The Washington herald., 1920-03-21
Industrial Conference Seeks
Get ogether Policy to Meet
New Conditions in america
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under trade union agreements. in
organized shops. in closed shops; II
Is operating in non-union shops; IL
in operating in shops where union
and non-union men work side by side.
In shops working under union
agreement, 1t adds to collective bar
gaining an agency Of cooperation
within the plant"
The report, which is the unani-
nous recommendation of the seven
teen members of the conference,
convened by the President on De-
eember last differ materially
from the tentative report issued De-
cember % to provoke public COM
ment. The preliminary report pro-
.vided for the adjustment of dis
putes rather than their prevention
and elected conference, conciliation,
Inquiry and arbitration as the means
Of securing this end.
The industrial conference now
proposes joint organization TO pre-
vent Misunderstanding and to OBJ
tain cooperative effort, and has
modified the tentative plan so as to
diminish the field of arbitration and
enlarge the scope of voluntary set
tlement by agreement. As modified
the plan makes the machinery set
up available for collective bargain
eng, with only incidental and limit
ed arbitration.
Emphnsizes Beginning mt Source.
fhroughout the report, both In
the exhaustive discussion of indus
trial relationship and in the details
o. the plan, the report lays particu-
lar emphasis upon the Importance
of settling the dispute at its source.
Although declaring themselves as
not antagonistic to the trade union
movement, the members Of the con-
ference take no specific sognizance
yof the trade union organizations.
Employees representation" Is the
term used for the employees or labor
men who are to participate in my
settlements which may be effected
under the plan.
'It probably will not meet with
the approval of the extremists on
either side" said Mr.. Hoover, but
it has been approved in its broad
lines by hundreds of employers and
many prominent labor leaders who
have been consulted and communi-
Gated with. 1t is interesting to note
that so great an authority as Mac
kenzie King, former labor minister
of Canada, who has been largely re-
sponsible for the origin and admin
istration of the Canadian industrial
procedure, considers the plaa put
forward by the conference as coz
structive Improvement on all others
hitherto proposed" ~
Members of Conference.
The members of the conference
signing the report are: William b.
Wilson. Secretary OF Labor, chair
man; Herbert Hoover, vice-chair-
man; Martin H. Glynn, former gov
srnor of New York; Thomas w.
Gregory, former Attorney General;
Richard Hooker, Stanley King;
Samuel w. Mccall, former governor
oc Massachusetts,; Henry M. Robin
son. julius Rosenwald, George T.
5lade. Oscar S. Strauss, Henry c.
Stuart, former governor Of Vir-
ginia; William D. Thompson, Frank
W. Taussig, Henry J. Waters, Geo.
W. Wickersham, former Attorney
General, and Owen d. Young.
Briefly the plan, which involves
only small expenditure of govern
nent money and but little extern
sion of permanent public officials,
provides a board of nine members
1t Washington, together with
.welve regional chairmen as it's ba-
sic machinery with legal powers
limited to investigation.
The system of settlement consists
,f a National Industrial Conference
Board, local regional conferences
and boards of inquiry. The gen.
sral features of the plan for ad-
iustment of disputes is described in
he report as follows:
Procedure when both sides volun-
:arily submit disputes for adjust
nent:
The United States shall be divid-