Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1901-05-09
INDUSTRIAL PEACE.
National Cancellation Board
Proposed.
FRUITS OF A CONFERENCE

ieeted to Garry Out Work of organ
Mitchell and Others maee
Speeches at Mass Meeting.
New York, May ga mass meeting
under the auspices of the committee
OF Cancellation OF the National Civic
Federation was held last night ii
Cooper Union to further the move
meat inaugurated at the conference
on Tuesday TO form national board
of arbitration,
John Mitchell the first speaker
was greeted With applause and cheers.
He said in part:
Nearly all of the strikes which
have occurred could have been avoid
ed il the employers and the repre-
sentatiyes of labor organizations had
conferred. We have learned In the
bituminous coal regions To get tor
gether in annual convention and talk
out our differences instead of lighting
them out. Twelve men on each side
met last year and in IL days fixed
the wages OF 100000 men, and the
year before the same number raised
the wages OF the miners to the ex
tent of $20,000,000.
Il know there are those who be
lieve there can be nothing in com
mon between capital and labor. To
those | say that the work OF this con
eiliauon committee Will show that
there is much in common between
them for the good Of both.
Samuel Gompers, president OF the
Federation OF Labor said In part
II we entertain hope for our.
selves, our children or our country
we must organize. AT one time the
idea was held that all wealth must
be extinguished. There is no acs
counting for taste Some have SO far
hidden goodbye TO their reason as
To applaud the idea that wealth should
be vNtinguished. We want justice.
and nothing else. Employers have
found trades unions an element SO
costly that they want peace as well
as we.
A Socialist Broke Loose.
we want force, yelled man who
had furnished previous Interruptions.
anu many IN the audience eheered.
Charles Sprague Smith came for.
ward, and raising his hand called
SHARPLY for order When he could
make himself heard he said:
THE socialists have had their turn
and we VIII let them have 1t again,
but now | ask for order. | ask this
little group OF socialists to hold Them
selves in.
Mr. Gompers struggled through
number OF further Interruptions and
finally got a hearing for his views as
to arbitration.
1t will be a choice said he, be
tween voluntary arbitration and COM
pulsory arbitration; where jail Will
await those who will not work under
settlement ordered by the courts
Our experience of courts has not been
such as to warrant us in placing our
industrial interests in the hands of
the gentlemen who preside on the
bencA."
William II. Sayward, secretary of
the National Association OF Builders,
said, in part, that he felt confident
that the plans devised by the com
mittee of conciliation Of the National
Civic Federation would bear fruit in
the drawing together Of capital and
labor and the prevention of strikes.
Herman JUST, commissioner of the
Illinois Coal Operators association,
spoke Of the practical results hievea
by policy of Cancellation in the bi.
luminous coal fields and of the peace
and happiness that prevailed in re.
gion formerly devastated by bitter
labor struggles.
Guffey Ballot Bill Lost.
At the meeting last night the ma
tional committee on Cancellation and
arbitration gave out its report. The
report says that the purpose of the
organization is to enter into active
service in the cause of peace and har.
mony in the industrial world for the
purpose OF preventing strikes and
lockouts. The report advocates full
and frank conferences between EN-
ployers and workmen, with the
ayowed purpose of reaching an agree
ment as TO the terms of employment.
Ii further says the aim is to establish
and maintain a board of commission
composed OF the most competent per
sons available, selected from employ
ers and employees of judgment, ex-
perience and reliability, which shall
be charged with carrying out the OBJ,
jects aimed at, and shall also be ex-
pected to make known to workmen
and their employers that their coun
sci aud aid will be. available. If de-
sired. In securing the cooperation.
mutual understanding and agreement
already indicated as the general pur-
pose OF the national committee.
The committee will select from its
members an executive committee of
10 to direct the work of the organiza
ton.
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No Change In Pudding Scale.
Youngstown, o., May AT the BIZ.