Omaha daily bee., 1902-12-09
LABOR WARS ARE BLESSINGS
Archbishop ireland Says Strikes Show
Development of Country.
CIVIC FEDERATION coNVENES FRIENDLY
Capitalists, wOrkmen, Politicians and
ClergymeR Unite I'm Attempt 20
solve Industrial Problems
Now Facing world.

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NEW YORK. Dec. s.-The first annual
meeting OF the industrial department of the
National Civic federation was begun here
today.
Senator Hanna called the session to order
and made an address Of welcome, in which
he said.
In extending welcome to you l also wish
70 extend congratulations. l am glad to be
year has proved to those who are charged
with the responsibilities of this work the
people are in Smpathy with the organiza-
tion and It's work
This great Industrial question has come
to the surface and is demanding due and
careful investikation by the people of the
United States. No more important ques-
tlo9 claims their attention than this one
which seeks to bring about better re-
lationship between capitai and labor.
The object Of this meeting today, and
for the several days for which we are
to meet, is to discuss in every phase of
this question: all matters of interest which
will tend to the improvement of the condi-
and which shaft Interest to a larger extent
the people of This country to join with us
in this work
Mayor Low made an address of welcome
on behalf Of the city.
Labor. Problems Always Present.
Charles Francis Adams said in part
Sound and fruitful legislation cannot be
improvised. IL Is idle to talk In language
as empty as II is grandoise of "curDing"
and regulating potentates and powers of
such large, and yet vague, character as
those that labor and capital are now con-
tinually bringing into the field, by any pat
A governmental regulation which shall
deal satisfactorily with them must rest
upon a broad and well considered basis of
experience. 1t is equally futile to suppose
that this labor contest in which We have
been engaged, and which we have expert
enced the inconvenienI result for so many
years, is going to be settled in day or an
hour, or next year, or within the next ten
years.
II will continue with us during the re-
mainder of our lives and with our children
after us. We win slowly and tentatively
approximate to satisfactory results
Under these circumstances IL a solution,
represented by a proper legislative and ad-
ministrative machinery, Is ever to be
evolved 1t must be evolved from source of
wearisome Investigations and reports
thereon, no less judicial and well consd-
ren hch tat ina nreseni Constitution OF he
United States has been slowly built upon
and rounded out.
Alfred Moseley explained how he came
to bring delegation OF British worklngmen
to America. When in South Africa he had
found American engineers had succeeded
in mining operations where British en-
gineers failed and a later visit to the
United States had convinced him that
American business methods we're in ad-
vance of those Of the old country.
One of the reasons Of this he said, was
| the adoption by American manufacturers
Of pieceyork, and another the encourage
ment offered to brains and initiative
! There is not that close touch between the
| English manufacturer and his workmen
that there is here. Added to this is the i'm
1 o,d ba Of inc
more out OF y than they do on the Other
side.
i Evolution Causes strife.
/ ss At the afternoon session Archbishop Ire
4 land made aRs address, IN which he said:
Ne b gresters task today could be giver
contribute in some way to establish q
| reign of industrial peace. 1t is not sur
prising that disputes and COLLISIONS are
| arising. Humanity is entering another pc
riod of development and all development
whether physical. or moral, originates will
feeling Of a,,G u9saSiness and IN & sehtlmebh rn1eh
| about, and that the moment has come for {
new adaptabihty. The conditions which
confront us, far from being discouraging
are really such as to give hope and com
fort, such as to bring us to. seek out solu
tions with all the hopefulness of approx
mate victory. p.
Among those present were John G. Mil
burn of Buffalo, Lewis Nixon, Bishop Pot
ter, Cornelius N. Bliss, Alfred Moseley
President Eliot Of Harvard. Archbishop
ireland, Oscar S. Strauss, John j. McCook
Charles G. Bonaparte Of Baltimore. Jame
A. Chambers of Pittsburg. Theodore J
Shaffer,- James Duncan, Daniel j. Keefe
James o'Connell, James NJ. Lynch. Henr,
White, John Mitchell, Charles H. Taylor
jr., president Of the American Publishers
association; Fred Crowne president of tn
National Founders association: A. Bev
erly Smith. United States LithoRraphica
association; William Mahon. presiden
Amalgamated Street Railway association
ex-senator Thomas w. Palmer OF Mehi
gan, John Graham Brooks, Cambridge, AM
John A. Hobart, England.
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