Norwich bulletin., 1919-10-24
INDUSTRIAL CONFERENCE
 HAS BEEN ADJOURNED (Con& &inued from Pane Onel

gramne outlined in the original call. 1 Conferees who were willing to con tinue as a new conference objected to being considered as the left overs from the wreckaEe of the old groups. As the debate waxed acromirious and the members showed the signs of ner- yous strain which they have under gone since October (. an attempt was made to obtain a recess of two weeks. but the motion was defeated by a close vote and instead it was decided to meet again tomorrow afternoon at 2.30 o'clock.
 Meantime committee of which John D. Rockefeller. Jr.. is chairman. D. Jones and Ward NJ. Burgess are members. will prepare recommends . tion as to the groups future action.
 President Wilson on being informed early in the day of lai,or's withdrawal. dictated from his sickbed a messa ge to Chairman Lane.
 Later in the day MT. Lane appeared before the public group and read the message in the form of a memoran- dunn but declined to make it public.
 Before the conference was adjourn ed. the employers representatives ex
 pressed their willingness to remain. although realizing that without the Ia bor delegates little could be achiev- ed.
 In their statement the employers de- clared that "coilective bargaining. an accepted and desirable policy in indus try. had been brought more promi- nent1y before the country with the realization that the term must be un- derstood as having various applica- tions under different conditions. Col lective bargaining is interpreted by said, and that is as organizing and bargaining through trade and labor unions"
 On the other hand. Samuel Comp CTS. president of the American Fedora tion of Labor. in a statement expla in ing the stand of the labor group, de- ciared that "it is worse than useless to sit in conference" with employers unless they agree to a declaration of the right of workers to organize with out discrimination.
 Asserting that the labor delegates are not Jumping jacks" and would not reverse their decision. MT. Comp CTS said that he had been instructed previous to yesterdays meeting by the labor gro>S including both the repre- sentatives of the American Fedora tion of Labor and the railroad broth erhoods to announce their withdrawal in case the collective bargaining decla- ration was defeated When the decla-- ration was finally rejected. yesterday, he said there was nothing left except withdrawal.
 ed. Chairman Lane said that the going out of the labor group had changed the nature of the conference.
 Therefore" he added. 'it is the presidents desire that I should ex- press to the gentlemen of the employ CTS group who have expressed their willingness to stay, his desire that the Of the conference itself should because of the change of ftconditions. be changed, and that the work should be carried on by the public group in a asrnuch as the burden of these quari reIs that exist in industry falls ulti upon the public. And so. gen tlemen the public group will be ask ed to make a report and give advice and suggestions as to the industrial policy of this country.
 The employers group of the confer ence tonight issued the following statement:
 The adjournment Of the National