The Cost of Living Among Wage-Earners

The National Industrial Conference Board was founded in 1916. It grew from a 1915 meeting at the Yama Farms Inn in New York consisting of presidents of 12 major corporations and six of the foremost industry associations. The gathering included Frederick P. Fish, Frank A. Vanderlip and Magnus W. Alexander. It was a co-operative body composed of representatives of national and state industrial associations, and closely allied engineering societies of a national character, and was organized to prov