Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1919-10-11
CONFERENCE IS
DEADLOCKED ON
STEEL WALK-0UT
Adjournment Taken Until Tues
day When "Open Show"
Resolution is Heard.
SHARP CONTEST FROM
LABOR MEET PLAN
Employers Defend First CONCERTED
Declaration Under Which Amer
lean Industry Can Full
fill It's Destiny"

washington, OcL. 1U.-DeadlOcked
in the committee of fifteen, or the
steering committee" over labor's
proposal to arbitrate the steel strike,
brought about adjournment today of
the National Industrial Conference,
until Tuesday. In the meantime the
steering committee" will hold a
meeting in an attempt to agree on a
report to lay before the conference
when it reassembles.
Adjournment came after the con-
ference had received the proposals of
the employers group declaring for
the principle of the open shop and
affirming that mo employer should
be required to deal with men or
groups of men who are not his en-
ployes or chosen by and from among
them"
The latter principle created quite a
stir in the conference and was con-
sidered by some of the delegates as
approval of the stand taken by Judge
Ebert H. Gary, chairman of the
United States Steel corporation in re-
fusing to meet the steel strikers
Other principles enunciated in the
declaration of the employers included:
Acceptance of the right of strike or
lockout, except in the case of govern
ment employees; opposition to SYM
pathetic strikes and lockouts; insis-
tence on the function of management
in directing industry; emphasis of
shop unions as opposed to the in
dustrial councils proposed by organ
ICED labor; and declaration that
cooperative relations between capt.
tai and labor should be worked out in
individual establishments with due
regard to local factors, instead of
along the lines of entire industries,
as suggested by labor
High industrial efficiency" was
stated by the employers as the touch
ing stone of sound industrial rela-
tions
Members Pleased.
After receiving the proposals of
the employers, the last of the three
groups represented in the conference
to report, an hours recess was taken
to permit the committee of Is to bring
in report on the zone resolution"
which, it was announced was under
consideration. On recovering, how
ever, the committee informed the con-
ference that it was unable to agree
on report, and after objections had
been registered by Samuel Gompers
OF the labor group, and Thomas L.
Chadbourne, of the public's represen-
tatives, adjournment was taken.
With the fundamental proposals by
the right" and cleft" groups before
the conference, as we'll as number
OF important proposals by represen-
tatives of the public, members of the
conference tonight expressed their
satisfaction with the result of the
first weeks deliberations.
Many of he delegates, with the ex-
ception of the labor representatives.
Who remained to attend sessions of
the executive council of the Ameri-
can Federation of Labor, left Wash
lngton late today for the week end.
Employers Attitude.
IN explanation of the employers
attitude, Magnus w. Alexander.
managing director of the National
industrial Conference board, tonight
said:
The statement of principles which
Should govern the employment rela-
lion IN industry presented to the con-
eVNoy was Wig 1HdlIy PAoPcA
ed by the delegates appointed by
the National Industrial Conference
board and assented to after discus
sion by the employers group, includ-
ing the delegates of the United States
chamber of commerce, the farmer
associations, the investment bankers
and the railroad executives.
This document will become his
torlc because it sthe first concerted
declaration by industrial leaders of
me 1hese fundamental principles under
the operation of which alone Ameri-
can industry must live and move and
nave its being, if it is to achieve it's
highest destiny. 1t is constructive
reasonable statement of economic
Jaws phrased in language sympathe
tic and humane.
.. The employers group was graft
iled at the many expressions Of appro-
val OF representative of the public in
various walks of life which followed
N me presenting of the statement to
the conference"