Great Falls daily tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1895-1921, 1919-10-18
Head Of Conductors Says
Industrial Com ference
Is Just Getting Down to.
Business Now.
Labor Has. Asked All 1t
Desires to Present, Del
egate Announces; Will
ing to Bar New Issues.

Washington, Oct. 17.-Recog-
nizing the right Of collective
bargaining on the open shop
basis in industrial relations, the
capital group in the industrial
conference at the White House
today brought about a concili-
atory spirit by offering a reso-
luton approaching a basis Of
compromise and withdrawing
the motion made Thursday to
recommit the labor-public dec
laration of public bargaining to
the committee of 15.
Then, after a day Of debate
which brought no decisive action
on any issue, the conference ad-
Journed its second weeks ses-
sion until Monday, voting also
to return the two resolutions on
collective bargaining-that of
fered today by the capitalist
group and that offered Thurs
day by the public-labor group
to the central committee for
consideration.
L. +. Sheppard, head of the
railway conductors brotherhood,
said he saw in the resolution a
sincere effort at a closer coop
GRAFTON between capital and lab
or in the meeting and declared
that, in his opinion, the gather
ing was lust getting down to
business with every prospect
of a harmonious adjustment of
the differences existing between
the right and left wings of the
conference as a result of the
employers resolution.
Gompers Brings Climax
After several hours of desultory de-
bate Samuel Gompers. president of the
American Federation of Labor. who re-
turned TO his seat in the conference at
the afternoon session, after Il three days
illness, brought the discussion to a eli
max with heated and eloquent reply
to l.. +. Loree, president of the Della
ware and Hudson railroad, and repre-
sentative of capital
denying the assertion of Mr. Ioree
that labor had taken advantage of the
war to force important concessions from
the government. Mr.. Gompers declared
that labor had been actuated BY the
most intense patriotism during the war
and that labor had made good its pledge
Of cooperation tended President Wilson
even before the nation entered the world
conflict.
Qnlvers as He Speaks
But. emphatically declared the veteran
labor chieftain, neticably weakened by
his recent illness. .'the masses OF labor
OF the United States have at last found
their ability to articulate through or
SANITATION and the time has come when
in America labor Is determined to gain
fair share of the rewards of it's toll"
Shaking with emotion and his voice
quivering, Mr.. Gompers bitterly assailed
Mr.. Loree for his assertion that there
planned overthrow of the government
I of Il for Compromise.
The resolution by the capital group,
which Chairman Harry A. Wheeler said
had been assented to by II of the Ii
members present. follows:
Resolved, that without in any way
limiting the right of wage Garner
to refrein from joining any asso-
citation or to deal directly with his
employer as he chooses. the right
Of wage earners in private, as dis
tinguished from government en-
ployment. to organize in trade and
labor unions. in shop Industrial eouu-
ellis. or other lawful form of asso-
citation to bargain collectively. to be
represented by representatives Of
their own choosing in negotiatings
and adjustments with employers in
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