Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-10-06
DELEGATES GATHER
TO CURE NATIONS
INDUSTRIAL ILLS
Meeting Will Be Held in
Pan-American Union
Building.
CHANGE MADE NECESSARY BY
CONDITION OF PRESIDENT
Three Groups Arranged For in
Setting Plan as An
nounced.
FARMERS ARE NOT SATISFIED
Railroad Brotherho oods Also Contend
That They Should BE Given
FARMERS ARE NOT SATISFIED
That They Should BE Given
Large Representation.
rBy Universal serviee.l

WASHINGTON. Oct. 5.-On account
10, the Presidents illness the big con-,
ference OF labor. capital and other
group interests which meets here at
::3o o'clock tomorrow afternoon Will
be held at the anAmerican Union
Building instead OF the White House.
Following an address OF welcome 10
the delegates by John Barrett. direc-
gdn 59TI general O., ,he ran-Ameriean E:,In
formally open the session by reading
tho Presidents letter, calling the com
discuss the need for a better adjust
ment Of the relations between capital
chairman while a. permanent organiza-
tion is effected.
Detailed arrangements for the. con-
Hugh L. Kerwin. OF the Department OF
,abor; and he has had the benent of
the -dvice o.. Bernard ~, Barueh. who
advisers in Paris.
In making the arrangements every
program, with the object OF preserving
open -1i!ndedness from the beginning
SSeh the Ae eone4ses %
Three Groups Planned.
Three groups are arranged for In
the seating plan. The hfteen labor
delesat named and headed by Samuel
OF Labor. Will be seated on the left
@ Win b. .f IN pF5Syidsd ,heS are n named
railroad brotherhoods
On the right Will be seated the So
rslsd empioye1s group Of fifteen rep
Chamber of Commerce, the Investment
bankers Association Of America, the
farmers and the National Industrial
TO balance the seating. the women
repTissents.'iyes niasl1s. arc placed with the
Gertrude Barnun. of Berkeley, Cal, and
Ida N. TArbeil, Of New York, eave
tend. The ;Rird Woman. s@s .eaqn car2ie c Shap a5
man Gait. OF New York. has not Yet
sent her acceptance.
"Public" Delegates in Center.
hs center me pull Re the rss2e dee
those named by the Presiden, vita wiih
terest as well as several representa
tives named since.
In ihs John g. 6roPG ss: RsnsTa
Eiot and Gavin McNab. ""''es W.
the eeF! away IL epoyeeaE sseE pEesdsnt Of
1 who headed the railway shopmen in
The recent negotiations over the
threatened shopmen's strike, is also
been appointed vice colonei 1Hi charies rHs'"s &;
Dawes, who .Aeclincd to attend
Mr.. Jewell therefore, does not an
pear on the list of delegates as rem
rescntative of labor, and il is sipnif;
cant that the railway shopmen who
ware asked 10 agree TO ninety days'
truce so that the labor and capital con
ference might be held are not repre-
scented as a group in the selection of
delegates.
Brotherhood Question Undecided.
IT still is to be decided whether the
four big railroad brotherhoods will
accept the invitation to name four
delegates to the conference. The four
brotherhoods are not yet affiliated with
the American Federation of Labor, and
unless they send delegates they will
not be represented. The officials of
the brothe rhoods have been contending
given a larger representation.
From the standpoint of labor, whose
Interests were largely in mind when
the conference vas first planned it will
originally expected. Under President
Wilson's first call labor was to have
ffteen representatives out of the forty
gates are now grouped. labor will not
be able to cast third Of the votes.
Nor are the farmers satisfied with
their p, propoTtt,on itIsa OF delegates They
one- twentieth of the total. Some OBJ
iection has also been voiced by
negroes. who claim that as II per cent
Recognized in the representation.
Hundreds OF Suggestions.
Several hundred suggestions rang
ing from letters to extensive plans for
the adjustmnt OF industrial matters
and economic improvements have been
received either by the President or by
the Secretary of Labor. The Plumb
plan League is one Of the organiza-
lions which has submitted definite
recomme nc tions.
At the Department Of Labor 1t was
stated that the conference might be
In session a week or ten days, al
Though this will be settled by the dele
gates themselves.
REVOLT IN PORTIIG AL