- unitid
-
{"value"=>"1151438", "type"=>"local_mss"}
- unitdate
-
{"value"=>"1914-1916", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1914/1916"}
{"value"=>"1920", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1920"}
- date_inclusive_start
-
1914
- date_inclusive_end
-
1920
- keydate
-
1914
- date_start
-
1914
- date_end
-
1920
- unittitle
-
{"value"=>"h. Division of the People's Income Special Committee"}
- scopecontent
-
{"value"=>"<p>Chaired by William J. Pape, editor and publisher of the Waterbury (Conn.) <span class=\"title\">Republican</span>. Pape and Roland P. Falkner, the survey's director, were the chief statistical analysts of the project, with important input from Samuel Gompers, Warren S. Stone, and others. In 1914 the committee, initially called the Surplus Value Committee (see Surplus Value Special Committee below), was formed by the Executive Council and the Industrial Economics Department to counter the assertion by socialists that capital received too high a percentage of the value of the product of industry. Later the name was changed to Division of the People's Income. Based chiefly on the Census of Manufacturers of various years (and leaning heavily on the census of 1909) the committee investigated the comparative difference in income received by capital and labor in the product of modern industry. In late 1914 the committee submitted to NCF a report on the question.</p>"}