PRESIDENT WILL NOT USE WAR POWERS IN EVENT OF RAILROAD STRIKE
Washington, D.C. (JFK+50) On October 21, 1921, several of President Warren G. Harding's advisers said that in the event of the railroad strike, the administration "will resort to any measures which may be necessary to preserve human life."
The advisers cautioned, however, that the Harding administration will make "no technical appeal to the war powers which the government has."
The attitude of the administration, according to the advisers, is that the strike order will be recalled before the deadline is reached.
SOURCE
"Harding Won't Seize Roads if Men Walk Out," by Carter Field, The New York Tribune, October 22, 1921, www.chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/
Warren G. Harding
1920
Library of Congress Photo
