The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1919-10-15

This vas averted until tomorrow
at least a crisis which had become
more and more manifest as the de-
alterations preceded today the
labor group M determined to carry
through the resolution and this at
tstGde Is responsible for the under
current of talk today that II the
labor group IL unsuccessful 1t Will
walk out OF the conference
The employers group Is hke~fse
unyield1ng In its posation that coll
lecsfye bargaining shall not be con
eedad beyond the Acid of tntraplan1
ORGANIZATIONS Through it's spokes-
man. l. f. Loree. the employers
group laid down four reasons why
1t opposes the Gompers resolution
sut whether the question be con-,
.rete one, such as settling the steel
ike, or not, the group is unquaH-
hedly opposed to dealing with union
ism beyond the individual indusfri la
plant
The public group manifested today
that Il Is trying hard to hold ina
labor and the capital groups To-
gether by devising some sort OF
workable compromise Where
com promise cannot be found re-
= sgy,tS-ss str had ia eoasf-ssassfa ssst or
temporlzing in the hope that har~
rnony may yet be secured
All three groups found anirnfty
today IN one proposition This WAS
the rejection of plan proposed by
Thomas l. Chad of the puo-
lie group a. substitute for tho
Gompers resolution, The Chad
a ia
to settle labor disputes be made by
representatives of both workers and
employees in each plant, the workers
committee to be elected by vote OF
both strikers and non strikers In
event the representatives so chosen
could not reach decision. the set
Element would then be made by q
committee of six appointed by the
Industrial conference.
The Chadbourne substitute for the
Compers resolution was dehateo
by the several groups by themselves
for more than an hour. Then 1t
was unanimously voted down
Then with the Gompers resofu-
ton again before the conference.
Mr. Gompers took the door ana
made vigorous appeal for its sue
cess His theme was that If the
employers Fe1uoSd 20 oC1l WAN' VI
sanized labor they would have 10
deal with the /. W W, and the
Eolshevist forces, Among the
stronger statements made by Mr..
Gompers are:
IF you can look anywhere in the
history of the struggle Of labor to
emerge from the condition of slavery
to serfdom and from serfdom to
wage labor and can find any propo-
sition SO generous and comprehen-
slve al the one which we have pro-
posed. | shall be glad to be silenced
for a long time to come.
NO MASTER
zone would imagine that there
was a great condeScension which
was asked Are we. at this timei
in this year of grace 1919. having
driven political autocracy from of
the face of the globe, to submit
servilely TO an industrial autocrat?
The time has gone by when any man
can say he Is master Of all he sur
yeys.
The Unit ed States steel corpora
ton denies this right (of labor to-
be represented by men Of their own
chooSing) and where comes in the
Inconsistency? The United States
steel corporation Is a federation OF
corporations and the representatives
OF that federation Of steel corpora
tons speak in the name Of all these
corporations.
The officers Of the organization
and the company having in charge
the organization Of the men and the
conduct Of the strike which has oc-
Cured were impressed by the fact
that II the strike was discounten-
\ -
not only have come out on strike.
but that the organizers OF the !. w.
W., the organizers OF the Bolshev-
Nj were on the ground and were
]. ,(coutanuod - rAgo I've,