New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-11-19
During Armistice Of a Year
Creation of Industrial
Adjustment Boards i'm
Each State Is Proposed
Would STANDARDIZED Wage
Inactivity Of U. S. Is Blamed
Before Mining Congress
for Mexican Conditions

81 LOUIS, Nov 1S.-Creation Of an
industrial adjustment commission in
each state Of the nation with q national
body as court of appeal" was urged
before the American Mining Congress
here tonight by Allen Walker, of the
Guaranty Trust Company, New York
in an address advocating a years arm
istice between capital and labor.
Each state commission, according to
Mr.. Walkers Plan, would consist of
ne representative e~ch of labor, cap
ita and the state with two represent
ing the public, preferably education
aists.
The state commissions would have
power to standardize wages and cnsu
ing adjustments, while the national
board would be authorized to serve in
an appellate capacity.
The speaker proposed that during a
twelve-month armistice present work
campaign be waged in behalf of thrift
and production.
Such an armistice should be real no
lockouts or strikes during that time.
both capital and labor pledging in ad
vance to abide by the ruling of the
national commission" declared Mr.
Walker.
Labor Autocracy Charged
Union method in the United States
has drfted from honest effort at col
lective bargaining at its inception to
an or~7nizeA 'obor autcc~ ~ that has
placed premium on ineficicncy, &C
riding 10 az address 10y Harry N.
Taylor president of the National Coal
Association, which was read to the con-
gress.
"The radicals ride over the conserva-
tivcs ard the miners to-day are auto
cratica'ly governed through fea~, by
their radical officials and business
agents." sa d Mr. Taylor in te egram
to the convention.
"No more vicious attempt at DELHI
crate profiteering could b. forced upon
the public than this demand these
radical officials of the United Mine
workers " his address said
"Radica ism on the part Of capital
or labor cannot be allowed to rule this
country The organized miners srike
is an attempt to force a huge tribute
from the American people on the cost
of their fuel and making an attempt in
winter in their strategy to st p the
wheels of industry and transp ortation
and force the submission Of the de-
fenseloss public through hunger ana
cold and the sutferings of women and
children will arouse no sympathy in
the heartless juggernaut of radical
unionism."
Mexican Policy Denounced
Criticism of the government for
disregard Of conditions in Mexico"
which were b AIMED for the loss Of
American Ives there, and discussing
The possibility of fruitful results from
the strike of bituminous coal miners
were features of tod US session.
Walter Douglas Of New York pre-
scented resolution protes ing to the
State Department against further fail
ure to take notice Of the situation in
Mexico shat makes it unsafe for
Anne rican citizens there"
Recll.ng that iorty-fve Americans
engaged in mining in Mexico have
been murdered since 1910, and tho
eighteen of these murders occurred
since 1916, latter the United STATES
recognized the present Mexican rov.
ernment," the resolution declared "no
steps taken by the United States in
these matters have provided constitu
tlonal protection to its citizens"
Protection Demanded
The resolution recommended tba
United States take immediate steps
to insure that the constitutional RIGHTS
OF American citizens shall protect them
on our borders and 60 with them
throughout the world. and that every
citizen residing or having property in
an foreign country shall receive the
fuli protection of the United States
government both for himself and his
property"
E. W. Parker, director of the An
thracite Bureau of Philadelphia. dis
Gus ing the coal miners strike. ex-
pressed hope that out of the strucrle
might come the establishment Of
board of concil .ation in the btuminous