Reel 7

April 8-14, 1916. 16pp. Subject: Settlement of strike following threatened deployment of U.S. Marshal on street cars. Begins at 0000.

April 22, 1916-April 7, 1920. 16pp. Subjects: Internment and deportation of enemy aliens during World War I; alleged IWW agitators; seditious remarks; pro-German matters; interference with wartime government shipments of coal by railroad; protest letter from Arnold Petersen, national secretary of the Socialist Labor Party of American; arbitration of labor dispute between the Alaska Labor Union and the Alaskan Engineering Commission; general strike plans. Begins at 0016.

April 14-26, 1937 and April 4, 1941. 7pp. Subjects: Letter regarding dream about 1941 Ford Motor Company strike; use of strikebreakers in printers strike. Begins at 0199

June 30-October 21, 1916. 16pp. Subjects: Chamber of Commerce interest in strike; grand jury investigators; violence and intimidation. Begins at 0206.

March 13, 1914 and October 6-9, 1916. 22pp. Subjects: Obstruction of interstate and foreign commerce as justification for federal; intervention in strike by towboat captains and mates; instructions to U.S Attorney in New York City Allied Printing Trades Council strike as guidelines for handling situation in Boston under antitrust laws; closed shop versus open shop issues. Begins at 0222.

October 11, 1916-April 19, 1918. 108pp. Subjects: Controversy surrounding witness to dynamiting of street car; contempt of court charges against local union Amalgamated Association of Street and Electric Railway Employees of America members; use of injunctions in labor disputes; shareholders of Springfield Railway & Light Co. interest in case; U.S. Marshal deployment of deputies guarding property of Springfield Traction Company; mob violence and intimidation. Begins at 0244.

December 12, 1916-January 12, 1917. 67pp. Subjects: Controversy between DOJ and U.S. District Judge over proposed Telephone Company; use of injunctions in labor disputes; interference with interstate commerce as justification for federal involvement in strike. Begins at 0352.

October 14-December 6, 1941. 24pp. Subjects: Newspaper clippings regarding jurisdictional dispute between ALF machinists, operating engineers, electricians, and carpenters in construction of TNT ammunition plant; labor relations section of the Army Air Corps, Catholic Church, office of Production Management, and U.S. Conciliation Service arbitration efforts; comments of U.S. Secretary Harry S Truman on strike; AFL competition with CIO. Begins at 0419.

May 2-5, 1917. 6pp. Subjects: Columbian Hardware Company request for federal intervention in strike involving government contracts; DOJ decision not to intervene. Begins at 0443.

August 12, 1941. 3pp. Subjects: J. Edgar Hoover FBI report on strike and Communist influence in union; government contracts. Begins at 0449.