The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1908-01-24
President andOther Gov
ernment Officials viii
Help Build Million
Dollar Home.
Campaign for Funds Out
lined and Will Extend
Throughout the
Nation.

President Roosevelt, Vice President
Fairbanks, every member of the Cabi-
net the Supreme Court, 2 bile officials.
labor leaders, and labor employers are
Interested in d protest which had its
conception in the Central Labor Union
for the construction OF a million dollar
national temple OF labor in Washington.
This building is designed TO serve as
home for the Washington labor or
carnations and meeting place OF Dis
tFict and national labor conventions
as well as meeting place for the
arbltrauons arising between capital and
labor.
Messrs. O'Brien and Horgan. a special
committee OF the national temple Of Ia
Dor association, which has been organ
lied 70 raising the necessary funds and
construct the temple, called at the State
Department today 20 interest Secretary
Root and Assistant Secretary Bacon in
tie proposition The project Is at pres
ent in its infancy or a tentative form.
and Il is desired TO obtain Endorsement
OF prominent officials before proceeding
with the actual campaign for raising the
funds.
Root Approves Plan. =
Secretary Root gave them 9 letter
giving the project his hearty indorse-
ment- II is said that every- Cabinet
member except Secretary Taft has in
dorsed the proposition. but ldr. Taft
has not Yet given his final decision.
The Endorsement Of Vice President
Fairbanks has been obtained. and
and Charles T. Nell. Commissioner Of
Labor, who has become personally in
terested. has been delegated 10 Law the
matter before President Roosevelt. 4
special emissary viii be sent 10 obtain
moral. II not actual. support OF An
drew Carnegie. Incidentally. the SUP
port OF all Presidential candidates isl
being solicited. Speaker Cannon. like
Secretary Taft, has so far withheld his
Endorsement
Peace Proclamation.
An Industrial Peace Proclamation"
has been issued by the National Tenn
Pic Association. and ha been presented
to all those approached Cor their sigma
ture and Endorsement The lrocIama-
ton is as follows:
Whereas, antagooisn. between capi-|
tai and labor causes unrest in the busi-
ness world; is a menace to profitable in
dusJTial activity, interferes with NUM-
cipal government, and the material and
social advancement of Wago-workers
and in the majority Of cases springs
from trivial Misunderstanding or
grOuudless personal pre- judices; and
Whereas. the modern method OF con-
clliatiOn and arbitration has already, IN
its limited application, proved beneficial
IN the adjunctment Of differences be-
tween employer and emplOye;
nal@g ~ E-~r
ness men and representatives of or
ganized labor, hereby pledge ourselves
to direct our best endeaVors toward
minimizing the business losses and other
social ills resulting eIOm such crude
agencies as the strike, the boycott, and
the lockout, and " th this end in view,
looking toward q more systematic gen
eral application of the principles of ar
bitrstiOn, will, TO the extent Of our in
fiuenCe and ability, strive to impress
upon our fellow-citizens IN every walk
Of life a fuller realization than in the
past, in the e>healthy growth Of the com
munity, their interests are Identical and
can only clash at the expense of the
general welfare and the lasting detri-
ment Of all classes"
Campaign for Funds.
The first step in an active campaign
for funds has been taken in the adEer-
tisCment Of 2 grand ball to be held at
Masonic Temple Wednesday evening
under the auspices of the Central Labor
Union. A systematic canvass has been
authorized OF each OF the $500 local
labor organizations affiliated with the
American Federation Of Labor. which
has a membership of 3000,0 900 or more.
1t is hoped to raise the money by lump
subscriptions Of 800 from each union,
or individual subscriptions OF 81 each.
Contributions from outside sources will
also be solicited. Nearly all the &c binet
members have sienified their intention
Of subscribing literally and several
checks have been received.
The National Labor Temple Associa-
ton. which Is fu-thering the movement
IS in itself strictly local The officers
are r. G. VI. Ross, president; G. Frank
lin Ault, vice president; Newton A.
James, recording secretary; J. c.
Schmidt, financial secretary; c. A.
PSau. treasurer There is also a direc-
torate Of ten members, al OF whom, with
the officers, are members of the local
Central Labor Union. Among them is
sam DeNedreYa.