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Show I E VOTE CAST FOR OPEN SHOP Chambers o Commerce in All Parts of Nation Endorse Industrial Platform. H,AJHI')T tS Jwlv 3i By an overwhelming Vote, member Att 'he ehsmber of rnmmrr of the I n tied states adopted n platform on Indus-trial Indus-trial relation which de lare for the right r.f 'op'ri liop operation of the Industry and for making lnbor organl-ratlon organl-ratlon fh (.line as organisation of emploere legally rwspons.ble t others for their londuct and that of 'heir algonts Annwcrlnit wo i 1 .1 propositions the members held that strikes In i ub lie utilities should be forbidden by law and that tribunals ahould be at up with power to fix wage and working condition for emplovea of nidifies. The industrial relations platform whleh was Mibmltted to the referendum referen-dum of the oonatltuant of the chambers cham-bers In 12 section, upon each of whit h a separate vote was cast, was drawn up after President Wilson's firs' Industrial In-dustrial conference Last fall, leading provision of th's pltfnrm I Include declaration the llmttatiin f I'ommndltv output h either employe or employer, when done to create an aril- I flelal scarcity constitutes an Injury to j society; that an "adequate means," j ahould b provided for adjustment of Industrial relations ami disputes; thtt employer ami Sttiployei li.iv I mill Interest In the succeasful conduct and full development of their particular industrial establishment ." recognition of which and co-operation upon which "constitutes the true t'asl of sound Industrial relations:" that municipal state or national government empli have the right to be heard as to tb Ir j occupation and it requirement-, but no right to enter "combination to j prevent or impair the operations of I government." and that "all men poa- j si the equal right t associate olun- I tartly for the noeomullaht) eni of law- fill purposes by lawful means." Most of'the m pa rat i platform pro- I positions were accepted by rotes of j nearly 1790 for. to two or three j against. The highest nef&tivs vote was cast against a section whVh said j that after collect. ive bargaining had I b-en established, and employer and emploes dealt through represents -1 tlves In any plant it would be con sidered proper by either puny t a.-h that "these represental U ea sruill not I le chosen by or controlled by any L I outside group or Interest." Against th's I li votes were c.mt F1 |