{"value"=>"<p>Chaired by William D. Baldwin, president of the Otis Elevator Company, the committee studied whether the development of trade agreements had affected industrial relations, and whether industry and the public had benefited by the work of voluntary mediation agencies and national and state arbitration bureaus.</p> <p>Contains a small number of letters relating to NCF's 1914 organized to define the legislation required to establish a State Board of Mediation. Among the few correspondents are William D. Baldwin, Samuel B. Donnelly, secretary of the Building Trade Employers' Association, William C. Rogers, the New York State Deputy Commissioner of Labor, and Lionel Sutro.</p>"}