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Teddy Roosevelt: “Organized labor is chafing under the unjust restraint which comes from repeated resort to this plan of procedure.”

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Organized labor is chafing under the unjust restraint which comes from repeated resort to this plan of procedure.
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Teddy Roosevelt
Republican · New York

Editor's note · Context

He notes the frustrations of organized labor with the frequent use of injunctions against them.

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