The Seattle Star Newspaper, June 27, 1919, Page 13

th } | \ PURGE CONFERENCE FOR LATE SUMMER _ Joint Resolution ianpadiened By Poindexter and Kelly Asks President Wilson to Call Meeting of 20 Industrial Chiefs to Di cuss Friendly Solution of All Economic Problems. question of state and legislation which may be BY A. EB. GELDHOF N.E. A. Washington Bureau WASHINGTON, D.C, June at and feasible, outs —The propesal of Chairman bed t al conduct ¢ te Basil M. Manly of the National . und the prome jor War Labor board, for a confer welt ail tts 9 ence of 20 leaders of capital and | CONGRESS MAY labor, first proposed thra the cok —- TAKE ADVICE umns of The Star, has been a al oo ae placed before congress 4 that A joint resolution, calling upon es by the President Wilson to call a meet ital and In ing of these 20 leaders at a time eauress and place to be named by him— probably at the White House late in the summer—has been intro duced in the senate by Senator Miles Poindexter of Washington, and in the house by Representa tive M. Clyde Kelly of Pennsy! vania. ‘The resc two hor r are not res of govern ndext is a an, while Kelly Jemocrat —the elected » the oe fact, that bring out agreed that both marexs would be quick ital importance of the me that F soon as he re nal 1 . ominen onference every one Who bas had much to d REPRESENTING : " ote Poindexter that much difficulty is LABOR k of acquaintance and of condi mn, which was w provement oindexter, namnes world-—the United States as well as Garretson, head of the Order other nations—is being subjected to ustrial trial strain at sad Conductors a social and in Charles H. Moyer, president of the |the present time. Talk of ‘a new Metal Mine and Smelter Workers. order of things’ is frequently heard. Frank J. Hayes, president of the and often uttered in high place@ United Mine Workers’ union This means that there are diffi William D. Mahon, president of the | cuit problems to be solved and acute Street and Electric Railway Em p ployes’ ur ~ to be dealt with. In the thou * of years in which civilization has been { ss of evolution, hu TING man not been funda menta It has been Hughes, former Justice) inca ar ained, and certain } States Supreme court ef the Unit decencies of ite been estab- John WP. Rockefeller, America’s) ened, and yet, after all, underlying f Beading capitalist sata the act« of men and nations, there Pierpont Morgan, the nation the unive and inevitable na a + the Ar | tural law of selfish interest , Oo end of the This is the fundamental principle Rmour Pack tnited | 19 D# dealt with in the continued im fo FE. ii. Gar hairman of the United |» ovement of the conditions of hu Staten Stee tion. soate maan life. I believe that thin great William K. Vanderbilt, America’s | oi iece will be promoted by such a Digest railroad owner conference, with Its friendly disens Daniel ¢ heim, the COPPPT | .i45 and intelligent recommenda king he coal king, HOD%, a4 ls proposed in this resolu Fran Peabody, the coa tion E. T. Stotesbury, traction magnate REPRESENTING ; GOVERNMENT way to Congresuman Kelly declares a conference such as this is the only solve the issues between c P. Wilson, secretary of Ia-| “pital and labor y William PB. W «i “The only thing to do Is to get to bor : etary of the Rether,” he said, “and the way to I Franklin K. Lane, secreta et together in to touch shoulders. interior here can be no common counsel witeon.ie exspowered {7 Presider is empowered n| without common meeting. We have @ resolution ae or | endeavoring to solve these ne CO ee he as | Pee tea sz to nol hy ME member , vowever, problems by separate action without sires, keeping the balance, that meeting which results in a f betweer and IADOF’ hat this|common will. The men named in * resolution ar guarantee th the result of their deliberations wi business men re—every man t and most impor n the country—shall be as thorough as it will be possie ' blem rR EXPRESSION 1 relations between FROM BOTH SIDES capital and labor “With President Wilson or some Industrial management and workers’ participation in profits Wage adjustment. Settlement of industrial di member of his cabinet acting ax chairman of such a conference, and with fr expression, the conclu rived at would without doubt putes ‘ Improving working hours and more nt than any possible rec ommendations * comir 1 sone from either vital questic as compu cone such arbitration, mediation and jon, ¢ tive bargaining la- for and other complex and dif ficult questions would be given 4 I consider that the greatest ques tion before Ameri a today is the so ution of its Industrial problema The great war for democracy has educated millions of men to the be thoro overhauling by the con left that while making the world Undoubtedly by ¢ romin PD \wafe for democracy we must make other methods a decision could be ar | aaocra: at home. There can rived at ¢ ene pein | be no real democracy without indus ich would stand forever baste | etal democracy American labor policy Z \ That will be reached, “It senator Poir ra and Represes-| win come either thru ruin or thru ative F tion directs this! rerorm, It should come theu a caim a tere to pt resolutions | wine study by both employer and : which, wher e hei or employe. by the representatives of ity of the member ail werve 48) capital and labor meeting together tions to employers and recommenda for common counsel, and with an employes of the country for the £0¥"| earnest purpose of securing justice other. 