Show WAGE CUTTERS OFF MENTALLY DAVIS TELLS LABOR UNIONS Nations Nation's s Prosperity Rests Bests In Iu Pay Envelopes elopes Secretary Says RESOLUTIONS UP Federation Convention Con Get Goto Down To ro Actual Business LOS ANGELES Oct 5 S-Dy S By The Associated Press The Tile gist of reso reso- resolutions resolutions to be brought before the Amer Amer- American American ican Federation of Labor now hold- hold holdIng holdIng holding Ing Its annual convention here was before its committee coD today The passing of the final moment momen at which a resolution could be filed start start- started started I ed cd the convention on rolling the actual I business of organized labor labo- after two days devoted to the routine of open open- opening openIng opening ing the sessions A flood of resolutions had poured In since the opening of the sessions Messages recounting mutual benefits to be derived from operation co-operation of la labor Ja- Ja Jaber bor ber government and Industry were brought to the convention consention com by two political leaders Secretary of ol Labor James J. J J Davis and United States Senator Hiram Johnson of California INDUSTRIAL PEACE The secretary of labor told the dele dele- delegates delegates gates that never before had American Industry been so free from strife as os IS today He made a plea for opera co cooperation cooperation tion Uon ot Industry and labor Jabor laborThe laborThe The business of saving the nations nation's resources Is 1 not primarily the task of labor he said We have been wast vast wasting ing our natural with criminal recklessness We have been a great deal more Interested in wealth than the commonwealth We long ago aco learned that there Is 1 no essential conflict between capital and labor An industrial plant is fine for any community If It pays good soad wages wages wages-wages wages high enough to supply the wage earners' earners wants Declaring that we are wasting our natural resources with 1 criminal neg neg- negligence negligence Davis said Organized labor Jabor must get behind the conservation of our natural re re- re sources ILLINOIS CITED There are a thousand coal mines In Sri the state of ot Illinois When th e market is good they all open up af affording af- af affording fording part day labor Jabor for thousands of miners D ners When the market lulls these men are again out of employ employ- ment Statistics show that by oper- oper operating sting 84 of these mines throughout the year all the coal needs of the sec see section tion the mines serve could be sup sup- supplied plied piled The direct primary law was defend defend- defended ed by Senator Johnson lIet Het urged support of Colorado river development He declared that labor had won th the original purpose of unionism but that tha it needed to be on guard In this age ag of prosperity and materialism COOLIDGE GREETINGS GS Secretary Davis brought the whole wholehearted wholehearted hearted greetings of President Cool Cool- Coolidge Coolidge idge to the convention Digressing from his set speech th the secretary declared that one serious as aspect as- as aspect aspect of the situation in the coal in industry In- In Industry industry In this country was due to th the fact that there are engaged enga ed In the production of more coa than the Industry can take care esre of Certain laws s he said had been blamed for the coal situation If any such laws existed he pledged his con con- continuing continuing effort to set them aside Davis ls placed responsibility for re ye- ye habilitation of workmen crippled In Industry squarely on the shoulders o othe of the Industry Itself The prosperity of a nation Is in th the pay envelopes of Its workers he con con- eluded If any man thinks In terms term of low wages then a commission should be appointed to examine him I mentally |