{"value"=>"<p> The alphabetically arranged correspondence is chiefly of Easley and Jeremiah Jenks with members of the progress survey special committees and the Advisory Committee, and participants in the survey, in which they discuss plans for an anti-socialist campaign, the reorganization of the department to carry out the progress survey, and the survey's range and goals, design, and importance to the anti-socialist campaign. Among the correspondents are members of the Abbott family (publishers of <span class=\"title\">The Outlook</span>), Jane Addams, Vincent Astor, Andrew Carnegie, Thomas N. Carver, John B. Clark (Carnegie Endowment for International Peace), James Couzens (president of Ford Motor Company), John R. Crimmins (president of The Title Insurance Company of New York), F.M. Davenport (National Progressive Party), Josephus Daniels (Secretary of the Navy), Henry P. Davison (J.P. Morgan & Co.), Roland P. Falkner (statistician and director of the progress survey), Samuel Gompers, F.G.R. Gordon (former socialist, consultant and lecturer on socialism, and a colleague of Martha Moore Avery), Seth Low, J.R. Meader (managing editor of <span class=\"title\">The Common Cause</span>), Ogden Mills, John Mitchell, Anne Morgan, William J. Pape, George W. Perkins, Jacob Riis, Hayes Robbins (assistant to Roland P. Falkner), Edwin R.A. Seligman, O.D. Skelton (political-economist, Queen's University, Toronto), NCF's first choice to direct the progress survey, John H. Steiger [<a href=\"#footnote_3926600755\" class=\"footnote-link\">1</a>], William H. Taft, Charles R. Towson, Booker T. Washington, William E. Walling (one of the editors of <span class=\"title\">New Review: A Critical Review of International Socialism</span>), Maude Wetmore, Everett P. Wheeler, Talcott Williams, and Woodrow Wilson.</p> <div class=\"footnotes\"><div id='footnote_3926600755' class='note'>1 - <span class=\"note_contents\">. Industrial Economics Department, box 189, folder 2. Steiger was a former member of the Industrial Workers of the World, which he attacked in his book, <title>Memoirs of a Silk Striker</title>, about the 1913 strike at Paterson, New Jersey. Steiger's book was taken up by NCF as a cause célèbre.</span></div></div>"}