Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-03-07
INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS =
COMMISSION IS ACTIVE
Plans Hearings in Important Com.
mercial Centers From New York
to San Francisco
Employers. Workers and General
Public to Be Quizzed for Con-
st1uctive Recommendations.

Public hearings in important industrial
centers from New York to San Francisco
will be held during the spring and early
summer by the United States commission
on industrial relations
This announcement was made today by
Frank p. Walsh. chairman OF the COM
mission The hearings. said Mr.. Walsh,
will embrace in their scope all the main
divisions of the inquiry directed by Con-
gress.
Among the cities that probably will hs
visited New York. Philadelphia, Bos-
ton, Paterson, scranton Pittsburgh Buff
falo. Wheeling. Charlotte Greenvine.. At
lanta. Birmingham. Nashville, louisville,
New Orleans. Detroit indianapolis. Clcve-
land, Chicago, Houghton, Milwaukee,.
Madison. ST Louis. Kansas City, St.
Paul. Denver. Trinidad Dallas. Houston
or Galveston. Los Angeles San Francisco.
Seattle. Butte and Lead
Constructive Ideas Wanted.
Through examination Of witnesses com.
petent to speak for employers. trades
unions. other labor organizations unor-
gained employees and the general public.
the commission hopes 10 obtain informa-
ton concerning the industrial situation
that will lead TO constructive recon-
mendations.
Some of the subjects to be inquired into
In each city are irregularity of employ
ment; possibilities of ending irregularity
and increasing production through scien-
tific management: the activities of trades
unions and employers associations and
the extent and operation of governmental
machinery for regulating the conditions
tween employers and employees
Successful methods of maintaining hsr-
monious relations beneficial to both en-
Dloyers and employees will be inquired into
particularly. with view to their adop-
ton in other centers where no such
methods have been tried.
Volunteer Testimony Welcome.
Witnesses desired by the commission
will be summoned under the authority
granted it by Congress. and volunteer tes-
timony will be welcomed.
Announcing the plan for hearings.
Chairman Walsh said:
1.-The commission will carefully avoid
acting as a board of mediation and con-
Citation and will not allow itself to be
drawn into local controversies or recoE-
nize such controversies unless in doing so
it can obtain information that has more
than local and temporary significance.
Every interest will be given hearing.
The commission will strive to put aside
all bias and prejudice. 1t will urge others
to do the same. in the hope that the in
dustrial problem may be studied in the
light of reason. The open mind will be
our watchword, and We shall endeavor
to provide forum where men represent
ing all factions can meet in the common
purpose Of finding way out from Bit
terness and strife. To accomplish this
We shall need the cooperation and help
of all concerned. We shall ask those who
meet with us at the hearings to come.
not as employers or employees, but as men
belonging to the same human family.
Hearings Begin This Month.
1.-THE hearing are to be undertaken as
one means OF carrying out the instruc-
lions Of Congress to inquire into the IN
dustrial situation and to report our con-
illusions and recommendations.
THE commission wishes in particular
to invite the help of every person who
has a constructive suggestion. Such eug
gestions will be especially welcome when
they are supplemented by testimony as
to the successful carrying out OF the
ideas they embody.
According to present plans the hearings
will begin the latter part Of March.
To direct its investigation into trades
unionism and collective bargaining, the
commission has obtained the services OF
Prof. George E. Barnett of Johns Hopkins
University.
Prof. Barnett will aid the commission
in planning and conducting public hear
ings dealing with problems Of organiza-
ton among employers and among EN-
ployes, and during the summer vacation
will devote all his time to the commits