Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 68, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 November 1919 — NEW INDUSTRIAL MEETING DEC. 1 [ARTICLE]

NEW INDUSTRIAL MEETING DEC. 1

President Invites 17 Men to Join in Conference to Solve Nation’s Labor Crisis. FORMER GOVERNORS NAMED 9 * Secretary Wlleon, Former Attorney Generate Wickersham and Gregory and' Obear Straus, Among Those Summoned to Capital. Washington, Nov. 21. —President Wilson appointed a new Industrial conference and called it into session here December 1. The conference will be composed of 17 men, including government officials, business men and former members of the cabinet and former governors of states, and It will carry on the work undertaken by the national Industrial conference which foundered on thd rock of collective bargaining. Seventeen Men Are Named. The personnel of the conference follows: Secretary of Labor Wilson, former United States Attorney Generals Thomas W. Gregory and Gorge W. Wickersham, former Food Administrator Herbert Hoover, former Secretary of Commerce Oscar W. Straus, Henry M. Robinson, Pasadena, Cal.; Prof. Frank W. Taussig, former 'chairman of the tariff commission; former Gov. Daniel W. McCall of Massachusetts, former Governors Martin H. Glynn of New York and Heniy C. Stuart of Virginia, Dr. W. O. Thompson, Ohio State university ; Richard Hooker, Springfield, George T. Slade, St Paul; Julius Rosenwald, Chicago; Owen D. Young of New York city, H. J, Waters of Manhattan, Kan., and Stanley King of Boston. President Issues Invitation. The president’s letter of Invitation follows: “In accordance with the suggestion given me by the public group of the recent Industrial conference I am calling a new body together to carry on this vitally Important work, and I trust you will give me the pleasure of naming you as one of its members. “Guided by the experience of the last conference I have thought it advisable that In this new body there should be no recognition of distinctive groups, but that all of the new representatives should have concern that our Industries may be conducted with such for justice and fair dealing that the workman will feel himself Induced to put forth his best efforts, that the employer'will have an encouraging profit and that the public win not suffer at the hands of either classi Hopes 'to Lay Foundation. "It is my hope that this conference may lay the foundation for the development of standards and machinery within our Industries by which these results may be attained. “It Is not expected that you will deal directly with any condition which exists today, but that you may be fortunate enough to find such ways as will avoid the repetition of these deplorable conditions. “The conference will meet at a place to be hereafter designated In this city on the first of December next”