Kindling a flame under federalism: Progressive reformers, corporate elites, and the phosphorus match campaign of 1909–1912

Business History Review

Volumn 68, Issue 2, 1994, Pages 244-275

  Moss, David A ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 84971138866     PISSN: 00076805     EISSN: 2044768X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3117443     Document Type: Article

References (11)

1. John B. Andrews to Henry W. Famam, 16 Nov. 1910, The Microfilm Edition of the Papers of the American Association for Labor Legislation, 1905–1945 (Glen Rock, N.J., 1973) [hereafter, AALL Papers], reel 4.
2. “President's Annual Message,” Congressional Record, 61st Cong,, 3d sess., 46, part 1 (6 Dec. 1910): 29.
3. The two letters are dated 11 Jan. 1911 and 22 Dec. 1910, respectively. Both are reprinted in House Committee on Ways and Means, White phosporus Matches, 61st Cong, 3d sess, 16 Dec. 1910 and 20 Jan. 1911, 309–10 and 328-30.
4. R. Alton Lee, “The Eradication of Phossy Jaw: A Unique Development of the Federal Police Power,” The Historian 29, no. 1 (Nov. 1966): 2; Herbert Manchester, The Diamond Match Company (New York, 1935), 14-62; Alfred D. Chandler, Jr., The Visible Hand: The Managerial Revolution in American Business (Cambridge, Mass., 1977), 292-93; John B. Andrews, “Phosphorus Poisoning in the Match Industry in the United States,” Bulletin of the Bureau of Labor 20 (1910): 42–47.
5. Andrews, “Phosphorus Poisoning in the Match Industry,” 59 and 39; Manchester, Diamond Match Company, 35–47.
6. Andrews, “Phosphorus Poisoning in the Match Industry,” 40.
7. Manchester, Diamond Match Company, 35–36, 70.
8. Andrews, “Phosphorus Poisoning in the Match Industry,” 86–140.
9. Manchester, Diamond Match Company, 35–36, 70; Andrews, “Phosphorus Poisoning in the Match Industry,” 41 —42. A copy of the original U.S. patent is exhibited in House Committee on Ways and Means, White Phosphorus Matches, 61st Cong., 3d sess., 16 Dec. 1910 and 20 Jan. 1911, 340.
10. Andrews, “Phosphorus Poisoning in the Match Industry,” 37-38; Ernest Mahaim, “The Historical and Social Importance of International Labor Legislation,” in The Origins of the International Labor Organization, ed. James T. Shotwell (New York, 1934), 1: 10–11.
11. Mahaim, “Historical and Social Importance of International Labor Organization,” 8; Sir Malcolm Delevingne, “The Pre-War History of International Labor Legislation,” in Shotwell, Origins of the International Labor Organization, 1: 33.