New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-06-17
AN OFFER TO ROOSEVELT
Salary of 100000 to Head
New Labor Organization.
SEEKING PEACE IN INDUSTRY
Methods To Be Employed Sim
liar to Those of the Cana
dian Cancellation Act.

Roosevelt.
Europe, will be offered the presidency of
new national labor organization at sal
airy Of goo.ooo a year. The new organiza-
ton is organized with a view to preventing
strikes, boyeotts. picketing. lockouts or
any form of coercion between employers
and employees.
Z ". Post, whose disputes with the
American Federation of Labor, or ct least
With the national officers OF that organize
tion, have extended over several years.
is the man who offers TO pay the salary to
the ex-Pressdent to head this new organiza-
tion for the first year, and his proposal is
embodied In letter TO ex-President Roose-
Welt which will be delivered at Oyster Bay
when Mr. Roosevelt reaches home
MIR. Post, with his wife. is guest at the
Hotel Seville, In this city, and yesterday
ne received a telegram from Joseph W.
Bryce, president of the Trades and Work
ers Association. which Is the name of the
new organization. Mr.. Bryce asks Mr.. Post
to invite the ex-President to become a
member of the association and to accept
the presidency. A letter followed, in which
Mr.. Bryce embodied his offer anew. but
expressed regret that the association could
not offer sufficient compensation. Mr.. Post
fer Of the position with that of an adequate
salary
Il have known Theodore Roosevelt for
years, and l know that while he believes In
labor organtzations-and I believe in them.
too-he depiores the strikes and acts of
violence which result from the arbitrary
methods employed by the present manag-
ers Of the Federation" said Mr.. Post last
night
This new organization, he added. was
started in Battle Creek by Joe Bryce.
who was at one time president of the state
association of railroad trainmen. He disap-
proved of the methods of the heads of the
federation and organized this new body,
which relies solely upon mediation and
public opinion for the settlement of differ
ences regarding wages. hours and condi-
tons.
In my own business the men did not
feel the need for any such organizat ton,
but when Mr.. Bryce told me of the aims
and objects of his organization I threw the
doors of my factory open to him and many
OF my men. attracted by the benevolent
purposes of the association. have Joined it
I also visited the other manufacturers in
the town and they have given the new as
Hays. general manager of the Grand Trunk
Railway of Canada. which has its shops
in our town, also favors the association
and ii is gaining members rapidly.
The methods of settlement which this
new body adopts are similar to those of the
Canadian Cancellation act The employers
appoint two arbitrators, the employees two
more and these appoint a fifth. IL they
fail to agree TIE Commissioner Of Labor is
called in TO select the fifth man. This
method has been found TO work well in
Canada and there is no reason why II
should not work in this country
1.-THE board thus appointed takes evil
denee under oath, and if either party re-
fuses to accept the award then the mat
ters brought forth on either side are TO be
given TO the press and public opinion viii
soon force settlement Under this system
we will have no more strikes, violence and
enforced idieness. We have none 90 much
prosperity and we need to conserve IT all.
1.-The new association has recently taken
in four thousand car workers in Philadei-
pnia. and labor body in Denver is coming
i'm. Employers will favor the new associa-
ton. and with a head like the former Presl-
dent IT will gain two million members IN q
year. ! have made some money in my life
and think 1 can 10 :n:re good with IL by
helping to prevent labor troubles than by
founding libraries and endowing universe
ties. so I have determined to offer Mr.
Roosevelt sUiCdbie salary to allow him &c
devote himself 70 this great work. l think
that by doing this I win do greater good
TO a greater number than in any other way
I could deviSe"