Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1920-11-20
LABOR WOULD,PUT.
down RAD|CAL|SM,
STEM Immigration
Capital and Industry Reach
Agreement for Closer
CO-Operation.
ELIMINATE WASTE; FOSTER
INCREASED PRODUCTION
Would Have Workers, by Their
Conduct, Avoid Blame
for Low Output.
A. +. l.. COUNCIL ENDS MEET
Leaders Determined to Keep Radi-
cal Groups From Gaining Leg
islativc Control.
my Assoclnted pressI

WASHISGTON. Nov le.-The
executive council OF the America n
Federation of Labor concluded It's
work here tonight without making
any formal announcement as TO what
had been accomplished during it's
two weeks OF discussions.
Although members OF the council,
including President Gompers. OF the
federation. were disinclincd to talk
OF proceedings in the executive ses-
ssons. II lis known that certain pro-
grams were discussed which. by COM
mon consent. will practically become
policies OF the organization. These
include what was described az n
healthy stand against rad!calism
within organized labor. and for sharp
restriction OF immigration.
There was also an almost unan-
imons agreement among the labor
heads. II Is understood, for closer CO.
operation between labor and indus
trial engineers. In this. labor leaders
believed they were accomplishing the
dual purpose OF eliminating waste
and incfiiciency and creating an at
mosphere which would foster greater
production. The council was said TO
have made plain. in Its discussions.
its realization OF world needs in this
respect. and members of the council
held that labor's conduc, should be
such that no blams for low output
could attach to tho workers
Gonpers Pleased.
II was said that council members
had nIn ~ far aa
with Industrial experts looking 10
tion which may be Invaluable. Some
such conferences have been held dur
ing tho last year. Including that with
Herbert Hoover. former Federal food
administrator. who met here with the
council early this week. Mr.. Gompers
was represented AS being highly
pleased with the results OF the Hoover
and ether conferences and having ex-
pressed a desire to continue them.
The plea was made in council ses-
sions here on more than one occasion,
il was said. that labor leaders employ
every effort to clear their attitude of
suspicion which some leaders declared
had attached to labor's position when
seeking reforms. The belief that this
might handicap labor in seeking the
advice OF industrial experts as the
labor program is developed, was said
TO have been expressed.
stand Against Radicaiism.
Unqualified support is said to have
been given the stand against radical
ism, within and without organized
labor. as voiced by President Gompcrs
and Vice President Woli. whose de-
nouncement of the .'borcrs" from
within has been spread broadcast
among tho workers. The statement
OF the federation president as regards
radical foreign labor and the sup
preston OF disruptionists also was
accorded the councils entire approval.
Consideration was given to methods
by which the radical workers could
be barred from organized labor, but
this apparently was set down as an
insoluble problem so long as the fed
eration's bylaws remain the same
The leaders, however, are said to be
determined in their stand TO keeT
radical groups from gaining legisla-
tive control. even if the governing
body has no alternative but TO lei
them carry union cards.
Legislation to be urged upon Con-
gress was discussed by the council
but it's nature was not disclosed.