USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Roosevelt attempted to persuade the union to end the strike with a promise that he would create a commission to study the causes of the strike and propose a solution, which Roosevelt promised to support with all of the authority of his office.

Detailed explanation-2: -On Friday, October 3, 1902, President Theodore Roosevelt called a precedent-shattering meeting at the temporary White House at 22 Lafayette Place, Washington, D.C. A great strike in the anthracite coal fields of Pennsylvania threatened a coal famine.

Detailed explanation-3: -The result was a federally appointed strike commission, which granted the workers a nine-hour day and a ten percent wage increase. Roosevelt’s intervention was a landmark in American labor history–the first time the Government had judged a labor dispute without automatically taking management’s side.