The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-12-09
SENATOR HANNA PRESIDES
COngratulateS Members on
 What Has Been Done.
Archbishop Ireland Says the Wcrk of Bringing Capital and Labor Face to Face is Blessed
 by God.

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:
 Tn extending welcome to you. l also
 wish to extend congratulations. am glad to be able to say that our experience in the last year have proved to those who are charged with the responsibilities of their work the fact that the great mass of the American people are in sym pathy with the organization and its work. This great industrial question has come to the surface and is demanding due and careful consideration by the people of the United States. No more important question claims their attention than this one which seeks to bring about better relationship between capital and labor The object of this meting today and for the several days which we are to meet Is to discuss in every phase of this ques- ton all matters of interest which will tend to the improvement of conditions as affecting these two great factors and which shall interest to a larger extent the pcupIG VI tAihS CVhbbty " JOAh hS Ah eAsAo work.
 Some of Those Present.
 Mayor Low made an address of well come on behalf of the city.
 Among those present were John c. Mti- burn of Buffalo: Lewis Nixon. Bishop Potter. Cornelius N. Bliss, Alfred Mosely, President Eliot of Harvard. Archbishop Ireland, Oscar s. Strauss. John J. Mo- Cook. Charles c. Bonaparte of Baltimore, James A. Chambers. Pittsburg; Theodore J. Shaffer. James Duncan, Daniel J. Keefe. James O'Connell. James M. Lynch, Henry White. John Mitchell, Charles g.. Taylor. Jr., Presideat American Publish CTS; Fred Towne, President of the National Founders Association;. Charles H. Castle, President of the Stone Manu-' lecturers; A. Beverly Smith, United States Lithographlcal Associations; Will liam Mahon, President Amalgamated Street Railway Association: ex-Senator Thomas w. Palmer. Michigan: John Ora ham Brooks. Cambridge and John A. Ho- bart of England.
 Alfred Mosely explained how he came to bring delegation of British workingmen to America. When in South Africa he had found that American engineers had succeeded in mining operations where British engineers had failed and a later visit to the United States had convinced him that American business methods were in advance of those of the old country.
 Against the Boycott.
 As to shorter hours Mir. Mosely was of the opinion that to secure the eight-hour day the movement must be universal. Restrictions of output he said could not be permitted. The speaker declared him self against boycott, In favor of the free dA, af fo Iah ka vzrh ha desired and the organization of both capi- tai and labor. As to trusts he said per sonally he did not distrust them.
 At the afternoon session Archbishop Ireland made an address in which he said the year now almost gone had confirmed the originators of the Civic SFederation in their conviction that they were eneag- ed in a great and salutary work. that of striving to bring together. to put face to face. capital and labor. so that the one would understand the rights of the other: so that the one would be willing to per form its own duty toward the other, and that In this manner industrial peace should be made to reign over the coun- try
 No greater task today" he continued, would be given to a minister of Christ's gospel than to contribute in some little way to establish this reign of industrial peace. It is not surprising that there are arising disputes and collisions Humanity Is entering into a new period of develop ment. The conditions which confront us, far from being discouraglng. are really such as to bring us to seek out solutions with all the hopefulness of approximate 
 Labor in It's effort to secure for itself l just and reasonable proportion of the wealth that 1t and capital together are creating-necessarily. for the time being comes somewhat into conflict with cap- tal. And what seems at present to l threaten somewhat public peace and to arrest somewhat the growth of prosper | ty, is but a precursory sign of greater social happiness, and of greater social | wealth. It is not at one meeting; 1t is not in one year that all these great prob- ems can be solved. At the same time we must feel sure that solution is coming l Humanity has sufficient mind and has ! sufficient good will to settle all matters i m which 1t is vitally interested The | ,ivic Federation in bringing representa- ives of the different classes together has | adopted the proper method of bringing | about q settlement"
 G. c. Sykes Talks.
 G. C. Sykes of Chicago. former secre- ary of the Street Railway Commission | ,f tsat city. speaking on the subject of arbitration, said:
 T am opposed to the idea of compul- ,ory arbitration as relates to industry | but I differentiate between the public service corporation and the ordi- ,ary corporation. The public has right O demand uninterrupted street railway ervice. To that end it has a right to r.sist that everything reasonably possible ,e done to prevent strikes and lockouts. in accepting grants, should ,e required to submit all labor disputes O arbitration. The same argument ap- ,lies as we'll to lighting. telephone and water companies in the municipal fields nd to railroad and telegraph companies n the national field.
 Ut ought to be no more pQssible to lave the street car service of great city ike New York or Chicago. St. Louis or Sew Orleans. interfered with by labor rouhles than it would be to have the