American Decades
Rate Wars in the Railroad Industry
From the Directors of the Standard
Oil Company to Its Employees and
Stockholders
Pamphlet
By: James A. Moffett
Date: August 1907
Source: Standard Oil Company. From the Directors of the Standard Oil Company to Its Employees and Stockholders. August 1907.
About the Author: James A. Moffett (1851–1913) entered the oil-refining business as a young man in Parkersburg, West Virginia, and joined Standard Oil in 1883. In 1888, he took charge of building a major refinery at Whiting, Indiana. The next year he became president of the Standard Oil Company of Indiana. He later became a director and vice president of the Standard Oil Trust Company.
Statement in Answer to the
Allegations of the Standard Oil
Company Regarding Its Conviction
at Chicago.
Statement
By: Herbert Knox Smith
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1900's Business and the Economy Primary Sources
- First Annual Report of the United States Steel Corporation for the Fiscal Year Ended December 31, 1902
- Report to the President on the Anthracite Coal Strike of May–October, 1902
- The History of the Standard Oil Company
- Manifesto of the Industrial Workers of the World
- Conditions in Chicago Stock Yards: Message from the President of the United States
- Court Injunctions and Labor Unions
- The Western Federation of Miners on the Mesabi Range: An Address at a Social Entertainment of Hibbing Mine Workers
- Rate Wars in the Railroad Industry
- Explosion at Darr Mine
- Ford Price List of Parts for Models "N," "R," "S" and "S" Roadster
- "A Protective vs. a Competitive Tariff"
- Shop Management
- Thirteenth Census of the United States Taken in the Year 1910, Volume VIII, Manufactures: 1909
- Bill Haywood's Book
- Copyright Page
- Acknowledgments
