The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-12-16
GOOD PROGRESS
is BEING MADE
Civic declarations Being Formed
All Over the World.
REPORT OF RALPH M. EAsLEY
INTERNATIONAL BODY MAY BE
CREATED.


al international body based on TIT
national civic federation as it exists
1t present in this country was fore
casted by Ralph Nj. Easley. chairmal
Cf the executive committee. in re-
port 20 the national executive commit
tee of the national civic federation al
The annual meeting in this city to-
cay. The meeting of the committed
was executive aud Samuel Gompers
President of the American Federation
al Labor, presided. Andrew Carnegi'
vas present
Mr.. Easley i'm his report said the
movements for the organization of civic
decorations are making good progress
III England, France. Germany and Can
ada He believed their success might
logically lead to the creation of an i'm
ternational body TO improve the con-
C.tion of wage earners and their rela-
tons with employers, and TO forward
economic education throughout the
world.
international Scope.
Mr.. Easley invited the consideration
O. the federation 10 the projected for
nation of an International industrial
committee, in view of the progress in
the formation of international organi-
Zation OF labor and the increasing ten
oency 70 the decentralization of
production.
Never before" the report says.
nave there been so many evidences OF
The growth of a spirit Of broad con-
servatism upon the part of large en-
pioyers and upon the part of organized
la Dor. II is a significant and encOur-
aging sign that from ali sides rings a
for pRnnnn1fp adraa
Genes from the extremists as well as
the conservatives. This demand for
education must be met. The organiza-
lions Of. both labor and capital differ
widely in details. They have all been
iegisiated against with varying de-
Crees OF penalty"
Apprentice Question.
Abiding to the restriction OF appren-
Ices and the efforts TO regulate COM
Petition, AR. EaStley said:
The eternal presence of these ques-
lions, so vital to all society and the
Progress of civilization. invites the
ITost searching and devoted study. II
tHey are insolubie and irreducahIe there
may be found adjustments that would
prove effective so far as they accord
with principles 1t is for the ascertain
nCnt OF these principles that the de-
l&rtneDt of industrial economies has
nCen organized. This addition 10 edu-
Vational agencies should prove the most
comprehensive and far-reaching move
IAent ever inauguEated for economic ed
uCatiOn."
The only organized welfare DEPART
inent which deals with the physical
COMFORT recreation and education OF
employees has received support from
IA sffsr. f.u~e
ort of the chairman.
II. II. Nreelan0. who followed Mr.
Easley, said the work was practical as
well as altruistic.
Letter From Roosevelt.
The following letter from President
roosevelt TO First Vice President sam
uel Gompers was read to the members
Ct the federation:
White House, Washington. d &
Dec IA, lS04.-My Dear Sir: I greatly
regret that my duties here do not admit
my attending the annual meeting of
the National Civic Federation. which
VIII be held I'm New York CITY ON
Thursday, the 18th instant. But AL
though / cannot take part in the con-
terence or be present * dinner in con-
nection herewith. I am sure you I'M
derstand that l am IN hearty accord
ana sympathy. with the purposes of the
National Civic Federation i'm It's efforts
10 rthe blishaient Of more rightfui
relations between employers and en-
pioyes, it is a movement so praise
worthy and so thoroughly American
in~conception that il should be a mat
ter OF course receive the earnest sup
port of all good citizens who are awake
To the vital needs of cur nation.
Views upon economic and sociolog-
zeal problems often differ. There can
De- however no division Of opinion that
the highest aim of all should be toward
establishing on an even closer basis of
mutual respect and friendship. the re-
lations between employers and work
men.