Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1919-10-14
THE QUs7lIlOl]NI.0lllFiI / LABOR A!II|oll!
National Conference NrgstIlng Nltlhh
Mighty Problem
JUSTICE TO EMPLOYER AND EMPLOYEE

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JUSTICE TO EMPLOYER AND EMPLOYED
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Employers Generally Want Open
shop--Ths Steel Strike Now Under
consideration-Duty of Employer e
EmpIoye and Duty Of /; Employs e
Employer. -
Deadlock last Friday in the com.
mittee of Is or "the steering com
mittee" over labor's proposal to ar.
bitrate the steel strike brought about
adjournment Of the national industrial
conference in. session in Washington
In the meantime, the steering COM
mittee" has been holding meetings In
an attempt to agree on a report to lay
before the conference when it re-as-
sembleg.
r. Adjournment came after the con-
ference had received the proposals OF
| the employers group declaring for the
principle of the open shop, and af-
firming that mo :, employe should be
required to deal with men nor groups
Of men who are not his employees, or
chosen. by and from among them"
The latter principle created quite a
stir in the conference and was ,consid-
cred by some of the delegates as ap-
proval of the stand taken by. Judge
Gilbert; H. Gary, chairman. OF the
United States Steel corporation In re-
fusing to meet the steel strikers.
Other principles enunciated In the
declaration of the employers include:
Acceptance of the right to strike or
lock cut, excepting in the case OF
government employees; opposition to
sympathetic strikes and lockouts; in
sistence on the function Of manaze-
ment in directing industry; emphasis
Of shop unions as opposed TO the in
dustrial councils proposed by organ
ized labor; and declaration that CO.
operative relations between capital
and labor should be worked out in in
diyidual establishments, with due re-
gard to local factors. instead Of along
the lines of entire industries as sug-
gested by labor. =
High Industrial Efficiency.
"High industrial efficiency was stat
ed by the employers as the touch
stone of sound industrial relations.
After receiving the proposals of the
employers, the last of the three groups
represented in. the conference to re-
port, ON hours recess was taken to
permit the committee Of Is to bring
IN report < on the zone resolutions"
which, it was Announced, was under
consideration. On reconvening. how
ever, the committee informed the con-
ference that it was unable to agree
on q report, and after objections had
been registered by Samuel Gompers,
Of the labor group. and Thomas l..
Chadbourne, of the public represen-
tatives, adjournment was taken.
With the fundamental proposals Of
the right" and left" groups before
the conference, as we'll as a num-
ber of important proposals by repre-
sentatives OF the public, members Of
the conference tonight expressed their
satisfaction with the results of the
first weeks deliberations. Many of
the delegates with the exception of the
labor representatives. who remained to
attend sessions of the executive coun-
Gil of the American Federation of La
Dor, left Washington late in the day
for the week lend.
Text of Principles.
The 12 principles, as enunciated by
the capital group, follow:
Production:
There should be no intentional re-
striction of productive effort or out
put by either the employer or the en-
ploye to create an artificial scarcity
of the product, or of the labor in or
der to increase prices or wages.
The establishment as poductive
unit:
The establishment rather than the
industry as whole or any branch Of
it should, as far as practicable, be
considered as the unit of production
and of mutual interest on the part OF
employer and employe. Each estab-
lishment should develop contact and
full opportunity for interchange OF
view between management and men,
through individual or collective deal
ing or combination of both.
Conditions Of work:
1t is the duty Of the management
to make certain that the conditions
under which work Is carried on are
as safe and as satisfactory to the
workers as the nature of the business
reasonably permits. Every effort
should be made to maintain steady
employment of the workers, both on
their account and to increase eff
cheney.
Wages:
The worker should receive n wage
sufficient to maintain him and his
family at a standard of living that
should be satisfactory to a right
minded man in view of the prevail
ing cost of living. Women doing work
equal with that of men under the same
conditions should receive the same
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