a board functioning, the menace of strikes based on ignorance, misrepresentation, and falsehood would be removed; and industrial justice, one of the great promises of American life, would be measurably nearer fulfillment...