The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-10-22
TWO MILLION
UNION MEN
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| mpnt OF Il SuIcT anu ntdi w
operation between all the elements
engaged in industry.
| ''The public expects not less
than that you shall have that one
| end in view and stay together I'M
til the way is found leading to that
end or until it is revealed that the
men who work and the men who
manage American industry are 80
| set upon divergent paths that all
efforts at cooperation are doomed
to failure.
81 renew my appeal that with
| full comprehension OF the almost
Incompatible Importance OF youl
task to this end and to other peo-
pies and with full faith in the
high patriotism and good faith OF
each other you push your task to
happy conclusion.
CSigned) WOODROW WILSON"
Following the reading Of the presi'
dents letter when the conference
was expecting move from the labor
group indicating whether or not 1t
would withdraw, a motion to send to
the president the conferences assur'
ance that it would stay on the job
brought an objection from President
Gompers. He asked permission fol-
this group to withdraw and adjourn
ment was taken for half an hour.
Before beginning to read the presi.
dents letter, Secretary Lane said:
1.-THE president does not, in any
way, minimize the greatness of your
task. 1t was his desire to be with
you from time to time. to guide and
arr iS fr1nnSCih1p
"When l wrote him, telling OF the
situation within this conference and
doing 1t without color, l hope, he
wrote this letter. 1t Is addressed to
you and signed by him, Tying in his
bed on his back"
When he had concluded reading
Secretary Lane said:
81 suggest, gentlemen, as an appre
citation of this letter coming from
the chief magistrate OF the nation
coming from him on his sick bed
that you tender to him rising vote
| of thanks"
This was given unanimously.
John Spargo, socialist, saying such
| a vote was not an adequate expires
sion, suggested that a reply be sent
assuring the president that the con
| ference would remain at work unit
| its work was finished.
H. A Wheeler for the employers
seconded the motion.
| Gompers then took the floor. He
said that labor groups subscribed te
every expression Of appreciation Of
the presidents letter, but that it was
unfair to the labor group to ask 1t tc
vote on Spargo's motion. 1t had
been their purpose, he said, to with
draw for consultation IN any event
and that it would be necessary to dc
so now. Lane suggested that Spargc
withdraw his motion and Wheeler his
second. They did so. Adjournment
was taken for half an hour.
Stay on the JOB.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 22.-Presiden
Wilson today served on the nationa
industrial peace conference deman.
that it stay on the job until it find
a way of carrying on industry othe
than "in the spirit and with the yer.
method of war" Otherwise, nationa
disaster Is invited, he warned.
Written in the presidents sick room
in the white house, the communication
a letter addressed to the ladies an
gentlemen of the industrial peace cor
ference" was read by Secretary Lane
imm ediately after the conference az
tsembled, when it was indicated tn
labor group had decided to WITHDRAW
because of the defeat yesterday Of tn
proposals to recognize collective bar
gaining.
Must suspicion and hatred ant
force rule us in civil nfe?" Wilson de
smanded.
Are our industrial leaders and on
industrial workers to live togethe
without faith in each other, constant,
struggling for advantage over eaci
other, doing naught but what is com
pelled?"
For the conference TO break up with
out finding a ground for agreement
would be to confess, the president de
clared, that domestic warfare could no
be ended Eat time when the nation:
of the world are endeavoring to fine
a way of avoiding industrial war"
Applause broke out on both side.
of the hall when Lane finished reading
Then there was silence as all looked
toward the labor group in the middle
of the meeting room.
President Gompers asked permission
for this group to withdraw and go into
executive session. A recess was takeI
for a half hour. At noon the labor
group still was out. Gompers' actor
followed a resolution introduced BY
John Spargo asking the conference tC
vote to assure the president it woulG
not adjourn until it had accomplished
its task.
The situation was tense as the dele
gates left the hall for the recess. The
labor group went at once to its com
mlttee room.
In the opening paragraph of his letter
the president described the communi
kcation as word Of very solemn ap
peal to you as Americans" For the
conference to adjourn without reach
ing common ground OF agreement, he
wrote, would be IAN invitation to ma
tional disaster"
At 1870 p. M, the labor GROUP
! cfi in, oaccjpn 5aoiI