The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-12-29
LABOR UNIONS ARE
 AT D|SADVAN TAGE Law on Conspiracy Weighs More Heavily on Them ECONOMICS AT BAL LTlM0RE Professor Adams Gives Interesting Figures In His Remarks on Strike
 VioIence"-He Touches
 on Lynching.
ECONOMICS AT BALTIMORE

Baltimore, December 2s.-The joint ses- sion of the Economic and Political Science associations were resumed today, the subject of municipal ownership being dis cussed. The discussion was opened by MT. Frederick c. Howe of Cleveland, in favor. and MT. Winthrop N,ss-ceaniels of Prince ton university agA'S. It's feasibility They were follow SS Messrs Leo B. Rowe of the UT &S of Pennsylvania J. Earline of % diversity of Michi- gan and Milt % daltbie of New York City. MT. lrged municipal own ership chie 0: he ground that 1t would eliminate D iimize corruption.
 Durip .arate meeting of the Eco homie =, .tion, H. w. Farnam of Yale and Char. P. Neill United States com missioner of labor, discussed the labor movement, and Thomas s. Adams of the University of Wisconsin made an address on Violence in Strikes" in the course of which he said
 Casualties Are Not Large.
 "The only statistics of strike violence which we have, show that between Janu- ary l. 1902, and June 30, 1904. 1S0 persons were killed, 1851 injured and 55S3 arrest ed in strikes in the United States. This showing is distressing enough, but com parativey speaking strike violence is in- significant. More lives were taken in lynching bees than in strikes, and In an average year there were probably four times as many arrests in Greater New York alone for assault and battery than in the whole United States for similar violence In strikes.
 The importance of strike violence is the intimidation and coercion, whose ex- istence 1t reveals. and what most in variably accompanies strikes. The law against intimidation and wrongful coer- cion however, is not enforced, and this Is largely due to the fact that law on conspiracy is unequal, weighing more heavily on trade unions than employers and penalizing acts which are easily dis covered when performed by large com binations of workingmen, but are utterly beyond detection when performed by em- ployers. This situation is intolerable. 1t presents many paints Of rese nlblance to the railroad question now under discus sion and will probably be solved in the same way by the appointment of expert commissions, whose Business it will be to regulate and foster the joint conference system in the first instance and in the Stconu lHoioIlCt lo pltSeiNt peace when capital and labor cannot agree, by deciding what constitutes a fair wage. /"
 Politics In Various Phases.
 In separate meeting the Political Science association discussed Politics in Various Phases"
 The Historical association members lis- tened to paper on the Colonial Projects of George Calvert" by Bernard c. Stein CT of the Maryland Historical society, and afterward elected officers simon E. Bald win being chosen president.
 The Herbert Baxter prize was awarded to David S. Muzzey of the New York Eth ical Culture school for an essay on "The Spiritual Franciscans."
 new body, to be known as the Amer ican Sociological association, has been formed. its purpose being the encourage ment of sociological research and discus sion.
 Prof. Lester F. Ward of the Smithsonian institution was elected president.
 The Bibliographical society reelected all the old officers.