INDUSTRIAL COMMISSION. A non-par tisan commission, created by at of Congress, June IS, 1898. to investigate industrial eomli tints, and to suggest Federal and State legisla tion for the bettor regulation and adjustment of conflicting industrial interests. The commission (-insisted of 19 members, of whom 5 were Sena tors, appointed by the president of the Senate, 5 Pepresentativess appointed by the Speaker of the House, and 9 especially qualified persons, ap pointed by the President with the consent of the Senate. The specific duties of the eommission were, first, to investigate questions of immigra tion, labor. agriculture. manufacturing, and busi ness, and, second, to suggest, on the basis of the facts ascertained, proper Congressional legisla tion and also uniform 1-State legislatMn, equitable at once to employer and employee, producer and consumer. The life of the commission was lim ited to but this time was subsequently extended to 141 ember 15, 1901, and to February 15, 190•, suceessilely. The work of the commis sion. owing to the inevitable preoccupation of its members, in their OM/II and in public affairs, was largely carried on by the Presidentbil appointees, and by specially engaged experts. Of the latter may be nwntioned: on strikes and arbitration, E. Dana Durand; on labor legislation, Frederic J. Stinson; on trusts and industrml combinations, ;Jeremiah W. Jenks; on transportation, William Z. U.ipley; on agri culture. ;Ian F. Crowell; on immigration, .101111 K. Commons; on taxation, flax West; on labor organizations, Charles E. Edgerton. The fact that no equally competent body of men, empow ered to call for witnesses and documentary papers, had ever before examined American in dustrial methods and organizations, together with the fact that. the period of prosperity bile
M`ding IS97 brought industrial phenomena into acuminated relief and activity, resulted in the commission's bringing together a great body of new correlated and substantiated evidence con cerning pra-tically every phase of industrial life. Testimony was taken from nearly 700 witnesses, ineluding heads of trusts, railroads, and mercan tile establishments, public officials and leaders of trade unions, and in addition the commis sion colleeted much valuable hut hitherto scat tered information from official, national, and State doeuments, from judicial decisions, and from the researches of experts. The Report of the Industrinl Commission, completed February 19, 1902• and issued as a Government publica tion• consists of 19 volumes, as follows: Trusts and Industrial Combinations (2 vols.) ; Trust and Corporation Laws; Prison Labor, Transportation (two vols.) : labor Legislation: Distribution of Farm Capital and Labor in Manufac tures and General Business (t wo vols.1 ; Chicago Labor Disputes; Agriculture and Agricultural Labor: Agriculture and Taxation; Capital and Labor in the Mining Industries; InimMTation and Education; Foreign Labor Legislation: La heir Organizations; Labor Disputes and Arbitra tion; 'Railway Labor; Industrial Combinations in Europe; Final 1heport—MiscellalleOlIS.