Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-12-29
TENTATIVE PLANS
FOB, PREVENTION
OF STRIKES MADE
Presidents Industrial Confer
enCe Believes It Has Devised
Scheme That Will Be AC-
ceptabIe to All.

presidents Industrial conference with
. view to obtaining constructive crit
ici an before q final plan is adopted
rhe plan as outlined now contem-
pates the creation of q national in
.mstrial tribunal and regional boards
OF inquiry and adjustment. which
would move to the settlement of dis
pates before there was any stoppage
of production. Decisions would have
the fun force and effect of a trade
agreement between the parties to the
dispute.
Remarking that some public utii-
ties, such as railroads. are essential to
the very existence of the people, the
conferences tentative statement ex-
pressed the opinion that the Inter
rnption in such essential public utili-
ties is intolerable." But the confer
ence states that further consideration
is required of the problem whether
some method can be arrived at that
win avert all danger of interruption
10 service.
Government employees, the third
class into which the wage earning
public are divided, should have the
right to associate for mutual protec-
ton the statement declared, but mo
interference by any group with the
continuous operation Of government
functions through concerted cessation
of work or threats thereof can be
permitted" 4
Place Public Hearings,
When the conference reconvenes
January ~, public hearings will be
held to obtain expert advice as to the
drafting of the final recommendations
in the light of such criticism of the
tentative report as may be received.
Willie stating that at this time il
was believed more essential to devise
machinery for averting conflicts than
10 undertake discussion of the
causes of unrest, the conference ins
Dictated clearly the general principles
on which 1t has based its recommend
atoms.
"Our modern industrial organiza-
ton" the tentative report said. 'if 1t
is mot to become failure must yield
to the individual a larger. satisfaction
with life Not only must the
theory that labor is commodity be
abandoned, but the concept Of leader
ship must be substituted for that OF
mastership !, Human fellowship in
industry must either be an empty
phrase or living fact.
f"Pending the growth of better re-
lationships between employers and
employees, the practical approach to
the problem is to devise a method of
preventing or retarding conflicts by
providing machinery for the adjust
ment of differences. To be successful
such tribunals must be so organized
as to operate properly as well as i'm
partially. The plain fact is that
the public has long been uneasy
about the power of great employers;
-
of great labor organizations. The
community must be assured against
domination by either.
Right To Strike.
1.-THE plan which follows does not
propose to do away with the ultimate
right to strike, to discharge or to
maintain the closed or the open shop"
The National Industrial Tribunal,
suggested by the conference, would
consist of nine members appointed by
the president, three each representing
the employers, employees and the pub
lic} The tribunal would, in general,
be board of appeal, whose decisions
must be unanimous, but provision was
made for public majority and minori-
ty reports in cases where no agree
ment was possible.
Industrial regions, probably twelve
in number conforming to the federal
reserve system, would be outlined and
n regional chairman appointed for
each by the president. Vice chairmen
would be named by the tribunal, if
the work in any region required it.
Panels of employers and employees
for each region would be prepared by
the secretary of commerce and the
secretary of labor respectively. after
conferences with the employers and
workers of that region. Each Panel,
approved by the president. would be
classified by industries among the en-
ployers and by the industries, with
sub-classification into crafts, among
the employees. Lots would be cast to
determine the order or names in each
PANEL
When a dispute arose in any region,
the chairman would request each
side to submit 1t to regional board
of adjustment, consisting of the chair
man, one representative chosen by
each side, and two unchallenged mem
hers of each panel. Appointment of
representatives of both sides to any
dispute would constitute an agree
ment to continue the status that ex-
listed when the trouble arose. De-
cisions of such regional boards would
have to be unanimous or the question
would be referred by unanimous vote
to an umpire, whose decision would
betfinal. or to the national tribunal.
Provides For Inquiry.
Refusal by any side to controversy
to submit to adjustment would result
in the constitution of a regional board
of inquiry, consisting of the chairman,
two members of each panel and thel
representative of either side that
agreed to adjustment. If the other
side consented to adjustment before
the inquiry was completed, the board
of inquiry would become a board OF
adjustment by appointment Of the re-
maining member Otherwise, the
hoard of inquiry would investigate the
dispute and make public its findings
for the benefit of the public.
'1n the presentation of evidence
the preliminary statement declared.
each side shall have the right to pre-
sent its position through representa-
tives of its own choosing
All the properly constituted boards
wotild have the right to subpoena wit
nesses, examine them under oath, and
to require the production of papers
pertinent to the case.
Existing means of adjustment and
coneiliation. whether federal or state,
or established under mutual agree
ments, of workers and EMPLOYERS in
anv industry, would not be affected
nv the creation of the system suggest
ed hv the conference.
With regard to public utilities. thel
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