Word: wolle
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Answer was given by John E. Edgerton, president of the National Association of Manufacturers (membership: 50,000). Witness Edgerton had been arguing at length before the committee in behalf of increased "flexibility" in the new tariff bill. Others who had demanded the same thing were Vice President Matthew Woll of the American Federation of Labor; Chester Gray, legal representative of the American Farm Bureau Federation; John G. Lerch, counsel of the American Tariff League. Mr. Lerch also called for a change from foreign to domestic valuation in administering the new tariff bill...
Mixed in with the final flood of departmental work there were, of course, many political conferences and duties. There was the notification speech, for delivery in Palo Alto on August 11, to be completed. Nominee Hoover consulted men like Matthew Woll of the American Federation of Labor and President Lewis T. Taber of the National Grange to make sure he would say just the right things on August...
...such acts, implied Judge Schoonmaker, the United Mine Workers might "hamper interstate trade." Repeal Move. The A. F. of L. convention heard all about the Schoonmaker injunction from Lee Hall, a United Mine Worker from Columbus, Ohio. Speeches were fiery in denunciation of "government by injunction. " Vice President Matthew Woll adjured his brethren to bring the issue before the country "dramatically, tragically, if necessary," and reiterated what Labor has felt ever since the U. S. Supreme Court's celebrated "Stonecutter Decision,"* that the Sherman Anti-Trust Law and the Clayton Act, once enthusiastically backed by Labor, are weapons that...
Vice President Woll advocated, and President Andrew Furuseth of the International Seamen's Union strenuously seconded, the repeal of the Sherman and Clayton Acts; the substitution of laws which would prevent industrial monopolies but not hog-tie industrial combinations...
...WOLL-GREEN AND THE SOC PARTY BETRAYED THEM (Angry groans and catcalls) VANZETTI MURDERED! (Cries, as above...