Word: wolle
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Candidates. Next day, in Manhattan, the Executive Committee of the American Federation of Labor met and chose a successor to serve out Mr. Gompers' term. There were three candidates: James Duncan, for 30 years Mr. Gompers' lieutenant; Matthew Woll, President of the International Photo-Engravers Union; William Green, Secretary-Treasurer of the United Mine Workers of America, a man but recently come into prominence. All were Vice Presidents of the Federation and hence of the Executive Committee which chose the President...
...very pleased to let you know your plea has been successful," wrote Father Ryan to Matthew Woll...
...Woll is one of the powers in American Labor. His committee of trade-union men pleaded that all prayer-books, religious literature and articles used in churches should bear a label signifying that it had been produced by American union labor...
Father Ryan is Secretary of the Administrative Committee of Bishops of the Roman Catholic Church in the U. S. His committee, by granting Mr. Woll's plea, will prohibit imports of religious material estimated at $35,000,000 annually, and will transfer this business to U. S. printers, engravers, binders and allied tradesmen...
...compelled to listen exclusively to one professor summing up all "sides" of the industrial struggle in a fruitless attempt to be impartial. They have had the opportunity of listening during the past two years to such speakers as James A, Emery, counsel for the National Association of Manufacturers Matthew Woll of the American Federation of Labor, Julia O'Connor of the telephone workers of Boston, Robert Amory, president of the National Association of Cotton Manufacturers; John L. Barry, president of the New Hampshire Federation of Labor; J. Eads Howe, and many other leaders in industrial struggles. In the compulsory course...