Show PLAN INDUSTRIAL PROGRESS STUDY M Capital and Labor Join Joil Hands for Social Betterment Uy Jig liARD HARDEN EX X I S Special laJ Correspondent of The Examiner Standard Copyright 19 1826 1326 6 by Consolidated I Press Association WASHINGTON Jan Pro 23 23 plan plans were formulated here this week to join the hands of capital and labor In an IndustrIal relations study which holds promise promis of reaching far Importance to the I social as well as the tho business life lito of the nation I Back Dack of or the Idea Is the belief that a a su uey ey of oC the past will I bene-I boDe boDe- ben I I i i I I fit tit those who in their hurry for tor- torI ward seldom pause to look over their shoulders and may result InI in I a i ii sign board pointing to the best bes road ahead While the national conference on women in Industry under the sue aus- auspices pie of the tho of labor was In session hero this week for tor foran an exchange of views view regarding the welfare of the women who work there met In another part of ot Wash Wash- WashIngton Washington ington a group of at men mon who for tor torI tormore more than a year have been trying I to evolve a a practicable plan for tor forthe the improvement improvement- of Industrial re- re reI relations re relations I lations between employers and employee both men and women I I These Thesa men believe bellevo they have found a 0 plan that Is ii workable as U a IL a foundation for tor their object They I I do not hope to turn the existing order upside down or right about face In a week or a month or a year but they do hope to start a movement for future development I by the simple simple- expedient of taking time to examine the pres present nt and to more than a IL glance back back- backward back backward ward Into history Details of the plan and more especially of at how it can be exe- exe executed exe executed to carry the message to the maximum number of those It Is I desired to reach remain to be tobe worked out for only the most moat broad lines have been laid down thus far tar TO HOLD nOLD CONFERENCE CE An executive committee Is draft draft- log InS drafting detailed plans and a a program for an Industrial relations con con- con gress gresa congress to be held In Philadelphia In I 1927 and to th the tho put plan Into exe- exe exe cution execution was vas named at the confer conter- conference ence eats here It Is composed of ot Er- Er nest Ernest Trigg I man Charles A Eaton Isey repreSentative of th the Fourth New Jer- Jer sey congressional and active o worker In the American Educational Association James A EmOrT Emor counsel of at National Association of Manufacturers L J 3 Tabor Tailor master masler of the National Orange and Frank W V Morrison secretary of ot the Amen can Federation of ot Labor The executive committee will vill meet within two weeks to begin Its lAbors Indorsement The general idea Idell has the In- In in of Secretary of Corn Com Commerce coerce merce Hoover and Secretary ot of Labor Davis tho former appearing before the preliminary conference this latter iatter week In person and the lat lat- ter through a representative But the government as such will take takeno tak no active part In the tho proceedings STUDY PART RT PROGRESS I It Is proposed to have 24 groups representing labor agriculture I ed-I ed- ed education ed education and major industries pro pro- pre pare prepare stud studies of the progress of ot each group In the years of ot Amen Ameri American can Independence ence with emphasIs on on the relation of ot the tho specific croup roup to other specific groups and to society at large and ond to poInt from the experience of the past what sound lound judgment Indicates may be expected In the future The matter of Inter dependence will be developed by such studies It Is believed so as to point a I lesson for operation operation co-operation In the tho future No Pollyanna material Is to be besought besought besought sought to the exclusion of ot that which may not have such a bright brightside The facts will be permitted tc C speak for tor themselves but It Is believed they will speak in har bar harmonious tones How the lessons of ot the past put are areto areto areto forthe to be translated into a book tot the tho f ture and how the messages are aro to be carried forth remain to tobe tobe tobe be determined but bu It I l-i l beyond question that the ger mot a It rather Important Idea Ideo for tor the Improve Improve- Improvement Improvement ment mont of Industrial relations and so- so social so social cial conditions Is being nurtured In Inthis inthis Inthis this undertaking n |