The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-09-21
SHOULD CLOSE
LABOR-CAPITAL
BREACH IN U. S.
Invite LabOr'S Cooperation To
Keep Production at Maximum.
BY Voluntary ArbitratiOn-Em-
plOyer, EmplOye and Govt.
AFTER WAR PREPAREDNESS
Arrange for Employment of
Manned American Soldiers.
Flareup When Delegate Calls
Frisco Strikers Traitors.
BY Voluntary ArbitratiOn-Em-
plOyer, EmplOye and Govt.
AFTER-WAR PREPAREDNESS
Arrange for Employment of
Manned American Soldiers.
BY GEORGE MARTIN.

Atlantic City, N. J., Sept. 21.-The
attitude of American business toward
the war and its recommendations as
to what it thinks the government
ought to do are embodied in resolu-
lions to be presented to the final ses-
sion of business leaders with the
limited States chamber of commerce
here today
Among the things expected to be
included in the resolutions are:
A nationwide provision. under the d.
reftion Of committee of business men,
for the employment in fitting OCCUPATIONS ION
return from the
Immediate adoption of the daylight saw
ing system by the government
A cooperative committee OF TepT Il MA "a
tive business men to confer with the gov
erumeut thru the council OF national ue-
tense concerning government contracts
prices. labor and similar quesuohs'
Censure Forcing New Conditions.
Condemnation Of any attempt by bust
ness men. individually or collectively, 70
force new conditions on labor ana an N
vitation TO labor to cooperate Win dust
mess to avoid disputes and Keep produc-
ton M ma ximum iii all lines. -,
Recommendation that voluntary arbltra-
ton Of ali major disputes between labor
aud capital be settled by government
board consisting of representatives OF Dusi-
ness and labor and the government, unuer
government appointment and that no m
reference with production by strikes OF
lockuutS be luuulEeu uuIlhS thS SSNNAS
Man 70 have the chamber of commerce
study the national situation to alleviate
the period Of industrial depression eNpecteu
to follow the war.
Heated Debate on Arbitration.
Heated discussions marked the pre-
liminary consideration of the arhltra-
ton board plan. The original resolu-
ton proposed arbitrary mediation by
the board and unquestioning accept
snca of the decision by both labor and
capital.
The word arbitrary was finally
stricken out but not until Delegate F.
B. F'arnsworth of New Haven, Conn.
had denounced every striker on the
Pacific coast a traitor" and recon-
mended that they be hanged.
President r.. G.. Rhett of the cham
Der interpreted the resolution at at
tempting to dictate the policy of labor
and denounced that as not the spirit
of the convention. He said in part:
I'VE are here to say what we will
do, not what anybody else shall or
ought to do. Let our pronOuncement
of our war program intentions be so
fair and so just that labor must fall in
with it.
Not Seek to Force Labor.
eff we attempt to force labor to do
anything we break down all the good
work of the last five years in getting
the gap between us and labor and
between us and the people bridged.
Five years ago business men had
the German idea-that it could get
what it wanted by force. We cannot
We do not want to. We want to and
must gain our ends by right There
are far more laborers in the United
States than business men and IN a
fight of might labor will win every
time. In a fight of right, the ones
In the right will win"