Norwich bulletin., 1919-10-22
Capital Wins Open
 Shop Contention
Industrial Conference Rejects All Collective Bargaining Resolutions as Well as Pro posal For Intervention In Steel Strike.

uncertainty. during which President Wilson sent. to Secretary Lane, chair man. message of consolidation. to be used as a Hast resort,"ethe national industrial conference tonight cleaned it's slate by rejecting all collective bar gaining resolutions as well as the labor proposal for intervention in the. steel strike. . The public group aligned with capi- tai on the vote against both the orig inal collective bargaining and steel strike resolutions. although the decla- ration on collective bargaining was proposed by the public delegates. Prior to the vote on the original declaration, the employers substitute and two new amendments by Thomas l.. Chad bourne,- chairman of the conferences the employers favored the substitute. and labor and capital united in their opposition to the amendments.
 When the conference reconyenes to- morrow morning it will be in practi- cally the same position as at the open ing on Oct. s. In adjourning the ses- sion tonight, Secretary Lane declared that the conference had produced nothing and advised it to take new start by adjoufring for several days while co-ordinating committee of not more than six members frames a program of action. s-Ay7
 Defeated on every point. and having lost the support of the public group.
 
 of the workers. the labor delegates left the conference hall tonight disheart- ened and feeling. as some of them said. that little could be gained by further meetings. However. meet ing of the group has been called for g oclock tomorrow morning, and indi- vidual mem bers will be bound by ac- tion taken at that time.
 should labor show disposition to holt the conference. Chairman Lane will undoubtedly use the presidents 8 letter in an effort to avert the crisis. Reading of the letter was said to be entirely discretionary with the chair man, who dec1ared that he would not produce it. unless the ,situa ton became acute. Although labor may force the disclosure of its contents it was gen erauy predicted tonight that the workers would not withdraw The presidents message, it was understood. re-s1ateS the purposes for which the conference was convened, emphasizes the urgency of the need for aHaying industrial unrest, and makes a plea for further work on the part of the con- ferees. 2 ss 4 VI
 The morning session of the confer ence lasted only a few minutes. and the, afternoon meeting. during which convened until 5sosclUck ~ Z. n he tire. daySwas devoted to group. fazet5r1s lats -sstt emp to sstiev5srs an other declaration on collective bar. tes- sS<@-fHai a oS1toit 7lo t4l clements. After more. than three days Of almost continuous sessions, the employers were, unable to agree, upon another statement and fell back upon : the Wheeler Substitute
 Members of. the public group at tempted to effect compromise by the substitution of the words "associa tions of their own choosing for trade and labor unions" in the clause. of the groups resolution guaranteeing work CTS the right to organize, and the five labor representatives on the general committee of fifteen spent two hours in joint meeting with the public ex- blaming labor's objection 10 the change. This amendment was intro duced by Mir. Chadbourne. but the pub lie group alone voted favorably
 When the original Russell -Endicott resolution came up for discussion in the conference, Samuel Gon1pers pres 1dent of the American Federation of Labor. declared that the withdrawal of the support of the public group was que to an interpretation of the words
 labor and trade unions by one of the Ia Dor group, who is allied with organ tzed labor. and that the phrase ex- cludes all but one of federation of labor organizations. It was said that the reference was to J. J. Forester, alternate for Bert NJ. Jewett. acting president of the railway employees de- partment o9 the federation