Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-11-21
Wages Must Go Up, Ford
Says, as Industrial Lead
ers Declare Any Reduction
Would Be UnWeIcome.
EXCHANGE OPINIONS
ON WHOLE SITUATION
Labor Executives to Assemble at
White House This Afternoon
With President and Davis to
Discuss Part Unions Will Play
in Program.

Optimism was the keynote of
the Presidents conference at the
White House today with the lead
ing industrialists of the country.
No reduction in wages is eX-
pected, the heads of some of the
leading industries of the country
informed President Hoover during
the conference. Any move look
ing to a reduction of wages would
be an unwelcome surprise, they
said. The indication is that
wages generally will be kept up In
this country.
Henry Ford, in a statement is
sued after the conference. de-
clared:
Ford Urges Wage Raise.
Nearly everything in this coun-
try is too high priced. The only
thing that should be high priced
in this country is the man who
works. Wages must not come
down, they must not even stay
on their present level; they must
go up"
Nearly 80 of the representatives
of great industries gathered in the
cabinet room with the President
today. There was free ex-
change of views regarding the sit
uation in the industries and in
the country generally. Plans
were made to aid in the co-ordi-
nation Of industry with agricul-
ture, labor and governmental
agencies for the promotion OF
continued prosperity in this coun-
try.
This afternoon at o'clock the Pres
ident met with the leaders of American
labor to discuss the part which labor
should play in this plan of co-ordina-
ton Of the country's resources.
Impressive Array at Farley.
1t was an impressive array of leaders
in American industries who met with
the President this morning, bearing
names that have become household
words throughout the country. The
list follows:
Henry Ford, Dearborn, Mich; Julius
Rosewood, head of Sears. Roebuck Co,
American Radiator Co.; Walter Tagle,
president of the Standard Oil Co. Of
New Jersey; owen D. Young, chairman,
General Electric Co.. Matthew S. Sloan,
president New York Edison Co.; E. G.
Grace, president, Bethlehem Steel Cor
poration; Myron G. Taylor, chairman
finance committee, U. S. Steel; Alfred
P. Sloan, jr., president, General Motors;
Pierre du Pont, chairman, Dupont Co.;
Walter Clifford, president, American
Telephone SS Telegraph Co.; Samuel w.
Reyburn, president, Lord & Taylor Co.;
Jesse I. Strauss, president r. H. Macy
Co. of New York; William Butterworth,
president, United States Chamber OF
Commerce; E. j. Kulas. president Otis
Steel Co.; George Laughlin, Pittsburgh,
Pa; A. v. Robertson, Westinghouse
Electric; Redfield Proctor, president,
New England Council; Philip H. Cad
ston, president, Chamber of Commerce;
Ernest Trigg, chairman, industrial re-
lations committee; Henry M. Robinson,
California Development Board; julius
Barnes, chairman of the board, United
States Chamber of Commerce; Homer
L. Ferguson, president of the Newport
News Shipbuilding g. Drydock Co.; A.
w. Shaw of Chicago, chairman of the
business cycle committee; DR.. Julius
Klein, Assistant Secretary of Com
m6Tce, Al6HdlueE bGBSC, Va
the Federal Farm Board, and Roy A.
Young, governor of the Federal Re-
serve Board.
His conference with the agricultural
group. which was originally scheduled
for tomorrow, has been postponed until
Monday morning. He will meet the
public utilities group Monday afternoon
at 2:30 o'clock.
Fight Mental Slump.
The primary purpose of the President
in calling his conferences with repre-
sentatives of Americas industries, agri-
culture and labor, has been to dispel
any possible pessimism regarding the
business and the economic conditions
of the country, which. he insists, are
absolutely sound. He already has
sounded out the leaders of the great
railroad systems and the advisory coun-
Gil of the Federal Reserve Board. The
railroad .nan have assured him there
is to be not let-down of work in con-
nection with the railroads and that
great extension projects are to go for
ward in tNe immediate future. The
bankers have told the President tGat
the credit of the Nation is sound and
that lower rates for money are in
prospect.
1t is not only necessary to lift all
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