Salt Lake Tribune | 1911-03-02 | Page 2 | Arbitration Work is No Longer Desirable

I ARBITRATION WORK IS NO LONGER DESIRABLE Interstate Commerce Commission Asks to Be Relieved of Responsibility Under Erdman Act. WASHINGTON, March L In the view of the Interstate commerce commission, its connection, through the chairman of the body, with mediation and arbitration proceedings under the Erdman act. no longer Is desirable, Chairman Clements presented the matter mat-ter to President Taft and uigod him to recommend an amendment to the Erdman act providing that no member of the Interstate In-terstate commerce commission should bo charged ivltli tho responsibility of a mo-. mo-. dlator In wage disputes. Under the existing law the chairman of the commission and the commissioners of labor arn cx-offlclo members of tho i board of mediation, i At the suggestion of President Taft an nmondment to 'ho infant law was Incorporated In-corporated in the ponding sundry civil ' appropriation bill, but it was eliminated i by the house on a nolnt of order, as new legislation. An effort will be made to ) make a similar amendment to the measure meas-ure In the senate.