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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
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IMPORTANT HEARINGS ON INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS
To Be Held This Spring and Summer by United States Commission, of Which Frank P. Walsh
Is Chairman—To Carry Out Instructions of Congress to Inquire Into Industrial Situation.
(Special to The Review.)
WASHINGTON, D. C, March 9.—Public hearings
in important industrial centers from New York
to San Francisco will be held during the spring and
early summer by the United States Commission on
Industrial Relations.
This announcement was made to-day by Frank
P. Walsh, chairman of the commission. The hear-
ings, said Mr. Walsh, will embrace in their scope
all the main divisions of the inquiry directed by
Congress.
Among the cities that probably will be visited are
New York, Philadelphia, Boston, Paterson, Scran-
ton, Pittsburgh, Buffalo, Wheeling, Charlotte,
Greenville, Atlanta, Birmingham, Nashville, Louis-
ville, New Orleans, Detroit, Indianapolis, Cleveland,
Chicago, Houghton, Milwaukee, Madison, St. Louis,
Kansas City, St. Paul, Denver, Trinidad, Dallas,
Houston or Galveston, Los Angeles, San Fran-
cisco, Seattle, Butte and Lead.
Through examination of witnesses competent to
speak for employers, trades unions, other labor
organizations, unorganized employes and the gen-
eral public, the commission hopes to obtain in-
formation concerning the industrial situation that
will lead to constructive recommendations.
Some of the subjects to be inquired into in each
city are irregularity of employment, possibilities of
ending irregularity and increasing production
through scientific management, the activities of
trades unions and employers' association, and the
extent and operation of Governmental machinery
for regulating the conditions of industry, including
the relations between employers and employes.
Successful methods of maintaining harmonious
relations beneficial to both employers and employes
TRADE NEWS FROM INDIANAPOLIS.
Lennox Piano Co. Instals Victor Department—
Wegman Player for Indiana Democratic
Club—Udell Works Pays Tribute to Old
Employe—Last Dividends Paid to Creditors
of Tipton Co. Bankrupt.
(Special to The Review.)
INDIANAPOLIS, IND., March 10.—The E. L. Len-
will be inquired into particularly, with a view to
their adoption in other centers where no such
methods have been tried.
Eminent authorities in subjects to be included
within the scope of the inquiry have joined the
staff of the commission and are now aiding in plan-
ning the hearings. Witnesses desired by the com-
mission will be summoned under the authority
granted it by Congress, and volunteer testimony will
be welcomed.
Announcing the plan for hearings, Chairman
Walsh said:
"The commission will carefully avoid acting as
a board of mediation and conciliation, and will not
allow itself to be drawn into local controversies
or recognize such controversies unless in doing so
it can obtain information that has more than local
and temporary significance.
"Every interest will be given a hearing. The
commission will strive to put aside all bias and
prejudice. It will urge others to do the same, in
the hope that the industrial problem may be
studied in the light of reason.
"The hearings are to be undertaken as one
means of carrying out the instructions of Con-
gress to inquire into the industrial situation
throughout the country, and to report our con-
clusions and reccommendations.
"The commission wishes in particular to invite
the help of every person who has a constructive
suggestion. Such suggestions will be especially
welcome when they are supplemented by testimony
as to the successful carrying out of the ideas they
embody."
According to present plans the first hearing will
be held in Washington, D. C, on April 6.
made by Mr. Akers, manager of the concern. Ac-
cording to Mr. Akers, several private settlements
have been made. The company is at Tipton, Ind.
A dispatch from Muncie, Ind., is to the effect
that the police of many cities are looking for Ira
D. McKinney, dean of the College of Music in
the Muncie Normal Institute and head of the Mun-
cie Conservatory of Music until it was merged
with the institute. There is a charge pending
against McKinney in the city court of Muncie.
When McKinney learned of it he left town imme-
diately.
nox Piano Co. is installing a Victor talking ma-
chine department in its store at 311 North Penn-
sylvania street. This is the seventh place in In-
dianapolis where Victor machines and records are
KILLED BY FALLING PIANO.
on sale.
A battle royal which extended over three weeks Casper Frederickson, Milwaukee Piano Mover,
ended when Mr. Lennox sold a Wegman player
Crushed Under Instrument and Skull Is
to the Indiana Democratic Club. The player is a
Fractured—Dies Instantly.
beautiful instrument of the Stickley fumed oak
(Special to The Review.)
finish. The committee appointed by the club visited
MILWAUKEE, WIS., March 10.—Casper Fred-
a number of the piano houses and finally reached
erickson, an official of the Peterson Piano Moving
the conclusion that the Wegman was the "best buy."
Through the windows of the Democratic Club one Co., one of the leading piano transfer concerns,
was killed instantly last week, while assisting in
may see the E. L. Lennox store. Perhaps that
moving
a piano into the residence of Andrew
had something to do with it, the adverse of "out
Harvancik. Frederickson, who was holding up
of sight, out of mind" probably being true.
Mr. Lennox has made a number of gratifying the rear end of the piano, suffered a fractured
sales recently in the Chickering, Wegman and Laf- skull, when the instrument toppled back on him.
He is survived by a widow and two small chil-
fargue lines. A deluge of traveling men came upon
Mr. Lennox last week. Among the callers were dren.
Chandler W. Smith, of the Henry F. Miller & Sons
DEATH OF CANADIAN TRAVELER.
Co.; R. O. Burgess, of the Wegman Co.; J. H.
Williams, of Chickering & Sons, and Ambassador
Nathaniel Barker, wholesale traveler for Wil-
Bowers, of the Laffargue Co.
lis & Co., Ltd., Toronto, Ont, and well known
The Udell Works, manufacturers of furnitUTe in the trade throughout the Dominion, died re-
specialties and music cabinets, paid signal honor cently at his home in that city. He was a Cana-
to a life of devoted !abor and loyalty to the firm dian by birth and in his fifty-third year. '
when it closed down the plant Monday afternoon,
FORCED TO SEEJCJSEW QUARTERS.
March 2, that all the .employes might attend the
funeral of Wesley Kinder, sixty-five years old, who
(Special to The Review.)
died suddenly. He had worked in one of the
MILWAUKEE, W I S . , March 10.—The Ross,
woodworking departments for more than thirty-two Schefft & Weinman Piano Co., handling the
years. He is survived by a widow and two chil- Knabe, Hazelton, Behning and Kurtzmann lines,
dren.
is seeking new quarters, as it has received formal
The last payments in dividends of the Tiptou
notice that it will have to vacate its present
Music Co., which went bankrupt about a year ago, building at 422 Broadway on May 1, when the
has been made by the receiver. The creditors re- Wisconsin Telephone Co., the owner, will tear
ceived about eleven per cent, of the indebtedness, down the structure and erect a big exchange build-
$3,000 being disbursed among 143 creditors. Prom- ing. The piano house has several locations in
ise to make full payment to the creditors has been mind.
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