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...more alarmed about Red strikes was Matthew Woll, vice president of the American Federation of Labor, who brought a 1,000-page manuscript on the subject prepared by the late Samuel Gompers and supplemented it by his own up-to-the-minute observations. "The Communists have become a serious police problem. . . . Why should the labor unions be compelled to bear the brunt of this work...
Labor. The American Federation of Labor supports the Smoot-Hawley bill on the theory that it will keep out the products of cheap foreign labor. Matthew Woll, A. F. of L. vice president, bitterly attacked Henry Ford for his tariff opposition, citing the fact that the motorman had moved his tractor plant to Ireland, where he makes his machines at 60% of the U. S. cost and imported them to this country duty-free as agricultural implements. But labor was not unanimous. George L. Berry, president of the International Printing Pressmen's Union of North America, last week flayed...
...anti-Red, was appointed chairman of a Congressional committee of five who will begin the 1930 Red hunt by calling three star witnesses: 1) Attorney-General Mitchell for the Department of Justice; 2) Secretary of Labor Davis for informaton about Red immigrants; 3) Third Vice President Matthew Woll of the American Federation of Labor...
...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...