Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-06-15
THE FIRST ADDRESS.
Grand Congress Called at Which to Dis
cuss the Ethics of Socialism.

Grand Congress Called at Which to Dis
cuss the Ethics of Socialism.
The first of such addresses by the gen
eral committee ON labor congress. 1t
says:
Ample accommodation will be provided
during the worlds fair for all labor organ
iaat;ons, economic associations and indus
trial societies which may desire TO hold
| congresses or conventions of their own and
under the direction of their own properly
constituted authorities. To these special
congresses every opportunity will be eX-
tended which is at the command of the
auxiliary and not inconsistent with its
own general plans. The general labor con-
gress will be arranged with the co-opera-
ton of the most distinguished students of
labor problems and the most widely known
leaders in the industrial world. Among
other topics it will be appropriate for this
congress to consider the steps in industrial
advance from slavery, through serfdom to
the wage system, and careful and author
itative exposition of the protit-sharing, vol
untary cooperation, industrial cOmmuni-
ties, naturalization of industries and all
other proposed peaceable and constitu-
tional methods of escape from the acsnowl-
edged tNllS Oh Lne Wage SNSJ6lll.
A comparative study of the conditions
of labor and it's plans of organization, and
its acknowledged rights, privileges and ad-
vantages in all lands. The conflicts of labor
and capital, and the questions of contract,
oppressive combinations, liberty of pur-
suit, the use of force, private militia, and
of public policy and arbitration as in
volved in these conflicts Public econom-
les as related to labor, including natural
and governmental monopolies, the con-
tract system, prison labor, the public as
an employer, its relation to the unem
ployed, public revenue, and any burdens
of labor resulting from injurious or harm
full usages, or institutions maintained by
governmental authority or consent
Labor legislation, including the cash
wages, the weekly pay, the shorter day.
the employers liability for accident com
pulsory assurances, child labor, compul-
sorry industrial training, legal holidays and
the swift and expensive administration Of
Justice for all Woman's labor, including
woman's wages, special legislation indus
trial training, legal status, relation to the
labor organizations, comparative condl-
tions in different countries, recent indus
trial achievements. Work i'll this section
will be under the special charge of the
on labor congress of the woman's breach
of the auxiliary
International labor problems, including
slavery and international trade immigra-
ton from countries of poorly-paid labor.
and the labor problem in more favored
countries and the practicability of a
worlds labor organization wherein the
toilers of all lands, by the spirit of com
radeship, by the power of organization, by
the force of numbers and by every other
peaceable and loyal method, may strive to-
gether for the universal peace, comfort
and elevation of our race
Confident that equal and exact justice
to all shall finally be done; that the wasted
possibilities of unorganized and unskilled,
and therefore unproductive labor, shall be
exchanged for trained and protected in
dustry, which will nowhere make poverty
necessity; and that the suicidal war
which threatens the industrial world shall
eliminate not in disaster, but in II
peaceable solution of the grave
question in controversy, and establish
a higher industrial system where the
ordinate forces of thrift of yesterday and
the industry of to-day-of capital and
labor-shall work with, and not against
each other, and for the welfare of all, we
believe that these proposed congresses may
be made a most powerful agency to this
end.
We therefore earnestly invite the cordial
cooperation and assistance of the labor or
ganizations and economic and industrial
associations, together with all special stu
dents of industrial topics and of all kinds
and, at this time especially solicit the sug
gestions of the leaders in the various di-
visions of the departments in charge of
this committee, in relation to the means
whereby the proposed labor congresses may
be made successful and useful.
The address is signed by Walter
Thomas Mills, chairman; Gen. l.. M.
Trumbull, c. S. Darrow, Henry d.
Lloyd, John Gibbons and other mem
bers of the committee. Ii is added that
the committee will be represented in
Europe during the present season by
Professor Richard L. Ely, Phi. D., of
Johns Hopkins university, and Rev.
Washington GLADDEN., LII. D., of Ohio.