William Pettinger Archive | Calvin Coolidge Presidential Foundation

Telegram to Albert Burleson

March 28, 2025

Date: April 18, 1919 Context: Coolidge wires Washington trying to mitigate the disruption caused by a telephone strike. For the duration of the disability of the United States government to furnish telephone […]

Telegram to the Governors of the Other New England States

March 28, 2025

Date: April 14, 1919 Context: Coolidge writes his fellow governors to rally support for presidential intervention against a threatened strike. Will you join me in cable to President Wilson to intervene […]

Message Relative to the Termination of Tenancies at Will

March 28, 2025

Date: May 21, 1919 (Original document available here) The long cessation of building activities due to war conditions has produced a scarcity of tenements which is working a great hardship. […]

Statement Relative to the Adjustment of the Telephone Strike

March 28, 2025

Date: April 21, 1919 (Original document available here) It will be a great relief to the public to know that they are no longer to be deprived of telephone service. […]

Telephone Strike Statement

March 28, 2025

Date: April 15, 1919 (Original document available here) Statement from the Governor’s Office Governor Coolidge yesterday realizing the tremendous damage that a general strike of the telephone operators would cause […]