Show LABOR BOARD TO EXPEDITE K M ALL BUILDING r Chief C Deli Delay Dclay Is Caused by byj b t j H Dispute Among knoll 0 1 Wage Vac c w rl J Earners Claim Y New cw York Jan 2 Ninety five P per peri i of or the strokes strikes and anel 75 per c cent nt ot of thc thc days of or Idleness In tho the building trades In n the tho past have ha occurred through h what Is known n as snowIng snOWIng snow Ing or controversies enles between w wage wage- ee erners e- e earners e themselves as to which witch trade trado Franklin T. T should do the work says lIts Miller president of oC the F. F W. W Dodge company and formerly director of or the of or public works and of or the United States department or of labor Only 5 S per pel cent he declares have hav H been en on questions question between emu em- em u ci w ploy plo plover er and tt rr Mr Ir Miller who ho has been In touch with a the construction Industry In this country for Cor five yo re year irs cited the case of or a bit big Chicago o hoe hoA ho cl 1 costing millions the work on which had been delayed he said more than a year be- be because because cause cause of a n disagreement between the skilled workers worker ns as to who vho should handie handle han- han dic die dle certain doors d rs b because ot of the preponderance preponderance pre pre- of or metal over oer wood This he he said was an Inevitable consequence of oC the rapid development de of the en- en n- n the situation and Analyzing f the building outlook for lOr 1920 Mr 11 ler said t t noart IK J Solution So lion it j The cre creation of oC a board of or award lJ by the United d States de department department de- de nt of ot labor a board composed of architects engineers contractors material men and wage earners prom- prom a I Is s solution of ot one of oC the most difficult dif dlf- labor Jabor problems In the building Industry As a result o of It It decreased cost of ot construction mn may be bo expected The board of ot Jurisdictional award has been been formulated with the full tull approval al ai of Ml all Interests concerned who ho seem ato to have ha entered Into It without r reser seem r- r atlon Th The lallor In the Industry thus promises a n condition of greater reater stability durin during the coming coming year because of the organized deal dealing nr S 'S wit between employers arid and full fun recognition of ot the the- term contract and arbitration principles Tho The first serious labor troubles In to Inthe the tho build building In Industry said Mr Miller Miller In reviewing re tho the national construction shortage occurred In the latter part art artof of or October 1918 through a strike of or carpenters on government work in In Brooklyn In violation of or the Baker Baker- Gompers a agreement a n. pact between the war department and the American Federation of or Labor TI This strike was settled by b a tit tit- compromise com com- promise early In March 1919 9 but In Inthe Inthe the meantime It threatened a 1 sympathetic sympathetic wide nation-wide strike of oC the building building build build- ing tr trades des and held up construction not only In New ew York but made It Other uncertain un un- certain throughout tho the land Other labor Jabor troubles sprang up throughout tho the country countr notably in Chicago where whore the whole building trade was wa 3 tied up from July Jul to September 1919 Since then conditions have Improved improved improved Im im- im- im proved but there would ouM not not be be complete complete com com- harmony harmon In the building building- industry y he indicated until the federal board of ot Jurisdictional award n began beban to unction unc- unc tion From April 1919 to last July the war department through h Col Cot Arthur ArthurI Woods as special assistant to the secretary secretary secretary sec sec- of or war tear engaged In tho active e I promotion of ot public works in order to provide jobs Job f for returning soldiers concluded Mr Ir Miller Then en It ap appeared ap- ap pea red that there would not bo be sufficient clent labor Jabor materials and capital for tor forthe forthe the necessary now new construction of or the te country The promotion of or nonproductive pro non-pro- o public works was WM abandoned The federal reserve reser board early In December 1919 announced Its purpose purpose pur pur- pose pOISe of postponing the erection of Its contemplated banking institutions I The These e are nrc are the factors In tho the present situation |