The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-01
ECONOMIC MEET
WILL NOT HAVE
LABOR MEMBERS
Ca pitalism Has 1t
Slowed Up

WASHINGTON (FP) March 81
In the American delegation to the
Economic Conference at Geneva, just
announced by President Coolidge,
wage-worlsers and farmers will have
no representation. Requests by Or
ganized labor and the progressive or
CARNATIONS Of farmers that they each
be given spokesman on this body
were ignored Of the five delegates,
big business gets three and Herbert
Hoover takes the other two.
Some months ago the suggestion
was made by William Green, presi-
dent of the American Federation Of
Labor, to President Coolidge, that
organized labor wanted to have rec
ognition in the form of appointment
of its representatives on federal COM
missions and delegations dealing with
economic and industrial matters.
When Coolidge decided to send five
delegates to Geneva to the economic
conference called by the League of
Nations, the test Of Coolidge's atti-
tude came.
Coolidge Says No.
Secretary Of Labor Davis was ap-
preached by a third party, who show
ed him that it would be to Coolidge's
credit if a trade union official and a
leader of the organized farmers were
appointed as two of the five dele
gates. Davis professed to be "all for
it." He talked with A. F. of /. head
quarters about the plan. Labor and
farmer headquarters gained the i'm
preston that Coolidge was waiting
for these elements to name their men.
Word went to Davis that the A. F. Of
l.. was ready to nominate a repre-
sentative. No response. Davis seems
to have failed to convince Coolidge.
Possibly he failed even to try.
Henry n. Robinson, Los Angeles
bank president, who was on the
American delegation TO the labor
capital government conference in
Paris at the close of the war which
framed the constitution for the Inter
national Labor Office, is chairman Of
the new delegation. He likewise
served on the American commission
on war Preparations which framed the
Dawes Plan.
Norman III. Davis, who was assist
ant secretary of the treasury and al
so assistant secretary Of state, and
is now in Wall street, is the second
delegate.
. John w. O'Leary of Chicago, pres
ident of the U. S. Chamber of Com
MERGE and an extreme anti-labor
prWagandist, is the third.
Alonzo A. Taylor, of Stanford
University, former right-hand man
to Hoover in relief administration in /
Europe, is the fourth.
For Big Business.
DR.. Julius Klein, director of the
bureau of foreign and domestic COM
merce in the Department of Com
merce, is the last delegate. Like
Taylor, he reflects the views and
hopes of Hoover as to American big
business struggle for the world mar
ket.
AltS NtiliNltlltc VIII zeal cNleIlN 4
with trade barriers between nations /
That means that it will try to reach
an agreement for lowering tariff |
walls so that the nationalism which
has run amuck in Europe since the /
war shall not be allowed to paralyze
commerce and lead to new wars as
a means of economic relief. The bur- I
den Of these tariffs is borne by the
workers and farmers in all countries.
The A. f. of i. wanted representa-
tion on the American delegation in
order that it might have a hand in
restoring economic sanity to the CON
tinent. To the degree that prosper
ity returns TO Europe, American
economic conditions will be bettered,
since American efficiency calls for
wider foreign markets.
Coolidge and Hoover appear to
have decided that an economic con-
ference is beyond the mental depth
OF labor unionsts and farmers, but
that O'Leary Of the Chamber of Com
merce will know what is going on.