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Title: The National Civic Federation review
Year: 1905 (1900s)
Authors: National Civic Federation
Subjects: Labor and laboring classes
Publisher: New York : (The Federation)
Contributing Library: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

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hesedelegates are all members of the parliaments of their respective countries. Other foreign guestswere the delegates from French organizations of la-bor and industrial corporations, sent by the Frenchgovernment to study industrial conditions in theUnited States. This was the first international gathering in his-tory in which employers, employed and the generalpublic were all represented. The purpose of the Interparliamentary Union isthe maintenance of international peace through the reference to arbitration of differences between na-tions that diplomacy fails to adjust. At the time ofthe luncheon, the Interparliamentary Union had con-cluded at St. Louis the first session that it had everheld in this country. Both the time, therefore, andthe personnel of the company cooperated to bring outin the speeches at the luncheon a parallelism be-tween international peace and industrial peace; be-tween the processes of diplomacy and the methodsof conciliation and conference between representa-
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THE INTERNATIONAL, CONFERENCE ON INDUSTRIAL PEACE NATIONAL CIVIC FEDERATION October 15, 1904 ivea of capital and labor; between the proposedubstitution of international arbitration for war andthe utility of voluntary arbitration of differencesbetween capital and labor, in preference to the finalresort of strikes and lock-outs. The speeches also brought out the fact that com-pulsory arbitration is a plan not acceptable to organ-ized labor in this country. The following is a list of those present at theluncheon: Members Interparliamentary Union. America :—Hon. Richard Bartholdt, President In-terparliamentary Union; Hon. T. E. Burton, of theCommittee of Congress on the InterparliamentaryUnion; Hon. S. J. Barrows, Secretary of the sameCommittee; Hon. James Rupert, Member of theCommittee. Austria :—Vladimir Ritter Ladislaus V. Gniewosz,Member of Reichsrath. Belgium :—X. Houzeau de Lehaie, Senator; EmileVandervelde, Deputy. England :—W. Randal-Cremer, M. P.; Thos.Lough, M. P.; Fred.

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