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Show WEIEE HAS BIFJEETING Labor Delegates Adjourn for Day, Groups Having Programs Incompleted, 11 Interests Are Evidently Waiting to See What Remainder Re-mainder Will Suggest. WASHINGTON', Oct. S. After three days spent in organisation, the Industrial conference called by President Wilson ,vi11 conio to a showdown tomorrow on tte business to be transacted. Only a brief tension was held today, adjournment being taken to permit the poups representing capital, labor and the public to formulate such suggestions and proposals as they wish to submit for consideration. con-sideration. None was ready for submission submis-sion today except the preamble of a resolution reso-lution to be introduced by Charles S. Barrett Bar-rett of Georgia, represent1.!!? the farmers u!i:on. The resolution will demand a comprehensive com-prehensive national agricultural policy. Tiie preamble asserted the farmers were pot being given due consideration in the present conference, and the failure of any attempt to settle national questions without with-out the consent of the agricultural ele-irent ele-irent of the population was predicted. Apparently with an agreed unanimity cf action not otherwise characterizing the deliberations, the three groups refused to ciscuss specifically what was under discission dis-cission or what would be presented to the conference. TDac'n group was under-Feod under-Feod to be rea4y with definite proposals oil industrial problems affecting domestic peace, the labor group especially having a complete program already formulated, It whs reported, but each seemingly was wailing to see what the others were going to do before showing its own hand. The Innocent Bystanders. From the public group came the a iihori-t:iie iihori-t:iie intimation that the members representing rep-resenting the "innocent bystanders"' in tae war between capital and labor were prepared to abandon the a ttitude of watchful waiting and benevolent neutrality neutral-ity which they at first thought was their best peiiey. Not only were several concrete con-crete proposals said to be in the making, tv.it the group sent to the shipping board for documents dealing with the American evil ln-ilish shipyards arrangements for adjusting wages and forestalling strikes by ii'ians of permanent committees con-BLii'My con-BLii'My c .mkring grievances likely to cause industrial disruption. The opinion is proving that the public group, led by Bernard Harueh. chai rnian. will not rest Virt'.i the right and left divisions of the conference accept some 1 or ward -looking prune-sal to allay unrest and make steady preuution. Labor pronosa's are considered certain to include reaffirmation of t he rl'nt of collective bargaining and the strike, the principle of the eight-hour day, and pr-h:-:ns the mure advanced suggestions for profit -biir.ring and participation in in-C'.tnM in-C'.tnM control. Capital already lias in-oii-aied ii? stand in a resolution by Frederick Fred-erick P. Fish of I jos to: i, declaring the pxd 01" the country to be paramount to Tiio interests of any one group, and vs-scri'iit vs-scri'iit present i:--ed to be Increased pro-OLction, pro-OLction, aaequatt .wages and a juit return re-turn 0:1 capital. Lane Is Hopeful. Whatever is done by the conferenc?. o erybouy, aicl'iding liie permanent cl-iirman. Secretary iane, expresses con-fiC;-?n-e that real resu.'.s will l.e forth-cohiirg. forth-cohiirg. seems likely to be a compromise lit der the voting rules. Misnua V.". Alexander, managing: director direc-tor of the nutionai industrial conference bua:d. which is represented in tlu- con-f-'-rm e ly five delegates, tonight issued V:i following statement: "Tiie employer group was disappointed t-cause no prog-ram had been prepared so thai Hie Inuustiiai conference might proceed pro-ceed at once to business. Its members, hov.-fver were glad to avail themselves 0' the day in order to enter into earnest uiicussiuii of leading industrial issues for tho crystallization and development of tli'fir own thought in eirder that they may I"-- better prepared to act upon "these iiU'js.'' secretary Lane, chairman of the confer-fc.i'c. confer-fc.i'c. ealled on the aelt-gates to get ac-tiirued ac-tiirued instead of remaining rigidly separate sep-arate in erucps, and adjournment was fol-Juwd fol-Juwd by a mingling of labor leaders, coital:.-; is. farmers and publicises. lA liik- the conference is in adjournment Lin special delegates will hold group meet- il.RS. Gavin McXab of fran Francisco again Protested agains: adjournment. "I am in fa.v0r of direct action." he Giid with a laugh, "and I am opposed to fc'-ijourning again, but if adjournment is necessary to get action under these rules t.-en I will second the motion."' "He ought to join the I. W. W.." retorted re-torted Samuel Gompers. president of the American Federation of Liibor. bristling at the mention of "'direct action," which In radical parlance meaiif "violence." Barreit of Union Citv, Ga., rep-WEenting rep-WEenting the Farmers' Cooperative union. passed around the "preamble" to a reso- ;K;ion lie proposed to offer. The rcsolu- Hon would request President Wilson to ?;'iJo:at a commission to formulate a na-tibial na-tibial agricultural police. N indications were given in Mr. Bar-j Bar-j J"e,lf 8 preamble of the dissatisfaction ;j jMicn the farmers have been said to feel oecause of their comparatively small rep-,.tation rep-,.tation in the conference. To attempt to settle the grave ques-5 ques-5 15 ops now agitating us without the as-j as-j 6-stance of the farmer is like trving to put I 'Hamlet' on the stage with the hero left I out,"' the preamble stated. "Why were only three men as representatives repre-sentatives of the greatest Industry In the world inilerl to participate in these momentous mo-mentous deliberations? "Is it because there is a suspicion in certain responsible minds that we are not organized and consequently incapable of exerting the influence which can be exercised exer-cised only when we march as a solid phalanx ? "Don't, gentlemen, allow jourselvea to be deluded into the false idea that agriculture agri-culture cannot kick, that it will continue to be the football of other great national interests." |