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Show PYROTECHNIC DISPLAY IS ON SCHEDULE Injection of Steel Strike Proposal Into Industrial Indus-trial Conference Promises Prom-ises Real Fireworks. Gompers Plan for Arbitration Ar-bitration Committee Is Discussed; Action Expected Ex-pected After Speeches, ! By ARTHUR M. EVANS. j (Chicago Tribune Special Service. I WASHINGTON, Oct. 13. The fire- I i works are scheduled to start in iho in- l j dustrial conference when it reconvene i tomorrow morning, according to leaders in the public's b!oc. The steel strike ia expected to toucli off the pyrotechnics. The committee of fifteen tpeni hours today discussing' the Gompers proposal for a committee of arbitration from the conference delegates, the strikers meanwhile mean-while to go back to work pending adjudication. adjudi-cation. It was voter! to report it back i to the floor tomorrow, vit nout recom-, recom-, mendations, which caused no surprise. ; as under the rules any three dclceata In ! a group could block an o. k. As travel- ing companion, however, it is to have a report suggesting a proposal on which ! the committee believes all thft groups can find common ground. It is said to embody an adjustment taiisfaeiory to all three groups in the committee of fifteen. As to Us nature, forty-seven varieties of rumors are afloat in Washing ton tonight, to-night, due to the attitude of the committee, commit-tee, which decided to build a monument of mystery over it. DELEGATES RETICENT AS TO DEVELOPMENTS. The members, before adjourning, tieJ on the gag and emerged from the marble chamber dripping with secrecy, while Thomas L. Chadbourne, the chairman, apparently relished it so well that he swallowed his' gag and replied to questions ques-tions with choking sounds. As open-face publicity, the day's stuff was as muffled as the first few weeks of the Paris peace conference. Whatever the proposed adjustment, however, the entrance of the subject matter mat-ter to the floor will give the first opportunity oppor-tunity for real discussion. Tonight group leaders declare the confenence will start to get down to brass tacks on some of the fundamentals entering the whole industrial in-dustrial field. If H should develop that the Gompers proposal goes to a vote, it would be supported by the labor bloc and opposed by the capital group, while the public bloc would probably cast in its lot with the labor end. But as a proposal, to become a conference confer-ence conclusion, requires a majority vote in each of the three groups, the conference confer-ence would be left astride the fence and the proposal would get nowhere. THINGS EXPECTED TO MOVE QUICKLY. However, the appearance of something on the floor for the first time is expected ex-pected to tear things loose, and to open up the debate on such things as collective col-lective bargaining and the eight-hour day. "The big value of the conference.'' said one prominent delegate, "is this it will focus the mind of everybody on issues which aro vital in economic and industrial indus-trial life, but to which the ordinary citizen citi-zen has been paying little attention. We're going to get educated and, despite the gloomy fellows, I'm sure we're going to get much further than either England or Canada did in their industrial conferences." con-ferences." One of the first principles on which all elements are agreed is that women phould receive equal pay with men for equal work performed. That is in plans submitted by both labor and capita, and it will be one of the first things to be set down. Right to strike is another on which the public group expects to get an earlv declaration, setting forth that, while as a last resort strikes in private industries are justifiable enough, still they carry with them grreat responsibility, particularly particu-larly just now, when walkouts are cutting cut-ting down production at a time when the world's shelves are empty and prices are still climbing. ALEXANDER REFLECTS VIEWS OF EMPLOYERS. The views of the employers' group an to the G'unpers proposal to arbilrale the steel strike :ire reflected in a statement tonight by Magnus W. A le.audiv. iu;i u -aging director of the nat ioun 1 imlusl rial conference, which appointed ' five members mem-bers of the capital group. "Obviously, a decision by the conference confer-ence to arbitrate the sti-el strike." it (Continued on Page 13, Column 1.) 7 mm mm IS Oi SCHEDULE (Continued from Pago One.l :ays, "would ir.vile consideration of all Jiher important jnr!ing strikes and of -y nc-w cor.troversies that may arise ni!e the conference is in session. The ''rike of the longshoremen in New York harbor, of the i-hop employees in the Al-;oona Al-;oona plant of the Pennsylvania Railroad 'orr.pany, 0f (he allied printing trades in York City, would be entitled, in the 'Pinion of many people, to equal consid-t'aUon consid-t'aUon b;r the conference. "A reading of the president's letter ln-Jltirs ln-Jltirs delegates to the industrial con-Jr;r,ce con-Jr;r,ce does not indicate that he in-Miied in-Miied the conference to be an arbitra-board, arbitra-board, hut that ho expected tho con- ::s to find a common proun of recom--jr.dations for tne establishment of a Ration that would In the future permit ir.erican industry to operate success-J'y success-J'y and to the benefit of all parties concerned. ''Tr.ere are o-'er 100 proposals bv dele-?5't-s and outsides which have alreadv ;cn submitetd to the conference. Sure-at Sure-at least, those sponsored bv any of JJf, thrt'.e groups of delegates must re- e ve fair and comprehensive considera-'"-n. and this task alone will keep the time ,r'ee3 in session for a considerable T.".e farmers' section in the emplovers' sro-jp Is preparinir an agricultural plan, m' Barratt of the Farmers' Coopern-'.".-on, in discusslnr; some of the Propositions it may advocate, said to- fTh- ,lrmsrs should be permitted and w"niT.'ras''d throKh governmental rec-rrt rec-rrt rtn hM sanction to organize selling ' aistrlnutins agencies to roach liv the w'.'-st possible route tho men who eat "'ear what he grows. t'n ea,1"! of thc demonstrated value of inese organizations and the real neccs-ni,, neccs-ni,, r Pelr :lstence, one of the pri-ohjeetlves pri-ohjeetlves of the government Cers unllersf6 Orf-'anlzatlon anlPns I aJ'll government and society In gen-to gen-to L ?',lrl CTant 11,0 farmer tho right linn,hl.SuS00tlf directly to his customer on S " netty for passing them Pencil. g" ,the '-1'"1"'18 of a hRlf zon a ran ,rr, '"d'V'duals. all of whom get i l .M te proceeds of the sale. Hence a-.,r ""marketing should be eneour-i'!i!t eneour-i'!i!t it is not possible for the bis i'i"'f"'rmt'r to rollect 100 per cent of WlliVili "mate earnings except through a "active marketing process." |
