The Iconic Coolidge, wearing Sioux Head Dress: Coolidge was officially adopted into a Sioux tribe for his work [Bettmann/CORBIS/History.com].Cool Cal.
Posted on 02/26/2011 4:41:18 PM PST by T.L.Sink
[Boston, Massachusetts,1919.] The Boston police had decided - against the law - that they would organize a union. The police commissioner said they were in violation of the law. Samuel Gompers, head of the American Federation of Labor (AFL), jumped into the middle of the dispute and issued the police an AFL charter as a union. The police went on strike. The situation was rapidly deteriorating. Gov. Calvin Coolidge was furious and the police were fired. Said Coolidge: "THERE IS NO RIGHT TO STRIKE AGAINST THE PUBLIC SAFETY BY ANYBODY, ANYTIME, ANYWHERE." In his memoirs Coolidge wrote, "It was beginning to be clear that if voluntary associations were to be permitted to substitute their will for the authority of public officials the end of our government was at hand."
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The Iconic Coolidge, wearing Sioux Head Dress: Coolidge was officially adopted into a Sioux tribe for his work [Bettmann/CORBIS/History.com].Cool Cal.
Free sample of your song from earlier:
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