. The National Civic Federation review . the Employers Asso-ciation of Louisville, Kentucky, and Frederick , of Chicago, receiver and former president ofthe Wabash Railroad, are the employer members ofthe commission. Mr. Weinstock was appointed byGovernor Gillette , of California, to investigate laborand industrial conditions in Australia and Europe,with special reference to arbitration experience, andwas also appointed by Governor Johnson to investi-gate the I. W. W. free speech riots in San Weinstock is a member of the Executive Com-mittee of The National Civic Federation,
. The National Civic Federation review . the Employers Asso-ciation of Louisville, Kentucky, and Frederick , of Chicago, receiver and former president ofthe Wabash Railroad, are the employer members ofthe commission. Mr. Weinstock was appointed byGovernor Gillette , of California, to investigate laborand industrial conditions in Australia and Europe,with special reference to arbitration experience, andwas also appointed by Governor Johnson to investi-gate the I. W. W. free speech riots in San Weinstock is a member of the Executive Com-mittee of The National Civic Federation, and knowsthe practical side of social and civic issues fromlong service as a volunteer in many good causes. is a large employer of labor in the millingbusiness, and is a member of the Welfare Departmentof the National Civic Federation. The three labor members, Mr. James OConnell,head of the Metal Trades Department of the Ameri-can Federation of Labor; Mr. John B. Lennon, treas-urer of the American Federation of Labor, and JAMES OCONNELL. A. B. GAKRETSON. JOHN B. LENNON THE FEDERAL COMMISSION ON INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS Austin B. Garretson, president of the Order of Rail-way Conductors (as well as Mr. Delano, of the em-ployers), were among the nominees originally sentto the Senate by President Taft. Their reappoint-ment by President Wilson gives a genuinely repre-sentative balance to the commission, whose duties,it will be remembered, are mapped out in the lawestablishing it, as follows: The commission shall inquire into the gen-eral condition of labor in the principal industriesof the United States, including agriculture, andespecially in those which are carried on in cor-porate forms; into existing relations between em-ployers and employes, into the effect of indus-trial conditions on public welfare and into therights and powers of the community to dealtherewith; into the conditions of sanitation andsafety of employes and the provisions for pro-tecting the life, li
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