Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1922-05-19
GEEAIR0'S SPEECH
GREAT SURPRISE
Magnate's Declarations Shock
FinaRciers' Convention.
"0PEN SHOP" IS IMPOSSIBLE
Declares II Must Be Either Union or
Nonunion-Says Government OPP
GRAFTON of Railroads Will Come
-Lauds Ford's Methods.

Washington, May 1S.-Frederick De-
lano, former president of the Wabash
railroad, threw bOmbshel into the
United States Chamber of Commerce
convention when he declared that
such thing us an open shop is AN
iridescent dream"
Himself formerly a great employer,
he was addressing the organization
which organized labor, proponents of
the closed union shop, considers it's
most powerful enemy.
The chamber only the evening be-
fore had laid the cornerstone of it's
new building opposite the White
House, which is to he monument TO
the open shop principle in that it is 10
be constructed entirely on the open
shop plan. DelanO is also former
member Of the federal reserve board.
lie spoke another heresy in the view
Of conservatives when lie said:
In America we welcome the advent
in the field of railway operation of
Henry Ford, and If were railroad
man | would try to profit by his meth
DDS in any way that might be applica-
BILE to my conditions There can be
progress only If we keep an open
mind
Sees Government Operation.
However strongly we may be preju-
diced against government operation of
railroads government ownership is a
separate question:, we must all appre-
ciate that government operation will
come and, indeed, should come If and
when it is clear that government op-
Grafton will yield the greatest return
for the expenditure
He said that the so-calIed "open
shop" so often talked of represents n
temporary condition which in practice
does not and cannot continue, and
therefore its discussion is largely aca-
demic He added:
My experience and observation.
running over IL period of many years.
satisfy me that until labor unions
change their attitude very much such
thing as an open shop is an rides
cent dream it must be either non.
union shop, or, If II is union shop. ii
must be closed against nonunion men.
A. &. Bedford, chairman of the
boacd Of directors Of the Standard oil
company and vice president of the In
ternational Chamber of Commerce,
said that the situation developed at
Genoa constitutes Il complex of bad
finance, unsound economics. pgliticaI
maneuvering, of efforts to attain rhe
impossible and of fundamental failure
to face facts as they are, to grapple
with realities and to build upon foun-
datlons which the experience of man
kind has shown to he dependable.
Russia Must Be Good.
Russia must be forced. before the
world can admit her into the comfy
Of nations, to acknowledge the sane
tity of private property, and otherwise
to give earnest of her determination TO
conduct her affairs in accord with es-
tablished international morality and
the enlightened judgment of mankind
as 10 International obligations"
Dwight w. Morrow, of j. l.. Morgan
Co, said that I'VE have little reason
to expect thai it will be the same Eu-
rope that we knew in 1914. Some of
the dire predictions made three years
ago lave not been fulfilled. For in
stance, we heard a great deal about
the permanent abolition of the gold
standard. We do not hear so much of
that at the present ime."
Many delegates commented unfavor-
ably on the proposal before the con
vention of John Ross Delatield of the
International banking firm of Della
field, Thorne x Burleigh, that the
United States forgive its foreign war
debts of $11,392, 100000. He said If
would improve international COM
merce.