Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1894-11-22
LABOR CONGRESS.
It Discusses the Relations Of En-
ployer and Employed d. /, ]:
Arbitration and Cancellation the Main Top-
les of Considerations Congressman
Springer Speaks of His Bill-Com-
" missioner Wright Speaks.

Arbitration and Cancellation the Main Top-
les of Consideration - Congressman
Springer Speaks of His Bill-Com-
V missioner Wright Speaks.
CHICAGO Nov. 15.-The opening SEES
sion of the congress of Industrial con-
Citation and arbitration was called to
order by Lyman J.sGage: Prof. Z. r.
T.. Gould, of Johns Hopkins university,
read paper on the "HistorySo f In:
dustrial Arbitration in England and
the Continent"
Judge William A. Vincent presided
at the afternoon session. James Pea
body. editor of the Railway Review,
speaking on the subject of 'sArbitra-
ton in Railway Affairs" said that the
law was now powerless toprevent the
crippling OF railroads by the striking
of employees Some law was needed,
he thought, to prevent men from get.
ting in body without warning. The
public was more to be considered than
either railroad managers or employees
L. S. Coffin, of Iowa, of the Brother
hood of Railway Trainmen, thought
that railroad employees, as in every
sense public servants, should not Grip
pie the public service, but the rail
road should also pay them fair wages.
He believed that la Dor should have the
right to combine and make strong
plea for Sunday rest for railroad en-
ployes. He was opposed to giving
state and national commissions more
power in regard to the settlement Of
strikes. Let their work be merely
advisory.
Springer and His Bill.
Representative William M. Springer
spoke on his bill for arbitration OF
labor troubles between railroad en-
ployes and employers. This bill is
now on the congressional calendar. It
asks for national commission of arbi-
tration of three members to be APP
pointed by the president at salary of
$4,000 each, to hold Office for three
years. Mr.. Springer believed that the
Difference to public opinion of both
parties to labor controversies would
make them abide by any decision rem
dered by national labor commission.
Rev. DR.. John H. Barrows, of this
city, presided at the evening session
"The Distinction Between Arbitration
and Conciliation'' was discussed by
Josephine Shaw Lowell, of New York.
Voluntary arbitration only came in
this country, she said, after long
siege between capital and labor, and
the public had entirely lost their
patience. The result was generally
satisfactory. The best plan, instead
Of trying to arbitrate troubles and
strikes, was to prevent them. The
character of employees and employers
needed to be changed; a Christian
feeling should prevail and concilia
ton was the word that applied.
Wednesdays Sessions.
CHICAGO, Nov. 16.-Miss Jane Ad-
dams, of Hullhouse, presided over the
Wednesday morning session. John D.
Weeks, editor of the American Manu-
facturer and Iron World, spoke on tn e
relation of manufacturers and en-
ployes. Strikes he looks upon as the
greatest of evils. The trouble cannot
be met by competition or the doctrine
of laissez faire-leave alone. Legisla-
ton or compulsory arbitration are out
of the question Public opinion, he
thought, in addition to some method
of getting the contending parties to-
gether for peaceable settlement. is
the most potent factor.
NJ. NJ. Garland. president of the
Amalgamated Association of Iron and
Steel Workers, treated of the sliding
scale system and its workings. He
said:
1.-The amalgamated iron and steel workers
have solved these labor difficulties, and their
solution has been in operation for twenty
eight years. The sliding-scale system and
fairness in the counsel-room have brought
about peaceable settlement. To be sure, we
have sometimes disagreed, but eventually the
ironworkers and their employers have come
together"
Carroll D. Wright, United States
la Dor commissioner, discussed the
"Distinction Between Compulsory and
Volun tary Arbitration" s'Distinction
Between Compulsory Arbitration and
Public Investigation of Labor Dis
putes" and Obstruction Between Ad-
judication of Past Contracts and Set
Element Of Future Ones" He said that
the labor question broadly stated SIM
ply means struggle for a higher
standard of living. A strike in itself
is simply a protest against changing
conditions adversely. It is only
through conflict that good ever comes
in this world. So the labor conflict
means the uplifting of the labor
ing man and the lettering of his
condition. There should always pre-
cede arbitration, he said, an attempt
at Cancellation. Compulsory arbitra-
ton is not to be thought of. A law
compelling workmen or employers TO
accede to decree of the court under
penalty could not be enforced. Mr.
Wright believed in public investiga
ton. Publicity is always salutary.
Let the responsibility for Tire troubles
be fixed, he said, and public opinion
will do the rest. 1t is more potent
than a mandate of the courts.
Prof. Adams, secretary Of :the inter
state commerce commission, read a
paper on Economics of Arbitration"
There could be no Industrial liberty
without Industrial ownership of prop
erty, according to his views. He recog-
nized, but two classes. of persons the
property holders and those who have
no property. Without proprietorship
the labor question could never be
solved. There existed no interest
common to all laborers. Each trade
had it's own interests and no combine
ton of all trades was possible. No.
more was great labor party a possi-
bility.
William FL. Sayward, of Boston, sec
rotary of the National Association Of
Builders, spoke on ''The Relation Be-
tween Employer and Employe in the
Building Trades. !" The workmen, he
declared, have never applied to en-
ployers for sympathy; it is sole justice
that workmen want. The interests of
employer and workman are not identi-
cal. Their relations are of the buyer