Denver labor bulletin., 1917-01-27
FEDERAL INDUSTRIAL COMMISSION
TESTIMONY IN II PRINTED VOLUMES
Thousand Sets of All Evidence Submitted Walsh Cois
sion Probe Have Just Been Issued by the Government
Printing Office Contains All the Testimony Sub
mitted Concerning Colorado Coal Strike.

point against another interest and
viewpoint, and thus produce a vac
uum of understanding and mac
ton, was expressly discarded by
Chairman Walsh. While a chief sup
port was given to the chairman by
the labor members of the commission,
Mr.. Lennon, Mr.. O'Connell and Mr.
Garretson, there was a generally pre-
vailing and notable harmony among
all the commission as to the course
the inquiries should take and as to
the conduct of the hearings. For the
fundamental and searching thoroness
of the commissions hearings great
credit has been given by all the mem
bers of the commission to Basil NJ.
Manly, who worked to the front as
director of research and investigation
for the commission and who prepared
and directed the most important of
the hearings.
Colorado Coal Strike Feature.
In these eleven volumes of testi-
mony and exhibits are presented the
direct testimony of the chief or the
representative actors in all the indus
trial disputes and in all the Industrial
| life of the United States. The opin-
ions and viewpoints, consciously or
uflCONSElOuSlN
actors in the industrial drama and
presented and preserved as are the
| judgments and points of view of rep
resentative and commentators upon
and critics of, industrial relations.
The whole range of industrial prob
/ lens and facts, from the Colorado
coal strike to the tenant land situa-
ton in Texas, from the influence of
enormous foundation" TO the effect
[ of collective bargaining among work
ers, from the comfortable ignorance
of industrial problems enveloping
/ John Pierpont Morgan, Jr., to the
uncomfortable knowlede Of them
penetrating the young sweatshop
mother, Mary Minora-al is covered
l in these volumes recoriIug the in
| quiries and work of the commission.
l No brief or reasonably lengthy re
view Of this vital document could
cnumerate its disclosures even in
dictionary fashion.
] The hearings there recorded, and
made a living presentation Of Amer
/ lean industrial life, were held in the
I following cities: Washington. New
l York, Patterson, Philadelphia, Bos-
ton, Chicago, Lead IS. d. Butte,
Z Seattle, Portland, San Francisco, Los
/ Angeles, Denver and Dallas. OF wit
] nGsStS allAllaNtu with
there were 230; Of those af-
filiated with labor there were 245;
and the general public was repre-
sented by 255 witnesses.
Only 10000 Sets Printed.
In response to a tremendous de-
mand of libraries, pubiicists, writers
workers and labor organizations, ag.
ricultural groups and citizens Cener
ally and from the press in all parts
of the country, congress, without !
recorded dissenting vote, authorized
the printing and distribution of these
eleven volumes of testimony and ex-
hibits and also of the final report OF
the commission. But the resolution
for printing provided for only 10000
sets of the testimony, all allotted
among members of the house and
senate-each senator getting only 25
sets and each representative only 10
This supply does not at all NEE;
the demand. A great pressure is al.
ready bearing upon congress to get
out a new and larger edition both OF
the testimony and Of the final re,
port. These later editions, which
would be printed from the plates al
ready set up, would cost compar
atively insignificant sum.