Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1922-05-26
HARDING JUB|LANT
OVER COME RENCE
Calls Meeting With Steel Mag
mates Great Success.
iGOMPERS SAYS 1T is BUNK
Labor Leader Declares 1t Typical OF
Present-Day Colossal Effrontery
of Bio Business-Whte House
as Rostrum.

Washington, May 20.-Jubilant over
the acceptance by leaders of the steel
industry of the principle of the eight
hour workday President Harding be-
lieves that he picked the psychological
moment to inaugurate great humani-
tartan movement in industry.
The President made it plain that he
regards the results of Thursday nights
steel dinner as progressive sociology"
The President believes he has made
the steel magnates see the ACCESSIBILITY
of continuing on the rising tide of
prosperity the three-shift workday
which was established during period
of depression to provide work for a
maximum number of men.
Furthermore the President believes
his pet idea of adjusting difficulties by
conference has been fully indicated
by the results achieved
White House Statement.
The era of marked prosperity which
looms just ahead for the steel industry
will soon be spread, according to Of
fetal statements at the White House.
These were summed up as follows:
"The conference with steel leaders
was a practical application of the
theory of conference. The ACCESSIBILITY
of continuing the three-shift workday,
which was adopted to aid unemploy-
ment, was discussed. 1t was a very
delightful meeting and the opinion was
almost unanimous that it WIS 0eSIr-
able from progressively sociological
viewpoint, to abolish the 12-hour day.
1.-THE main difficulty, it was found,
would be to get the men themselves
to assent. 1t will be difficult to re-
strain the men from taking the added
profit to themselves in working
12-hour day when the tide of pros
perity sets in.
without any adoption of steam
roller methods, the motion was made
by the steel leaders to conduct pains
taking investigation. We have every
confidence that much will come of it.
"I'he return Of prosperity now
heralded in the steel industry soon will
be applicable to other lines. Reports
from many localities already are indi-
CT the steel mills where men are on
an eight hour shift, they frequently
quit when offered the opportunity to
make more money in q twelve hour
Shift, simply because they can now
readily find jobs elsewhere"
There was only one unpleasant
aftermath here to the steel dinner.
cto nf c.
Gompcrs, president of the American
Federation of Labor, characterizing as
sheer deception" the statement of
Judge Gary that he and the other steel
headers favored the abolition of the
twelve hour day.
Denounced by Gompers.
Mr.. Gompers said: at is typical of
the present-day colossal effrontery of
big business that it should use the
White House itself as rostrum from
which to give the country it's latest
example of cynical deception, more
emphatically and perhaps more fifty
described as what the American peo-
pie are accustomed to call bunk"
Another reflex was the action of the
National Federation of Post Office
Clerks, who, evidently inspired by the
Presidents dictum, today demanded
the eight-hour day. Thomas F. Flah-
erty, secretary of the organization, re-
quested President Hardings assistance
in securing abolition Of the ten-hour
day in the larger post offices.