Evening star., 1938-05-27
HARMONY URGED
AS RECOVERY KEY
Government, Management
and Labor Represented
at New York Forum.
B. the Associated Press.

b. the Associated Press.
NEW YORK. May 27-Representa-
tives of Government. management and
labor. speaking last night from the
same forum. agreed that a permanent
solution of the economic Ills of the
country depended upon bringing all
three groups together in program OF
cooperation.
The forum was held at the annual
meeting of the National Industrial
Conference Board-an organization for
research maintained by industrial con-
Germs OF all sizes and from all parts of
the country-and the speakers were:
w. Averell Hartman. chairman Of
the board Of the Union Pacific Rail-
road.
A. A. Berle, Assistant Secretary Of
State.
George H. Houston, president Of
Baldwin Locomotive Works.
Philip H. Murray. vice chairman Of
the Committee for Industrial Organ
ization and chairman Of the Steel
Workers Organization Committee.
Otto s Beyer, chairman of the Ma
tional Mediation Board.
Donald Richberg, former executive
director of the National Emergency
Council and administrator of N. r. A.
in its latter days.
Pleads for Tolerance.
Mr.. Hartman. chairman OF the
Business Advisory Council of the De-
partment of Commerce. said Coop
Grafton must begin with labor and
management, and declared tolerance
of other peoples views must be a
prerequisite in any program.
Too many now expect cooperation
to be achieved on the basis OF the
acceptance of their own point OF view
by the Others" he said.
If there is to be real Cooperation,
I contend that the cooperation must
begin between management and labor.
voluntarily and through private initia-
tive
. Hartman proposed that the Con-
ference Board take the initiative in
arranging a national movement Of
co-opera ton" getting together indi-
viduals from both groups who have
the courage to assume publicly the
responsibility Of leadership"
= Strong Support Seen.
Houston declared the country IS
ready and willing to support pro-
gram of which Government. labor
and management would reach an
agreement upon the essentials for
recovery within the framework OF
our American system of free enter
prise and without coercion or sup
preston
A prime requisite for successful
MANAGEMENT, he asserted, is that
the manager shall be qualified to
assume and carry the responsibilities
and duties of citizenship, as well as
those of business direction.
Too frequently we find business ex-
ecutives prepared to stultify their
personal convictions with respect to
matters of grave import to the ma
tional well-being by adoption of man.
agerial policies injurious to the
country, but which they seek to JUS
tify by claims of immediate necessity
on the part of the enterprises Tor
which they act
Murray Pledges Aid.
Murray-after urging general sup
port of President Roosevelt's program
to meet the present emergency, placed
before Congress several weeks ago
said there should be convened, under
presidential auspices, at an early date,
atruly representative group of citizens
to work with each other toward the ac-
complishment of prosperity and sta
bility."
The labor leader said the c. I. o. "is
willing to join in such a cooperative
undertaking to render what unselflsh
patriotic service it can to our coun-
try"
Richberg told the conference that
brutal compulsion, evidenced by the
arbitrary use of economic power or
by lawless violence, has been the most
intolerable and destructive element In
our industrial relations.
"Browbeaten resentful men are
neither efficient employees nor useful
members of labor organization. II
today both management and labor
could trust each other to lay aside
every weapon of coercion. in organic
ing or in bargaining, a sound. enduring
basis of cooperation could be estab-
lished."
Upholds Bargaining.
Upholding collective bargaining as
an instrument for more efficient con-
duct of industry and means Of giving
workers a "fairer share Of the gains of
industry" Boyer said:
"The final and constructive phase
of collective bargaining will consist OF
systematic joint counseling between the
representatives of management and
labor both on the ground and at head
quarters on subjects of joint interest
other than wages, hours and working
conditions. ="
As an approach to solution of pres
ent economic ills Berle recommended
a complete organization Of business,
industry by industry, to provide IN
effect q national association to conduct
an extensive survey of production re-