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That weekend, too, the secretary, whom Roosevelt had left in charge of the problem, was summoned to Secretary of State (and "acting president") Cordell Hull's office. She found him huddled with Attorney General Homer S. Cummings over a stack of law books. In their opinion -- based on a thirty-year-…

The General Strike Committee announced that nineteen restaurants would remain open Monday -- some 3,600 seats for a city of 700,000. Union permits would allow suppliers to provide food to them. At the same time, it said, it was planning a special police force intended to prevent violence and cooper…

Electrical workers had voted to defer a decision on joining the general strike. An official said its action was intended to avert the "widespread catastrophe" that would result from interruption of service. International Typographical Union President Charles P. Howard arrived to take part in the pr…

If the atmosphere around the Labor Temple that morning was confused and hysterical, it was nothing compared to the panic and confusion that welled up in the newspapers. The Chronicle reported that "While the rest of the city may go hungry, suffering privation and cold, every family of every man on …

When the new General Strike Committee convened the next morning, it promptly ejected a delegation from the Marine Workers Industrial Union, since it was not affiliated with the AFL. The committee then voted to create an appointed executive committee of twenty-five (later fifty). Vandeleur was elect…