Smith directed his attention to the growing antagonism between workingmen and employers. He met with company representatives on behalf of striking piano-workers with little success, and he wrote a letter for a labor paper, the Open Shop. Later he expanded the piece and distributed it among business leaders in the United States and Canada in the form of a small book, Labour and Capital. A Socialist broadside issued during the local election is enclosed with a letter of January fourth. As a member of the Board of Governors of the University of Toronto, Smith received letters about candidates for the presidency. He asked legal advice about duties levied against estates as he arranged to leave his fortune to the support of the humanities at Cornell. In exchanges of letters in December Andrew D. White and Smith agreed that military drill at the university should be continued. He assailed plans for old-age pensions in letters to the British press, and was asked by the New York Times for an article on the new British ambassador, Bryce. A Toronto editor, in asking that a portrait be made of Smith and his guest during Bryce's visit to the Grange, said that the two men were "among the greatest in the British Empire today." A Charles F. Benjamin essay; "Woman Suffrage in the United States," is filmed under the date of March 20th. There are letters from the Rational Sunday League, letters about workmen's housing, the Irish problem, Toronto charitable organizations, and letters from readers of his contributions to magazines and newspapers.