The sun., 1919-09-07
TIM HEALY'S WRATH
FELT BY UpLIFTERS
Conference Is Amiable Until
Barnes Says Labor Has Got
What 1t Wants.
DEFENDS THE N. C. f. ALSO
Those at Meeting on Dawson
Lawn Get New Points on
Making Workers Happy.

In tha nome OF Mrs. Henry 4. DhNl-
son at lesscncb Point, Locust Valley, l..
l.. sitting on the broad, gemlike green
lawn with the blue waters of the Sound
below, and the wide wings of the beauti-
full big house fronting them a group
of persons from all social walks dis
cussed yesterday how to make the labor
ing people happier, how to improve their
working and housing conditions and or
ganize their leisure and recreation.
more artistic setting for an uplift con-
ference could hardly be conceived.
herd of well groomed Jersey cows grazed
peacefully In the meadow at one side
on the other the Davisons' white yacht
CLEANED in the sun at the private pier,
and the whole scene suggested an ideal
for which labor might well strive.
The conference, including such widely
varying characters as Mrs. Charles Cary
Rumsey, Mrs Mortimer l.. Schiff, George
Gordon Battle, Samuel McCune Lindsay,
Tim Healy, the former Coroner and now
president of the Stationary Firemens
Union, and Tom Rock and other ardent
labor leaders, there was plenty of OPP
portunity for excited discussion, but no.
body broke the peace to any great ex-
tent till Tim Healy heard Charles Z.
Barnes of the Federal Vocational Board
say from the speakers stand that or
ganized labor had obtained all II wanted
That was the signal for Mr.. Healy to
rise up on that sunny lawn and scatter
wrathful Irish brogue around until the
Jersey cows shook their tails in alarm
and disappeared behind clump of trees.
Tim HeaIy Roars Protest.
"what does the speaker mean" roared
Tim. ''by saying that organized labof
has gained all it wants? Organized
labor neither has got all 1t wants nor
all II is entitled to-"
Really, now, 1 didn't say that. I
didn't mean that OF course organized
labor hasn't obtained all 1t should have,
but 1t is on the wagon the way,
pleaded Mr. Barnes in his gentle voice
'It has the Plumb plan"
Tim was outraged anew. Has tn
Plumb plah? But we have not got the
Plumb plan" he shouted.
Not now, but in years time-labor
will have many things in year that II
hasn't got now" soothed Mr.. Barnes.
THE captains of industry should be
willing to meet the representatives of
labor" Mr.. Healy went on regardless,
fixing with his eye perhaps unconsciously
several captains of industry and wives
OF captains of industry in his immediate
vicinity. '"The men that labor are willing
to meet their employers and talk things
should meet them halfway, and many's
the time they're not willing to do It."
Chairman Battle, whose name was the |
only thing about him that was not sweet,
peaceful and soothing, had just got Mr..
Healy quieted down when up rose
Thomas ]. Curtis, labor man, and spoke
disparagingly of the National Civic Fed
Grafton, saying that II did nothing at
its meetings but eat and talk and go
away and all a labor man got out OF
the National Civic Federation was the
few little things he had to eat there.
Now Mr.. Healy is devoted to the NJ
c. +. The classic occasion when he
danced with Miss Anne Morgan at one
Of its parties In the Metropolitan Build
Ing still lives joyously in the memories
of those privileged to witness them as
they tripped together the light fantastic
toe.
HeaIy Up Again With Grievance.
Naturally he arose again and in
formed Mr. Curtis that he could not hear
the famous organization headed by the
late Seth Low 80 traduced." 1t took
some moments to settle this matter and
cradle Mr.. Curtis to perform the service
for which originally he stood up, namely.
to read resolution. The resolution,
prepared by committee consisting OF
Abram Lefkowitz. H. A. E. Chandler,
John Fitch, Nanny Straus, Mrs Rum
sey. Miss Lillian d. Wald and Mr.. Bat
tie, expressed the attitude of the Com
munity Councils OF Greater New York
1.-THE organization which called this con-
ference) toward the Industrial confer
ence which President Wilson will call
an Washington on his return there.
1t recommended that committee be
appointed to prepare a programme % be
.AW.RtN NAI % w IL
and also that each community council
establish an industrial relations COM
mittee ito deal with these questions"
The resolution was adopted, but the bro
gramme didn't have to be selected at
the afternoon meeting on the lawn
where this happened, because that had
already been done at the small and Sc
lect conference that met in Mrs. Davil
sons house in the morning and lunched
with her. Another resolution which
was not voted on but which the publicity
stan said went along with the other"
was as follows:
Resolved, that we respectfully sug-
gest to President Wilson that as an or
ganization representing the public, which
Is nationwide, touching intimately the
plain people everywhere in their daily
lives, should be represented at the Wash
tngton conference. the better to interpret
to those present the feelings of the COM
mon man in their communities and to
carry back to their homes the message
and spirit OF the conference, and the
problems discussed and mooted for So
luton"
1t was presumed that the organiza-
ton referred to is the Community Coun-
cils.
Tip to the RefOrmers.
H. V. Kaltenborn of the Rroolxlvn
Eagle was one of the speakers at the
lawn party, and the minute he got
warmed up 1t became evident to those
who had not been privileged to attend
the closed conference of the morning that
real mean things had been said about the
newspapers there. Politely but firmly
Mr.. Kaltenborn informed the reformers
before him that editors and reporters
were the experts on what Interested the
public, and II the long typewriter ac-
counts of what their societies did were
not printed in the papers they had only
themselves to blame for making them
SO dull.
use the papers, don't abuse them"
he advised Then he passed on to the
discussion of public forums, and con-
demned the Board Of Education for put
ting the gag on forums In the school
buildings. etXA
I'VE have got to persuade the Board
OF Education to be more LIBERAL" he
said. III shouid not ne possible ror this
self constituted band of arbiters to have
blacklist OF speakers who are not al
lowed to be heard in the public schools.
The selection of the speakers for those