The strike files of the U.S. Department of Justice, part 1, 1894-1920 (inclusive) | WorldCat.org (original) (raw)

Summary:The strike files provide a record of the Department of Justice's evolving policies of intervention in labor disputes as well as documentation on the circumstances surrounding major strikes, beginning with that at the Pullman Company in 1894 and ending with the strikes begun in 1920. The files offer the viewpoints of management and labor as well as of the department, and include internal memoranda, reports from local district attorneys, confidential letters from the parties in the dispute, court orders, affidavits, reports from company detectives and federal marshals, petitions from union halls, and correspondence from concerned third parties