The citizen., 1914-10-09
PLANS PROBE OF
LABOR PROBLEMS
The Rockefeller Foundation
Starts Investigation.
TO MAKE SCIENTIFIC STUDY
Deliberately Attempting To Grapple
With the Most Complicated Cues
zion OF Modern Times."-Csn-
adian In Charge.

New York.-"For the well being OF
mankind throughout the world, as
they characterized it. the trustees OF
the Rockefeller Foundation announced
Inauguration Of an Investigation INTO
the problem OF industrial relations and
the appointment OF Hon. ". l. Mac
kenzie King. former minister OF LABOR
for Canada as its director.
In method the investigation is 10
be carried on after the manner OF the
Institute for Medical Research Inc
root of the social disorder, which the
foundation Acknowledges exists today
is. it is stated. 10 be probed TO the bot
tom. Systematically and scientifically.
1t will be sought 10 disclose the cause
of the bitter enmities and destructive
tendencies" between capital and laooi
and to find means OF promoting har'
monious. united action between the
two great bodies"
In announcing the investigation the
foundation says:
IN facing the problem the Rocke-
feller Foundation is deliberately at
tempting to grapple with what it be
lieyes to be the most complicated and
at the same time most urgent ques'
ton of modern times, and il is for
this reason that the investigation has
been started. The foundation is not
bafied by the knowledge that the task
has seemed hitherto well-night hope
less and that the literature on the SUB
ject is so vast as TO be overwhelming.
There may be reasons for patient ap-
proach of the subject, but no reason
for inaction. 1t is hoped that an in
vestigation started on the scale OF
which the foundation is capable, and
impartially pursued. will gradually win
for itself the cooperation not alone OF
employers and workingmen OF in
dustrial organizations, of individuals
and institutions interested in social
reform, but also Of universities and
governments throughout the world
In no sense viii the investigation
be local or restricted or carried on
with particular reference TO any ex-
listing situation. or, for that matter,
with reference to conditions in any
one country. The experience of the
several countries Of the world will be
drawn upon. In the words of the char
ter of the foundation, it is intended
for the we'll being of mankind through.
out the world and the means taken to
further this end, both as regards the
subjects to be investigated and the
methods of inquiry. will be in keeping
with the purpose expressed.
"In going into another country and
selecting as the person to have direc-
tion of this most important work. one
whose public services have gained for
him an outstanding position as lead
ing authority on industrial problems,
the trustees have shown their desire,
not only to free the foundation from
any suspicion of interest or prejudice
in the investigation of the most con-
troversial of all problems. but also
their readiness to enlist the services
of the best men available no matter
where they are to be found. It is no
small guarantee of the spirit in which
the work of this investigation is to
be carried on that Mr.. Mackenzie
King. after years of public service in
handling labor problems has. by his
known impartiality and disinterested
purpose. retained the good will, con-
fidence and respect of employers and
representatives of labor alike"