Arizona republican., 1919-02-28
GEORGE AND LABOR CONFER BUT ETNO
 MATERIAL HEADWAY
Industrial Workers Bold Announced Decrease En-
 bitters-Progress Slow Issues Are More Defined

Issues Are More Defined
 LONDON, Feb. 2s.- Associated Press)-After an all day session, de- voted to airing the various phases of labor unrest, the industrial conference, called by the government, and in which government ministers, labor leaders and representatives of the big employ ing interests participated, adopted a resolution proposed by Arthur Hender- son, laborite, for the appointment of a joint temporary committee to be com uosed of thirty laborites and thirty capitalists, to make a thorough inves- tieation into labor and unemployment situations. The committee will report back to the conference, which will re- assemble on April 5.
 A large majority of the conference voted for the resolution, but small labor group vigorously protested, on the ground the conference was not rep resentative of the whole or labor. A delegate of the transport laborers fed eration attacked the resolution, declar- ing: "The conference had been called for the purpose of sidetracAng all the efforts of the men and women workers to improve themselves"
 He was interrupted by cries of mol no." Chairman Brownlie of the exec utive council of the Amalgamated So- ciety of Engineers, representing the triple alliance of miners, transport and railroad workers, asserted that the, would not be bound by any decision the conference made until they had an op- portunity to get instructions from their A rafftea1
 Whether the refusal of some ele- ments of labor to countenance the com mittee, would hinder. perhaps nullify the plan was anxiously debated as the delegates moved out.
 LONDON, Feb. 27.-The industria conference, called by the government today adopted a resolution moved by Arthur Henderson, the labor leader that a joint committee consider tn, question of hours and wages of work ingmen and women and general con ditions of employment.
 An amendment, offered by Premier Lloyd George, that the committee in vestigate the causes of unrest and re port to the conference not later thar April 3, was adopted.
 Premier Lloyd George said he hopet a preliminary peace would be signe, within the next few weeks and de clared the blockabde of Germany coulS not be raised until Germany had signe, a treaty which would make war i'm possible.
 Concerning the industrial situation there were faults on both sides, th' premier said. The workers Geoult feel they had an interest in industr, and the employers must place nor trust in the workers. He hoped tha by summer the cost of living in tn working mans household be reduces | four shillings a week.
 The premier said the workers natu rally were determined to secure high CT and better standard of life. Ina was a natural aspiration with whic the whole nation would sympathiZt | His conviction was that the employer were prepared to go further than mos workers imagined.
 Labor Boldly Asserts
 The conference was attended by tn minister of labor and other heads c government departments, and by rep ! resentatives of British capital and la | bor.
 The early hours of the session wer marked by an assertion, boldly mad ! by labor, of it's independence an | power. in which the government wa warned that labor would be satisfiel with no halfway measures. Howevel with the exception of one or two radics | speakers who passionately urged con scription of wealth and other revolu tionary measures, the labor leader | ,t,tr important trades unions, advocate relief along constitutional lines. l Chairman Brownie of the executiv council of the Amalgamated Society ( Engineers emphatically warned tn government that the country was nc going back to the social and industri; conditions prevailing before the war Banging his fist on the table and ad dressing himself directly to the pre- mier. Brownie declared:
 "The workers of England, along wit the other workers of the world. al longing for a higher life-a better Tiff On behalf of my own organization. plainly say that our demands are nc yet ended. l hope to negotiate wit you, Mir. Prime Minister, for a furth, reduction of hours of labor"
 | Sir Robert Horne, minister of labo announced that after expiration of il period of 13 weeks of donation to UT employed workers now in operatio
 the government proposed to reduce u amount for the succeeding 13 weeks, Il
 men to receive 20 shillings instad of and the women Is instead of 25.
 Clines Calmly Advises
 Vigorous protests against tn
 scheme were voiced by all labor speal
 CTS, including John Robert Clines, fol
 merly food minister, and now vi,
 chairman of the parliamentary lab'
 party, who is probably the most mod,
 rate of all the labor representative
 MT. Clines said it was bad faith f,
 the government to announce a redu'
 ton in the unemployment benefi when unemployment was increasing. ! Mir. Clines appealed to the worke ! to give the new government time
 put It's program into effect
 If it is not put into practical effe
 after a seasonable time" he said, W
 will give the government notice
 quit"
 Mir. Clines urged that the conferen
 issue a statement that would reassu
 labor. My chief concern" he adde "is whether labor is going to ask
 too much at one time"
 Labor. said the speaker. should SC
 tie down to work and increase tl country's wealth, from which lab
 would immediatly profit. Regardil profiteering, MT. Clines said the go ernment had tried to prevent it. 'rBu' he added. you could no more preve profiteering under war conditions, tn; you could prevent the development !. trade unionism."
 [ Delegate Brownie suggested tn : fhera was A chance for Premier Ilo