It is not necessary to prolong a statement of this kind. Industrial commissions are not new in this country. We had an industrial commission created by the act of 189S. 14 years ago. that went over this country taking testimony. sending for persons. books. and papers. to find out the conditions that prevailed in regard to labor. agriculture. and immigration. We had as a result of their work 19 very profuse volumes of statistics. which no one. including the laboring men of this coun-" try. has ever read. We have had a commission on immigration and have spent a great deal of the money of the people endeavoring to find out whether we can improve the lmnmigration conditions that prevail in the United States. Nearly a million of dollars was spent by that commission. with the result that we are now receiving volumes of testimony. statistics. and figures. upward of 40 in number. which. perhaps. will never be read by any individual in the United States save the proof reader. The question is whether labor is benefited by investigations and inquiries of this kind.
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