Evening star., 1919-09-02
N. Y.LAbOR URGES
HALT|NG STRIKES.
Federation Committee Rec
0mmends Increase of Out
put to Avert Disaster.

NEW YORK, September "A plan
for the reduction of the cost of liv-
ing, recommended by the cost of liv-
Federation bf Labor, in a report pub
,ished yesterday and made after
series of conferences with repre-
sentatives of capital. includes. the
suspension of pending labor strikes
on the basis of the status quo for a
period of six months, or until Presi-
dent Wilson may make effective his
fight to bring down the cost of liv-
ing. and the speeding up of produc-
tion by intensive methods used during
the war.
1t also recommends that no strikes
be ordered during this period. except
those that may be necessary to re-
lieve wage earners from intoleraDie
oppression, and that the executive
council of the State Federation of La
bor be the judge of what strikes now
pending shall be deemed necessary.
The committee further recommends
that the hands of the President be
upheld in his efforts to reduce living
costs.
Important excerpts from the COM
mittee's report follow:
First. That organized labor exert
itself to the utmost to increase pro,
duction of essential commodities anu
thereby lower the cost to the pro.
ducer, to enable him to lower the cost
alone to the necessaries OF nte'
but to all manufactured artlcies
which are bartered in commerce at
home and abroad, and the production'
manufacture and sale OF which SUP
ply the income from Whlch LABOR
draws its earnings and employers
their profits. ...
a factory wheel from turning or or
otber~ise interrupts the processes OF
nroduction contributes to retard the
United States from regainlng It's
rightful supremacy. and the people
from realizing the prosperity to whlch
tbev are entitled, your committee Is
of the opinion that every enoIt
should be made by the New YORK
state Federation of Labor to dlscour-
age strikes except in cases wnere
vital principles OF traoes uhiohiS
are at stake or where employers are
Your committee earnestly recon, ,
mends that the executive council
take steps to cancel and suspend an
strikes now in progress in New York
state. and to use their influence 10
prevent the calling Of future strlkes
except in Sucn clTCuHlSldhSoS 90 -,
the opinion of the executive council
render it imperatively necessary TO
use the strike weapon.
2. That the truce shall be on the
basis of the status quo.
8. That the period of the truce snail
he six months, or for such longer pc
riod as President Wilson may require
to enable him to effect a reduction OF
the cost of living.
4. That notice be served on all en-
blowers that any individual hrm- or
CORPORATION which attempts to take
advantage of organized labor's attl-
tude. to serve it's own interests at the
expense of labor, shall be LEFT Tor
reasonable time to such disciplinary
measures as other employers or or
ganizations Of employers may wish TO
nut into effect, and that il disciplinary
measures be not taken by the en-
ployers themselves, then organized Ia
Dor will fight such unfair and disloyal
individual firm, or corporation In a
manner that will never be enaced
from the culprit's memory.
5, That copies of this report De
transmitted to Samuel Gompers, pres
ident of the American Federation OF
Labor, and to the various state fedora
tions of labor throughout the United
states, with the recommendation that
the policy outlined herein be adopted
by all