Ogden Daily Standard | 1914-11-17 | Page 3 | Land Problems to be Solved

LAND PROBLEMS TO M SOLVED United States Commission on Industrial Relations to Take Up Question in December. Madison. Wis., Nov. 17. Consideration Considera-tion of the American land question, particularly those aspects of the problem which affect labor and capital cap-ital is to be taken up by the United States commission on industrial relations re-lations in a public hearing at Dallar Texas, in December after the conclusion conclu-sion of the Denver hearing at which the causes of the Colorado mine strme are to be discussed. One of the land problems, according accord-ing to Charles W. Holman, special agent of the commission is the present pres-ent tendency toward concentration in ownership of farm land and the Increase In-crease of tenantry "The southwest " said Mr. Holman today, "is the scene of a class struggle strug-gle among the rural population that is yearly growing more acute. Within the last year restriction of landlords rents has been a feature of a pollti cal campaign. Absentee landlordism has developed to significant propor tions with many attendant eils of a distinct industrial nature." The main subjects to be treated by the commission at the Dallas hearing, hear-ing, said Mr. Holman will be the national na-tional tendency toward concentration in ownership of lands, the rapid increase in-crease in tenant funning the movement move-ment to raise the rents, the development develop-ment of class feeling among the 1 white tenants and the interracial competition growing up among the Mexican, negro, European immigrants and the native white tenants In the southwest. Efforts will be made to get the point of view of each class