The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1907-09-21
.STRAUs WILL SOON CALL MEET.
ING Of TRUSTEES.
Purpose to Adopt Basis for Gre
atin4 Tribunal That Will Be to
Industry What Hague Tribunal
is to Nations-Movement Broad
in Scope.


next two or three weeks Of the trustees
and committees under them who are
to establish the foundation for the
promotion of industrial peace. The
secretary regards the work involved OF
carrying to contamination the idea of
President Roosevelt in creating at
Washington a tribunal that will bear
the same relation to industrial peace
that The Hague tribunal bears to in
ternational peace, as among the most
important with which it is his duty to
deal. The public heretofore has been
apprised only partially of the broad
scope of the movement about to be
launched. Details given by Mr.. Straus,
who has resumed his official duties at
the capital, therefore, are Of timely
interest.
When the Norwegian parliament's
committee last year awarded the No.
bel peace prize under the last will and
testament of Alfred Bernard Nobel,
toTheodore Roosevelt, the latter, in
accepting, sent the following message
to the authorities at Christiania:
"After much thought I have con-
cluded that the best and most fitting
way to apply the amount of the prize
is by using it as a foundation to es-
tablish at Washington permanent in
dustrial peace committee.
''The object will be to strive for
better and more equable relations
among my countrymen who are en-
gagged, whether as capitalists or az
wageworkers, in Industrial and agri-
cultural pursuits. This will carry out
the purpose of the founder of the
prize, for in modern life it is as i'm
portant to work for the cause Of just
and righteous peace in the industrial
world as in the world of nations"
For Permanent Industrial Court
Subsequently the United States con.
gress, at it's last session, passed an act
to establish the Foundation for the
Promotion of Industrial Peace with
the Nobel award, in accordance with
the presidents desire.
Mr.. Straus expects ready response
to the request for fund sufficient to
provide an income to carry forward
the work in hand and, when the trus.
tees and committee of nine assemble
here for Their first meeting in the near
future, it is believed that important
steps at once will be taken to prevent
further clashes between capital and
labor.
The central idea is to have q perma.
nent body composed of men represent.
ing all elements, in which capital and
labor and the general public will have
absolute confidence. When. differences
arise, they will be presented to this
body, whose judgment it is believed
will be final and binding on every in.
terest involved in the controversy.
1t is not improbable that the Nobel
idea Of giving an annual prize to the
person who accomplishes most in the
direction of promoting the fraternity
Of American citizens will be adopted
as soon as the foundation fund war.
rants the award, just as under the
terms Of DR.. Nobel's will prize be
awarded to the person who shall have
most or best promoted the fraternity
of nations, the abolition or diminu.
ton of standing armies and the forma.
tion and increase of peace congresses.
There is possibility that, if pend.
ing differences between capital and
labor remain unsettled when the trus-
tees and committee of nine meet q few
weeks hence, the questions involved
will be submitted to them for solution.