Arizona republican., 1919-10-22
LABOR SUFFERS SEVERE
 REBUFF AT THE HANDS OF
 INDUSTRIAL CONFEREES
Public Group Aligns With Capital on Vote Against Resolutions---Also Put Down Labor Proposal for Steel Strike Inter- vention---President Sends Conciliatory Message to Be Used as Hast Resort"
LRepubIIcan A. P. Leased MIre1

WASHINGTON, Oct 21.-After a day of uncertainty, during which Pres ident Wilson sent to Secretary Lane, chairman, a message of conciliation to be used as a last resort" the national industrial conference tonight cleaned its slate by rejecting all collective bar gaining resolutions as well 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 and steel strike resolutions, although the decla- ration on collective bargaining was postponed by the public delegates. Prior to the vote on the original decla- ration the employers substitute and two new amendments by Thomas L Chadbourne, chairman Of the confer ence's central committee, met defeat. Only the employers favored the sub stitute, and labor and capital united in the opposition to the amendments.
 Must Take New Start
 When the conference reconvenes to- morrow it will be in practically the same position as at the opening. In adjourning the session tonight, Secre- tary Lane declared the conference had
 
 take a new start by adjourning for several days while a co-ordinating committee of not more than six mem bers frames a program of action. De- feated on every point and having lost the support of the public group which heretofore has been on the side of the workers, the labor delegates left the conference hall tonight disheartened and feeling, as some of them said, that little could be gained by further meet ings. However, a meeting of the group has been called for g o'clock tomorrow morning and individual members will be bound by action taken at that time
 Should labor show a disposition tc bolt the conference, Chairman Lane undoubtedly will use the presidents letter in an effort to avert the crisis. Reading Of the letter was said to be entirely discretionary with the chair man. who declared that he would not produce it unless the situation became acute. Although labor may force the disclosure of its contents, it was gen erally predicted tonight that the work CTS would not withdraw. The presi- dents message, it was understood, re- states the purposes for which the con ference was convened, emphasizes the urgency of the need for allaying indus trial unrest and makes a plea for fur ther work on the part of the conferees.
 Obtain Quick Action
 The morining session of the confer ence lasted only few minutes and the afternoon meeting, during which quick action was obtained, was not convened until o'clock. The entire day convened until o'clock. The entire ray was devoted to group meetings in an attempt to de- wise another declaration on col lective bargaining, satisfactory to all elements. After more than three days of almost continuous sessions, the employers were unable to agree upon another statement and fell back on the Wheeler substitute.
 Members of the public group at tempted to effect a compromise by the substitution of the words associations Of their own choosing" for trade and labor unions" in the clause of the groups resolution guaranteeing the workers the right to organize and the five labor representatives on the gen. eral committee of 15 spent two hours in joint meeting with the public ex blaming labor's objection to the change This amendment was introduced by MT. Chadbourne, but the public group alone voted favorably.
 | When the original Russell -Endicott l resolution came up for discussion in the conference, Samuel Gompers, presi- dent of the American Federation of : (Oontinued on Page Four)