400,000 communities of America a E CANNOT live our right life as a nation or achieve our proper success as an industrial community if capital and labor are to continue to be antagon partners.’’--President Wilson in his address to Congress, May 20, PRA AA AAA DRAA DAL PDD LRP DAP AAPA || sm |The Seattle Star | \ATTLE, W ASH., FRIDAY, JUNE | LABOR- CAPITAL PLAN PU T UP TO CONGRESS Workers in “Home Rule” Factory Get an Even Break in ividends ' Workers’ “House of Representatives” Decides Important Issues. RNOVER REPORT LOST TIME-OLRBY 5 OHNE OLE [NOTES This is the “house of representatives” sentatives are’ elected by secret ballot of the factory employes, and they “pred to concur, before a ‘meas ure Note the different types of men and SPEEDER WILL SERVE 30 DAYS Japanese Driver Sentenced; Woman Beats Autoist in session at the Demuth pipe Richmond Hill, The repre- adopted, with the “senate” women selected by the workers of this factory to represent them in its councils. : TAKE MUNITIONS FROM BIC LINER of foremen and the “ca " of company executives. LABOR-CAPITAL RESOLUTION 125 Cases of Hidden on Vessel Cartridges the moet ¢om joyers and emplo: » information and mut Tried on char, driving and driving an auto while nding will tend from the Blue Funnel liner Tyn dareus, in the Seattle harbor, on cases of rifle and revolver cartridges, believed to have been destined for Boishe vik forces in Russia, are in the on of social and econom ement of conditions of labor Yokota was found guilty of both charges by Gordon in police He was fined $100 for the first of fense, and sentenced to serve 30 days in the city stockade for the 1 tend to promote the efficiency ourt Thursday Frank P. Walsh, former understanding betw sp | ef the War Labor board , nor Samu: MUTUAL ADVANTAGES meeerte ot SEEN IN MEETING Andrew . ¥ . i om Fitzpatrick, head of the Chi- often be avoided by a friendly and © Federation of Labor kympathetic meeting with a view to , H. Johnston. president of the mutual a ntage and the general t A of Machin | good. veryone knows that the and house of represents poe to meet at such point as may « composed of the fotl « the most prominent represe wing named persons was revealed after speeding 50 miles per hour, the police charged atives both of em Judge Neterer issued an der authorizing the to hold the shipment tablishment of ownerahir in the quarters of ployers and o RB. Garretson, factory can be taken without the other persons as representatives the freighter, the munitions among leading f maid conference to was scheduled to « n of the same ) permanent rel United States in a breach of the e adjustment of wages, of settlement of ly of war materials ce shall consider the q between the company and the worker In the past year and a half, this dividend has never been lower than 14% per cent, and it has risen to 17, Every two weeks each employe gets! a “dividend enve basec ‘The Tyndareus Hue Funnel lin on wh American customs n discovered in the | On the Calchas ‘own from the » " receives a standard wag only receives his motion of the YANKS ASK T0 FISHING CRAFT STOP IN CITY RAMMED AT SEA 146th Artillery | Would Visit Seattle Saturday dends," which at the present rate will amount to 0. He doesn't wait a year or six mor profit sharing,” but every saving—every reduction: of expense—is reflected in his envelope every two we Thus hist share is based upon his own work o smuggle into 000 worth of 01 this country $26. The Cyclops, $214,000 worth o 3 Pritish Colum led to reveal any DIETZ AGAIN UNDER ARREST Second Indictment Returned by Federal Jury SEEK DYNAMITER OF YAKIMA DAM Crops on 700 Acres Endan- gered by Destruction No Trace Found After Being Hit by Japahese Steamer He not suffer if the company suffers losses connected with salem, © ets in 1 financed or makes a mistak t stments in raw mae sa get lividend on the saving accomplished by himself and hist fellow wor r He can wateh lividend grow larger or smailer and he has learned’ that when every machine is running a makes more money than when his fellow workers a1 machines are left idle Thus he learns that co-operation means a larger pay envelope There are practically no labor troubles at the Demuth plant; the “labor turnover” bas gone down to almost nothing; confid attle's own idea « congress as carrying | » Chamber of Commerce will dictment returned ch for the missing boat ntw and equipthent for f \e sted under the new r being entertaine ommendation by t for demobilization a department's. Lake Union steam | Prostam includes exploration of # PLAN CLASSICAL neral festivity Artillery here nization stopped mp Lewis for dix , a local organiza . is Included in the outfit. Atkinson of $28 and plant and to enlarge and improve appear in recital in the a classical program They are Nellie Harrison, the