The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-07-25
OUR INDUSTRIAL PHASES
Character OF the Investigation to
Be Made by the Commission.
THREE GENERAL DIVISIONS
Part First Relates to Labor, Part Second
to Capital and Part Third to Indus
trial and Remedial Legislation.
The Questions.

commission of the Industrial commits
sion that has come to Montana to in
Vestigate conditions existing between
capital and labor in relation to the
mining industry. topical plan of
inquiry has been prepared for the
guidance of the sub-commission which
covers so wide a range that If the
commission secures reliable data on
all the topics congress will not have
many phases of the labor question left
to speculate on in framing remedial
legislation. The sub-commission is to
inquire into all the questions contain
ed in this plan, as they relate to the
mining of coal, iron. petroleum, pre-
cious metals and all other mineral
products. The plan is divided into
three parts. Part first relates to labor
employed, part second to capital en-
ployed and part third to industrial
and remedial legislation.
Combinations of Labor.
The representatives Of labor called
before the commission will be asked to
give correct information on these sub
jects:
Constitutions and regulations of the
| several trades unions, funds and ben
eft features
Growth of trades unionism; proper
ton of total employees embraced in
membership; in the several industries
and the several states; allied trades.
Incorporation of trades unions; feas-
Utility and legal effect.
Relations of non-union labor and the
right to liberty of contract.
Unskilled labor, organized or I'M
| organized.
Strikes, Arbitration and Contract Labor.
Enumeration of the several causes
| leading up to strikes.
Economic results of strikes and
| lockoutS; to workers; to employees; to
the community at large.
| Methods of strikes: the boycott"
| the black list; picketing or patroing;
| other methods of influencing results,
whether by employers or employees;
| sympathetic strikes.
| The importation of new or foreign
| labor under contract, or otherwise:
operation of the law forbdding the
| importation Of contract la Dor
| Cancellation mediation and arbitra-
ton; under state law; by joint COM
| mttees, temporary or permanent.
Compulsory arbitration.
| The injunction in strikes.
| Wages and Methods of Payment
| Weekly, bimonthly and monthly pay
ment laws; advantages and disadvan-
| tages.
Time work; piece work; overtime
| work: task work.
Sliding wage scale, operation of:
minimum wage scale.
"The living wage" the standard of
| living.
Store orders and payment in kind.
Fines and penalties.
Mine tenements
Differences in wage schedules in diff
| ferent states and sections
Relative rates of wages during the
last so years.
Relative social condition of labor
during the past so years.
Influence of organized labor on
| wages.
Employment.
Increase or decrease in number en-
ployed: excess of employees; the unem-
ployed
Effects of employment of children on
themselves: on adult labor.
Causes of irregularity of employment;
rules and regulations; general condi-
tons.
Average number Of days employed
during the year.
Hours of labor in the several states;
Sunday labor.
The shorter work day; it's effects
where adopted; economic and social
arguments for and against.
Operation of existing laws as to
screens, company stores, etc.
Cooperation, Premium Payments. Profit
Sharing, Industrial Co-Partnership, Etc.
Practicability and present status of
these methods.
Other plans for improving the condi-
ton of workingmen; old age and serv-
ice pensions: sick insurance; accident
insurance; industrial insurance.
migration and Education.
Effects of immigration on employ
ment of skilled and unskilled labor;
on wages; on morale.
Suggestions for the regulation of
immigration.
Colored labor; non-English speaking
labor
School age of children in the several
states.
Sufficiency of public school facilities
in the several states and territories.
Suitability of public school inStruc-
ton to needs of working people.
Trade schools; manual training:
technical education.
Public libraries; reading rooms; ly-
ceums.
Convict Labor.
Effects OF convict labor in mining on
free labor in the several states and
territories.
Suggestions for its non-competitlVe
employment
The representatives of capital en-
ployed in mining, as shown in part IL,
will be asked for enlightenment on
these topics:
Comparative Earnings of Capital In
vested in Mining.
During the past so years.
AS compared with other lines of in
Vestment; banking, real estate, rail-
reading, mercantile business, etc.
Effects of restrictive and other in
dustrial legislation on the capital en-
ployed in mining in the several states
and territories.
Proportion of labor and capital in the
industrial product.
Taxation: Character. extent and eff
feet of, in the different states and ter
rtories.
Suggestions for the modification and
liriG O tiarl Of iS j