Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-10-25
INDUSTRY FARLEY
ENDS As PUBLIC
DELEGATES QUIT
AND RETURN HOME!
Remaining Group at the Indus
trial Conference Adjourns
Sine Die and Meeting Called
By Wilson Terminates,
PRESIDENTS PLANS
FOR FUTURE UNKNOWN
Nothing Given Out from White
House As to What More
Will Be Done to PaCify Cap
itaI and Labor Elements,

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ommendation to President Wilson
| that he create a commission to carry
on the work which the national indus-
trial conference was unable to ac-
complish, the public group, the last
remaining element of the body fin
ally adjourned tonight
| Despite two attempts by Mr.. Will
son to save from dissolution the gath
| erng, tonights adjournment brought
to formal close the conference, call
| ed by the executive to find some
| co.. spon ground Of cooperation be-
| tween labor and capital. on the OUT
! come of which We're held in abeyance
| strikes affecting the entire industrial
| life of the nation.
The report of the public represent
| atives, declining to assume the task
for which the original gathering was
called, was transmitted to the White
House through Chairman Baruch in
the form of a 1.00O-word letter. No
letter was Forthcoming from the White
House as to the presidents next move
to bring industrial peace to the coun-
try.
Report Not Made Public.
Although the report was not made
public. IL was learned that the docu-
ment summarized the proceedings OF
the fourteen days the conference was
in session, put the stamp of approval
on the plan for industrial boards sug-
gested by Secretary of Labor Wilson,
and recommended the calling of an
other body containing industrial ex-
perts to undertake the peace adjust
ment. 1t was drafted by a committee
of five delegates, of which John ID.
Rockefeller, Jr,, was chairman. AL
though four or five eonferees were
opposed to final adjournment only
! Dr. Charles w, Eliot. president-emer-
titus of Harvard university. voted
against the motion on final test,
Delegates urged that the high cost
of living and other problems be press
ed for immediate solution before dis
solution, but strong majority of the
representatives. it was said, felt that
the conference virtually came to an
end with the withdrawal of the labor
group Wednesday and that the pub
lie group was not sufficiently repre-
sentative to undertake general pro-
gram and also was handicapped by
popular disfavor.
Board Plan Is Favored.
The industrial board plan of Sec
retary Wilson, which met with favor
among the delegates. provides for
boards of employers and employees in
each industry with general board
of appeals, and, as a final resort in
cases of dispute. an umpire chosen
by the parties to the dispute or from
standing list of twenty named by
the president
Several public representatives were
not present at the final session. OF
these Judge Elbert II. Gary, chairman
of the United States Steel corporation,
went to New York Wednesday noon,
and J. J. Forester, president of the
Order Of Railway Clerks, withdrew
following similar action on the part
of the representatives of organized
labor
Results of Gathering.
Holding that the Industrial eonfer-
ence as originally constituted accom-
plshed more than appeared on the
surface, Chairman Baruch pointed out
five results of the gathering. These
he outlined as follows:
First, 1t brought the issues involv-
ed home to the entire nation.
Second, it demonstrated the great
difficulty of the solution.
Third. the discussion had the ef-
feet of setting the entire people
thinking and from this thought will
come the solution.
Fourth, there was brought home
to all participants the intimate rela-
tions that exist between the farming
interests and all industrial questions.
Fifth what was not brought out
clearly was that both capital and
labor owed to society-which Is in
elusive of capital and labor-the duty
to produce in quantity at the lowest
possible cost commensurate with the
protection of both capital and labor,
all of the things that are necessary to
keep up the proper. just and humane
standards of modern life
Asserting that the industrial prob
lens of the nation are of importance
to every citizen, regardless of whether
he be wage Garner or a salaried per-
son, Mr. Baruch in his letter of trans
initial said all workers merit not
alone proper financial treatment but
the recognition of their position as
part of the foundations of society it.
self. This recognition, he said, must
come not as privilege granted but
as matter of inherent right
Both Sides Have Rights.
THE outcome of this conference"
Mr.. Baruch asserted, must be. In my
opinion. that there will be manifested
an increasing effort on the part Of
the employers to see that not alone
proper wages are paid but that the
human right of the rights of the
workers are considered The employer
has certain rights which must be rec
ognized and coupled with these rights
is the obligation to see that all of his
employees are accorded just treat
ment"
The Gomuers resolution, the rejec-
ton of which led to the withdrawal
of the labor delegation from the in
dustrial conference. was defeated In
the employers group by vote of 10
to 4, Chairman Harry A. Wheeler said
In statement tonight. The statment
was designed to clear up one of the
controversial points of the conference.