opportunity lish the capitol of the people in their ernment of thelr relations with each| «7 ghould also like to see in the own building, and the germs of archy and bolsheviem will with, The conferces are also asked tocoming- together of all the people for the sunlight of free discussion, |the plant. A unit of 14,000 Kilowatt /to the Pacific ocean’ and a dance; *.; capacity will be added to the two/and entertainment at Port Angeles 10,000 units now working, if the/on the way back. The party will; praiect goes thru. ‘return 7:30 p. m, July & over en route to ¢ Government sons who do not speak Wnelien Pouelae Sheriff and Leila Coates stic instead of being * LABOR DEMOCRACY PUT INTO PRACTICE Labor Elects a ‘House of Representatives,” the Foremen Form a Senate, and the Company Executives Are a Cabinet, — Which Has Never Had to Exercise Its — Veto Power. PRESIDENT WILSON told Congress that capital and labor must “get together,” must co-operate, if the American republic te to endure BASIL M MANLY, chairman of the War Labor Board, suge gested a great meeting of capital and labor to plan indu peace SENATOR POINDEXTER prepared a joint house and te resolution providing for such a conference ag a Manly suggested, and is pushing the plan before Com gress. THE STAR, in view of the foregoing, assigned one of ite best writers to investigate and tell about the Best schemes _ of labor-capital co-operation now in effect, asa oid to what can be accomplished. FREDERICK M KERBY, head of the N. E. A, New York News Bureau, is the writer selected, and his first artie cle appears todity. Other plans will be described at — frequent intervals, after which Mr. Kerby will come pare the various seWemes and point but the lessons derived from each. BY FREDERICK M. KERBY N. E. A. Staff Correspondent RICHMOND HILL, L. L, N. Y., June 27—A factory where workingmen refuse to loaf; where strikes never oc- cur; where the workers tell the bi what they want done! and get it; where workingmen reduce their own hours; @ factory where workers ask for labor-saving machinery; avs actory which workers réfused to leave during ‘the war a tho they could get higher wages in munition plants;, one where every man has a vote on eve ry rule that governs his” conduct ; a factory which pays dividends to workmen — EQUAL to those paid to the owners— ’ : No, t not a cummunistic vision of Leon Troteky—thia/is a real im Demuth Pipe Company, employing a thousand works hmond Hill It ie tb result of tw years of ind ual practice »cracy in this plant is a system of self-government meg. national government, by which the 1,000 men and WwOomem v n running the pl a cab omposed of the of the foremen and heads jected b here Iemocrac Indu eled upon employes have Th tives of the company; a of departments; and a house by the whole body of workers, te. comp representativ every jepartm nt is repre In Two Years the “Cabinet” * Has Never Used the Veto Power The but durin und it ne and senate make the laws. The caninet has the right of the two years the system has been in operation it has mee » action affecting the ree bodies, Meetings ary to exercise th power once are held once a week by each body separate nL at <8 engin of Philade ia. is responsible for the: plan, and at a seri mass meetings at the ory explained its wore!” ' as, b », after one month: ney resulted in a dividend of 6% per centi | n to perk up the new plan, there is a saving in cost of production, whether due to sug) ment, such saving will be divided At fir e workmen were s operation, the increased eff w ges, interest t ny made by the men or the man: is two weeks’ wages. Thus, if a of $25 a week, at the end of two weeks he noe envelope of $50, but a se envelope marked “divie! Workman Does Not Suffer If : Bad caper Cuts Profits © has been established between worker and executive Here is an example: When the plan went into effect, the factory was vorking 53 hours a week, At a meeting of the house it was suggested thak hours be reduced to 50. It was finally to make the reduction on the understanding that fe reduction loss of production the workers would go bacle Production increased 8 per cent, which meant better income andl for all concerned. So a few months ago the cabinet suggested a juction to 48, ‘Phe house and senate passed the bill and the fags decreased production. ‘There is nothing: ther reductions, if the men themselves desire it w works 48, without havi \ result of the experiment at the Demuth factory, 30 other corporas have now placed it in operation; the latest to adopt it being the Care Hosiery Mills at Durham, N, C. Tn addition some 50 other corporations: ave made an intensive study of the plan, — APPROVES ENLARGING BUSINESS MEN PLAN ’ pail vehanipies PLANT OUTING FOR JULY 41 if ‘ incil approves a re Leaving midnight, July 3, Chame nbers, with Ry will go ted rt Angeles by special bom p of ad-|thence to Lake Crescent in Sheil und at the city lighting | Olympics, to spend July 4 nmerce he utilities commit ons, pre: tee, $1,000,000 in utility bonds will be | 5, 4 to finance the pureh: famous spruce forests of the vieinis > ty, visits to Indian villages, a hike]