Date: September 13, 1919
Location: Boston, MA
Context: Coolidge discusses efforts to resolve the Boston Police Strike.
At a conference with labor leaders held at their request, details were presented to me of the conditions under which the policemen in Boston performed the duties of their office. The telegram of President Gompers was discussed. I told the committee that the matter suggested in the telegram was entirely in the hands of the Police Commissioner. The question of whether the men who had not reported for duty were still policemen was a question of law and fact on which I should be guided by the opinion of the Attorney General. I understood the matter of the telegram has been conveyed to Mr. Curtis. Whether he had made any decision on it yet I did not know. I undertook to transmit their request for a conference between President O’Donnell, Organizer McCarthy and President McInness,- to the Commissioner of Police.
Citation: Vermont Historical Society
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