Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1919-10-24

eration of Labor, in statement ex- plaining the stand of the labor group, declared that it is worse than use less to sit in conference" with en- ployers unless they agree to de- claration of the right of workers ta organize without discrimination.
 Asserting that the labor delegates are liot jumping jacks" and would not reverse their decision, MT. Gompers said that he had been in- structed previous to yesterdays meeting by the labor group, includ- ing both the representatives of the American Federation of Labor and the railroad brotherhoods, to an- neunce their withdrawal in case the collective bargaining declaration WIS defeated. When the declaration was finally rejected yesterday, he said, there was nothing left except with drawal.
 1 Employers Pleased.
 The employers statement said in part:
 "The employers group, soberly re- viewing the work of the conference. discovers three definite gains:
 II St, Ib DCCI lClliOiioIdI GCt that failure is inevitable where pre- liminary organization of the ele- ments composing such conference Is absent and where no preparation is made for the orderly presentation of a program which shall include all of the known factors upon which in- dustrial relations are based.
 Second, collective bargaining ,an
 l -l.I dustry, has been brought more prom inently before the country and will ! influence sincere effort on the part of innumerable manufacturers to find an acceptable medium through which this collective relationship may be secured and maintained in the industrial establishment.
 "'Third, collective bargaining as a policy or principle, cannot be safely used in the broad and general GUS ttom with which the public has been accustomed to express it, but must be defined clearly as to it's applied bility to the varying conditions of in- dustry and the varying relations that exist between wage earner and the employee.
 ''It may be charged that the en- ploveres group in defeating the Gompers resolution. denied the right of organization and of collective bar gaining But the conference learn ed definitely that the rights of or ganization and collective bargaining are interpreted by the labor group in one way and one way only, or ganibed and bargaining through trade ad labor unions. It would be unfair to make any pronouncement on these two important principles which would covev as the belief of this conference such an interpreta- tion.
 "The employers group could not deny the right that it so freely and fully conceded in it's own substitute resolution whic hthe conference de- 1 feated and it stands today with the adjournment of the conference upon the record of it's substitute and it's interpretation, confident that the sober Judgment of the American peo- pie will come to understand that the position taken was in the defense of the onen shop, an American institu- tion that shall not be udermined and destroyed by any organized combin- ation seeking to threaten it's life. Our social and industrial fabric is not in dancer. Employer and wage earner will live and work together but the conference has demonstrated that the right of the en1rlover to deny aspirations unworthily sought shall not be abridged: nor shall the right of the wage-earner collectively to place before his own employer his needs and his aspiraticns and his interest in the establishment be abridged
 "We are leaving upon the record of the conference this declaration of true American principles and upon this declartion the employers group and the employers of the nation will stand in fair dealing with the wage earner through the critical days of readjustment just ahead"