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New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 1924. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. xxxv, 454, [1] pp. Includes map, appendices and index. With publisher's advertisement tipped onto rear endpapers. Following the Ludlow Massacre, CFI and John D. Rockefeller, Jr., the primary stockholder, developed the Employee Representation Plan (ERP), hoping to to win back public support through what they called a civilized approach to labor relations. This is a study of that plan.

London: Macmillan Press Ltd, 1979. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. xii, 216 pp, with notes, index. Black cloth, spine title gilt. Upper corners bumped else near fine. "Account of Labour's stance on the Scottish question, drawing on original Labour Party and trade union records to trace the labour attitude to nationalism, Home Rule and devolution from the origins of independent labour to the present.

New York: Gotham House, 1932. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. iv, 243, [1] pp. Draft of Mooney-Billings Report submitted to the National Commission on Law Observance and Enforcement by it's Section of Lawless Enforcement of Law, June, 1931. This section was dropped from the 1932 Kenyon Report of the Commission findings. The suppressed report reviewed the 1916 convictions of labor activists Tom Mooney to death and Warren K. Billings to life in prison for a bombing in San Francisco. The case contained abuses so blatant, they were compared the Dreyfus case. Allegations of police and prosecutorial misconduct were so well documented that in1918, after intervention by President Wilson, Mooney's death sentence was commuted to life. A Time magazine story of 1/18/1932, quoted William D. Mitchell, Pres. Hoover's Attorney General about... a report made by a subcommittee of the Wickersham Commission on the Mooney-Billings case....Its conclusions: 1) "There was never any scientific… Read More