The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1919-10-25
LABOR IS
To CALL MEETING
FOR CONFERENCE
Public Group Adjourns
After Writing Letter
of Explanation
VOTING METHOD
CHOICE OF ALL
Says Head of Fedora
ton Purposely Mis-
states Facts for OBJ
vious Reason

Washington. Oct 2A--The
Public group Of the industrial
conference adjourned sine die
today after preparing a letter to
he president recommending that
Tho work Of the conference be
carried On but not by the public
r-rrr as constituted when the
c~onferepce broke UP.
President Samuel Gompers. OF
the American Federation of La
nor. who was Chairman of the
labor group In the conference.
announced today that he would
caii q national conference OF la
Dor leaders In Washington IN
esrfv Noven, yer to consider
what iahor's course shall be as
a result Of the negative outcome
of the conference.
These are the leading develop
rnents in what mas BE- tsrr~ed the
aftermath of the industrial confer
cree which wa- Dissolved YESTERDAY
II was stated tonight that the let
ter prepared by the public group as
a statement of its recommendations
TO the president Is virtually the em-
hodtraent Of a reT%-t made by a sub
committee Of whl\ John n Rookie
Teller. Jr., was chairman. The n en-
hArs Of the public group give Mr..
Rockefeller the credit Of preparation
of ~ ira ~sasx to-day SlxarzGt%Efxasa AS a
proposed treaty Of Industrial peaoe
Bernard NJ Rarnch, chairman OF
the public rrour. said tina, he would
present the letter tn the president
this evening. but that until Il had
reached the president no staten ent
could be made as 70 its contents. and
that n would have to be given out
from the white house
Whine the members Of the con,-
rnitt>>t wcu1d not state what their
specific recon mendations were as 10
how the work of the Industrial con
ference should he carried or they
said that they felt hat the public
rrcur could no appropriately carry
or the work.
NOT REPRESENTATIVE
The view was expressed that as the
public group represented only on--
third OF the conference. n could
hardly work as a representative body
inal rurpose for which the industrial
conference Tas called. =. 4 .~>
The other members Of the COM
rttt>e OF FIVE which was headed by
Mr. Rockefeller. were Miss Ida Tar
bell. author Of the history Of the
Standard oil company. John Spargo,
socialist; Thomas u. Jones, Of Chi
cawo. and Ward VI. Burgess. of ON
aha.
The public group devoted its die
cussion in part TO whether the sub
tect of high cost of living should be
taken up by A future conference and
70 the recommendation Of Secretary
OF Labor Wilson apd Gavin McNah
regarding the creation of national
hoerds in industry to adjust la
disputes.
One of the reasons for the view
that the pNhiic group should not
carry on the work Of the defunct in
dustrial conference was a financial
one. Expenses of the delegates in
the employer and the labor rroups
were raid hv the bodies they rerre.
scented. but the members Of the puh-
lie group paid their own expenses
duriAc the three weeks they have
been here.
President Gompers' announcement
that a national conference of labor
aders would be held in Novemh Der
was made after the recent o. = tcle-
gram from the Illinois state Fedora
tfon Of Labor. urging tina such a
conference be held.
GAIL LABOR CONFERENCE.
The labor conference viii
together nearly 200 delegates. in
c.iudiaE the presidents or representa-
tlFcs OF all the international unions
embraced in the American Fedora
tion OF Labor, the miners, and the
TOUT big railroad brotherhoods.
Aside from the steel strife the
coal strike n the threatened rail-
road strike. the labor leaders are
m osf concerned with the lertsis Ron