Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-12-09
CIVIC FEDE RATION
OPENING OF ANNUAL MEETING
IN NEW York.
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Addressed by Senator Hanna and
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Others on Great Industrial
Problem.

A dispatch from New York yesterday
saws: Senator Hanna was in the chair to-
day at the first session OF the first annual
meeting Of the Industrial department of the
National Civic Federation. In his speech
Of welcome Senator Hanna said:
1.-The object Of this meeting today, and
for the several days for which we are to
meet. Is to discuss the great industrial
problem In every phase which will tend to
the improvement Of conditions affecting the
two great factors. labor and capital. and
which shall 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. Among those pres
emf were John G. Milburn of Buffalo, Lewis
Nixon. Bishop Potter, Cornelius N. Bliss,
Alfred Moseley, President Eliot of Har-
ward, Archbishop Ireland. Oscar 8. Strauss.
John J. McCook. Charles G. Bonaparte Of
Baltimore, James A. Chambers Of Pitts
burg. Theodore ]. Shaffer. James Duncan.
Daniel ]. Keefe, James O'Connell. James
NJ Lynch, Henry White. John Mitchell,
Charles H Taylor, jr.. president of Ameri-
can Publishers Association; Fred Towne,
president Of the National Founders Asso-
citation; Charles H. Castle, president of the
Stone Manufacturers; A. Beverly Smith,
United States Lithographical Association;
william o. Mahon, president Amalgamated
Street Rap va Ass IS Mehs Use ao
ham Brooks, Cambridge, and John A. Ho-
bart, England
At the afternoon session Archbishop Ire
land made an address, in which he said
the year now almost gone had confirmed
the origina tors OF the Civic Federation in
their conviction that they We're engaged In
a great and salutary work. that of striv-
ing to bring together, to put face to face,
capital and labor, so that the one should
understand the rights of the other, so that
the one would be willing to perform it's
own duty toward the other. and. that in
this manner universal peace should be made
to reign over the country.
G. c. Sykes Of Chicago, former secretary
of the street railway commission of that
city, speaking on the subject of arbitration
said that while he was opposed to the idea
of compulsory arbitration as relates to In
dustry generally he thought the public had
a right to demand uninterrupted straight
way service. Companies, in accepting
grants, should be required to submit all la
Dor disputes to arbitration. The same argu-
ment applied as we'll to lighting, telephone
and water companies in the municipal fields
and to railroad and telegraph companies in
the national field.
1T ought to be no more possible to have
the street car service of a great city like
New York or Chicago st. Louis or New
Orleans interfered with by labor troubles
than 1t would be to have the fire depart
ment out of action for one week or two
weeks because the men were on strike"
he said. .-.ys
Charles Francis Adams in his address
urged legislation, federal or state, providing
for official inquiry into disputes Of labor and
capital. not for compulsory arbitra ton, but
to give the national or state executives the
authority to call for an inquiry, the out
come to be determined by public opinion.
John McMakin Of the state labor COM
mission Of New York said: TT Is because
men do not comprehend their relations,
their lnterdependence in this world that
troubles follow. We feel them more here
in America because we progress faster. We
shall have to settle them in advance Of any
other ma ion because OF our, advance and
our progress, and 1t is only by the method
wisely taken by the leaders of capital and
the leaders Of the large labor organizations
that we shall be able to arrive at any sat
isfactory settlement of the Industrial prob
lem. AS an approach to that solution the
great thing Is to preserve the peace in this
country until we can arrive at a satisfac-
tory solution of the whole Question"
G. M. Barnes of the Society Of Engineers
of England said: Il feel that very great
good has been done by bringing expert
minds to deal with these problems in meet
ings of this character l feel that very
great good is being done In bringing to-
gether men of all classes and all sections in
this community to discuss these questions.
not in the light of any hard and fast eco
nomic doctrines, not in the light of any
hard and fast rule in regard to the inter
ests of a class or a section Of the country,
but to bring people together to discuss these
questions on the broad basis of humanity"