Charities (1904)

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Charities (1904)

His books show an intimate knowledge both of conditions and of people in the anthracite coal fields of Pennsylvania, where the Slavs are a large part of the labor force, and he was one of the most important witnesses in behalf of the miners before the Strike Commission of 1902. Mr. Roberts is a graduate of Yale Theological Seminary, is in charge of a Congressional church in the heart of the Pennsylvania coal country, and is a member of the Industrial Committee of the National Council of Congregational Churches.
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Charities (1904)

Warne is editor of The Railway World, and research fellow in economics in the University of Pennsylvania.
Walter E. Weyl (Ph. D., Pennsylvania) , has done graduate work in economics in Halle, Berlin, and Paris. He has conducted investigations in Europe and in Mexico for the United States Department of Labor, the results of which are embodied in department bulletins. During the coal strike he acted as John Mitchell's economic advisor. Mr. Weyl is now a resident at the University Settlement, New York city.
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Charities (1904)

Miss McDowell is a member of the faculty of the department of sociology of Chicago University, and is a leader in the Woman's Trade Union League movement. She organized the first women's labor union of the packing trades, and was a recognized influence for peace and order in the strike in Packingtown last Summer.
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