Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-10-22
RECOGNITION Of
WORKERS. RIGHTS
To FORM UNIONS
IS SWEPT ASIDE
Industrial Conference at Cap
itaI Closes the Day By Re-
jecting All Collective Bar
gaining Proposals,
PRESIDENT SENDS LANE
CANCELLATION MESSAGE
Wilson Writes Letter to Chair
man of Convention But It
win Not Be Made Public
Except as Last Resort,
ny MoaS,so Jous a. sps= At LEASED w,esl

Washington, Oct. 21.-After daV
of uncertainty, during which Presi-
dent Wilson sent to Secretary Lane,
chairman, message of conciliauon
to be used as last resort, the
National Industrial conference tonight
cleaned it's slate by rejecting all col
lective bargaining resolutions as Wen
as the labor proposal for Intervention
in the steel strike
The public group aligned with cap
ital on the vote against both the orig
inal collective bargaining ana steer
strike resolutions although the decla-
ration on collective bargaining was
uroposed by th4 public delegates
Prior to the vote on the original Gee
laration the employers substitute ana
two new amendments by Thomas H.
(,hadAourne, chairman of he CONFER
once central committee, met defeat.
ONLY the employers favored the SUP
stitute and labor and capital united
in the opposition to the amendments.
Practically No Progress Made.
'sWhen the conference re-conVeneS
tomorrow it will be !, practically tre
same position as at the opening IN
adjourning the session toniGht, secrc-
ts.ry Lane declared that the confer
ence had produced nothing, and al
,,ised II 10 take a new start by ad-
iourning for several days While CO.
ordinating comnliltee of not more
than six members frames program
of action" ...a,.
Defeated on every pont and having
lost the support of the pu' lie group
which heretofore has been on the sue
of the workers, the lapof deleSt~'s
left the conference hall t"nisht ulsr
reartened and feeling, as some oi
them said, that little could be eaiaf d
Nv further n,astirgs. However,
,3aatine If the group has been called
for q O'Clock tom 1rraW Haol ming ana
ndiyfatfs,l Y}embers Mil be bound by
Action takea .st that tilAe
shout labor show disposition u
holt the conference Chairman Lane
undoubtedly will use the president
letter in al effort to avert the CRISIS
Reading of the letter was sald 70 pe
entirely discretionary with the chalr'
man. who declared that he would r't
produce it unless the situation became
acute. Although. ,abor may force tae
disclosure Of it's contents, II was gen
erally predicted tonight that We
workers would not withdraw. lh'
residents MESSAGE, it was unoe'
stood, re-states the purposes iof
which the conference was convened,
emphasizes the urgency of the heea
for allaylng Industrial mnfNN' anu
makes a plea for 'uFtl-ef work on ne
part of the conference.
Short Morning Session.
The morning session of the conicH-
enre lasted only a few minutes and
tho afternoon meatins, during VII ch
cnick action was obt'lned, was not
convened until o'clock. The entire
dav was devoted to group meetings IN
an attempt to devise another declara-
tion on collective bargaining, satls-
factory to all elements. After more
Than three days of almost continuous
sessions, the employers were unapIe
~ agree upon another statement ana
fell back upon the Wheeler SUBSTITUTE
Members of the public group at
tempted to effect a oompr omlse py
the substitution of the words asso-
Citations of their owr choosing LOT
.trade and labor Lniors" In the clause
or the groups resolution guaranteelAs
workers the right tc organize, ana the
five labor representative on the gen-
eral committee of fifteen spent Two
hours in Joint meeting with the pupilc
group explaining labor's objection 10
the change. This amendment was
introduced by Mr.. Chadbourne, pu'
the public group alone voted favor
ably.
When the original Russell Endicott
resolution came up for discussion IN
the conference. Samuel Gompers,
nresdent of the American Federation
Of Labor. declared that the Withdraw
nj of the support of the public group
was due to an Interpretation OF the
words trade and labor unions by
one member of the group, VINO Is
allied with organized labor and that
the phrase excludes all but American
Federation of Labor organizations II
was said that the reference was 70
T T. Forester, alternate for b. M
Jewell. acting president of the ran
way employees department Oh the leu-
GRAFTON.
One Question in Controversy.
"The right to organize for the Pur-
nose of collective bargaining" Mr'
Gompers continued, sis the one ques-
tion in controversy-the one thing tne
working people of the United states
are going to achieve.
hush fell over the crowded audl-
torium as the labor leader, squareN
facing the employers wing and shaK-
ing his finger toward that group, eN-