The Minneapolis journal., 1902-07-25
A LIST OF not ABLES|
Eminent Men Will Address Employ
er and Employe Convention.
PURPOSE OF MEETING DEFINED
The Gathering Will Not Be Exclu-
sively Devoted TO Any Single
.Ie,. Question.

Now that the convention of the National
Educational association is over, the city
Is waking up to the fact that it has an
other great national gathering to take
care Of Those interested have resolved
to leave no stone unturned to- make the
coming conference between employers and
employees, Sept. % to 26, inclusive, rous-
ing success. They hope that campaign
of education will be started at this meet
ing that will be nation wide in its infiu-
ence and will aid measurably in esta blish-
Ing more harmonious and satisfactory re-
llations between the men who furnish the
capital and organizing brains and take
the risk of business enterprises and the
men in the offices, Shops mines and field
who do the work. aaGaEsE
That this hope has a good chance Of
being realized is shown by the kind of
speakers who have promised to deliver the
chief addresses and to open the discuss
sions. The fact that President Theodore
Roosevelt is going to address the confer
ence on the, labor situation, which is en-
crossing the, attention Of the American
people now as never before, is sufficient
to show the momentous significance of the
coming conference. .* * Il =
Among others who have been definitely
engaged are the Following: -
> Carroll D. Wright. United States commits
a solution a
Labor Question:" NJ
J. B.. Clark, professor political economy
in Columbia university: "Is. Compulsory
Arbitration Inevitable?" : - : : ~ s~s
James Kilbourne, president Of the Kill
bourne & Jacobs Manufacturing Co., Colum-.
bus, Ohio: The Relations Between EN-
ployer and Employe." O. s5. - - ~ .1 4.
w. D. Wiman, vice president of the John
Deere Plow company, Moline, III. Subject
to be announced. sraa A,.t-T .@s,< f.. f. 5> .sasg
Jane Adams of Hull House, Chicago
''The Social Waste of Child Labor
Mrs Florence Kelley. secretary of the Ma
tional Consumers League: Subject to be an
nounced. tH IA =
T.V. Powderly, ex- commissioner Of inmi-
grafton Of the United States: Subject to be
selected. ['s- - = I: ;fi
Frank P. Sargent commissioner general of
immigration: Subject to be announced. GrNS
John Mitchell, president of the United
Mine Workers Of America; Announced CAR
bitration.'H -. -:
- Frank Is Mcvey professor of political
economy in the University, Of Minnesota:
''The Economic Effect of the Eight Hour,
Day." = ~, 3:...~1... jEz%.4
Cyrus Northrop, president of the Uni
versity of Minnesota, has been secured to
deliver the opening address. Other i'm
portant speakers will be announced in
due time. r:.Y@ -. - .s.<... -. ! x
At recent meeting of the general COM
mittee for the convention which was at
tended by j. B. Gilf1llan, Thomas Lowry,
Cyrus Northrop, William w. Folwell C..
S. Cairns, Lucian Swift, G.. H Partridge,
Fred l.. 'McClellan,fG. l.. Rockwell, Wal
lace G. Nyes and William A. sSchaper, it
was decided to" push the movement with
vigor from now on. The following reso-
luton setting forth Fthe purpose and
scope Of the conference was submitted by
DR.. Northrop and was unanimously
adopted. ----~ - . +. >, .:ss-.ss
+ Resolved, aByi the AexecutfYs committee Of
the employer and. employees convention that
the conyentionEhs ahot, sintended to deal ex-
clusively with the eight-hour question or any
other single question, but it is intended to
deal with all the great economic questions
which concern the interests , of labor and
capital. 1t proposes to secure addresses from
the ablest thinkers in the country and there
by promote the: best interests of all classes
Of the people. y. ~. = -.
(signed) Cyrus Northrop, Thomas Lowry,
J. B. Gilfllan. G. l.. Rockwell Lucian
Swift, George H. Partridge, William W.
Folwell, Charles S. Cairns. H..
The press has taken hold of the work
and, judging from the clippings sent to
the headquarters here interest in the
conference is growing rapidly as the time
for selecting delegates. draws near. Inc
Chicago dail1es have given column notices
recently. Among other clippings sent in
are two column editorials, one from the
Evening Standard of July "A, New Bedford,
| Mass, and the Gloucester Daily Times,
Gloucester, Mass. The editor of the latter
paper ends by saying: "A convention of
this kind properly conducted would, in
our opinion, prove a power for good and
| we trust that it may receive that atten-
on JU1 "A n10m9nfO1lS subject
serves r r. .>~~ : 5.