The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1906-12-09
EDITED BY O. M. BOYLE

The annual meeting of the National
Civic Federation will be held this week
in New York City. The federation 5
aim is to have all industrial disputes
settled by joint trade agreements and
conciliation. Among the subjects. to
be discussed will be an income tax and
an inheritance tax, government by in
junction and child labor. In speaking
of the coming meeting, the Review. the
Official organ of the federation. saws.
Among the speakers on an income
tax will be Andrew Carnegie August
Belmont, William d. Guthrie. Charles
w. Eliot, president of Harvard Univer-
sity;. Archbishop John ireland. Oscar s.
Strauss, Samuel Gompers,. n. j. Bach
elder, master OF the National Grange.
Franklin MacVeagh. Melville E. ingalls,
and Nicholas Murray Butler. Other
speakers will be Alfred Mosley, who is
to present the English tax system.
Professor Hermann Schumacher of the
University OF Berlin, who will talk on
the German system, and George Foster,
ex- Minister of Finance of Canada. who
will present the facts regarding the
Canadian income and Inheritance tax.
Government by injunction will be
discussed by John Mitchell of the Unit
ed Mine Workers: II. r. Fuller. repre-
senting the Railway Brotherhoods
George r. Peck, former president of
the American Bar Association, and
general counsel of the Chicago. Mill
waukee and st. Paul Railway; Walter
Drew, Commissioner of the National
Iron Erectors' Associations; Louis d.
Brandeis, Frederick n. Judson and Seth
Low.
Tn the discussion of child labor there
will be represented the officers of the
National Child Labor Committee, repre-
sentatives of the trade unions from
among those occupations in which child
labor is most prevalent, representatives
Of employers and manufacturers or
CARNATIONS, labor commissioners, fac
tory inspectors and representatives of
woneps organizations.
That these are three vital questions
at this time will not be denied. The
general demand, finding expression in
so many circles, that there should be
some curb placed on huge aggregations
of wealth, certainly calls for thought
full consideration by those who believe
in the pert etuity of our democratic in
situations. Shall we have a graduated
income tax And a graduated inheritance
tax? If so, should there be exemp-
alike? Will an income tax produce a
nation of liars? What has been the
experience in Europe?
1.-The Importance of the problem OF
| government by injunction lies in the
/ fact that organized labor believes that
the courts are being used by employ
ers in partisan way to prevent or break
strikes. The employers, while admitting
| there may be abuses of the character
| complained of, claim that the remedy
| is not along the lines sought by the la
! Dor unions The question is Can tbs
abuses complained of by ORGANIZED la
Dor be remedied without destroying the
beneficial principle underlying the in
| junction.?
The question on child labor to come
| before the meeting is largely this
/ What is the extent of the evil, and Is
| everything being done that is possible
| to do to meet it,?
THE Cancellation department will or
ganize it's work in, a way that will en-
able it to be in touch with every in
dnstrial center and TO carry on during
the coming year great deal of edu-
cational work along the lines of con-
Citation, arbitration and trade agree
| ments.
THE executive committee OF the i'm
migration department will consider the
various projects which have been ad-
vanced for the distribution of irnmi-
grants and which have in view reliev-
ing the congestion Of aliens at particu-
lar points. and at the same time meet.
ing the demands of those sections OF
the country where immigration is sc
much desired.