The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1919-10-10
IG LABOR MEET
OPENS At CAPITAL
sw Magma charta, Is industry
Plea of Leaders.
EcReTARY WILSON SPEAKS
Q Address To Peor ard Kieh, ne 10
slsrss InduskriaI Peace Must Do
FoundsA on Jusktos-Lisf -
Delegates Made Pubic.

Washington, Oct. 7.-Opening or the
industrial conference called here BY
PRESIDENT Wilson, Secretary Wilson
Il the department Of labor told the
leIogates -reproseating capital. LABOR
md the pubfic-that splendid oppor-
9s1nity for service to mankind lay De-
Are them.
A road to stable relationships per
ween capital and labor must be found
l0 said, adding that surely human In
saaIigence could devise some accept
lble method of adjusting that relation
nip.
After expressing regret that Presi-
TENT Wilson could not be present. Mr..
Wilson said the world faced the most
Uncut peace-time problem it had
ever had 10 deal with because Of the
WastaGe OF war.
Bring High Cost of Living.
1.-THE effect of these things has been
reflected in the high cost Of living"
Mr.. Wilson continued, land the cOnse-
quent demand for higher wage rates
20 meet the increasing burden of the
family budget.
'~Tet increases in the wage rate do
not always give relief.
"The more productive we are the
sooner we Will replace the wastage OF
war, return to normal price levels and
abolish the opportunity for prohteef-
fng.
For that reason we are all interest
ed in the maintenance of Industrial
peace, but there can be no permanent
Industrial peace that is not based upon
industrial Justice Surely human intel
Ngence can devise some acceptable
method of adjusting the relationship
between employer and employee.
Upon your shoulders rests SPLEEN
did responsibility Before you the
doors of opportunity are open. If you.
in the abundance of your combined
wisdom and experience, can produce
an acceptable document of this char
acter, the results of your work will
find place in the hearts of men like
the Magma Charta, the Bill of Rights,
the Declaration of Independence, the
Constitution of the United States and
the emancipation proclamation"
List of Delegates.
The list of delegates announced is
as follows:
For the Public-Bernard b. Baruch,
New York; Robert s. Bookings, st.
Louis; John d. Rockefeller, Jr., New
York; Ebert FL. Gary, New York; DR..
Charles w. Eliot, Cambridge, Mass. ;
John Spargo, New York; o. e. Brad
flute, Xenia, o.; Ward M. Burgess,
Omaha, Neb. Fuller r. Galloway, La
Grange, Ga; Thomas l.. Chadburne,
New York; 81. B. Endicott, Dedham,
Mass: Paul l.. FelSs, Cleveland, 0. ;
Henry S. Dennison, birmingham.
Mass; George r. James, Memphis,
Tenn Thomas D. Jones, Chicago; A.
A. Landon, Buffalo, N Y; e. Z. Mere
dith, Des MOines, Ia; Gavin McNab,
San Francisco; L. D. SWEET, Carbon
dale, Colo; Louis Titus, San Fran
cisco; Charles Edward Russell, New
York; Bert M. Jewell, Washington
Lillian Valid, New York; Gertrude
Barnum, Berkeley, Cal; Ida M. Tar
bell, New York.
Chamber of Commerce of the United
States-Harry A. Wheeler, Chicago
Ernest T. Trigg, Philadelphia; Her
bert f. Perkins, Chicago; John J.
RaskOb, Wilmington, Del; Homer L.
Ferguson, Newport News, Va.
Farmers Organizations-J. N. Title
more, Omro, Wis; T. @. AtkesOn,
Washington; G. S. Barrett. Union City.
Ga.
Investment Bankers Association of
America-Edgar l.. Marston, New
York Howard w. Fenton, Chicago.
Organized Labor, for the American
Federation of Labor-Samuel Gompers
and Frank Morrison, Washington
e. Valentine, Cincinnati; W. d. Ma
han, Detroit, Mich. T. A. Rickert, Chi
eagO; Jacob Fischer, Indianapolis
Matthew Vol, Washington; Mrs Sara
ConbOy, New York; William 81. John
ston. Washington; Paul Scharrenberg,
San Francisco; John III. Donlin, Wash
ington, and M. r. Tighe, Pittsburgh.
For the Four Railroad Brotherhoods
w. q. Sheppard, conductors; w. G.,
Lee. trainmen; Timothy Shea, firemen,
and FL. E. Wills, engineers.
National Industrial Conference
Frederick P. Fish. Boston; J. w.
OLeary, Chicago; S. Pemberton
Hutchinson, Philadelphia; Edwin Farm
ham Green, Boston. and L. f.. Loree,
New York