{"value"=>"<p>Jeremiah Jenks, a political economist on the faculty of Cornell University and member in 1907 of the United States Immigration Commission, chairman. As preparation for its questionnaire, the committee studied the effects of mass immigration on employment, wages, industrial working conditions, housing conditions, standard of living, and the \"total picture of American life\". It also looked into whether such effects justified stronger restrictions on immigration, whether measures should be taken by the state to separate immigrants geographically, and whether the state or private parties should be responsible for the education and training of immigrants.</p> <p>The file consists of correspondence of Easley, Jenks, and Falkner with W. Chauncey Brewer (North American Civic League for Immigrants), Thomas N. Carver (Rural Organization Service), Samuel Gompers, F.G.R. Gordon, Edward A. Ross (University of Wisconsin), Willard Straight, Robert M. Thompson, and others, concerning the effects of immigration on employment, wages, living standards, and other socio-economic conditions; amendments and modifications of Jenks' work-plan for the committee; and notifications of committee meetings and appointments to the committee.</p> <p>There are also miscellaneous papers, including minutes of a committee meeting held on March 20, 1914; the comments made at the meeting by Samuel Gompers; semi-annual reports for November and December 1914, and March 1915, of the Committee for Immigrants in America (not a committee of NCF); and a draft list of immigration-related topics to be studied and included in the progress survey.</p>"}