New-York tribune., 1901-12-19
HANNA HEADS LABOR COUR
Tribunal ORGANIZES AND OUTLIN
IT'S PURPOSES.

The committee of thirty-six appointed at he
Civic Federation conference on Tuesday met sn
hour before noon yesterday in the rooms of fne
New York Board of Trade and Transportation
and organized for work. Only about half of the
members of the committee able to attend
the executive session. that lasted more than an
hour. The organization effected by the cleo
tion of the following officers and members of a
b-committee:
Charman-senator NJ A. HANNA.
GoMPERs. SFsi' All . anu
Treasurer-CHARLEs a. MOORE.
Secretary-RALPH NJ. EASLEY-
Committee of bylaws-OSCAR s. STRAUS. $. r.
CALLAwAY, JAMES H. ECKELs, JOHN J. McOoK.
SAMUEL GoMPERs and HENRY WHITE.
At the end of the executive session the COM
mittee issued the following statement of its plan
and scope. which had been prepared by a sub
committee, composed of Oscar S Straus. Samuel
Gompers Frank P. Sargent and Lewis Nixon:
This committee shall be known as the industrial
The scope and province of this department shall
peace; to be helpful establishing rightIul rela-
tions between employers and workers; by its good
offices to endeavor 10 obvate and prevent strikes
and lockouts; TO aid in renewing industrial rela-
tions where rupture has occurred
% haL At an ZINES pr 2I 5 elIPoS e G
fer for the adjustment of differences disputes
before acute stage is REACHED and thus avoid or
That mutual agreements to conditions under
which labor shall be performed should be encour-
terms thereof should be fathfuIiy adhered to. both
in ,ret letter and spirit. by both parties; cub,
committee by It appointed. shall, when requested,
at issue between workers and their employers. pro-
vded in its opinion the subject is one of sufficient
This department will not consider abstract indus
This department assumes no power Of arbitration
unless such powers be conferred by both parties TO
This department shall adopt set of bylaws for
its government.
1t was announced that the committee by
laws would make a report to the full committee
at a meeting to be held about the last week in
January the date of the meeting to be an
nounced by the chairman. The committee on
bylaws had meeting yesterday and talked
over bylaws to he reported later
Mr.. Straus said that the next meeting of
the larger committee probably would be at
tended by all the members He said he had not
asked II ex-President Cleveland would serve on
would be glad to serve in such good cause
Every of the labor leaders on the COM
mttee he counted on to serve" he con-
tinued "and | feel confident that every man
appointed the committee will give service to
it I think every member of the committee
ought to feel that the cause is great enough TO
claim enthusiastic and devoted service.
I'VE have only one aim in view-the aim that
has been apparent all through the conference,
namely. to promote industrial peace by any
means human ingenuity devise. l am glad
to say that in this work we have the fullest
cooperation of all the great labor leaders. VINO
are representing than two million toilers.
and l need not say that the cooperation from
the capitalists will be fully as heary- IN @ InlS
connection il Is interesting 10 consider now rep
resentative q body this committee really IS
The further this thing has gone the more
Il has become apparent that nearly all the iaoor
troubles of the past have been due to misun-
derstandinG / fully indorse what Mr. Mitchell
said yesterday, that all the strikes ne had peeii
4, csu.d haze been averted If employer and EN-
plnves had heen brought together before 'le
strike declared"