The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-12-19

innate associates has ever suspected. He has given the American Civic Federation an impetus that will probably result In its conference of leading capitalists and labor leaders, to be held in New 1ork next wek an epoch-making affair.
 To attend this conference Senator Han na went to New York tonight, and be- fore he departed gave an interview Ill which he told of the progres of the idea of industrial arbitration and of his ef- forts in the cause that he puts higher than a seat in the Senate or a home in the White House.
 In his interview Senator Hanna told some things about recent labor troubles that have not been suspected, and they are all the more important in view of the fact that he has participated in them and that they have led to the movement, of which he is a part, assuming Its present proportions.
 Outlines His Plans
 II am going to New York tonight" said Senator Hanna, ito attend the confer ence called by the Industrial Bureau of the American Civic Federation. l would not miss it for the world q think it lG' one of the most important events that has come to pass in this country in years.
 "I hope that it will result in bringing about not only closer relations between | capital and labor. but in establishing a condition that will put an end to great and ruinous labor disputes. You will find participating in the conference such men as Charles M. Schwab of the United States Steel Corporation, s. R. Galloway of the New York Central Railroad, Abram s. Hewitt Archbishop Ireland, Bishop Potter, Samuel Gompers, John Mitchell P. M. Arthur, Frank Sargent, Keefe and host of others. l have been personally to many of these men and interested them in the work as the most important that lies to our hands.
 Object of the Meeting.
 e"On the success of the meeting in New York lies the question whether by mu- | tual concessions, some of the greatest dangers to the prosperity aud the hap piness of labor of the country shall be
 What is the main object of the meet ing in New York;"
 'The one thing needful is to establish firmly relations of confidence between capital and labor. That has been the thing lacking in the past, It has been i'm possible for them to get together with koat first having ruinolis strike or locks out.
 "rhe trouble on one side has been that capital has been educated to distrust labor and to regard it as an enemy that must be fought and trampled under foot That has been the education during the | last twenty-five years of the men who are managing nearly all of the large con- cerns that are large employers of skilled | labor.
 '1On the other hand, the workmen | have been educated to look upon capital l as the common enemy rather than a ben efactor. Capital has always fought or | ganized labor with a view of destroying l their unions, and the unions have felt that to exist they had to keep up con- | stant struggle.
 Results in Ruinous War. 1 ' No one could expect under such cou- l ditions anything but the long succession | of extensive strikes, that have cost many
 millions of dollars in wages as well as | in loss of business. In the last two or l three years much progres has been made,
 and the leaders of capital as well as | the leaders of labor have had their eyes opened as to. what may be accomplished
 In the way of getting together.
 ''I should call the present movement a | mutual disarmament in the industrial world To nothing can it be more aptly | likened than the disarmament of Flu rope. l would disarm capital of it's an. | tipathy to trades unions and of its ruin | ous policy that has too often ruled in the past. l would disarm labor of it's dis v araIstE of capital and of it's desire tC place union ahead of the material vel fare of the men who work.
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