The daily morning oasis., 1919-10-07
The GREAT
ELEMENTS
OF SOCIETY
IN COUNSEL
Will EndeavOr to Find Com
mon Ground for An Ad-
: justment of Malign Influ-
ences i'm Life.
Omitted Press Service)

WASHINGTON, Oct. 6.-At 2:30
O'Clock this afternoon the Industrial
Conference called by President Will
son to convene on this date, began
its opening session in the Pan-Ameri-
can building. Secretary of Labor
Wilson called the assemblage to or
der and will preside until perma-
nent organization is effected.
In opening the Industrial Confer
ence Secretary Wilson welcomed the
members in the name of President
Wilson, declaring:
81 regret very much that illness of
President Wilson has made it impos-
sible for him to be here to greet you.
| hoped that he might be here in per-
son to bid you welcome and by the
clarity of his vision, the soundness
of his judgment, the felicity of his
speech, to have assisted you towards
accomplishment of the great purpose
he had in mind when this conference
was called by him.
"Today the entire world is face to
face with the most difficult peace
time problem it has ever had to deal
with; wastage of war has been tre-
mendous. Power of replacement of
things destroyed has been impeded
seriously by conditions that constitute
the aftermath of war. Industry has
been disarranged by the process of re-
adjustment to the needs of peace.
Commerce has been handicapped by
insufficient shipping facilities. for
eign exchange and domestic uncer-
tiiinties. Many countries are without
stable government. Financial infla-
tiontion and undue expansion of COM
mercial values in all the world have
played havoc with relative values of
money, wages and commodities
At the conclusion of Secretary
Wilson's address a committee on per-
manent organization was provided, on
motion duly made, seconded and put
to vote, being adopted unanimously.
Then the conference went into recess
to give the committee upon organiza-
ton time to confer and perform the
work allotted.
Final arrangements were perfected
late last night by Secretary Wilson,
Attorney General Palmer and Barney
Baruch, in conference with Secretary
'Tumu!ty, at the White House.
The predicted refusal to participate
by the four great brotherhoods of
railway workers did not materialize.
They were accorded representation
with one member of the conference to
each organization, while the fourteen
labor unions represented in the Amer
ican Federation of Labor are repre-
sented by the regular delegation from
that body.
The conference was called by Presi-
dent Wilson with an aim of arriving
at some common ground of agreement
and action with regard to the future
conduct of industry.
In framing the conference President
Wilson called into its deliberations
representatives of the three great
elements in national life: capital, la
Dor and the public.
Meeting at this time, with condi-
tions unsettled all over the country,
and all over the world, with labor and
capital ready to tear at the throats
of each other in all parts of the land,
and having clashed already in many
different quarters, the conference
certainly has its work cut out for it.
From all sides comes the query: "Can
the conference harmonic conflicting
interests and adjust radical misun-
derstandings