You ought to be out raising hell. This is the fighting age. Put on your fighting clothes.
-Mother Jones
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Friday June 11, 1915
Chicago, Illinois - The Commission on Industrial Relations Has Completed Its Work
From the Chicago Day Book of June 4th:
Frank P. Walsh, chairman commission on industrial relations, in Chicago. Says commission is through work. Fixing up report.
[Photograph added.]
From The Topeka Daily Capital of June 4, 1915:
PREPARING THE REPORT OF THE INDUSTRIAL COMMISSION.
Original Members of the Commission on Industrial Relations
James O'Connell, Frederick Delano, John R Commons, A B Garretson, Mrs. J. Borden Harriman,
S. Thurston Ballard, Frank P Walsh, Harris Weinstock, John B Lennon
The Industrial Relations Commission is preparing its report, after many months of inquiry into industrial relations, notably in the Colorado case, though the Commission has investigated conditions generally and Colorado will by no means make up its entire report. What Chairman Walsh's conclusions will be the public already knows. He believes that capitalists of the Rockefeller class are enemies of the human race, and that when labor fights such overlords by every method of the strike it makes "the same old fight for liberty and democracy against an enemy as powerful and menacing as any ever faced by our Revolutionary forefathers".
But what remedied Mr. Walsh has to offer, if any, does not yet appear. Whether the other members of this commission, or a majority, agree with Mr. Walsh is an interesting question that their report will answer, for there has been strong pressure upon the commission to break away from the chairman, who has been bitterly and widely criticised for his antagonistic attitude towards the Rockefellers and for making up his mind, so far as they and their sort of capitalists are concerned, before the evidence was in. The other members of the commission have given no inkling of their sympathies.
Mr. Walsh's attitude and his vigorous prosecution of the investigation have advertised this commission as no other special commission was ever before brought to public attention, and its report, it is safe to say, will be more closely read and will be regarded more as a matter of news by the news associations when it appears than has been the case heretofore with industrial commissions, of which there have been several in this country.
Six Members of Commission on Industrial Relations at Shoreham Hotel, May 1915
John B Lennon, Frank P Walsh, James O' Connell, Harris Weinstock, R H Aishton, A B Garretson
Note: missing from photograph are S. Thurston Ballard, Mrs. J Bordon Harriman, John R Commons.
Mr. Aishton, fifth from left, replaced Mr. Delano this past January.
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[Photographs added.]
From The Day Book of June 8, 1915:
WOULDN'T JOHN D., JR., LIKE TO KNOW
HOW HE'LL VOTE
Prof. John R. Commons of the United States commission on industrial relations may cast the deciding vote that will place the responsibility for the Colorado strike either on the Colorado Fuel & Iron Co.-the Rockefeller interests-or upon the miners.
There are nine members of the commission and it is said that their report on the strike hangs on the Wisconsin university professor.
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SOURCES
The Day Book
(Chicago, Illinois)
-June 4, 1915
http://www.newspapers.com/...
-June 8, 1915
(Also source for image of John R Commons)
http://www.newspapers.com/...
The Topeka Daily Capital
(Topeka, Kansas)
-June 4, 1915
http://www.newspapers.com/...
IMAGES
Frank P. Walsh from Harpers Weekly
of Sept 27, 1913,
http://books.google.com/...
Commission on Industrial Relations, 1913
http://www.loc.gov/...
Six Members (3 not shown)
of the Commission on Industrial Relations, 1915
http://www.loc.gov/...
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MORE ON THE MAKE UP OF THE
COMMISSION ON INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS
The
Commission on Industrial Relations was made up of nine members who were appointed in 1913 by President Wilson. Three members were appointed to represent the public, three to represent labor, and three to represent the employers.
From the Everett (Washington) Labor Journal of February 16, 1917:
VALUABLE VOLUMES OF TESTIMONY
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(By Dante Barton)
There has just been issued from the Government Printing Office in Washington the completed volumes of the Testimony submitted to congress by the United [States?] Commission on Industrial Relations of which Frank P. Walsh was chairman.
One of the first of the important industrial acts of the Wilson administration was the appointment by President Wilson of this Industrial Relations Commission with the following membership selected by him. Frank P. Walsh of Missouri, Chairman; John R. Commons of Wisconsin and Mrs. J. Borden Harriman of New York, representing the general public; John B. Lennon of Illinois, James O' Connell of Washington, D. C. and Austin B. Garretson of Iowa, representing organized labor; and Frederick A. Delano of Illinois; Harris Weinstock of California and S. Thurston Ballard of Kentucky, representing employers. Upon the resignation of Mr. Delano, to accept a place on the Federal Reserve board, the President named Richard H. Aishton, of Illinois, who finished out the term....
[Emphasis added.]
From The Washington Post of January 7, 1915:
JOB FOR R. H. AISHTON
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Railroad Man Nominated to Fill Delano's Place
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Richard H. Aishton, a Chicago railroad official, was nominated yesterday by President Wilson to succeed Frederic A. Delano, as a member of the industrial relations commission. Mr. Delano was appointed to the Federal reserve board.
SOURCES
Washington » Everett » The Labor Journal
-Feb 16, 1917
http://www.newspapers.com/...
District of Columbia » Washington » The Washington Post
-Jan 7, 1915
http://www.newspapers.com/...
IMAGE
Commission on Industrial Relations,
from the International Socialist Review of June 1915
https://books.google.com/...
See also:
Industrial relations: final report and testimony
United States. Commission on Industrial Relations
-ed by Francis Patrick Walsh, Basil Maxwell Manly
D.C. Gov. Print. Office, 1916
Volume 1: 1-1024
https://books.google.com/...
Volume 2: 1025-2050
https://books.google.com/...
Volume 3: 2051-3032
https://books.google.com/...
Volume 4: 3033-4096
https://books.google.com/...
Volume 5: 4097-5086
https://books.google.com/...
Volume 6: 5087-6000
https://books.google.com/...
Volume 7: 6001-6998
https://books.google.com/...
Volume 8: 6999-8014
https://books.google.com/...
Volume 9: 8015-9056
https://books.google.com/...
Volume 10: 9057-10,066
https://books.google.com/...
Volume 11: 10,067-11,260
11,225-Idex of Subjects
11,227-Index of Witnesses
https://books.google.com/...
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The Workers Song - Dropkick Murphys
We're the first ones to starve
The first ones to die
The first ones in line
For that pie-in-the-sky
And always the last
When the cream is shared out
For the worker is working
When the fat cat's about
-Ed Pickford
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