Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-10-14


fered a resolution proposing that the
conference endorse the following
principles:
The recognition without qualiff-
cation of the right of workers to
combine into Unions and to form
combinations of unions.
Making 1t a penal offense for any
organization or industry to refuse
to hear the claims. demands or COM
plants of organized labor as voiced
by union officials and recommending
that Congress enact laws to make
this principle Immediately applicable
to every department of the Govern
ment, except the Army and Navy,
and to every industrial corporation
or concern.
Providing that any attempt on
any worker for lawful activity In
promoting the interests of any un-
ion be made uEAawful.
Endorsing the right of labor to
use every peaceful and lawfuf'
means to promote the principles and
aims of labor organizations, includ-
ing the right to free assemblage.
speech and publication, subject to
necessary restrictions in time of war
or great national emergency.
Advocating the establishment IN
every State of a special group rep
resenting capital, labor and the gen.
eral public, to inquire into charges
of suppression of the rights of free
speech and assemblage and to order
the removal of any prohibition of
these rights which may have been
issued without just cause"
Mr. Chadbourne proposed that the
report of the central committee be
read as whole and that each
group pass on block Of proposals
at one sitting in order to economize
time. Mr.. Gompers and other dele
gates objected strenuously to this
procedure on the ground that dis
cussion which should take place on
the floor of the conference would
thus be confined to groups meetings.
Secretary Lane chairman of the
conference, ended the discussion by
stating that the complete report of
the central committee would be
heard and that then ample oppor-
tunity would be allowed for discus
sion of each proposal.
Want Three Committees
A resolution by Frederick P. Fish,
of Boston. chairman of the National
Industrial Conference Board, assur-
ing unorganized labor not repre-
sented in the meeting that the con-
ference would not neglect its inter-
ests. was adopted.
The general committee recon-
mended that three committees or
nine members each, three from
each group. be appointed to consider
the following subjects:
Unemployment. unemployment in
surance and immigration; hours of
labor, wages and women and chill
dren in industry and production and
industrial and vocational training.
The general committee retained
under it's own jurisdiction the fol-
lowing subjects:
Collective bargaining. mediation,
conciliation and arbitration and
freedom of contract.
Only two resolutions were report
ed with recommendations for adop-
ton. They were one by Fuller e.
Galloway, of Georgia. providing for
encoura cement of individual initia-
tive and enterprise and another by
L. f. Loree, of New York, providing
for an industrial census.
All resolutions heretofore intro
duced with the assent Of groups, in
cluding the various planks of the
statement of principles" made by
labor and employers, were referred
to subcommittee of the committee
of fifteen and they will be reported
later.
When the conference reassem-
bled, John Spargo. of New York,
proposed that labor's demand for
arbitration of the steel strike be re-
ferred back to the committee of fif-
teen, but his motion was defeated.
The conference then adjourned un-
til 230 D. m.