Show o VOLUNTARY ARBITRATION IABOR LEADERS FAVOR THIS PLAN OP SETTLING DISPUTES Lively Skirmish Between Samuel Gompers of American Federation and H W Lusk of New Zealand Chicago Dec l8The conference on arbitration and conciliation was enlivened enliv-ened during the day by a debate between be-tween Samuel Gompers president of the American Federation of Labor and Hugh II Lusk exmember of Parliament Parlia-ment of New Zealand The venerable New Zealander during the forenoon turned aside from his prepared address to express displeasure at a declaration made by Mr Gompers In his address last night The labor leader on the occasion oc-casion mentioned asserted that he wanted to see labor organizations retain re-tain tho privilege of striking when I they pleased or merely because they Pleased That is I not liberty cried f Lusk I Is license At this moment Mr Gompers entered en-tered The speaker continued Mr Gompers wants conciliation and he says you can never have any conciliation concilia-tion unless you are ready to cut one anothers throats Well If that is the unfortunate condition of the people of America J 1 am sorry for them We are not so anxious to cut one anothers throats where I came from I wish Mr Campers had taken the trouble to find out what our compulsory arbitration law is before ho told you about I But a he has not I am obliged to do i for him During the afternoon Mr Gompers reiterated his assertions of the night previous We aSeltons he declared clutch each others throats unnecessarily unneces-sarily iJitj I would rather have the light l tolutch at a mans throat than to have my arms amputated The compulsory labor Jaw Is equivalent to the amputation referred to I want labor la-bor to have the ntrength of a giant but to use that strength gently were Following this two speeches tandulched In and then Mr Lusk again j secured the floor He explained ut d length tho workings oC the compulsory q or the arbitration law of New Zealand generally looking at the labor prusl dent donlYou You would cut my arms off In your woul country said Mr Gompers speaking from his scat I you were good we would not amputate am-putate your J00c replied the Now Zealander But we might enlarge your head A lively exchange of questions and answers which bewildered the audience audi-ence followed Mr Lusk explained luring the progress of a labor dispute between omnlovcr and his unionized employes neither l could under penalty change the conditions which caused the appeal to the arbitration court The hearing during which neither side hud tli action gen thf right to Independent aelon Sen erally lasted about a month 4 Id rather be at swords points In America and Independent than to surrender sur-render my right to strike for one mln ute shouted Mr GomperB And with that he left the hall Aside from the skirmishes between these two men and they took up con olderable time there were numerous tme thcte cpccches all favoring voluntary arbitration arbi-tration Even Mr Luek declared that America arbitration was n < H ready for compulsory The resolutions whSph wore adopted 1 without debate lecoLni j hI pf I hA J 1 compulsory arbitration aside from all other objections urged against lls i not at this time a question of practical practi-cal industrial reform and that such systems as are now In vogue do not seem to fully meet the requirements of the different interests The resolutions further recommend that the presiding officer of the confer once appoint a committee to serve for one year to be composed of six representatives repre-sentatives of the employer class and six of the employee class for the purpose pur-pose of formulating some plan of action ac-tion looking to the establishment of a general system of conciliation that will promote industrial peace Chairman MacVcagh appointed as members of the committee for one year the same gentlemen who constituted the resolutions committee I |