Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-09-25
IN LABOR CIRCLES
c.

matter of more than ordinary interest
to workingmen is the recent announcement
that Oscar S. Straus. Secretary of Com
MERGE and La Dor, will shortly call meeting
of the trustees and committees under them
who are to establish the foundation for the
promotion Of Industrial pace. The Sec
rotary regards the work involved in carrying
to contamination the idea OF President
Roosevelt in creating at Washington a tri-
bunal that viii bear the same relation to
interna' industrial peace that The Hague
tribunal bears to international peace as
among the most important with which it is
his duty to deal.
When the Norwegian parliament's COM
mittee last year awarded the Nobel peace
prize, under the last viii and testament of
Alfred Bernard Nobel of Sweden, to Theo-
dore Roosevelt, the latter. in accepting sent
the following message to the authorities at
Christiania:
After much thought l have concluded
that the best and most fitting way to apply
the amount of the prize is by using Ii as a
foundation to establish al Washington a
permanent industrial peace committee.
The object will be to strive for better
and more equitable relations among my
countrymen who are engaged whether as
capitals! or as wageworkers. in industrial
and agricultural pursuits. This will carry
out the purpose of the founder of the prize
foi III iilodelH NE IL Is dS important TO
work for the cause of just and righteous
peace in the industrial world as in the
world of nations"
Subsequently the United States Congress
at Its last session passed act to estab-
ilsh the foundation for the promotion of
industrial peace, the Nobel award In &C
cordance with the Presidents desire, to
form the nucleus of fund.- the income of
which shall be expended for bringing to-
sether in conference at Washington espe-
/ claliy during the session of Congress- rep
resentatiVes of labor ana capital for the
purpose of discussing Industrial problems
with a view of arriving at better under
standing between employers and employees
and thus promoting industrial peace.
Inc Nopei peace prize amounts to a little
less than 100000. and this principal at pres
ent Is invested in government bonds bear
ing only per cent interest 1t is pro-
posed to Interest the public so as to secure
principal of S,OO0,COO, and this will he
invested in permanent securities by the
trustees. the income from which Shall carry
out the purposes enunciated in the act of
Congress.
tce of the Supreme Court of the United
States, the Secretary of Agriculture and the
Secretary of Commerce and labor make up
the trustees of the foundation together
with the following appointed outside of Of
tcial life: Marvin Hughitt president of the
Chicago and Northwestern railroad rapre-
senting employers; John Mitchell repre-
senting labor. and Seth Low of New York
and Thomas G.. Bush of Alabama, repre-
sentng the general public
secretary Straus expects ready response
10 the request for fund sufficient to pro-
!ioe an income to carry forward the work
| IN hand, and. when the trustees and com
| nl:ttee OF nine assemble here for their first
NEE IN the near future, it is beleved
| that Important steps at once will he taken
| 10 prevent further clashes between canitaI
| ana iapor. Inc central idea is to have a
permanent body composed of men repre-
| senting all elements in which capitaI and
| labor and the general public will haUa ahl
| solute confidence. When differences ariSa
| they VIII be presented to this body. whose
| iuogment' II is believed will be final and
| olnding on every interest inyo we'd in the
| controversy. Al ING
| 1t Is not improbable that the Noble, idea
OF giving an annual prize to the nerson
promoting the fraternity Of American cttI
Aens VIII be adopted as soon as the founda
| ton fund warrants the award
| Ihe people throughout this country and
! from one end of the world to the other an
Plaudlngly approved the selection of Presi
| dent Roosevelt as the recipient of the Nohe,
Pre- Tt said Mr. Stratus. They recognize I'd
| emperors, opened the doors of The Hague
tribuvi: that he, through his tactful tnitia
| i've and mediation. brought about peace
between Japan and Russia. and that he
was the first to summon the second great
| peace congress, and, in the interest of in
.eInatlonai good will, resigned the high
| privilege to the Car of Russia. BY these
| l.
| tude of the peace-loving world and thrice
Justihed the award of the Norwegian storth
| ing.
| 'tully as important peace among ma
| ions Is peace within nations. People who
| are subjected to unreasonable restrictions
| upon life. liberty and the pursuit of happi-
| ness, and who are compelled to live under
| such conditions that they cannot earn their
| daily bread, become revolutionary He who
| had interviewed and brought about an euuit-
| able adjustment in the greatest industrial
| struggle of modern timas-the anthracite
! coal Strike-dedicated the Nobel peace prize
] TO the promotion of industrial peace and
I by an act of Congress. approved March .
| last, this foundation for the promotion of
| industrial peace was made perpetual with
! the purpose Of aiding the Industrial forces
| to arrive at peaceful adjustment of their
| reciprocal rights on a bisis OF humanity and
| Justice. In Theodore Roosevelt are united
| the historical foresight of a Jefferson with
| the humane consideration of Lincoln for
| the welfare of the masses He is ever as
| watchful to protect the poor man as we'll
| as the rich man in his rights as he is to re-
| strain them from committing wrong"
| Washington machinist who attended
| the recent twelfth biennial convention of
the international association of that craft.
| at st. Louis says 1t was one of the most