The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-01-18
GOVERNMENT x PERvlSE GREAT
 PHI. AN I HR0PlE lES?
Eearinqs to Be Held Soon Be- fore. Committee on Federal Industrial Relations.

rises affecffnx public welfare, es- lec1a1ly that of wage sarneTs, is one # the questions which the Federal hdustrtal Relatipns CuEn1aAzsi0n will sortancornang heazsngss TrWesta gRkors ave for the last two wreeAssbeen pre- sar1ng data upon which to base the Haznina11on Of witnesses.
 The fos1r institutions are the Rocke- sller Sage Cleveland, SOhao9 and saron de HiEsesh foundations. the lat CT represented in this country by Ja.- .ob H Ssch7m Their chief officers lave been ss1nrr1oned to testify and Efll be asked. 1t was said today at he commission headquarters, to tell 1hat policies govern the distribution f their chazaties their attitude to- Eard labor problems. the nature of heir schemes for social bette rnlent, n sum, to disclose in detail the char pcter ef an their activities
 Tn view of the fact that the inn nense resources of these institutions were chiefly derived from the pro- Its of 1ndustrda1 enter prises and that hey were now employing them in many ways affectdng the conditions of Fage earn@r8, it was the desire Of the commission. 1t was explained, to de- e11n4ne whether their policies were in very respect ecnHistent with the plrt,- ic welfare It was pointed out that he. fnst1tsEffons were under. no legal obligation to make their operations subsic and that it was a pertinent luestfon to determine whether such immense resources were potentially9 dangerous when not ubJect to gov- rnrnental supervision
 Tn raising this question no inn plica- ion zEas intended. it was explai ned. It Nas simply the purpose of the eorn-a nsssiom to call attention without pre- R1dice to the power which. these in ttitutions were in position to exer-5 .ise ghtfu7iy or wron gfully, especial-l S n shaping public opinion. Whetn71 IT, after the facts have been brought Suts such nstitutions shall and can be- segu1ated will be left to s5engress af-s aer the Commission has report a. It vas pointed out that gland. the .fo-calIed s.chartty trusts' are requir- Id by law to make pu bIic reports. ss a
 The Commission also plans to call he dzrectors and chief stockholders ain discussion of their relations Nixh employees. also members of the Nattona1 City Federation, and the New Fork Charity Organ1zatfon Society.
 ssIt Is the purpose of the Commis- sions ays a statenaent by Frank F. walsh. chairman of the Eommissdons to bring before 1t in New York the men whose names are most closely sassociated with our great basic indus tries and through this means to @oh- tafn a, full. frank discuaston of the rel la-t5en that exists between the central zatIon Of wealth and power in their hands and a feeling of unrest among wage earners.
 Whether rfghtfully or wrong9uI1y, k very large number of wage earners complain that their interests are pre- {sldfeed by the fact that the indus owned and controlled by men who live at 6 distance and who have no per- s0f1a1 sknoW1edge of the conditions 1n- Ter which the ernpIoyes work and i've. This is one of the charges most ErequerltIy made by WI iters and speak ITS engaged in enFisting recruits. for he most radical political and econo1n- cal movements and the Commission seeIs that it's work will not be com plete until 1t has given full consider ation to the subject
 Large employers and stock holders industrda1 corporations are more ana more turning their attention to- organized efforts toward social better. nenE The Comrnission will seek to Ind out whether or not these efforts Ire undertaken because their authors lee1 a resp fballty for the con ta ons which creaee the need of such effort,s md # so w1sether or not the various pc1aennes of welfare work and phiIan- thxopy can be considered adequate lo meet the needs
 The 41n11SsIon a9Eau1ess of sourzes that every good citizen desires to aid in any sincere effort to get at he underlying causes of industrial un- rest, and in this as in it's other in a6zz1es 1t is approachfng it's task with an open mind and a desire only to get at the facts. Each witness Riu be urged to make a complete Etakement Of his views The Com natasEua1sa comcIushons win be stated only in it's report to Congress and un- il that Is subnnitted it's attitude will se open minded and free from preJu- Eice.s
 Nearly hfty witnesses have been umnonedi most Of them persons of aatdonal prornlnence
 They include: John D. Rockefeller, IT,, J. Morgan. acob IF sschiff, Charles Stelle, George ". Perkins, GeorEe E Baker. Andrew carnegie. Daxae1 Gaggenheim, E. J Berwir1, Adolph Lewisohn, August Belmont, A Barton Hepburn and Samuel McRob- BFtas New York fnancfers; Julius Rosenwa1d. Chicago merchant; Henry C. Ford, Detroit, automobile ma1lu- -eacturers Samuel Go1npers president 5f fhe American Federation of Labor Ind J9zan Mitchell, vice president; Jane Adams Of Chicago. social vel sare work ers Seth Low, president of khe Natd onaI Civic Federation; Samuel Untermsyer, Robert W. de Forest New Ofk. ana L0I11f ATGnde1Ss BOS- lon, attorneys who have been prornen- huksv connected with the activities of soFporatfons; John Hays Hammond, New York. engineer; Charles W. Eliot president emeritus of Harvard Uni Texs1ty R. Fulton Cutting and Amos Psnchots identified with pflilazlthropic work in New York; Professor Jacob E. HoNander of Johns Hopkins Uni- versfty, and Professor Franklin H. Gfddings ana George ". Kirchwey of Columbia University: Morris Hillurit Socialist and labor pub1icist: John M Glenn of the Russel Sage Foundation; Frederick H. Golf, of the Cleveland Foundation; Jerome D. Greene. of the Rockefeller Foundation; Paul U- KeI- -Iosg eai6oa of the zSurveYs Charles B