Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1919-10-15
BIG LABOR MEET
OPENS At CAPITAL
New Magma Charta. Is Industry
Plea of Leaders.
SECRETARY WILSON SPEAKS
In Address to Poor and Rich, He De-
cIares Industrial Peace Must Be
Founded on Justice-List of
Delegates Made Public.

Washington, Oct. 7.-Opening of the
industrial conference called here by
President Wilson, Secretary Wilson
of the department of labor told the
delegates Representing capital, labor
and the public-that splendid oppor-
tunity for service to mankind lay be-
fore them.
A road to stable relationships be-
tween capital and labor must be found,
he said, adding that surely human in
telligence could devise some accept
able method of adjusting that relation
ship.
After expressing regret that Press
dent Wilson could not be present, MI.
Wilson said the world faced the most
difficult peace-time problem it had
ever had to deal with because of the
wastage of war.
Bring High Cost of Living.
1.-The effect of these things has been
reflected in the high cost of living"
Mr.. Wilson continued, land the conse-
Quent demand for higher wage rates
to meet the increasing burden of the
family budget.
yet increases in the wage rate do
not always give relief.
THE more productive we are the
sooner we will replace the wastage CT
war, return to normal price levels ana
abolish the opportunity for proiteer-
ing.
For that reason we are all interest
ed in the maintenance of industrial
peace, but there can be no permanent
industrial peace that is not based upon
industrial justice Surely human intel
Iigence can devise some acceptable
method of adjusting the relationship
between employer and employee.
Upon your shoulders rests a splen-
did responsibility. Before you the
doors of opportunity are open. If you,
in the abundance of your combined
wisdom and experience, can produce
an acceptable document of this char
acter the results of your work will
find a place in the hearts of men like
the Magma Charta, the Bill of Rights,
the Declaration of independence, the
Constitution of the United States and
the emancipation proclamation"
List of Delegates.
The list of delegates announced is
as follows:
For the PubliC-Bernard B. Baruch,
New York; Robert S. BrOOkings, ST.
Louis; John D. Rockefeller, Jr., New
York Ebert II. Gary, New York; DR.,
Charles w. Eliot, Cambridge, Mass.
John Spargo, New York; o. z. Brad
flute, Xenia, o.; Ward NJ. Burgess,
Omaha, Neb. Fuller r. Galloway, La
Grange, Ga; Thomas L. Chadburne,
New York; II. B. Endicott, Dedham,
Mass; Paul L. Felss Cleveland, o.;
Henry S. DennisOn, birmingham,
Mass; George r. James, Memphis,
Tenn; Thomas d. Jones, Chicago; A.
A. Landon, Buffalo, n. Y; E. T. Mere
dith, Des Moines, Ia; Gavin McNab,
San Francisco; L. D. SWEET, Carbon
dale, Colo; Louis Titus, San Fran
cisco; Charles Edward Russell, New
York; Bert NJ. Jewell, Washington;
Lillian Wald, New York; Gertrude
Barnum, Berkeley, Cal; Ida NJ. Tar
bell, New York.
Chamber of Commerce of the United
States-Harry A. Wheeler, Chicago;
Ernest 7. Trigg, Philadelphia Her
bert F. Perkins, Chicago; John J.
RaskOb, Wilmington, Del; Homer L.
Ferguson, Newport News, Va.
Farmers Organizations-J. N. Title
more. Omro, Wis; T. c. Atkeson,
Washington; c. S. Barrett. Union City.
Ga.
Investment Bankers Association of
America-Edgar L. Marston. New
York Howard w. Fenton, Chicago.
Organized Labor, for the American
Federation of Labor-Samuel Gompers
and Frank Morrison, Washington;
Daniel ]. Tobin. Indianapolis; Joseph
+. Valentine, CINCINNATI W. D. Ma
han, Detroit. Mich. T. A. Rickert, Chi
cago: Jacob Fischer, Indianapolis
Matthew Vol, Washington; Mrs Sara
Conboy, New York; William H. John
ston, Washington; Paul Scharrenberg,
San Francisco; John H. Donlin, Wash
ington, and NJ. F. Tighe, Pittsburgh.
For the Four Railroad BrotherhoodS
w. e. Sheppard conductors; w. G.
Lee. trainmen; Timothy Shea, firemen,
and n. Z. Wills. engineers.
National Industrial Conference
Frederick P. Fish, Boston; J. W.
OLeary. Chicago; S. Pemberton
Hutchinson, Philadelphia Edwin Farm
ham Green, Boston, and L. F. Loree,
New York.