. The National Civic Federation review . e rooms of the Merchants Association,in. the Woolworth building, New York City. Thismeeting, consisting of two sessions, was attendedby more than 250 representative leaders of em-ployers, labor and the public. Problems relat-ing to labor unrest, municipal ownership andprofit sharing plans, the unionization of police-men and other public service employees, and oth-er matters foremost in the public interest, werediscussed by men familiar with the conditionsand difficulties of the time, men whose businessit is to deal with those problems, and whose chiefco
. The National Civic Federation review . e rooms of the Merchants Association,in. the Woolworth building, New York City. Thismeeting, consisting of two sessions, was attendedby more than 250 representative leaders of em-ployers, labor and the public. Problems relat-ing to labor unrest, municipal ownership andprofit sharing plans, the unionization of police-men and other public service employees, and oth-er matters foremost in the public interest, werediscussed by men familiar with the conditionsand difficulties of the time, men whose businessit is to deal with those problems, and whose chiefconcern is the solution of problems almost if notas great as the problems of the war. With Presi-dent Wilson to call a conference in October, con-sisting of delegates representing manufacturers,bankers, agricultural organizations and labor, todeal with these very subjects, there will be foundin the discussion at The National Civic Federa-tion conference suggestions of immediate con-structive value. While the various speakers may have dis-. agreed in regard to certain matters, such as theright of policemen to organize, profit sharing,etcetera, there was presented in the course ofthe discussion the basis of a workable programfor the stabilizing of industry and the adjust-ment of differences by an extension of the prin-ciples of arbitration, by a recognition by bigcorporations of the principle of collective bar-gaining, by the practical working out of someplan of sharing with workers surplus profits, andfor the solving of the high cost of living by in-creased production. The strikes of policemen in Boston and else-where provided an illustration of the imperativeneed of prompt action, and a resolution waspassed providing that a special committee beappointed by the Civic Federation to make astudy of the problems involved in the organiza-tion of unions among policemen, firemen and oth-er public service employees. The question as towhether or not England and France had learnedanything i
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