Arizona republican., 1915-10-03
John D. Rockefeller, Jr., Presents New Industrial Plan Which Meets Ap- proval of Delegates At tending Conference
DIRECTORATE NOW
 TO VOTE ON PLAN
Meeting Votes to Submit Proposed Plan to Direc- tors on Monday and to Miners for a Referendum Vote
ASSOCIATED PRESS DISPATCH

PUEBLO, oct 2.-The fate of the l Rockefeller industrial plan hangs upon the action of the Colorado Fuel and Iron company directors and the miners employed by the company. At a meeting attended by delegates from the various Colorado camps, operat- ing officers and mine superinten- dents, tie plan was unanimously ap- proved. The meeting voted to sub-
 init the plan to the directors of the
 company on Monday and to the
 miners for q referendum vote.
 The miners vote from each camp
 will be by secret ballot If the
 majority of the directorate of the
 company and a majority of the
 miners elect to accept the plan then
 it will become effective at once.
 The industrial system devised by
 John D. Rockefeller Jr. and w. Mac
 kenzie King, with the assistance of the Colorado Fuel and Iron company officers as a solution of the problem in Colorado embodies direct media tion between capital and labor. Rockefeller himself declared it to be
 more democatic than unionistic" be- cause it included all employees. or ganized or not.
 The industrial plan provides for an organization of it's own. in which the miners elect representatives to deal with officers of the company in all matters involving grievances and working conditions The plan in cludes a signed contract which may be changed only after due notice from one party or the other. It grants collective bargaining and the privilege of belonging to the union. but does not involve recognition of the United Mine Workers of Amer ica or. any other organization.
 At the meeting Rockefeller outlined his plan in a speech to the men who then discussed it. The sprfnkling of members of the United Mine Workes among the delegates made no oppo- sition and the vote on the approval of the proposal was unanimous
 Tie expenses of the miners dele gate attending the meeting were paid by the Colorado Fuel and Iron company, and the company also re- imbursed them for time lost in Ieav- ing the mines and coming to Pueblo.
 The miners referendum on the industrial plan is expected to be com- 9leted early next week Officers of the company indicated the belief that there will be little opposition among he miners. The Rockefeller plan makes no provision for workers in steel mills.
 It is stated if the mediation sys- tenn is applied successfully m the mining camps, it later will be ex- tended to the steel mills and other institutions. Rockefeller some time next week will visit Sun rise, Wyo, where the Colorado Fuel md Iron company has an iron mine Employees there have not been in cluded in the mediation plan already in effect in Colorado, and to them the system to be inaugUrated is en- tirely new.
 At the meeting several delegates brought word that stories are being circulated in the camps that Rocke- feller has not been around the mines at all, but that the visitor last week was some one who impersOnated him. Rockefeller and his party have re- turned to Denver