The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1919-10-16

The employers group. which has
steadfastly supported the Gary idea
thai there must be no dealing with
tabor beyond the individual plant.
knew this. and insisted upon taking
the vote. This IA prevented only
by the intcrposition Of the following
resolution from the public group.
presented by Mr.. Baguch
That action on the steel
gtrike resolution be deferred un-
til the general committee re-
norris or the question of col'ec~
tive barhaininE, and that the
general committee he directed 20
- rrrort m this question not later
thar Thursday at 80 p m
Roth the public group and the Ia
hor yrs,up voted for the r~esolueson
The employers group,
against postponerent Of n steei
strike resolution. voted against the
Baruch resolution. The standing
vote taken in tho public group show
ed Judge F. Fl. Gary and Ward Nj
Of Omaha, TO be opposed TO
postponernent In the employers
rroup c s barrett and j ~ Title.
more ~dissented from the demand TO
press for a decision against the
0orS peFS TtA'iAGb0.
TWO TO ONE
Thus the Raruch resolution which
saved the d>y for continuance Of the
conference was carried Dry the vote of
two groups TO one, The question was
raised, as TO whether a nna3tTloua
vote OF all three groups was not re-
ouired.
The Raruch resolution was sus~
tanned ar this critical toncture by
Chairman Lane tn these words
TT seems to me. gentlemen, that
ycl have got to hfgome masters OF
your own procedure. and hat this
conference AZ sometime must become
a going and that 1t cannot
be that one-third Of this conference
can determine the order in which
resolutions can he taken up that u
must be possible for t~wo-thirds of
the conference TO determine its own
procedure with relation TO the re'a-
tive position OF different motions
Chairman Gomrers, Of the labor
wroup. who was taken I'll NJ h con-
clusion of yesterdays tense session,
was not present today
II was significant that with Comp
ers temporarily out OF control OF his
group the first radical measure
shauld make its appearance. This
was the introduction of a resolution
by I. F.. Sheppard. Of the labor
eroup. for consideration OF the rrtn-
ciples of railroad ownership and
control set forth in the Plumb plan,
WANTS CONCRETE ACTION.
Delegate Sheppard, who Is presi-
dent Of the railroad conductors. one
of the four great hrotherhoods, has
been insistent that the conference
get down to concrete business and
that it meet the problem of collective
bargaining without DELAY. His reso-
luton demands. without using the
title, Plumb plan" that the confer
ence o only endorse its demands
for the participation OF employees In
the management Of railroads but ex-
tend the principle to other public
service corporations.
The sheppard resolution. which
also declares for collective bargain
ing. throws down the gauntlet to the
EMPLOYERS group in n new, and more
radical field. It goes farther than
the demand for collective bargaining.
and has the ~inferentiai support of
the four great hrotherhoods OF rail
road men as we'll as the railway shop
employees. 1t the lining up in
the conference OF a more or less In
dependent sroup within the labor
Eroup whose frame of mind toward
the employers is none too amicable,
This is because the representatives OF
The railroads have claimed that the
railroad men should have had more
delegates. and assert that II Is only
In Difference to the president that
they are taking part in the confer
enc at all.
The u%nyielding attitude Of the en-
ployers' group on it's position on col
lective bargaining is cxemplihed in
ITS stand against the steel strike was
again revealed today by L r. Loree.
Although the conference by a viva
voce vote sustained Chairman Lanes
ruling that III Bnruch resolution
was In order. Mr.. Loree said In part:
W have bsen maneuvering here
for ' or six days on what seoms 70
be = political rather than m ooo-
nontc situakion aad time aeeaf time
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