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By Calvin Coolidge
There is no right to strike against the public safety by anybody, anywhere, any time.
- Source
- Telegram to Samuel Gompers, September 14, 1919
- Read at
- The American Presidency Project, UC Santa Barbara (from Have Faith in Massachusetts, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1919)
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From Governor Coolidge's telegram of September 14, 1919 to Samuel Gompers, president of the American Federation of Labor, during the Boston police strike. Gompers had asked him to put the striking policemen back on duty. Coolidge refused.