The salaries of the commissioners are $8.600 each. while the Commision has been given an annual appropriation of $75.fl0 for expenses. the whole of this sum. however. not having been expended in any year. The act creatng the Industrial Commission gave it farreaching and important duties. It was directed to "investi ate questions pertainng to immigration. to labor. to agriculture t manufactur~ing. to business. and to reportt Congress and to suggest such legislation as it may deem best upon these subjects." No other Commission appointed by this or any other Government has ever been given authority to make such comprehensive investigation of industrial conditions. The Commission believes that it has with marked success. carried out the instructions of the iaw and that its reports will prove the most valabe sorehouse of information or the legislator. the student. and the citizen that has ever been prepared in any country. The Commission has endeavored. in an impartial way. to secure the fullest and most correct iormation rgarding all industral conditions and problems and to secure. likewise. the free expression of opinion ofthe citizens regarding these conditions and problems. The wide scope of the Commissions work may be judged from the fact that its investigations. aside from its tual report of conclusions and recommendations. include no less than 18 octavo volumes. containing nearly 16.000 prages of closely set type. They include 4 volumes relating to trusts and inlstrial combinations (one of these covering existing legislation regarding trusts and another industrial combinations i Europe). 2 volumes on transpCortatmion. 2 on manufactures and general business. 2 on agriculture and agricultural labor besides a valuable report on the distribution of farm products constituting another volume. i volume on mining and mine labor. 1 on immigration (including a part on the subject of education). and 5 on different branches of the labor problem. The greatest bulk of the Commissions reports consists of the oral testimony of witnesses. In all. 678 witnesses haveben heard before the Commission.
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