The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-02-01
I'D TAKE UP WORK
 !. ON FINAL PLAN OF SETTLING DISPUTES
Drafting Final Recommen- datiOns to President By Second Industrial Con-
 ference Starts Soon
By Associated Press

i Washington. January -Formulatiou | of final plan for settlement of indus trial disputes, based on the great vol- l ume of criticism and opinion evoked by | the tentative plan of regional adjust- ment boards announced six weeks ago. will be taken up by the second indus 1 trial conference next week. Chairman iStaney E. King said today that prac- ' ticslly all executive session hearings had been completed and that work on draft l ing final recommendations to the Presi- dent would be started at once l How far the conference may modify its tentative plan calling for national industrial tribunal with regional boards 1 of adjustment and inquiry, Mir. King satd. was entirely speculative in view Of the 1 fact that the conference. since conVes- ling has concerned itself only with draw i ing out the opinions of experienced lead CTS and that it now remained for Ts seventeen members to agree upon con- clusions.
 l One definite conclusion already reached. however. Mir. King said. was that any f system of regional adjustment while providing for disputes that have once arisen. must be supplemented by some preventive plan of shop organization to l catch and cure the dispute at an early stage"
 PREVENTION NEEDED This necessity. he said. had been very ' 1 pressed the conference members that strong recommendation for the adoption 1 of some form of shop organization in all industrial plants, independent of union
 affiliations of employees. undoubtedly would be included in the final draft plan. l The most complete disapproval of the 1 tentative plan announced by the confer l ence Mir. King said, had come from sam 1 uel Gonpers. as the representative or or 1 ganized labor in America. and from tne president of one of the biggest em- ployers' associations in the eountr~ l whose name he withheld As viewed by members of the conference, the attitude signified by the opinions of these two men he said was that "any conflict oT Interests now existing between capital and labor is a private fight with when the government properly has nothing
 to do.''
 This was found to be by no means the
 general attitude, however, on either side. he said.
 The conference also had heard former
 President Taft and Glenn E. Plumb, s' thor of capitalization industrial partner
 ship plans, that bear his name. m st'
 a dozen representatives of the large em-
 ploying interests, chiefly officials of efn7 ployers' associations, have been heard.
 Mir King said.
 The railroad labor problem Nas rs- Icussed by William II. shepherd. presl- ldent of the Erotherhoot or halHcas Noiii
 dnctors, who Is to be followed carly inext week by the presidents ef thi other tthree railroad brotherhoods- As spokesr man for railroad management the con
 ference also has heard Daniel c. NVl- Hard president of the Baltimore and ohio
 railroad
 Tn addition to the oral opinions su
 nitted, the conference, MT. King salo, had sought the written views of more fhan A hundred students of industrial
 and economic problems, including many leollege professors, on the broad question
 of establishing more harmonious indus
 trial relations.