Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 September 1919 — GENERAL AND STATE NEWS [ARTICLE]

GENERAL AND STATE NEWS

Telegraphic Reports From Many Parts of the Country. -SHORT BITS OF THE UNUSUAL Happenings in the Nearby Cities and Towns —Matters of Minor Mention From Many ’LocalitiesTHIN IS SOMETHING LIKE IT New York Federation of Labor Favors “Truce” for Six Months. Ngw York,’ Sept. B.—Suspension of all strikes throughout the United States and the declaration of a labor truce is the basis of the status quo for six months or more to sizable President Wilson ,to bring about a reduction In the cost of living is recommended in a report of a committee of the New York State Federation of Labor made public here yesterday. The recommendations urgp American organized labor to ceasp wage and hour controversies |n order to increase production and restore formal conditions. They express the hope that no new strikes, will be ordered except to relieve workers from “intolerable oppression.” The committee was appointed by James P. Holland, president of the federation, .on July 20, and made Its report after conferring with representatives of Industrial, manufacturing, commercial, financial, transportation an<? other Interests with a view to devising plans to lower the cost of living. Business mien, it explained, were in a state of apprehension due to rapidly changing conditions since the signing of the armistice and "industry had been disturbed and, dislocated to a degree never before experienced." "Your committee is convinced?’ says the report, "that this condition is wrong and cannot be permitted to continue unless we —and by ‘we’ your committee means not labor alone but the people of the whole United States —wish to Invite a disaster 'unparalleled In history. The people must be given a breathing spell. There must be a suspension of struggling for class and party advantage. All Americans must bend their backs to the oars and pull steadily against the stormtossed waters until our boat again rides safely on the placid sea of prosperity.”