The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1913-01-17
UNREST OF LABOR
Scope of the Commission on In
duStriaI Relations.
MUST REPORT TO CONGRESS.
Board Authorized to Inquire Into Gen.
oral Conditions Of Labor In Principal
dustries-Sanitation and Safety Of
Workers to Be Looked After.

IMITATION and Safety Of
Workers to Be Looked After.
The nine men named to compose the
United States commission on indus
trial relations. authorized by an act of
congress approved on Aug. %, 1912,
are:
Representing the people, Senator
George Sutherland of Utah; George B.
Chandler. a member Of the Connect
cut legislature; Charles Simon Barrett
of Georgia. president of the Farmers
union.
Representing capital, Frederick A.
Deano Of Chicago, formerly president
of the Wabash railroad; Adolph Levi
sohn OF New York, copper mine owner
and philanthroplst; F. c. Schwedtman
of Missouri, an electrical engineer
Representing labor, Austin B. Gar
retson Of Iowa, president of the Order
of Railway Conductors; John B. Len
non. treasurer of the American FEEDER
alton of Labor, and James O'Connell
of the District Of Columbia, vice pres
ident of the American Federation of
Labor.
1.-THE commission shall inquire into
the general condition Of labor in the
principal industries of the United
States, including agriculture, and espe-
cially in those which are carried on in
corporate forms; into existing relations
between employers and employees; into
the effect of industrial conditions on
public welfare and into the rights and
powers of the community to deal there
with; into the conditions Of sanitation
and safety Of employees and the pro-
visions for protecting the life, limb and
health OF the employees; into the
growth Of associations of employers
and Of wage earners and the effect Of
such associations upon the relations be-
tween employers and employees; into
the extent and results of methods Of
collective bargaining; into any methods
which have been tried in any state or
In foreign countries for maintaining
mutually satisfactory relations between
employees and employers; into methods
for avoiding or adjusting labor dis
putes through peaceful and conciliatory
mediation and negotiations; into the
scope, methods and resources of exist
ing bureaus of labor and into possible
ways Of increasing their usefulness;
into the question of smuggling or other
Illegal entry of Asiatics into the Unit
ed States or it's insular possessions and
of the methods by which such Asiatics
have gained and are gaining such ad-
mission"
The commission Is required to re
port to congress as speedily as possible,
with such recommendations as it may
think proper to prevent such smuggling
and illegal entry.
The commission may report to con-
gress from time to time and must make
final report, accompanied by testi
mony taken not later than Aug %
1915. The service Of the commission
will terminate with the fling of the
final report. At least one report is to
be made during each Of the first two
years of it's existence.
The act appropriated 100000 for the
use of the commission for the fiscal
year ending June 80, 1913. The com
missioners are to receive pay at the
rate of $40 a day.
In selecting these men the president
dealt fairly with organized labor and
placed it on an equal footing with 9TH
er institutions among men. Three of
the commissioners, who were named
as representatives of labor are well
known, prominent and highly capable
trade unionists, and their appointment
cannot but be highly gratifying to all
the union men of the country. The
union men nominated were Austin B.
Garretson, president Of the Order of
Railway Conductors; John B. Lennon,
treasurer Of the American Federation
of Labor, and James O'COnnell, third
vice president Of the American Fed
GRAFTON Of Labor.