The Mena weekly star., 1920-07-01
LABOR PLANKS BY
BRYAN, COMPERS
Each Gets His Offering Before the
Platform Committee--Labor Lead
er Approves Keynote Speech
Scores G.. o. p.

san FRANCISCO, june "a COM
mission TO investigate industrial dis
putes is the basis OF William J..
Bryans plank on industrial relations.
A statement of his plan was issued to-
day by Mr. Bryan's as follows:
1 shall submit for the considera-
ton of the committee very simple
plan which is identical in It's general
provisions with the plan embodied in
thirty treaties with three quarters OF
the world and afterwards made the
cornerstone of the league of nations.
Even before | suggested 1t for in
ternational disputes, | endeavored to
have II applied to industrial disputes.
II contemplates a permanent board OF
three members, one chosen from
classes assumed to be In sympathy
with the employer one from the class
es supposed to be In sympathy with
the employe and a third selected with
a view to finding person as nearly
impartial as possible. q
Broad Authority.
This commission should have auth
ority to investigate any industrial dis
pute at the request OF either side or
upon its own initiative. For each dis
pute two members would be added to
the commission, one chosen by each,
in order that each side might be sure
TO have representative on the COM
mission. A limited time would be al
lowed for investigation. The report OF
the commission would not be binding
on either side, but would be the guide
OF public opinion"
At the beginning of the public hear
ings a plan for Acknowledgement of the
citizens of the District OF Columbia
was made by commercial and civic as
sociations.
Presenting the petitions Of the Am
erican Federation of Labor, Mr.. Com
pers said his program was designed
to aid all wage earners, organized or
unorganized. He told the committee
that unless the Democrats took a pro-
gressive attitude. they could not hope
to compete with party that has
written reaction across its banners
The Republican party" said Mr..
Gompers, formulated a declaration
so lacking In principles OF progress
and safety that there must be some
avenue in which the intelligent unrest
among our people can find its express
sion and enforcement
Come as Citizens.
Already the enemies Of labor and
the enemies of the Democratic party
are spreading an insidious propagan-
da seeming to assume that we are
coming here to hold gun at your
heads. But we do not come IN spirit
Of compulsion, but as your fellow citi-
zens asking for a declaration of pro-
gressive human rights"
in the main, Mr. Gompers said, the
proposals submitted by labor were the
same as those written into the Demo
cratic platforms of 1908, 1912 and
1916. He paid tribute TO President
Wilson and declared the keynote ad-
dress of Chairman Cummings at the
opening of the convention yesterday
was one of the most masterful In re-
cent American politics.
There was not sentence in that
keynote" the labor leader said,
which could be objected to by any
red-blooded American"
The federation platform as read to
the committee by vice President Mat
thew Woll. was the same as that
presented to the Republican platform
committee at Chicago.
Asked II the federation's program
provided for the right of the govern
ment employees to strike, Mr.. Woll
said:
I'VE favor the right Of public en-
ployes to organize and to have their
grievances considered for adjudica-
tion. But we do not advocate their
right to strike.n