1900's Business and the Economy | Conditions in Chicago Stock Yards: Message from the President of the United States

Message

By: James Bronson Reynolds and Charles P. Neill

Date: June 4, 1906

Source: Reynolds, James Bronson, and Charles P. Neill. Conditions in Chicago Stock Yards: Message from the President of the United States, 59th Congress, 1st sess., June 4, 1906, document no. 873, 3–8.

About the Author: Charles Patrick Neill (1865–1942) received a Ph.D. in economics from Johns Hopkins University. He taught at the Catholic University of America before being appointed by President Theodore Roosevelt (served 1901–1909) to serve as assistant recorder at federal hearings into the anthracite coal strike in 1902. He was appointed Commissioner of Labor in 1905, but he resigned in 1913 to pursue a career in business. He served as a referee in labor-management disputes in the coal and railroad industries throughout his professional career. James B. Reynolds (1861–1924) was a social...