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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. His testimony is at: www.archive.org/stream/industrialrelati08unitrich#page/79... He was the president of Harvard for 40 years, retiring in 1909. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_William_Eliot

Testifying to Congress about the Ludlow Massacre. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludlow_Massacre As another prominent capitalist of the era explained, "You can't mine coal without machine guns".

This is not Congress, but the Commission on Industrial Relations, which during these critical years of labor turmoil and political unrest, went around the country taking testimony of leading figures in American industry, labor, academia, etc. on these issues and possible ways to address them. Congress established the commission, with the mandate to report back, but the commissioners were private citizens. See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commission_on_Industrial_Relations. This is one of a group of pictures in the Bain Collection of witnesses at hearings the commission held in New York's City Hall in January, 1915. See www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/tags/walshcommi...

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...

Banker and Corporate Director (and many other things), en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_Schiff More on the Walsh Commission, then taking testimony in New York: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commission_on_Industrial_Relations

Thanks to both of you for providing some good sources. We'll fill in the name and date the next time we update the record.