The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1919-10-21
LABOR CONGRESS IN
NO AGREEMENT AS TO
ITEM OF BARGAINING
Conference Adjourned Over the
Weekend While Central
Committee Worked.
GOMPERS BACK AT DESK
Every Indication Is That Conference
Will Make a New Start Toward the
Reaching Of Agreement Satisfac-
tory to All Groups-Gompers Says
Labor Takes No Advantage.

tory 10 All SrOupS-GOmperS Says
Labor Takes No Advantage.
WASHINGTON. Oct. 2O-without
reaching decision on recognition, OF
the right of workers to bargain sol-
lectively-an issue which has baen
the subject of two days of debate +
the national industrial confereAce
closed the second week OF it's detib-
erations.
Adjournment was taken until to-
day when there is every indicatio
that the conference will make a NEW
start, a definite program for probe
dure to that end being in process iof
formulation.
Withdrawing their motion to ire
commit the labor-public declarat lon
on collective bargaining, the employ
ers took the initiative by Offering a
substitute resolution which would
protect their right Ito deal or not to
deal with men or groups Of men who
are not their employees" The with
drawal came as a surprise to repre-
sentatives OF the public, who were
prepared to support it, and had OK
pressed their willingness to agree to
amending it.
The motion to adjourn offered by
Thomas l.. Chadbourne, a public rep.
|resentative and chairman of the con-
ference central committee of Is, car.
ried with 1t recommitting Of both
declarations as to collective bargain
ing, to the central committee This
committee will try to reconcile the
two declarations IL possible, and also
consider the new program which 1t
was understood provides that the Is
sue OF collective bargaining remain
in the background until agreement
can be reached on the less disputed
questions.
After several hours OF desultory
debate, Samuel Gompers, president of
the American federation of labor, who
returned to his seat at the afternoon
session Friday after a 3-day illness
brought the discussion to climax
| with heated and eloquent reply to
l.. F. Loree, president OF the Della
ware and Hudson railroad and a rep
resentative of capital
Denying the assertion OF Mr.. Loree
that labor had taken advantage of the
war to force important concessions
from the government, Mr.. Gompers
declared labor had been actuated by
the most intense patriotism during
the war and that labor had made good
Its pledge OF cooperation, rendered
President Wilson even before the ma
tion entered the world conflict But
emphatically declared the veteran la
Dor chieftain, noticeably weakened
by his recent illness. "the masses OF
labor of the United States have al
last found their ability to articulate
through organization and the time
has come when American labor is de
termined to gain a fair share OF the
rewards OF its toll"
Shaking with emotion and his voice
! quivering, Mr.. Gompers bitterly as
sailed Mr.. Loree for his assertion that
there were elements in America la.
Dor that planned overthrow of the
government.
| Mr.. Loree in his address demanded
that the government be given the
same access to the records and CORES
pondence of labor unions that it now
has to those of corporations and tha,
generally the same regulations that
now surround capital be extended to
the labor unions.