The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-05-20
REPORTS READ
To ENGINEERS
Nearly $1,000 Members Of the
Order in Good Standing.
ANIMATED DEBATE EXPECTED
CoNsPIRAToRs Will BE DIS
cUssED TUESDAY.

Los Angeles. cal. Nay 19.-The sixth
biennial convention OF the Brotherhood
of Locomotive Engineers continued 10
be occupied with reports. division
resolutions and matters Of mihor .m-
portanCe. According 10 the official res
port ON membership there are az pres
ent $4,000 members Of the order in good
standing, Preparations are being made
for the delegates. together with their
families, 20 visit Catalina island in a
body Friday
The officers of The volunteer relief
association of the @w0meu's auxiliary
have been reelected with one excep-
uon- They are:
President, Mrs. George. Allegheny.
Pa General secretary and treasurer,
Mps. n, l.. Robertson, Toledo Ohio,
trustees. Mrs Chester Durneu Fort
Wayne, Ind, Mrs. j. @. Boomer, Las
Vegas, n. ~. Mrs III. Dorsey Spring
field. Ill., The latter is the new mem
Der of the board of trustees.
Industrial Peace,
The report OF the committee on in
ternau0nal and Industrial peace. which
was read at this morning session viii
doubtless provoke am interesting and
animated debate when ID comes up for
consideration next Tuesday morning as
the privilege to read the report. which
was out of the regular order. Judge
Lonr, chairman of the committee,
stated that request had been re-
celNed from the Brotherhood of Lp-
conceive Engineers. now in session in
TINS city. Tor an expression by the con-
ference on the subject of arbitration.
The report recommends three agen-
cleS as the means TO accomplish uni
versal arbitration and the settlement
OF industrial disputes, namely, The
Hague peace court a United States
permanent national Industrial peace
court and permanent periodic in
ternational peace congress.
The paragraph on corporations. which
IS likely to arouse a heated controversy,
is as follows:
Greed Of Corporations.
In the Industrial world gigantic cor
pOrauOns, with impers0nal relation 10
their employees, have largely mOnOpOl-
lzed manufacturing and Industrial pur-
suits. They have superseded the old
personal and often tender relation in
home contact and life of the master
and the apprentice. Most of these cor
pOrauons are founded upon the ex-
pectatton of large dividends. Under
the spur Of greed and competition they
demand of their employees maximum
aDOr 1t minimum wages. The stricken
toller turns upon the oppressor, He or
Eanizes, strikes, bOyc0tts, calls of his
banded union brothers from their re-
spectiVe employmeuts. He shuts the
doors OF the factories and in the stress
of want and despair often resorts to
acts Of violence in the destruction Of
property and life. while the employer
sits encased I'm indifference. The grasp
ing mOnOpOIst and The walking dele
gates are representative of these or
ganlzatiOns' force. Tn the main public
sympathy is generally and rightfully
with the tOiler.'
Vigorous Protest.
When the reading of the report had
been completed, John Young. q l8yman
delegate from New Hampshire. arose
and offered vigorous protest to the
language of the report He denounced
the portion Of II referring To the in
difference OF corporate employers to
the welfare of their employees. as be
ing unjust and unfair, and "a slur
upon men right in this conference, as
we'll as many other men who are en-
plCyers OF labor who have just regard
for the interests of the men they EN-
ploy"
He moved that the consideration of
the report by the conference be de-
ferTed until next Tuesday and that it
should be made a special order for thar
date. HIS motion prevailed.