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quires a notice of thirty days before a strike, as well as a board of mediation and arbitration.

the proposed uniform act dealing with this subject.

At the annual dinner, Mr. Low, the toastmaster, introduced Senator A. B. Cummins of Iowa, who said that America

of the vice-presidents of the Federa

is now standing on the middle ground between oo-operation and competition, and that under existing conditions the

great majority of workers are not enjoy ing a fair proportion of the products of

their labor. The United States Govern ment must meet squarely the most impor tant question that now confronts it, namely, whether to get back that part

of competition in the business and indus trial world that has already been ab sorbed by great monopolies that are not entitled to it and prepare to safe

guard what measure of free competition we still have, or whether to accept com plete co-operation, preparing to make

this altruistic and including all men. August Belmont, chairman of the department of the National Civic Fed eration that has the matter of work men's compensation in hand, spoke on

Samuel Gompers, introduced as one tion, declared that the Civic Federation

had many enemies among both em ployees and employers of labor.

He

criticized Senator Cummins’ observation that the organizations of labor will never secure for the working people adequate wages. The fact of the matter is, he said, that so long as there shall be a divergence of interests between em

ployers and employees there will never be such a thing as adequate wages. George W. Perkins compared the pres ent labor and capital, monopoly and competition agitation with that which preceded the Civil War. It was no less grave, he said, and the agitation could not long continue without some solution. He added that there were but three pos sible outcomes—-business co-operation

under control of the government, gov ernment ownership, or socialism. He thought it would come to regulated co-operation.

Mr. Krehbiel’s Paintings in the New Illinois Court House HE symbolical painting of

“Law

and Equity," which furnishes the

frontispiece of this number, is part of the decorative work of the Appellate Court room in the new Supreme Court Building, which the state of Illinois has erected at Springﬁeld.

An interesting competition for this and the decorative paintings in the Su

mous in awarding the work to Mr. Albert H. Krehbiel of Chicago. Mr. W. Carbys Zimmerman, the architect of the

building, considers the work done by Mr. Krehbiel an example of the best mural painting work ever executed in the West. The panels are not only paintings of the highest order, but are painted in such a manner as to form an

preme Court room was held, and many

unquestionable and an essential part of

meritorious

the general decorative scheme. The panel which has been chosen for reproduction is one of thirteen mur a,

designs

were

submitted

by some of the best of our American artists.

The Jury of Awards was unani