The San Francisco call., 1907-06-20
CALL FOR PEACE
CONGRESS|ssUED
BY CONC|L|AT
Industrial Conference Is to
Be National in It's
Character
ROOSEVELT ASSISTS
Will Send Cabinet Members
to Attend Sessions in
This City
GOMPERS MAY COME
Local Labor Leaders Attend
Meeting in the Ferry
Building
GOMPERS MAY COME

A call for a national industrial
peace conference to meet in this city
in July has been issued by the con-
citation committee of San Francisco
with the encouragement of President
Roosevelt. The committee expects
that this national conference will eff
feet condition of permanent indus
trial peace in this city, show to the
east that the labor conditions here
are not entirely hopeless and that the
rumors that the town is to be tied up
are false The provisional dates for
the meeting are July Is, 1s and 20
At this gathering it is proposed to
organize a branch of the national civic
federation. President BENJAMIN Ide
Wheeler of the University of Califor-
MIA, who is now in the east will bring
to the conference. authority for the
establishment of the California branch
will be attended by three, and possibly
four, members of President Roosevelt's
cabinet and by 1900 delegates from
California and the east. Many labor
leaders are expected to be present, in
Guiding Samuel Gompers and John
Mitchell.
The cabinet members whose attend
ance is assured are Secretary of the
Navy Metcalf, Secretary of Commerce
and Labor Oscar S. Straus and Sec
~,
In planning the conference the con-
ciliation committee will have the active
cooperation of the chamber of COM
merce of San Francisco, the Califor-
MIA Promotion committee, the civic
league of San Francisco. the San Fran
cisco church federation, the California
club and similar organizations.
The conciliation committee decided
to issue the call at a meeting held
yesterday afternoon in the ferry build
ing, which was presided over by George
A. Tracy. There were present at the
meeting, besides Tracy, Rev. George A.
White, Rev. Frank w. Gale, Isadore
Jacobs, W. A. Buell., Rev. H. HI. Bell,
Andrew Furuseth, B. L. Cadwalader, r.
w. Marvin, A. C. Holmes, w. P. Nc
Cabe, ]. K. Jones, Walter Macarthur,
Rabbi Bernard Kaplan and Andrew
Gallagher.
Today Chairman Tracy will issue the
list of committees which Will have the
affair in charge. President Roosevelt
and former President Cleveland are to
be invited to attend. While they will
not appear in person. messages will
come from them.
The objects of the conference, as
stated by Isadore Jacobs at the con-
clusion OF the meeting yesterday, will
be to bring about condition OF perma-
nent peace in this city. TT WILL" said
he, bring all classes together. estab-
lish a mutual understanding and set at
rest all this. idiotic talk of tying up
the town."
Regarding the meeting. Tracy issued
the following statement:
Governor Gillett will be invited CO
call the conference to order and 1t Is
expected that the railroads viii make
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educators, employers and labor leaders
of California will be invited as dele
gates to the said conference, It being
the intention to bring together for the
best interests of all concerned the lead
ing capitalists and laboring men of
the state to discuss the necessary or
ganization to be formed on this coast
whereby permanent industrial peace
may be assured.
'At this conference it is the inten-
tion to discuss the organization of a
California branch of the national civic
federation. President Benjamin Idc
Wheeler of the University of California
will return shortly from the east with
authority to bring into existence a
California branch.
1T is expected that the conference
will be the most important gathering
that has ever been held on the Pacific
coast, as it will be fraught with mat
ters of such vital Importance as will
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