The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-11-29

ct n February last the American
2 lee Han4ene Education society Of
III fered a prize of $500 for the
& Best plan of preventing strikes.
gThe plans were to be signed by
Fictitious names, with a sealed let
estere giYing the real name and post
soffEe address of the writer, not to be
5opened Until the decision of the COM
smittee should be made. John L. Bates,
sgovernor of Massachusetts, and Pat
rick H. Collins, mayor of Boston, ap-
pointed as two Of the committee on
decision E. H. Clement, editor of the
Boston Transcript, and James Jeffrey
Roche. These two decided on Benjamin
F. Trueblood, secretary of the Ameri-
San Peace society as the third mem
Der. -,
: Over one hundred plans were received
and of these eight-eight were consid-
cred. The report has Just been made
public, and it transpires that the plan
considered best isthat of Amos Judson
Bailey, formerly of Chicago, and now
Resident at Meriden, N. H.
Mr.. Bailey's plan to prevent strikes
starts from the point that four differ
ent parties are interested in strikes,
namely, the employer, the employed,
the public and the government. The
main conclusion arrived at is the craa-
ton of Industrial courts, which shall
have the same powers to try questions
! coming up between capital and labor
that other overloaded courts, already
established, have to try other matters,
with similar rights of appeal from the
lower to the higher courts, the inten
ton being that there shall be a very
quick decision of all questions coming
before these courts, and that there
shall be no stopping of labor in coal
mines or elsewhere while the questions
sin dispute are being treated. If, how
lever, workers should refuse to refer
the matters in dispute to these courts
and determine to stop labor, then the
government, under decree of the courts,
should have power to supply, SO far as
possible, the places of the strikers by
other men until the questions in dis
pute should be settled and the workers
be ready to return to labor. In regard
to what men should be employed by
the government the plan does not state.
Mr.. Bailey is we'll known in Chicago.
He was born there June 9, 1S43. Four
years later the family went to a farm
near Palatine, H., and still later made
their home III the village of Palatine
He graduated from Wheaton college in
1868, taking the A. B. degree. He
took the regular three years course in
Chicago Theological seminary, finish
ing in II, and the same year took the
degree. of A. NJ. from his alma mater
He served as pastor in Illinois, except
1.-TWO years spent in Wisconsin, until 'SS
when he, accepted call to the home
missionary Congregational church il
Ogden, Utah. with the out-stations
where he labored five years. In 1872 he
was made superintendent of the work
of the Congregational Home Mission
airy society in the state of Washington
which position he occupied for nine
years. Since then he has been pastor
of the Congregational church in Meri
den. N. I'll. He has for many years
> made special study Of conditions af-
fected by strikes, and of methods fol
bringing together all parties concerned
when strikes occur. His prize pIar
follows:
If we can first know the nature @,
the evil to be remedied. and of the geot
10 be secured. we can best know wha
TO co and how to do 1t. In presenting
- Plan for the preventing Of strike.