Transcript of proceedings of the President's Mediation Commission
Excerpt from page 532 of Transcript of Proceedings of the President's Mediation Commission, 1917.
Collection area: Arizona and Southwest
Collection dates: circa 1918
Transcript of proceedings of the Commission in connection with the investigation of industrial conditions at Clifton, Ariz. Contains index to witnesses.
The President's Mediation Commission was appointed by President Woodrow Wilson in 1917 and represented a partial federal response to two aspects of wartime labor policy: 1) the spreading wave of strikes which interfered with the production of goods deemed vital to the war effort, and 2) the growth of labor radicalism associated with the IWW which precipated widespread state and local repression of labor's rights and vigilantism.
The comission investigated copper mining in Arizona and Montana, foresting in the Pacific Northwest, telephone operators in San Francisco, California, and packinghouses in Chicago, Illnois. Findings were published as
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