The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1919-10-10
JUDGE GARY
IS IMPRESSED
Labor and Public Anxious for
New 0rder-Young Rookie
felIer Makes Hit.
CAPITALISTS MUST HEED
(BY WILLIAM ALLEN WHITE.)

| was hot leduy 10 work yesterday be
cause in their group were bankers
merchants. farmers and employers
and they have to refer things to diff,
ierent sections But they sat in tn,
meetings and heard the radical reso.
lutions of labor and the equally rad
ical resolutions of those representing
the public, and these resolutions
which were not many in number, bu
slsnlncant in force, cannot but have
| produced an effect upon the employ
| ers. They must see that two-third.
Oh the conference is anxious to insti.
| tute new order in industry. The
old theory that a mans business i.
his own business, that he will no
permit labor unions or any one else
| Uhis quotation Is from Judge GARY
last week before the senate commit.
tee) to run their business, Is a the.
ory which shall have to take its. place
beside that because that the worlt
is fiat.
Employer Only a Trustee.
| This conference unquestionably
contains a majority which believes
| that mans business belongs to the
public; that he is a trustee only anG
holds his job only so long as he is
good steward for labor, for the
| public and for capital.
This is revolutionary and no court
or legislature or executive can stor
it. unless our good friend, the Sher-
| man law, shall shake a game leg and
get into the game to stop this incen-
diary fraternalism.
The tactics of the employers group
in holding back their program untii
, the last would be good even if it were
tactics, and it would be justified, for
While labor can make demands OF
capital, and while the public can
make demands of labor and capital
| capital can only make concessions
and capital realizes that it must
make good every concession it stands
for. Labor may overdemand; so may
the public; but capital can never
overconcess. And its action is en-
tirely justifiable.
The demands of labor, which were
filed the first thing yesterday morn
ing after long night session, are in
substance what was predicted by this
writer. They are short and to the
point--the irreducible minimum of
labor. They included arbitration in
the steel trust, recognition of the
union. collective bargaining. free
speech, a free press and free assem-
blage, which are denied in the Pitts
burgh district just now; an eight
hour day, a living wage, equal pay
for women; no children under 16 in
industry, shop committees like the
Whitley councils, and national indus
trial conferences permanently estab-
lished. Finally, labor demands re-
stricted immigration for a period of
years. These demands are mild.
They are in no sense radical.
Gompers Scorned Georgian.
They are demands which most of the
members of the group representing the
public will accede to, and. feeling
that labor has reduced it's demands to
the least possible expression, labor is
going to stand siege. That is why
Samuel Gompers at the conference yes
terday expressed rather openly his
scorn of the Georgia manufacturers
speech, though it was felicitous and
amusing, rubbed organized labor the
wrong way in nearly every sentence,
for the Georgian was expounding the
doctrine of the happy industrial fam
lily under industrial paternalsm; the
industry kept alive by welfare work in
the industry which, as the happy Geor-
gian expressed it, "trailed the goose
into the coop with corn" Samuel Com
pers rose after this speech and asked
in fine scorn: rs there no way by
MIt,G1t h,si tnas o,s c9fneIehce may proceed TO
tbe scn,,, - ''not ,,ot VIII nave none ol
5i, " parei iia,lslii. LABOR IS
ly enough youngJohn ID. Rockefeller in
ne he or,fn nonViuelon, to gxptesseu tne nope OF
hetween canitsl and lnhN, iu,htaIlsnip ,,hiai,
he discoyerad onIv as uia ar,,rnaoh ~
problem in a snirit of instiCe brntbar9
hod and Willingness TO nit one'e sn1f
in the other mans Mace Rrotber-
hood is the word and coming from
Rockefeller it means much
Two Groups Agree.
The resolution assented to by the
labor group and by the group repre-
sentlng the public introduced into the
Industrial lc conference show no great
ulllerehce OF mlnd between these two
sIouPs, tlat is the one blg important
sis II u tle Gonlerehce' II is a sign
in fho cnnfora,,o ate two great groups
C;omners tbe otbor 'oG pS SaiiIuel ~,
ruch In tha Labor groG,, 40 NJ ~ a,- pa
who are conductine tha stooi Ihe ,ii.i men
for the men N the nmh,!o sro,1t, M a;t
Judge Gary. and from hot6 gro,ins
come demands for nermanent Sb6p
councils which shall give labor n right
in the management of industry.
Such a thing would have been un-
thinkable three years ago. Yet unless
some untoward incident arises in the
conference, we may reasonably expect
estapilshment OF shop and trades coun-
CHS IN Whlch Workmen will be con-
99oIteu 9 IN such items OF interest as
li,,tns i nls onatti VI eilnpioyiheht' working and
Tbe Cmntatinr t. s.,,, Io,,.- ,,.,.-
foIlar 1 - iioili , oollh ~ locke,
ruotJt; ,rorIt J'" ii.iy, any ny employment ana
inc and disnIiaron Ho,tb.,onS 10 meant the mr.
US ths anu uIschaIse Oh men, their wages,
and arei' +h biouIs , ana coRd!Ilons OF service;
onr5iti o1,u ttie req 'iolis oi those wages ana
dUrt,,,eio'S diso,is 10 give lapor the right to
enI,ai 'S ,oin ''leSe III LINES ana 10 nave an
y,bat ,hoso ,T, W,em Iap,'al IN decldlhs
;1ntio ,i'cSo co elli"ss sIaIl pe, Is the real
,nat,oF ra i,,,, oL an Itopian dream, yet it