The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1919-10-11

'pARLEY RESTS
until TUESDAY
c,umittee of Is Will Work
nuriug Recess Considering
PROPOSALS From the Three
Groups in Conference.
CAPITAL GROUP LAST
To PRESENT PRINCIPLES
labor Opposes Plan to Receive
and Consider Suggestions
From Outside-Gompers At
tacks Portions of Press.

X
Washington, Oct. 1o.-After the
ror, representing capital had pre-
..,ted it's principles in declaring op-
4 ,a,ition 10 closed shop and collective
II tarraining. the national industrial
n .onference adjourned today until next
n rre-dav 10 give the committee OF III
Il 30, time TO consider the various pro-
III ,os,is advanced and formulate a re-
ro-t The committee was deadlocked
at.o- 1abor's proposal to arbitrate the
II steel strike.
II Suggestion from the public group
III NAT the chairman of the three groups
II bs constituted a committee to consio-
II sr proposals received from citizens
aver the country were strongly disap-
II p-oved by the labor representatives
n who insisted upon rigid enforcement OF
The rules requiring that all matters
il eonsidered be approved by the group
Il presenting them.
/ In speaking against the suggestion,
II samuel Gompers. chairman of the Ia
bor group. attached "some portions
Of the press for what he characterized
1 ss its extremely unfair" attitude TO
/ labor in the conference.
Labor has from the very start
| s,id AIr. Gompers, commended for open
l sessions so the whole world may know
l what this conference is doing. Tne
world must recognize that men. OF
n labor hold as responsible positions
as men in any other walk OF iite To-
II day"
Most Of the delegates in the capitai
and public groups plan TO return 70
The public group held a brief meet
ing after this mornings session and
me majority of the labor delegates
vttended meeting of. the executive
council of the American Federation OF
Labor later in the day.
Opposition to collective bargaining
and the closed shop were among
twelve fundamental principles outlin-
"a bv the group representing capital
and presented to the national indus
trial conference. Sympathetic strikes
backIists and boycotts were declared
to be 'indefensible, anti-social and i'm
moral"
II While deploring strikes and lock-
4 outs, the principles set forth that the
\ right of strike or lockout should moi
1 be denied as an ultimate resort aft
4 er all possible means of adjustment
4 have been exhausted" This right
however. should apply only to private
\ industry.
In public utility services, it was
proposed that the state impose sucf
equations as would assure continu-
Gus operation, at the same time pro
N yiding adequate means for the promp
hearing and adjustment of complaint
and disputes. Opposition to strikes
Of government employees also was ex
pected the principles stating that tn
right of such employees to be heard an'
10 secure Just redress should be am
ply safeguarded."
III Proposals of all three groups in tn
eonference-capital, labor. and tn
public-have now been presented an
the committee of fifteen to which al
matters are first referred under tn
conference rules will now be able Z
begin work.
The twelve principles as enunciate'
by the capital group follow:
n Production: There should be no in
Il tentional restriction of productive ef
fort or output by either the employe
Or the employee to create an articia
scarcity of the product or of the labo
IN order to increase prices or wages
n The establishment as a productiv
Unit; the establishment rather tha
ne industry as a whole or any branc
il should, as far as practicable, b
eonsidered as the unit or productio
and of mutual contact and full op
fortunity for interchange of view be
tween management and men, thoug
Individual or collective dealing or
combination of both.
Conditions of Work.
i is the duty of management I
make certain that the conditions un
aer which work is carried on are a
@ie and as satisfactory to the work
rs as the nature OF the business rea
onaoly permits. Every effort shoul
e made to maintain steady employ
-sA[ OF the workers both on their &C
'unt and to increase efficiency.
Wages.
me worker should receive a wag
.-ineient to maintain him and III
ully at standard of living tha
.lu be satisfactory TO a right
laed man. and in view of the PEE
--lng cost of living. Women doin
equal that of men under til
,ae conditions. should receive IN
Ie rates Of pay and be accorded I'll
- opportunity for training and ad
Hours of Work.
s. standard of the work schedul
-4 be the week, varying as th