The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1919-10-23
WILSON STARTS
new MACHINERY
President Asks Public Repre-
sentatives to Continue Work
on Labor Program.


UhIGlNAL PlAN PAllUKE
Washington, Oct. 23.--Out Of the
wreck of the national industrial ccn-
ference, President Wilson today
sought to build new machinery to
bring about industrial peace in the
country. In a message to Chairman
Lane he asked that the public rep
resentatives in the conference con-
tinue their work and make report
to him.
1t Is the hope of the president and
other administration officials that the
public delegates who were appointed
by Mr. Wilson and who represent both
employers and workers, can formulate
n program which will be acceptable
to capital and labor.
After announcing that he had re-
ceived President Wilson's message,
Chairman Lane declared the national
Industrial conference as originally
constituted adjourned and immedi-
ately called the members of the pub
lie group into session as a new con-
ference.
Expected to Comply.
Both the public and capital groups
were present at the conference meet
ing place today awaiting the word
from President Wilson. Spokesman
for each said further deliberations ap-
peared hopeless, since the representa-
tives of organized labor had with
drawn from the conference, but the
public delegates were expected to
comply with Mr.. Wilson's request to
continue their labors.
WAle Samuel Gompers, president
of the American Federation of Labor
reiterated today that the labor dele
gates would not again meet with the
employers group unless a majority
OF the employers representatives
changed their attitude on the issue of
collective bargaining, others did not
abandon hope that labor would as
sent to principles which might be for
mulated by the public group acting
alone.
No Formal Letter.
President Wilson did not write a
formal letter to tho conference His
wishes were made known to Mr..
Lane through Secretary Tufulty, who
went to tho conference room after n
talk with the president. during which
Mr. WilyoA was informed NOT only OF
the evsstfs in tnef honfcfrnce. hut ;ilsol
Of the Views OF the conference
leaders.
Conference Adjourned.
"This conference was called to at
tempt to adjust the relations between
capital and labor" said Chairman
Lane. "As it has been revealed that
labor and capital have not been able
TO agree in this conference | must
declare the conference adjourned"
The members of both the employ
crs' and the public group, including
some of the most distinguished citi-
Zens of the United States, sat around
the conference room impatiently for
two hours and half while Lane, in
communication with the White House.
was preparing the obsequies.
Rockefeller Holds Levee.
John d. Rockefeller, Jr., held an in
formal levee at one table and fire.
quently asked the reporters when
Chairman Lane would come to ad-
journ the conference.
Gavin McNab, Of San Francisco,
said he had formed a union of pail
bearers in the public group and that
the union would strike if there was
any longer delay in permitting them
to carry out the corpse.
DR.. Charles w. Eliot. perhaps the
most patient and quiet of the waiting
group, read newspapers.
Thomas Chadbourne walked up and
down the room angrily and said he
did not like to be kept waiting in this
indefinite fashion.
When the reporters got word that
Lane was in conference with the
president they told the delegates. who
began to discuss among themselves
the possibility of keeping the confer
ence alive.
II seems proper that the group
representing the mass Of the people
at large should undertake to ind
that machinery by which there can
he reconciliation or adjustmentor
peace or way to solve any of
these problems or all Of them m
the interests of the great body of
our people recognizing the fact the
people of the United States are
greater than any part of the peo-
ple-that we are first a body of
Americans and, rs a body, wish to
move forward no matter what the
clash between interests may be.
And SO, gentlemen. the public
group will be asked to make a re-
port and give advice and sugEes-
tions as to the industrial policy of
this country, these TO be presented
to the president
No Altogether Hopeless
I'm dismissng you want to call
your attention to the character Of
the weather this morning. Il looks
gloomy. It is a change from the
bright and cold and hard sunlight
of yesterday, in which things were
more tense and less soft than they
inn L,tt iG
condition of the weather which we
in the west call growing weather.
The kind of weather that greets
us this morning is not as unkind as
IL may appear to he.
You have met in sight of a great
monument that has been erected
to President Lincoln. and In sight
of monument that has been
erected to Washington. Those two
men incorporate in themselves the
very essence and spirit OF our
country. They regarded no class:
they regarded no interest as at all
comparable with the interest OF the
whole public. Washington repre-
scented the struggle of the last CEN
tury, the freeing of men from poll
tical bondage the giving to them
an opportunity to manage their
own affairs and make their own
dostinies as a political unit. Dis
sensiOn which we have begun is
in my opinion, more truly repre-
sented by the other monument to
Lincoln the man OF patience, the
man of forbearance, the man of
cha rity. the man of insight and of
understanding, and of insight and Of
understanding. and OF long suffer-
ing and love for mankind. That
was the spirit that prevails In any
conference which makes real way
fau~ard the znltrfiOfl 0f the nr0hlpm
that we ought to deal with.