The Kern Resolution, sponsored by Sen.
John W. Kern (D) of Indiana and adopted on May 27, 1913, called for an investigation into the then ongoing
Paint Creek–Cabin Creek strike of 1912 in West Virginia.
The resolution would "''seek to determine if a system of
peonage
Peon (English language, English , from the Spanish language, Spanish ''wikt:peón#Spanish, peón'' ) usually refers to a person subject to peonage: any form of wage labor, financial exploitation, coercive economic practice, or policy in which th ...
existed in the strike zone, if immigration or postal laws were being violated, if strikers were being prosecuted contrary to Federal law, and if certain other conditions existed.''"
1913 in law
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