Evening star., 1899-06-24
Will Investigate for the Industrial
:. Commission.
Data DEeARBING THE TRUSTS
Facts About Labor and Convict
Labor legislation.
PURE FOOD AND DRUGS

The Industrial commission has engaged
a number of specialists to carry on inves-
LEGATIONS along certain lines, and during
the next two months while the commits
sion will be engaged in Investigations IN
different parts of the country these special
lists will be at work preparing data, much
of which will be available at the meeting
in September. Among these specialists are
Prof Jeremiah w. jerks, who fills the
economic chair in the faculty of Cornell
University; Mr.. F.. ]. Stmsen of Boston,
whose books on labor problems are authori-
ties; Prof. Emory r. Johnson of the Uni
versity of Pennsylvania, who has just been
made member of the Nicaraguan canal
commission; Prof. Davis r. Dewey of the
Institute of Technology at Boston; Victor
Omstead and William M. Steuart of the
department of labor; Eugene c. Wilson OF
Massillon, Ohio; DIR. j. w. Hines and Har-
vey M. Friend, both of Washington
investigation of Trusts.
Prof. jerks has been engaged especially
in an investigation of the trusts. In addi-
ton to information obtained by him
through the testimony given by witnesses
who have come before the commission ne
will employ agents to interview large
number of these corporations to obtain M
formation of statistical nature. The
trusts would hesitate to give much of this
inform ion If it were, to DE published in
connection with their names, but it is be-
lieved they will part with this data under
promise that it will be used in a statistical
form in connection with similar informa-
ton from other concerns, and in a way
that 1t could not be definitely traced to
them. 1t is likely that 290 800 of the
trusts will be approached and asked to
give this information during the next two
months.
Digest of Labor Legislation.
Mr.. Stmson has been charged with max
ing a comparison and digest of the labor
legislation of the states and foreign
| countries and to draft proposed rem
edial legislation. In his plan Of pro-
cedure Mr.. Stimson indicates his inten-
ton to look into the regulation Of labor
contracts, incidentally treating of injunc-
tions in strikes, the duties and liabilities of
employers and employees, the sanitary and
moral conditions of working places, hours
of labor, ehildrens employment, the po-
litical and legal rights of labor, special pro-
visions relative to factory and shop labor,
laws peculiar to mining labor, railroad and
| interstate commerce labor and trade unions
and unions Of employers; also incidents of
| lockouts and 1blacHlists and trade boycotts,
cOnciliation and arbitration, protit-sharinS
and state aid, etcy
Laws Concerning Convict Labor.
| Mr. Victor NJ @imstead of the depart
ment of labor has completed digest of the
| laws of the states concerning convict la
| bor in it's relation to free labor, and Mr..
| William NJ Steuart of the same depart
| ment after having gone over the field of
| the sweat shop abuses, is now visiting the
| penitentiaries of some of the states, with a
| view to scouting Information that will en-
| able him to make suggestions for uniform
laws concerning the, employment of con-
| victs. y ~. - - a..
| Prof. Davis r. Dewey of the Institute OF
| Technology will make an investigation con-
| cerning trade unionism.
| Mr.. Wilson is Investigating mining con
! ditions.
Prof Johnson Is collecting data on the
| subject of transportation. His connection
| with the Nicaragua canal commission will
not interfere with his work with the in
| dustrial commission. -,
| Food and Drugs.
| Dr. Hines, and Mr. Harvey M. Friend botf
| of Washington, are aiding the agriculture
| silbcommission. Dr. Hines is collecting ma
| terial concerning the pure food and drue
| laws of the different states and the exten
of their enforcement and digesting the law.
| and reports and testimony bearing upoi
them. and his report upon completion will
| be used by the Subcommission SO far as i
| advisable in the final report to Congress.
| Mr.. Friends engagement by the commits
sion was due to the fact that the farmer.
and planters of the United States claim t'
| have sustained. great losses by reason o
fictitious dealings in agricultural products
and he will be expected to make digest o
the volumes of testimony taken by Con
gress upon the subject in connection witt
| pending bills and number of reports be
sides that have appeared from time to tim
in the Congressional Record of the Fifty
second Congress