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Another of the witnesses called before the Commission on Industrial Relations (Walsh Commission) for their January, 1915 hearings at New York's City Hall. Lawson was a member of the international executive committee of the United Mine Workers Union. He was a leader of the labor actions in Ludlow, Colorado at the time of the Ludlow Massacre. As he expected to be charged with crimes for his activies at Ludlow, he declined to testify in detail, but submitted a statement to the Commission. His testimony is at www.archive.org/stream/industrialrelati08unitrich#page/71... Later in 1915, he was convicted of a murder ocurring during the labor unrest, but his conviction was overturned 2 years later. Biographical sketch at: eadsrv.denverlibrary.org/sdx/pl/doc-tdm.xsp?id=WH215_d0e3...

Less than 100 years ago (and less than 60 miles from my house), Ludlow is a bit of our history that should be taught. Anybody traveling I-25 north of Trinidad, Colorado can visit the memorial, which is only 2 minutes or so west of the interstate. I'd recommend reading the guestbook, which has never failed to move and surprise me. I'd never seen an image of John Lawson; thanks for sharing. -- Found in a search. (?)

Artlog: Thanks for the information about John Lawson and his role as witness before the Commission on Industrial Relations. We will add more information to the image description.

A cropped version of this photo was printed in The Sunday Oregonian. (Portland, Ore.) 1881-current, February 14, 1915, SECTION FIVE, Image 65 oregonnews.uoregon.edu/lccn/sn83045782/1915-02-14/ed-1/se...

B-59: Thanks for linking this to the published photo. We'll make a note of this in our next update to the description.

Here is the Wikipedia entry for August Belmont, Jr., seen here.

On Jan 20, 1915, he was due to give testimony at the Federal Commission on Industrial Relations at "the City Hall" according to the NYT of Jan 20, 1915. query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9E02E4DF1E3FE633A...

Another of the witnesses called before the Commission on Industrial Relations (Walsh Commission) for their January, 1915 hearings at New York's City Hall. This is John Hays Hammond, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Hays_Hammond , "mining engineer, diplomat, and philanthropist." He testified on January 29th. Testimony at: www.archive.org/stream/industrialrelati08unitrich#page/79...

artolog: Thanks for the information on Mr. Hammond. We will add to this record as well.