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Show TAKES HIDE FROM WALSH OF INDUSTRIAL INDUS-TRIAL RELATIONS COMMITTEE. Frank P. Wnlsh, the Kansas City lawyer whom President Wilson appointed chairman of the industrial in-dustrial relations commission is perhaps the most abused man in the country today, which he has brought on himself by his contemptible act in his official capacity. Here is what the New York World, n Wilson organ, says of Walsh: "As it turns out, the socallcd report of the fed-nral fed-nral industrial relations commission on the re-cont re-cont IJnyonnc (N. J.) strike was not what it was mndo to nppear by Chnirmnn Frank P. Wnlsh The commission never considered the report or authorized its publication. At the instance of R HodnlUt newspaper, Walsh had two men invpti-gnto invpti-gnto the Bayonnc strike, and then, without mn-Miltlng mn-Miltlng thp other members of the industrial relations re-lations commission, made public tliu report as though coming from the commission. In this m on so many othor occasions, Walsh had no scm-plos scm-plos about missing his official position. In the light of Chnirman Walsh's previous performances, perform-ances, this piece of trickery is not surprising. The man has shown himself at every opportunity to be nn unscrupulous demagogue nnd blnthcr-skito. blnthcr-skito. His associates havo repeatedly found it necessary to protest ngainst his conduct and disavow dis-avow his methods. In the oyes of the public he hns disgraced both himself and them. But for the accident of his holding the title of chnirman of the importnnt federal commission, WnNh would have passed unnoticed, like any other loose tongued street agitator. In every way he was unfitted for the duties, and his presence on the commission and his bearing in public have !cen disastrous to its work. Fully five hundred thousand thou-sand dollars has been thrown away with no particular par-ticular purpose except that Walsh might indulge his hnnkorlng for notoriety and ndvortisc himself as a mountebank." |
