The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-10-16
COMMITTEE
FAILS TO AGREE
Fifteen Men Cannot Decide on
Recognizing Principle of Col
lective Bargaining for
Workers.


limited Press Leased Wire Service.]
WASHINGTON, Oct. 16.--The CEN
trail committee of fifteen failed to
agree on recognizing the principle OF
collective bargaining. Committee
Chairman Chadbourne announced to
the national industrial conference
when 1t convened this afternoon.
The disagreement came over reso-
luton which the committee began to
consider yesterday. The committee
was in session until nearly midnight
and again this morning. A final
vote was taken just before the con-
ference assembled for the afternoon
session.
Chadbourne announced that the
vote Of the employers delegates in
the committee defeated favorable
report on a resolution which would
have put the conference on record as
recognizing the right Of workers to
organize and bargain collectively
through representatives Of their own
choosing.
Although the committee could not
return favorable report the propo-
sition under the rules came before
the conference for debate and a vote.
John d. Rockefeller. Jr., the first
speaker in debate, rea1 a paper in
which he expressed hope that the
conference groups might stand to-
gether as unsellshly as they did in
settling the problems of the war"
Labor, capital, management and
the public, he said, accomplished
great results during the war by CO
operation.
1T is clear" he said, shat the COM
mon good cannot be advanced by the
attempt of one party to force its will
upon the other"
Rockefeller made strong plea be-
fore the conference to further the
establishment of democracy in indus
try.
New resolutions introduced at the
afternoon session included one by
Paul Feiss, Of Cleveland, one of the
public's delegates. urging the presi-
dent and congress to institute sur
vey of the entire housing problem
which was called the basis of much un.
rest-and establish system of fed.
eral home loan banks to assist the peo-
pie to build their own homes. Ida
M. TarbeIl, of the public group intro
duced resolution urging that working
conditions of women be regulated so
they would have an eight hour day.
Saturday half holiday, one days rest
in seven, no work between 10 p. m. and
6 a. m, wages based on the work
done.
Justice and fairness only, not legis-
lation, will solve industrial problems,
emphasized. Workers and
employers now are too often strang-
ers," he declared. He called for the
establishment of friendly relations be-
tween labor and capital
Rockefeller quoted an unnamed in
vestigator who surveyed the national
industrial field and who concluded
the workers are demanding no higher
wages, but recognition as human
beings.
1--WE have been called together to
consider the industrial problems"
said. "Only as each OF
us discharges his duties as member
Of this conference in the same high
spirit Of patriotism, of unselfish al
legiance to right and justice, of de-
votion to the principles Of democracy
and broth erhood with which we ap-
the problems of war, can we
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industrial problems, which is no less
vital to the life of the nation. There
are pessimists who say there is no
short of revolution and the
overturn of the existing social order.
Surely the men and women who have
shown themselves capable OF such
lofty sacrifice, who have actually
given themselves so freely, gladly,
as the people of this
great country have during these past
years stand together as unselfishly III
solving this great industrial problem
as they did in dealing with the prob |
lens of the war if only the right is
made clear and a way to solution |
is pointed out.
The West Indies absorb nearly a |
bird of the automobile exports from