The Connecticut labor press., 1919-10-11
LABOR, CAPITAL
 AND THE PUBLIC
 IN BIG CONFERENCE
Three Groups Get Together in Washington in Session to
 Last Three Weeks.
GROUPS ACT SEPARATELY
Secretary Lane Is Chairman of Meeting Influential Men
 in Labor Group.

Washington, Oct 1O.-Organized la
 bor, organized industry and the public
 met together here for the first time at
 the council table this week in an en- | deaVor to find a common understand ing that will lead to industrial peace
 and economic solidarity The opening
 session was held on Monday and it is expected that the conference will last three weeks. The labor delegates are:
 For the American Federation of La Dor: Samuel Gompers and Frank Nor rlscn, Washington, D. C.; Daniel J.
 !obln, Indianapolis; Joseph F. Va1en tine, Cincinnati; w. D, Ma11on. Detroit I. A. Rickert, Chicago; Jacob Fischer, Indianapolis; Matthew Woll, Washing ton, D: C.; Mrs. Sara Conboy, New ington, D. C.; Paul Scharrenberg, San Francisco; John H. Don1in, Washing ton, D. C., and M. F. Tight, Pittsburgh.
 For the four railroad brotherhoods w. E. Sheppard, Conductors; w. c. Lee, Trainmen; Timothy Shea, Fire men, and H. E. Wills, Engineers.
 The first important action taken was the adoption of a rule under which the conference determined not to do bus mess as a common council but to caucus and act on all matters by factiona1 groups. It was also decided that the meetings of the three groups would be in secret.
 The organization adopted provides for a general commit ttee of 15, five rep resentatives of each group, to which all resolutions or other matters must be referred. Members of this commit tee will rub elbows and get the com mon viewpoint, and will be in a position to report to their respective groups the promptings for the actions proposed by the various groups.
 As fixed the general procedure of the conference, which to many delegates seemed at first confused, is simply this Any delegate can present a resolution or other matter. Upon it's presentation 1t must be referred by the chair to the general committee for action without debate. The committee is to bring in its report, winch is i'll turn to be given to the three groups for action, before 1t reaches the conference.
 The general committee of Is which IS to handle al! questions for submission to the conference was selected from the floor and immediately ratified. It's mem bership, which will have a heavy inhu- ence in the conference proceedings, Is as follows:
 Representing the public: Thomas L. Chadbourne, A. A. Landon, H. B. Endi- colt, Charles Edward Russell and Li1- lian D. Wald.
 Representing the employees: Samuel | Gompers, Frank Morrison, w. D Ma hon, Matthew Woll and L. J. Sheppard l
 Representing the employers: s. Pel- | merton Hutchinson, ]. w. O'Leary, J. | J. Raskok, Herbert F. Perkins and J. | N. Tittemore.
 In accepting the chairmanship of the conference, Secretary Lane said that he to work out a solution of the present | industrial troubles growing out of re- construction and continued:
 We will work out way because 1t | can not be that there is no way. 1 wish | that 1t were possible that the President 1 might have given you the stimulating influence not only of his presence but of that true word which he always speaks. That is denied Us now, but possibly 1t may not be denied. The word comes to us fresh and cheering from the White House that before your deliberations are through it may be possible that you may yet hear directly from him. Whether that is so or not, you are to go on with your work in the spirit that I believe is in you.
 You men say that this problem of labor and capital is unso1vab1e You cannot say that to me In my depart ment is the Bureau of Patents, and each year, as I read the reports, 1 see that i'll America we produce more inventions each year than the two largest countries of the world and as I read those figures l say to myself: A people that have that practical imagination that amount of genius, can not be met with a prob lem that in time thev cannot solve"