Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1920-03-21
.GOMPERS ATTACKS RECOMMENDATIONS
 OF ECONOMIC MEET
Means of Arbitration Already Exists, He De-
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Washington. March 20-Recom. mendations by President Wilson's conference for the settlement of in- dustrial unrest were attacked today by Samuel Gompecs. president of the American Federation of Labor.
 The labor leader in prepared statement said the machinery for adjusting disputes between employees and employers (which has for years been in existence in practically cv cry organized industry in the United States is superior to the machinery now suggested by the industrial con- and in point of effectiveness"
 "The conference" said MT. Comp CTS, "has devised mass of machin- cry to be made effective by law, com posed of a national industrial board and local and regional conferences and boards of inquiry. The whole situation in this respect may be summed up as follows:
 "Tried and tested machinery for conciliation and arbitration between employers and employee exists wherever employees are organized.
 "This machinery functions perfect ly wherever employers forsake the. spirit of dominance and assume the attitude of democracy.
 Through the use of this mach inery it has been found possible to maintain industrial peace with no stoppage of work of any kind for periods ranging from 10 to 40 years. No machinery devised by the govern ment or it's agencies or supervised by the government or any of it's agencies, could achieve results sup. erior to the results achieved by the machinery which has long been in operation in our industrial life.
 Must Organize.
 "In industries where the em ployes are not organized, no machin- cry of any kind, whether supervised by governmental agencies, or other wise, can produce industrial justice. Organization of the workers is the fact upon which must be predicatel the existence of any machinery for the settlement of disputes or the extension of the principles of demo- cracy in industry.
 "Surely no intelligent agency can hope to achieve progress in Ameri- can industry without organization of the workers. With organization of workers, no structure of machinery need be thrust upon it from the out side. Organization brings with 1t machinery which is both adequate and practical.
 "The report of Industrial confer encc merits criticism of very ser ious nature in connection with the emphasis which it places on what 1t terms 'employe representation und sr which generic term it groups those distinctly local shop organizations known as shop committees, shop councils, work councils and represen- tativc government in industry. It is to be feared that the commission views industry from the viewpoint ut the single shon and builds it's machin- cry on the theory that disputes ale to be settled shop by shor. If such a vicwpoint is to be actually carried into operation it will be most disas trous.
 Fle.-s Commission.
 "Unavoidable organization with independent shop units of the em ploycs is menace to the worker. for the reason it's organizes then away from each other and puts then x played against shon Not only tht welfare of the workers but the best economy for the nation demands that industry in so nossible 1t vicwnf in national light and that tn: workers be united into organization covering whole industries as is now the case with the 120 national ant International tr"ae unionc.
 "The report of the conference say' that the nation has right to asl that employees imnose no arbitrary limitation of effort in the prosecu ton of their work. Did the confer ence forget that production in Amer can industry is greater per man an, in the aggregate than productio, than in any country. The trade un ion movement in the United State