Bisbee daily review., 1919-10-15

 PLANS AGAIN
 MEET DEFEAT
Conference Holds Heated All. Day Session But Adjourns
 Without Reaching Any
 Agreement on Steel Strike

WASHINGTON, Oct. 14.-After a heated all day session devoted almost entirely to discussion of labor's pro- posal to arbitrate the steel strike, during which two attempts at post ponement and a substitute resolution by Thomas L. Chadbourne of the pub lie group, met with defeat, the na- tional industrial conference adjourned tonight without having taken other definite action than the apHoiptment of tinee sub-committees.
 Another attempt to obtain action in the steel controversy, however, will be made by members of the public group, headed by Bernard M. Baruch, through new compromise proposal, when the conference resumes its ses- sions tomorrow.
 The labor resolution was laid be- fore the conference today without rec ommendation by the central commit tee but with an amendment proposed in committee by Samuel Gompers, president of the American Federation of Labor, providing that the arbitra- tion committee be chosen by the con- ference groups from members or non-members' of the conference. In reporting the resolution, Chairman Chadbourne announced that while the resolution was favored by ma jority of the members of the commit tee it had received the negative vote of two groups and therefore could not be favorably reported.
 A substitute resolution offered by MT. Chadbourne failed to receive the approval of a majority of three con ference groups, although it was framed so as to avoid mention of the steel strike. The substitute proposed acceptance of MT. Gompers' commit tee of six to adjust all serious labor disputes" it's decision to be final, after an attempt to reconcile differ ences had been made by joint com mittee of employers and employees. The labor representatives would be chosen both by those tout on strike and those remaining in the employ of the several companies"
 The climax of the days tense ses- sions. one of which was recessed in the midst of confusion, came late ln the day. when Samuel Gompers, leader of the labor delegation, made an i'm passioned plea for intervention in the steel strike and reviewed the nego- tiations leading up to the calling or the strike on September p.
 Looking directly at Judge Gary, chairman of the United States Steel corporation board, seated with the public group, less than 15 feet away the labor leader declared that the steel corporation had "acted like the Bolsheviki" in refusing to meet rep resentatives of the other party in the dispute. Judge Gary kept his eyes fixed on the labor leaders face throughout the speech but made no reply when MT. Gompers concluded.
 Outside the conference hall labor 1 delegates declared that the confer ence would be flat failure unless It took action on the steel strike. SeeV- eral intimated that the labor delega- ton might withdraw from the confer ence if the arbitration resolution were defeated, although more conservative representatives did not believe the group as a whole contemplated any such drastic action.
 That the employer group does not favor intervention in existing dis putes, either under the labor or sub stitute arbitration proposals, was in dicated by the remarks in the confer ence of L. F. Loree. president of the Delaware and Hudson railway, ana a
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