The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-03-22
URGES EMPLOyE
REPRESENTATION
Conference of II Seeks to
Prevent Industrial
Difficulties
MODIFIES IT'S PLAN
FOR ARBITRATION
Declares the Individual Shop Is Strategic
Place to Settle Industrial Disputes
Favors Representation for Employees
with the Management.

WASHINGTON, March 22-Joint or
ganizaton of management and employees
as means Of preventing misunderstood
ing and Of securing cooperative effort
throughout American industry is pro-
posed by the industrial conference APP
pointed by President Wilson in a report
to the President made public here yes
terday.
The conferees in their report state that
they have modified the tentative plan oil
machinery to adjust disputes in general
industry by conference, Cancellation, IN
quiry and arbitration, announced by the
conference on December %, 1919 and that
they have endeayored to develop methods
of presentation rather than adjustment Of
labor difficulties. The modified plan. de
vlsed since the conference reconvened last
January u, it is said, makes machinery
available for collective bargaining with
only incidental and limited arbitration :
The plan has been extended to cover dis
putes affecting public utilities other than
steam railroads
LII utnltltti int ltIlDil dttdiNZtS liit tx
velopment Of industrial relations, hours OF
labor, women in industry, child Labor,
housing, wages, profit sharing and gam
sharing, thrift agencies imitation and high
cost Of living, agriculture, unemployment
and public employment clearing house.
| The causes of industrial unrest are set
forth as including the rise in the cost
OF living, unrestrained speculation, spec
| tacuiar instances of excessive profits, cX-
cessive accumulation and misuse of wealth
! inequality and readWstment Of wage
schedules, release Of ideas and emotions
by the war, social revolutionary theorie-
| imported from Europe. the belief that
Tree speech is restricted, the intermit
tency of employment, fear Of mempoy
ment, unnecessary high infant mortality
in industrial centers, loss Of persona
contact in large industrial units and the
elimination Of a growing belief on the
part Of both employers and employee.
that a readjustmcnt is necessary to
wholesome continuity Of their united ef
forts"
Industrial problems vary not only Will
each industry, the report says, but II
each establishment. Therefore the STRAIT
egic place to begin battle with misunder
standing is within the industrial plant it
, self Primarily the settlement must com
from the bottom not from the top, TIL
conference, IN expressing its approval Q
'employc representation says it is not
field for legislation, because the forr
which such representation should tax
may vary in every plant For this reaso
the recommendation is directed solely
managers and employees,
If the joint organization Of manag,
, ment and employees in the plant or il
dustry fails to reach the collective agre,
ment,' says the report, on if withol
such joint organization, disputes aris
which are not settled by existing agencie
then the conference proposes system
settlement through a national industr
board, local regional conference an
boards of inquiry
This plan which the conference says
, biased upon American experience and 4
signed to meet American conditions
e national in scope and operation and VI
h decentraized 1t is said to be differeI
from any thing in operation elsewhe
q and employs no local authority except Il
10 right of inquiry Its basic idea is stir
uIation to settlement of peace by the pa
> ties in conflict and the enlistment of pu
a lie opinion toward enforcing that methC
: of settlement
: The regional adjustment conferen
o, proposes board to consist of four repr
sentatives selected by the parties to Il
dispute, and four others in their industl
:. chosen by them and familiar with the
L problems 1t would be presided over by
trained government~official, the region
chairman. who would act as a conciiato
IL If an unanimous agreement were reache
it would result in collective bargain ha