HARDING CALLS RAILWAY & COAL STRIKE SERIOUS & MENACING TO NATION'S WELFARE
Washington, D.C. (JFK+50) On August 18, 1922, President Warren G. Harding, in an address to the United States Congress, pledged to use "all the power of the government to maintain transportation and sustain the right of men to work."
Carter Field reports that the President "vigorously" denounced "abuses of organized labor" and called for the creation of a commission to investigate "the whole coal industry."
President Harding said...
"The situation growing out of the prevailing railway and coal-mining strikes is...serious (and) menacing to the nation's welfare."
He concluded by saying...
"No matter what clouds may gather, no matter what hardships may attend or what sacrifice may be necessary, government by law must and will be sustained."
SOURCES
"Address to Congress on Railroad and Coal Strikes," The American Presidency Project, www.presidency.ucsb.edu/
"Harding Calls for Laws to Make Strikes Impossible; Big Four Propose New Solution of Seniority Issue," by Carter Field, The New York Tribune, August 19, 1922, Chronicling America, Library of Congress, www.loc.gov/
