Show OPTIMISM PREVAILS AT MEET OF Of GOVERNORS wide Nation Gathering of Executives Finds General en ral Situation Good and Plans for Extending Public vt Work ork I W AT 4 March r r h A Oos Gov Governors V Y c ors of states and mayors of oC municipalities meeting today in the White House to discuss alleviation oll of ofU U unemployment fl t Ii heard J a Il President eni Tit son in iii a brief brieC address cl emphasize tho hh prin principle t that lat governments should sc serve yc in iii the interests of the common people In Jn this sp spirit rit he be urged that the tho federal state and local oca governments govern governments governments govern govern- ments work together steadying and fI uh 0 wu uv labor Jabor processes of oC the U Tin United States After t r listening to addresses b by Secretaries Secre Seers tur s Wilson Baker Eaker and aDl Daniels tho the I W t. t tt era on ii if W Respective tive U states A. A A majority declared that that there were cre not enough men out of or work ork in their communities to justify jusUf I serious apprehension although all advocated advocated ad ad- I ad-I immediate action b by state count county and city governments to promote promote promote pro pro- mote road Lull building m and other public works thus furni furnishing a buffer burler reservoir reservoir reser reser- voir of employment during the period when soldiers are arc being dl discharged and war industries arc converting Some borne olne Stale Saca Most fost stater states already have ha adopted programs of ol road building It appeared but several se governors reported they had difficulty in convincing local authorities and private industries to go 0 ahead with improvements now without without with with- out awaiting an expected reduction in wages and material costs The governors echoed the optimistic notes sounded b by cabinet members who spoke Secretary Wilson who presided ed at tho c conference In the east cast room predicted an actual labor shortage within the next year instead of oC a surplus sur sur- I plus To combat so social lal unrest he urged industrial leaders lenders to eliminate rapid rapidly time the extra extra profits of or war ivar times Secretary Secre c tary Daniels said he did not believe there would be general be-general general enera unemployment and suggested that man many men would find jobs in na navy yards ards Secretary haker Baker Ba- Ba ker declared the tho United States could do most good to the world just now now br bI by 2 solidarity of governmental so social so- so cial clai and business s conditions Deportation Indorsed d The Time conference indorsed unanimously Secretary Wilsons Wilson's declaration that men ipen len r advocating ad to overthrow the tho government govern government govern govern- ment b by force should be bo deported The reports by ty governors go and mayors will continue tomorrow and tho conference conference conference con con- ference will last through ir ugh Wednesday Governor Sleeper of or Michigan discussing discussing dis dis- cussing conditions In his state told the tho conference toda today that there had been few labor complaints an and that wages ages ha had not been reduced d. d Ho lIe suggested that high freight rates n road materials materials materials mate mate- rials might tend to discourage road building at the tho s same am time lO tl the e govern govern- to o IL it ment Is trying promote Speaking for Minnesota John P Gardiner state stale commissioner of or labor said he knew of ot no serious labor troubles at present but propos proposed d that thatto to avoid old future disputes employers should hould call Into conference to toa toa toa a greater reater extent In Maryland said G Governor Harrington Harring ton of ot that state there is a labor shortage shortage short short- age ago instead of or unemployment and ho he expressed sed belief beller J there Would be beno beno beno no great reduction In wages or materials materials mate mate- mate mate-I rials spon Jobs Plen Plenty t In IB Maine I No Xo ono one who has come to tu Maine lookIng lookIng look look- Ing Ins for a 1 Job has hns failed to find It said Governor Go Milliken of or that state Governor Go Pleasant of or Louisiana said Balli the agricultural districts were looking for tor workmen which they could not find and that the tho state expected a n great revival revl of commerce when conditions condi condl- Uon became stabilized Governor Bartlett of New Ne Hampshire reported conditions In that fairly SIl satisfactory Op Opening the conference President ent Wilson promised that the tho federal government gov So would consider consider- Itself the tho servant ser sor ant vant of or the states municipalities and counties in solving readjustment t problems Probe loins lems and would perform Us its dut duty guided guid Suld cd ed by suggestions of the conference The rhe President said he hoped tho the con eon would assume a wide ran range e including means of or restoring labor lubor conditions to a normal basis as soon Boon as possible and anel effecting such Continued on Pare Pane J mj tJ OPTIMISM PREVAilS AT MEETING OF GOVERNORS Continued from from page pago 1 fresh allocations of labor and Industry make as tho the circumstances ma may r 8 sary Touching upon the thc peace conference he lIe said the thc conferees at Paris rc regarded themselves es only onh as ns servants ants of about aboul people of or the world and und not ns fiS their masters Consequently said ald the thc President L 1 the L 1 conferees arc aro anxious to keep In close sympathy with tho the peoples whom they represent to lo find out how we can best assist In making their lives what the they wIsh lah giving them the thc them to bo be b by opportunity that the they ought to have c rhe The Pr President spoke e briefly confining confining ing himself largely to welcoming tho the visitors and antI promising complete federal federal federal fed fed- eral co o He lie explained that thai the thc d s s upon his time during tho the thoda da day and a half haH h he could remain in its Washington made mado It il to lo participate par par- In the conference Secretary of Labor Wilson who pro- pro at the thc opening session told told the the- conference r that the recent strikes at al Seattle Butte Lawrence and other places were not Industrial economic In their origin but vero re results results re- re of or a deJl deliberate or organized attempt at attempt attempt at- at tempt at nt a social an and political movement movement move move- m ment nt to lo establish so soviet lei governments so In lu Inthe Inthe the the thc United States I With It a threatened nl d shortage in the normal labor supply of or from to worl workers ers in the United States antI and prospect of or a wave wae of or gen gee era oral eral prosperity after afler a short period of or readjustment of industry it would bit od roll folly Secretary Wilson said aid to attempt a r. r reduction of wages now lie He declared that industry should eliminate extra profits to which it has hns been accustomed accustomed tomed tome l to during the war adding that man many manufacturers were disposed to hold down don activities because of or abnormal abnormal abnormal abnor abnor- mal prices Proper disposition on the part of or In Industry Industry Industry In- In made it possible tie fie thought for prices to come down without affecting affecting af af- existing wa wages wage e It will be one ono year before the nations nation's nations nation's na na- na- na tion's lIons military forces are aro fully ully de demobilized demobilized do- do mobilized ho he predicted an and as demobilization de- de mobilization must be bo gradual tho the labor shortage is Js bound to exist Speaking of or the year of a a. period of unemployment entertained by 11 some Secretary Daniels said I am not one of those who t bell believe e ethere there will be general unemployment The Thc demand of or tho the world for tor what America makes will be so great there will be a Job for tor ever every man who wants to work Ho Ito paid this tribute to labor Labor heard the call as trul truly as thc the m men n who I wore ore the uniform and antI closed his ad- ad dr s b by predicting an era of or pros pros- j ad-j p rU |