People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 August 1894 — FOR A LABOR CONGRESS. [ARTICLE]

FOR A LABOR CONGRESS.

A Movement to Biting Employer and Employe Together. Chicago, Aug. I.—The special committee appointed by the civic federation to consider the advisability of calling a national conference of representative men to consider the labor question, and the question of arbitration in particular, on Tuesday night took counsel of some of the leading business men and prominent trade-unionists of the city. The decision was almostunanimous in favor of the proposed conference, and the civic federation committee will hold a meeting in a few days, at which a call for the meeting will be prepared, the date for the conference decided upon and a list of persons who will be invited to attend will be made up. All of those present favored a conference of a national character which should be composed of employersand employes. It was the general opinion that even if no agreement could be reached on compulsory arbitration an understanding of the motives of the employers and employes might be gained, and data secured for the effectual employment of concilatory measures, which would have the effect of preventing many strikes in tire future.