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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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the largest labor organizationin the world, and August Belmont, the capitalist andemployer, whose election to succeed the lamentedMarcus A. Hanna as President of the Civic Federa-tion was warmly supported by its labor element,pointed out that in no otfaer country in the worldcould such a gathering be brought together. Only thedemocracy of American institutions made possiblethe commingling in unconscious equality and in con-scious co-operation for a common purpose representa- tives of billions of capital, of millions of wage-earn-ers, of scholarship and letters, of the bar, the press,the platform and the church. The list of speakersis a catalogue of active workers for better relationsbetween capital and labor in the United States. Theutterances of men eminent in widely different fieldsof thought and experience concurred in confidencethat the era of industrial peace, with all that it im-plies for national welfare, is not a dream, but canin a measure be realized. The significance of such
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A.WUAL DINNER OF THE NATIONAL CIVIC FEDERATION. NATIONAL CIVIC FEDERATION January 1, 1905 a conviction shared by such a constituency is tre-mendous. Its importance cannot be exaggerated. It was in itself an impressive spectacle to beholdthis aggregation of capital and enterprise, labor andthrift, learning and literature, presided over by thePresident of the American Federation of Labor. De-mocracy was literally in the chair. It was significantof the prestige which this movement for industrialpeace has attained, that the President of the UnitedStates should commend in virile terms the work ofthe organization and express ardent hope for its con-tinued and wider success. Happily appropriate wasthe Presidents heartfelt tribute to the patriotism andmentality of the late Senator Hanna, who had madethe realization of the purpose of the National CivicFederation the highest aspiration of his life. Themodest dignity with which August Belmont, in ac-cepting his unanimous election to its presiden

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