The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1909-12-18
OPENING ADDRESS
BY THE PRESIDENT
Conference of National Civic
Federation to Be Held in
January.
GREAT INTEREST SHOWN
STATEMENT BY SETH LOW ON
THE OBJECTS SOUGHT.
GREAT INTEREST SHOWN

Washington. Dec. 16.-President Taft
has agreed to make the opening ad-
dress O. the three days conference Of
the National Civic Federation to be
he'd in this city January Il, is ana 10.
The President is in hearty sympathy
with the purpose or tnls ORGANIZATION
the movement for uniform state laws
and his speech will sound the key
note OF the conference.
In connection with the conference il
is Of interest that Governor Wilson
of Kentucky, chairman of the special
committee appointed at the notable
conference of state governors in wash
ingtCn last winter. TO arrange for fu-
ture meetings, has just issued call
for the governors to gather in Wash
ington at the time the federation is in
session.
Among the delegates TO the confer
euce on the part of wage earneFs viii
be representatives of the American
Federation OF Labor, United Mine
Workers of America, Order of Rail-
road Conductors. Granite Cutters In
ternatiOual association of America
brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen, In
terna tioual brotherhood of Locomotive
Engineers, Anal gamate Association
of Street Railway Employees of America,
international brotherhood of Station
aFV Firemen, Brick LAYERS and AiaSOng'
International union, Brotherhood of BO-
connective Firemen and Enginemen, In
teTna tiOual Association of MaChinists.
Boot and Shoe Workers union. Iron
M0lderS' union of North America In
terms tional Typograp union, Glass
Bottle Blowers association of the
United States and Canada and the
United Brotherhood of Carpenters and
Joiners of America.
On the part of employers there viii
he representatives Of the United States
steel corporation, ne New York Cen
tral railroad, Consolidated Gas COM
paHy. National City bank. Chicago.
Tel rr.r
Telegraph and Gable company, Chi
cage x Northwestern railroad Erie
railroad, the South Carolina Cotton
manufacturers a$sOcia zion. National
ClOthiers and the Building Trades En-
pioyers' association.
Seth Low. president or the fedora
tion. mas made the following statement
regarding the scope and purposes of
the organization
Mr.. Lows Statement.
on leaving the White house today
MI. Low expressed his pleasure at the
Presidents willingness To address the
conference and made the following
of the National Civic Federation:
The National Civic Federation has
been led TO believe that one of the
most important questions with which
our country as a whole. is confronted
is the necessity for reasona BILE uniform
legislation by the different states OF
the Union on many subjects of COM
mon interest.
For example. if one Industrial state
makes q change i'm the law of master
and servant, or of negligence. fl may
unWittingly greatly endauger its man
ufactuTinP industries. but If the COM
petitive industrial states will move
currespC along the same lines
no one of them is likely To be endan-
gered, and the whole country may be
greatly benefited.
The time has come when each state
must legislate on matters of common
interest from the point Of view of one
of a family of states. rather than from
the point of view of an individualism
that IS self-sufficient. Anyone who
has not given particular attention to
this subject win be surprised at the
great range of matters as to which
the common life Of the country has
grown up to the point of needing uni
form legislation by groups of states,
II Rot by ali the states.
"ro enumerate few of the impor-
tant subjects: The great movement
Tor the conservation of our natural re-