Letters to Samuel Gompers, 1908-1924

Correspondents include John Calvin Coolidge, Herbert Clark Hoover, Andrew William Mellon, Pat M. Neff, Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., William Howard Taft, and Thomas Woodrow Wilson.

Topics include: articles by the United Mine Workers; a decision against establishing a manufacturing plant in a Texas penitentiary; the awarding of Navy contracts to non-union companies; the suggestion that contractors observing the eight-hour workday be given special consideration in bids to furnish supplies for the War Department; investigation of labor conditions in Puerto Rico, and the additional cost associated with an eight-hour day.