The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1912-03-04
INDUSTRIAL PEACE
TO Be CONSIDERED
Important Meeting Will Be
Held at Washington
During the Week.
(National Newr Association,

scale never before undertaken by the
prominent men of the country. prob
lens Of Industrial Peace and Pro-
gress" will be discussed at the twelfth
annual convention of the National Civ
&c Federation. which will be in session
here three days, beginning next Tues
day.
The meetings, which will be held in
the Peace Hall Of the Pan-American
Building. will be presided over by Car
dinal Gibbons. on the Arst day and by
President Taft on the other two days.
and the leading men Of the nation will
be in attendance, including governors
Of seventeen states.
In addition to the regular sessions of
the convention, special meetings will
be held simultaneously by sub-depart-
ments Of the federation on Regulation
Of Industrial Corporations. Seth Low.
chairman; Regulation Of Interstate
and Municipal Utilities, Emerson Nc
Millin, chairman; Compensation for
Industrial Accidents. August Belmont.
chairman; Pure Food and and Drugs.
John Hays Hammond, chairman; Re-
form In Legal Procedure. Alton Is. lar
ker. chairman; The Woman's Welfare,
Mrs. John Hays Hammond, chairman;
and the Employers Welfare Depart
ments, w. r. Wilcox. chairman. devot-
ed to interesting employers. whether
public or private, in improving the con-
ditions under which employees in all in
dustries and in all occupations work
and live.
Governors to Attend.
The Governors whose acceptance OF
Invitations have been received and
who will participate In the work OF the
convention are Governor Robert p.
Bass. OF New Hampshire; Governor w.
Hodges Mann. OF Virginia: Governor
Aram J. Pothier. of Rhole Island: Gov
ernor Chester II. Aldrich. OF Nebras-
ka; Governor Albert w. Gilchrist, Of
Florida; Governor W. w. Kitchin, of
North Carolina: Governor Emmett
O'Neal, OF Alabama: Governor John A..
Mead. OF Vermont: Governor Lee
Cruce. OF Oklahoma; Governor Chase
q. Osborn. of Michigan: Governor Jo-
seph NJ. Carey. of Wyoming; Governor
Eugene N. Foss, of Massachusetts,;
Governor John Burke. of North Dako.
ia: Governor John A. Dix, OF New
York; Governor Judson Harmon. Of
Ohio: Governor Charles 8. Deneen, of
Illinois; Governor O. b. Colquitt. Of
Texas.
The entire discussions of the conven-
ton will center about the general sub
ject Of the relations Of employer and
employe, and will be divided into three
h. In IL
ployes. the public utility company to
its employees and the government. fed
eral, State and municipal, to its en-
ployes.
Railroad Questions
Prominent among the matters to be
considered under these heads are the
practical operation Of the trade agree
ments between the railway system Of
the country and the brotherhoods Of
engineers, flremen. conductors. train
men and other employees; the success
full operation of the three years con.
tract between the National Association
of Newspaper Publishers and the In
ternational Organization of Printers,
Freshmen and Stereotypers. as we'll as
the contracts in many other trades,
such as street railways. building
trades. coal mining and brewing.
That the contract between the pub
fishers and their employees is practi-
cally an ideal one, is the opinion of
both sides to the agreement. and will
be discussed as a model for imitation
by other trades. The contract
amounts practically to voluntary com
bulsory arbitration. paradoxical as the
term may be. 1t provides against all
strikes by the arrangement that. when
any local walkout may occur the pla-
ces Of the strikers will be filed by the
union instead of the employers. and a
general national arbitration board is
maintained as also special local arbi-
tration committees.
The problem will be considered as
to whether II IL best to have in all
cases contracts between employers
and employees Of public utilities just as
with private concerns. Strikes during
the last few years In street railway.
express and railroad companies have
emphasized the need for settling the
question.
The same IL true of employees Of the
government whether national, State or
municipal. Just at present the postal
employees are agitating for bill In
congress to give them the right to
make appeals in q body for higher sal
aries. and the matter will be gone over
at length by the convention. Similar
situations which have arisen in the
states and cities. will be delved into
NV tho convontiOn
A campaign has been waged for sew.
eral years by the National Civic FEEDER.
alton for pensions for public employees.
fair both to the government and to the
employees, and also for law providing
compensation for injuries sustained
during employment
Pensions for Federal, State and Mu.
nicipai Employees" AZ we'll as Retire.
ment Plans for Wage Farmers in Pri.
vate Enterprises" are among the spec.
ial papers that will be read. Pensions
for employees 10 q topic correlated to
workmen's compensation, In that dis.
abled employees may become pension.
ers.
To become incapacitatcd after years
OF loyal service with no means OF sup.
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