The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-12-22
ETTNNEsOTA's GREAT ARCHBISHOP
SANGUINE OF GOOD RESULTS
BY ARBITRATION
MAKES FOR INDUSTRIAL PEACE
Mgr. Ireland Reviews the Principal
Points of Significance in COnnec-
ton With the Conference
Recently Held
AN INFLUENTIAL COMMISSION
Special to The Globe.

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CHICAGO, Dec. 21.-Archbishop Ireland,
of st. Paul, who was in Chicago for a
few hours today on his way home from
New York, commented with much op-
timism on the recent formation Of the
Industrial Arbitration commission.
1.-The conference" he said was q great
success, both on account of the character
of the men who took part in it, of the
objects which they proposed to pursue
and of the possibilities Of the results to
follow. It was no small thing to bring
together the chief labor leaders Of the
country, employers representing the
largest industrial operations, as We'll as
those men who spoke for public opinion
and general principles Of justice, rather
than for the special interests of labor
and capital
And to have such men calmly discuss
together the relations oil capital and la
Dor and to resolve that as far IS posi-
BILE measures should be taken to main
tain industrial peace was no small thing.
Nor was it a matter Of little consequence
that commission was chosen consist
ing of men in whom the country cannot
but have confidence, for the purpose of
carrying out the resolves of the confer
ence and to establish methods of media
tion and arbitration by which in the fu-
vented.
1.-The conference has received tire high
est encomiums throughout the country
from all who take an interest in indus
trial peace.
Just what may be the result it is
difficult to say. Time is REQUIRED, but
it is much at any rate to put forth the
high ideal of industrial peace~to hay
brought representatives Of capital and Ia
Ior
serve it and to have put out methods by
which it may be preserved.
Commission Is Influential.
"It is thought that neither labor nor
capital will refuse the counsel Of such
men as compose the commission. In
rejecting such counsel, labor or capital
demnation of public opinion, and in
America public opinion is the final arbiter
of things.
ITO whom is to be given the credit
for the work so far accomplished? l
unhesitatingly say the credit belongs to
Ralph M. Easley, Of Chicago.
"It is he who for the last six months
persistently and energetically endeavored
to persuade men that they should come
to this conference. 1t is he who virtu-
ally made the selection Of the men to
come TO II anu prepared tHe ploSI eiLlhe
of the discussions that were to come re-
fore them. No doubt, as he went along,
he received from one or the other sng-
gestions which, when suitable, were
adopted by him. No doubt too, the
ideas of mediation and Cancellation he
tween capital and labor, and of a sort
of tribunal to which appeals might be
made, We're for some time In the public
mind but it was necessary that some
one man should bring together those
who were giving thought to such mat
ters; that some one man should put into
living form the public thought-and the
man to do that is Ralph NJ. Easley. AS
one who has watched the movement for
the last six months in all it's stages Of
growth, and have witnessed its iinal tri-
umph, am prepared to say, all honor to
Mr.. Easley.'