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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...

Labor leader Samuel Gompers. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Gompers

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This is at City Hall during hearings of the Walsh Commission on Industrial Relations.

One of at least 20 pictures from the January, 1915 hearings of The Commission on Industrial Relations (Walsh Commission) www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/tags/walshcommi...

Had I been there, I would have been waiting breathlessly for him to wiggle in that chair a little and made that back leg fall off the stand.

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...