Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-10-24
ROW IN INDUSTRY MEET
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self should. because of change Of con-
ditions he changed and that the work
should be carried on by the public
group inasmuch as the burden Of
these quarrels that exist in industry
fails ultimately upon the public. And
so, gentlemen, the public group will
be asked 10 make Il report and give
advice and Suggestions as to the in
dushial policy of this country"
The employers group of the con-
ference tonight issued the following
statement:
The adjournment of the national
Industrial conference, as originally
constituted brings up sharply the
question of whether the weeks OF
controversy over one phase only of
industrial relations leaves the situa,
ton without a single gain. The en-
ployers group, soberly reviewing the
work of the conference, discovers
three definite gains:
First, it has been demonstrated
that failure is inevitable where pre-
urinary organization OF the elements
composing such a conference is alb
sent and where no preparation is
made for the orderly presentation or
a program which shall include all of
the Known factors upon which indus
trial relations are based.
Influence Manufacturers.
second, collective bargaining, an
accepted and desirable policy in in
dustry, has been brought more promi-
nently before the country and will
influence sincere effort on the part
or lnnumerable manufacturers to find
an acceptable medium through which
TINS collective relationship may be
secured and maintained in the indus
trial establishment.
Third, collective bargaining as
pollcy or principle. cannot be safely
used IN the broad and general sense
with which the public has been ac-
customed to express it. but must be
detlned clearly as to it's applicability
10 the varying conditions of industry
ana the varying relations that exist
oetWeen wage Garner and the en-
ployer. i
Fundamental to the whole ques-
ton of collective bargaining is the re-
sponsibility of those who bargain, and
this Is directed quite as much at the
employer asftt the wage Garner or the
organization Of which the wage Garner
IS member. Only where there is q
derinite dual responsibility lived up to
as scrupulously as is required, in other
contractural relations can collective
bargaining in any form or under any
Interpretation be successful
Counuy's Industrial Life.
Then IT must be remembered that
The industrial life of the country in
is employment relations. divides def
mtely along certain lines. No one will
1eny the right of the individual wage
Garner and his employer to negotiate
Jetns Of employment FOR industrial re-
'ations acceptable to both, but aside
rom this there is the dealing between
employer and his employees by means
OF no shop industrial council, dealing
tatod&h u trade or labor union, and
al Of these me hods are acknowledged
and practiced by employers.
1t may be charged that the employ
ers' group in defeating the Gompers
'aSolWti6n denied the right of organi-
Za1on and of collective bargaining in
arpreted by the labor group in one
way and one way only, organizing and
hdrgai1ing through trade and labor
unions II would be unfair 10 make
any pronuuucemeut on these two i'm
portant principles which wouLI convey
IS the belief OF this confel ence such
an Interpretation.
The purpose of this resolution
through cunning phrases coined to
carry double meaning, was to commit
the conference to support the only
brand of collective bargaining ever
offered by the group presenting it, and
the employers were bound to resist to
the end
The employers group could not
deny the right that it so freely and
fully conceded in it's own substitute
resolution which the conference de-
feated and it stands today with the ad-
Journment of the conference upon the
record of its substitute and its inter-
probation, confident that the sober
judgment of the American people will
come to understand that the position
taken was in the defense of the open
shop, an American institution that
shall not be undermined and destroyed
by any organized combination seeking
to threaten its life. Our social and in
dustrial fabric is not in danger. En-
ployer and wage Garner will live and
work together but the conference has
demonstrated that the right of the en-
ployer to deny representation unwoT-
thily sought shall not be abridged, nor
shall the right Of the wage Garner col
kctively to place before his own en-
ployer- his needs and his aspirations
and his interest in the establishment
be abridged.
I'VE are leaving upon the record of
the conference this declaration of true
American principles and upon this
declaration the employers group and
the employers of the nation will stand
in fair dealing with the wage Garner
through the critical days of readjust-
ment lust ahead"