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{"value"=>"1916", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1916"}
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{"value"=>"<p>General correspondence of Easley, Pape, and Roland P. Falkner with each other and with employers, unions, social welfare advocates, economists, and others interested in the question of surplus value. The bulk consists of requests for copies of the preliminary report of the committee. There is, however, considerable correspondence questioning the usefulness of the survey, the presumed political motivation behind it, and the soundness of the methods and standards of analysis and interpretation employed in the preparation of the committee's report on the comparative distribution of wealth. Correspondents include Prof. John B. Clark (Columbia University and the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace); William S. Carter (president of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen); Roland P. Falkner (director of the progress survey project); Prof. Frank Fetter (Princeton University); Samuel Gompers; E.M. Patterson; James B. Reynolds (American Social Hygiene Association); John Augustine Ryan (Roman Catholic priest, midwest populist, social welfare advocate, and supporter of industrial unionism); Prof. Edwin R.A. Seligman (political economist); William S. Stone (Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers); and Willam A. White (editor of the Emporia [Kansas] <span class=\"title\">Gazette</span>. Carter, Gompers, Ryan, Stone, and White, in particular, are critical of the committee's preliminary report, citing the unsupported conclusions, and the unreliable statistical interpretations on which they were based.</p>"}