Article September 28, 1907 Issue

One thousand men and women, interested in the civic...

San Francisco (Cal.) Examiner

One thousand men and women, interested in the civic and industrial welfare of this city. gathered yesterday at Christian Science Hall, to attend San Francisco's first Industrial Peace Conference. They came to listen and to learn; to discuss and hear discussed the economic conditions that have arrayed capital against labor; to propose plans and measures upon which may be builded a public sentiment that will eventually put an end to industrial strife. The delegates attending the conference were from all walks of life. The captain of industry sat by the captain of labor. The civic reformer, the economist, the philanthropist, and the thinking woman of the home—all were there to hear and judge and advise of a method to establish and cement a universal harmony between the wage-earner and his employer.

In the opening of the convention, from the beginning of the address of welcome, delivered by Mayor E. R. Taylor, until the last speaker closed, there were enunciated principles broad and encompassing, principles that could leave no question of the purposes and hopes and aims of the conference. For the most part the questions at issue were dealt with in the abstract, but at times there were suggestions that came straight from the shoulder, suggestions which involved the very conditions that are at the bottom and are the cause of industrial dissension.

[The communication from our Leader which was read at the opening of this conference appeared in the Sentinel of July 27.—Editor.]

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