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Show WILL INVESTIGATE CHARITY TRUST' FEDERAL INDUSTRIAL RELA TIONS COMMISSION READY TO EXAMINE WITNESSES Noted Men Have Been Summoned the Purpose Being to Find Out How the Public is Affected By Philanthropy. New York. Whether resources o approximately a quarter of a billloi dollars controlled by four great philan throphic institutions should be em ployed without government regula tion in the promotion of enterprise! affecting public welfare, especially that of wage earners, is one of th( questions which the federal industxia relations commission will -bring to tht front here during its forthcomini Hearings. Investigations have for th last two weeks been preparing date upon which to base the examinaitlor of witnesses. The four institutions are the Rocke feller, Sage, Cleveland (Ohio) and Baron de Hirsch foundations, the lat ter represented in this country bj Jacob H. Schiff. Their chief officers have been summoned to testify anc will be asked, it was said Sunday a' the commission headquarters, to tel what .policies govern the distributor of their charities, their attitude to ward labor problems, the nature o: their schemes for social betterment; in sum, to disclose in detail the char acter of all their activities. . Nearly fifty witnesses have beer summoned, most of them persons o national prominence. In view of the fact that the im mense resources of these institution; were chiefly derived from the profits of industrial enterprises and that thej were now employing them in manj ways affecting the conditions of wage earners, it was the desire of tne com mission, it was explained, to deter mine whether their policies were it every respect consistent with the pub lie welfare. It was pointed out thai the institutions were under no lega obligation to make their operations public and that it was a pertinent question to determine whether suet immense resources were potentials dangerous, when not subject to gov ernmental supervision. |