Arizona republican., 1919-10-24
EMPLOYERS STATEMENT
TRepub.tcan A. p. Leased wirel

WASHINGTON, Oct. 23-The em- ployers group of the conference tonight issued the following statement:
 "The adjournment of the national in dustrial conference as originally con- stituted brings up to sharply the ques- ton of whether the Beeks of contro- versy over one phase only of indus trial relations leaves the situation without a single gain. The employers group. soberly reviewing the work of the conference, discovers three defi- mite gains:
 First, it has been demonstrated that failure is inevitable where pre- liminary organization of the elements composing such a conference is absent and where no preparation is made for the orderly presentation of a program which shall include all of the known factors upon which industrial rela- tions are based.
 Second, collective bargaining, an accepted and desirable policy in in dnstry, has been brought more prom inently before the country and will influence sincere effort on the part of innumerable manufacturers to find an acceptable medium through which this collective relationship may be se- cured and maintained in the industrial establishment
 Third, collective bargaining as a policy or principle, can not be safely used in the broad and general sense with which the public has been ac- customed to express it, but must be defined clearly as to it's applicability to the varying conditions of industry and the varying relations that exist be- tween wage earner and the employer. Fundamental to the whole question of collective bargaining is the respon- sibility of those who bargain, and this is directed quite as much at the em- ployer as at the wage earner of the organization of which the wage earner is member. Only where there is a definite dual responsibility lived up to l as sfrJapulously as is required in other contractual relations can collective bargaining in any form or under any | interpretation be successful.
 Then it must be remembered that the industrial life of the country in it's employment relations, divides defi- nitely along certain lines. No one will deny the right of the individual wage earner and his employer to negotiate | terms of employment for industrial relations acceptable to both, but aside l from this there is the dealing between employer and his employees by means of the shop industrial council, dealing through a trade or labor union, and all of these methods are acknowledged and practiced by employers.
 Tt may be charged that the em- ployers group in defeating the Comp CTS resolution, denied the right of or ganization and of collective bargain ing. But the conference learned def nitely that the right of organization and collective bargaining are inter. preted by the labor group in one way and one way only, organizing and bar. gaining through trade and labor unions. It would be unfair to make any pronouncement on these two i'm. port principles which would convey as the belief of this conference sucf an interpretation.
 The employers group could no deny the right that it so freely ana fully conceded in it's own substitut, resolution which the conference de feated and it stands today with tn, adjournment of the conference upor the record of it's substitute and it
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