Bisbee daily review., 1912-01-07
INDUSTRIAL PEACE
 IS THEIR OBJECT
Governor Invited 10 Send DeIe- gates Who Will Meet With
 Civic Federation

In announcing the annual meeting of the National Civic Federation, to be held in Washington, March 3, 6 and :, a letter requesting the goyer- nors Of the various states to send delegates to this meeting was made public at the headquarters of the federation in this city. The program provides for a special day on Indus trial Peace and Progress and one day on The Rights and Duties of Public Employees" together with day devoted to the work of the vari- ous departments of the organization. The three days session will be closed with the annual dinner at the New Willard Hotel The invitation to governors to appoint delegates fol- lows:
 Sir. Recent events have so stirred the minds and hearts of our people that the National Civic Federation believes the hour is timely for a meeting to consider industrial peace as related 10 industrial progress. For that reason it is proposed tO dedicate especially to the question of Indus trial Peace the first session of the annual meeting of the National Civic Federation, which will be held in Washington, D. C., March 2, and :, 1912
 The Industrial Peace" session will be presided over by his eminence, Cardinal Gibbons. and it will he held in the peace hall Of the Bureau of American Republics, on Tuesday, March ,. at 10 o'clock. The program for this day will be devoted principal ly 10 the consideration of the sue cessful operation Of the Erdman Con ciiation act. which has long main tained peaceful industrial relations in the business of interstate railways: and to the various effective methods Of negotiations between employers and their employees as Illustrated hy collective bargaining in such lines 7s irters' ate, municipal aud interurbau railways, the large daily newspapers, the building trades, stove manufactur- ias. cori mini7 8, bre ".us anI cher industries.
 At succeeding sessions there will ! he considered problems involved m . the relation of the public empiOye to his employer. the people such as ! Assuming that strikes m official . service are .nadmissible, how can public employers secure redress for l just grievances which in private em ployment would lead to a strike"
 May public employees properly or. ganize to better their conditions ol employmont?'
 Pensions for federal. state, and . municipal employees
 I On the third day of the annual ' meeting there will be sessions of tho federatiOn's departments on. Compensation for industrial acct dents and their prevention. Regulation of interstate and munic ipal utilities.
 Regulation of industrial corpora tens
 Pure food ard drugs Reform in legal procedure. and
 The woman's welfare and the em , ployers welfare departments, devote, ] to interesting employers. whether put lie or private. in improving the condi l tions under which employers in al industries and in al occupations wOrI !, and live. ! In view of the direct bearing vhicl , the topics mentioned have on th public welfare In every state, ] hay the honor to invite you to send r delegation tO Washington, which shl be representative of your state. t
 participate in this meeting Of th
 National Civic Federation. Very Respectfully, .- SETH LOW,
 President