The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-10-15
Must Exhaust Every Means to
Solve Situation
ARE GIVEN INFORMATION
President Knows of Controversy
Resulting from Labor's Pro-
posai to Arbitrate Strike

ment of the national industrial con
ference until after it has exhausted
every possible means of finding SO
luton of the present industrial stu.
alton, white house officials announced
today.
Despite his illness, the president
was understood to have been inform
ed of the tense situation in the con
ference resulting in the controversy
over labors proposal to arbitrate the
steel strike. He is said to feel that
this should not endanger the ultimate
success of the conference.
Washington. Oct. ia demand
that the organized labor proposal for
the arbitration OF the steel strike be
made the immediate issue in the con
ference was made today by the CAPT
tai group through its chairman,
Hrry Wheeler.
Bernard Baruch, chairman of the
delegates representing the public, had
proposed that action on the steel
strike resolution be postponed until
Thursday.
The conference adjourned to tomor-
row afternoon for vote.
Washington. Oct. 14.-After heat
ed all day session devoted almost en-
tirely to discussion of labor's propos-
al 70 arbitrate the steel strike, dur
ing which two attempts at postpone
ment Sand substitute resolution by
Thomas L. Charbourne of the public
~ al
industrial conference adjourned to-
night without having taken other def
mite action than the appointment OF
three subcommittee.
Another attempt to obtain action in
the steel controversy, however, will
be made by members of the public
group, headed by Bernard NJ, Baruch,
through a new compromise proposal,
when the conference resumes its ses-
sions tomorrow.
The labor resolution was laid be-
fore the conference today without
recommendation by the central com
mittee, but with an amendment pro
posed in committee by Samuel Gompers
president of the American Federation
of Labor, providing that the arbitra-
tion committee be chosen by the con-
ference groups from members or
non-members" of the conference In
the resolution, Chairman
Chadbourne announced that while the
resolution was favored by majority
of the members of the committee it
had received the negative vote Of
two groups and therefore could not
be favorably reported
A substitute resolution offered by
Mr. Chadbourne failed to receive the
approval of any of the three confer
ence groups although it was framed
so as to avoid mention Of the steel
strike The substitute proposed ac-
ceptance of Mr. Gomper's committee
of six to adjust all serious labor dis
putes," its decision to be final, after
an attept to reconcile differences had
been made by Joint committee of
and employees. The labor
would be chosen both
by those "out on strike and those re
in the employe of the several
The climax of the days tense ses.
sions, one of which was recessed in
the midst of confusion came late in
the day, when Samuel Gompers lead
er of the labor delegation, made an
impa ssioned plea for Intervention in
the steel strike and reviewed the ne
gotiations leading up to the calling
Of the strike on September %
Looking directly at Judge Ebert H
Gary. chairman of the United States
Steel corporation. the labor leader
declared that the steel corporation,
had "acted like the Bolshevik" in re-
iusing to meet representatives of the
other party to the dispute Judge
Gary kept his eyes fixed on the labor
leaders face throughout the speech,
but made no reply when Mr. Gompers
Outside the conference hall labor
delegates declared that the confer
ence would be a fat failure unless it
took action on the steel strike Sew
eral intimated that the labor delega-
tion might withdraw from the confer
ence if the arbitration resolution
were defeated, although more conser-
vative Representatives did not believe
the group as a whole contemplated
any such drastic action.