The Pensacola journal., 1920-04-30
AMERICAN ILLS
BEDISCUSSED
UNITED STATES CHAMBER CON-
MERGE IN THREE-DAY SESSION
WILL ATTEMPT REMEDY.

Washington, April 2S.-Means . of
stimulating production of the necessi-
ties of life, as step toward the cure
of American economic and social ills,
will be sole topic of discussion at the
enghth annual conference of the Unit
ed States Chamber of Commerce which
will open in Atlantic City next Mon
day and continue until Thursday.
Holding that the responsibility for
increased production rests equally up
on capital, labor and agricultural in
terests, the program committee, it is
announced here today has arranged to
have representatives of each present
their views on the question.
While the conference will deal pri-
marily with material methods of in
creasing production, such as introduc-
ton of modern machinery, elimination
of waste and the increased efficiency
of distribution, the chamber is pre-
pared, it was learned today, to follow
with a nation wide effort to stir indi
vidual Americans to their duty to aid
the movement in every line of en-
deavor.
Industrial unrest reported by MEM
bers of the Chamber is without ex-
ception ascribed the basic cause for
the high prices the average worker has
to pay for everything he purchases.
Against this however, is reported an
apparent disposition on the part of the
worker to reduce his effort during
working hours or to lay off a part of
each week or month. The convention
will endeavor to work out a program
by means of which both the manufac-
turer and the employe will be shown
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for the common good rather than as a
method of increasing immediate profits.
/ Work alone offers a cure for many
of the ills left by war;" said Homer
L. Ferguson, president of the Cham
ber Increased production means a
larger share of the necessities and COM
forts for our own people; it means
more for Europe, where people are
dying for lack of food and clothes. In
it lies the only means of making up
the wastage of war.
"The duty of America is to produce.
The responsibility lies on all alike,
the merchant, the farmer, the worker.
The contribution of each of these will
will be laid before our meeting
The relation between railroads and
national production, antitrust law
restrictions" the evils of standard
IiZatiOn, improved metnOQS OF CaXatlon
and foreign commerce will be among
the topics of the Chamber say, so that
goods. not notes" can be exchanged
| for. the produce of the United States.
In this connection an effort may he
made to revive the proposal for an in
ternational financial conference with a
view to finding some equitable rem
| edy for the foreign exchange situation.
w. d. Simmons, of ST. Louis and r.
W. Belcher, of Washington, D. c., viii
address the conference on the subject
of Domestic Distribution" and Secre-
tary Alexander. of the Department of
/ Commerce, is expected to indicate how
| far the government can go to cooper
/ ate in the movement Others speakers
will be George A. Post and William
Fellowes Morgan, of New York.
The farmer, for the first time in the
history of the chamber will be repre-
Isented as distinct and important part
of the nations industrial machinery.
J. r. Howard. president of the Ameri-
can Farm Bureau Federation, Clemons
Ia. and Secretary Meredith, of the
department of Agriculture will attend
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