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mitted a report at the end Of June.
Capital and labor enjoyed equal repre-
sentation on this commission of inquiry /;
two commissioners were also selected on
BEHALF Of the interests of the general
public. The recommendations OF the
commission were along somewhat the
same lines as the labor features of the
treaty of peace. Emphasis was also
laid in the report on the urgent necessity
for greater cooperation between em-
ployers and employed and the desira-
bility of establishing some form Of joint
Industrial councils on which both parties
to employment contracts should have
equal representation.
Employers and Workers to Confer
The Royal Commission also proposed
that a conference should be held OF the
Dominion and Provincial Governments
with representative employers and work.
men for the consideration of the ques-
tions OF employment relations and the
coordination of labor laws. In COM
pllance with the last mentioned recon-
mendation, the Dominion Government
convened a national Industrial confer
enco on September Is in Ottawa, the
Federal capital.
There were present representatives Of
vincial Governments, including three of
the Provincial Premiers-the Honorable
W. l.. Mackenzie King, leader of the
Liberal party in Canada, and an equal
number Of delegates representing re-
spectively the interests of employers
and employees in all branches of trade
and industry throughout Canada.
The delegates who attended on behalf
of employers and employees were selec-
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associations representative Of the man.
ufacturing nterests-lumbering, build
ing and construction. mining, fisheries,
wholesalers, retailers. bankers, &c.--of
the entire country, and on the other
hand by the Trades and Labor Congress
Of Canada and the Civil Service Fed
Grafton. Railway transportation and
telegrarhs were represented by the
members OF the Canadian Railway Board
of Adjustment No. l, composed of rep
resentatives OF the railway companies
and of the railway brotherhoods which
have had to do with the adjustment of
various disputes affecting these indus
tries during the past year. The total
delegates numbered sixty-eight on each
side.
In addition thereto a third group OF
about forty others were invited in which
representation was given to municipal
tiles 90 financial interests, to agricul-
ture (Which could not be included in the
conference on the same footing as other
industries on account of there being no
organization among farm workers), to
various engineering societies, to returned
soldiers ard to the interests Of the pub
lie In general
All the arrangements for this meet
ing were approved before the assembling
of the conference by Joint committees OF
employers and employees, selected by the
respective groups. The sessions were
open to the public and attracted wide
spread attention in all parts of the Do
minion.
Conference Is Harmonious.
The conference lasted a full week
and, after frank and full discussion, each
subject was referred to an appropriate
composed of three represen-
tatives OF employers, three of labor and
two OF the general public. which commit
tees brought In resolutions which, in
all cases except two. were unanimously
adopted by the Conference, and which
the Governments-provinc and Fed
eral-are now engaged in working out,
so far as seems practicable.
Apart from the actual resolutions
adopted the personal contact between
the employers and employees dele