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Show I COMB! B CONFLICTING VIEWS t Compulsory Arbitration Not Favored as a Means of Set-tling Set-tling Labor Disputes. WASHINGTON. April Settlement of iuilusiriar labor disputes by a media-tiou media-tiou and coueiliatiou board similar to tbat established uudcr tbo Rowlands act for the sOlutibu of railroad troubles -rcas advocated by representatives of cm. plovers and employees today before the United States iuduslrial commission. Conflict iag icwa v.'oro presented on the adNisablli'tv of cloth hi sr suc,h a board with the additional power of compulsory arbitration. The commission beard spoKosmcn for employers and employees of tbo printing print-ing and building trades, and of the clot hiii ir industry. Georfio L. Berry of Ten nes6oe, president presi-dent of the International Printing Pressmen Press-men and Assistants' union, advocated the signing of agreements embracing all the organizations of tbo employers and omplovces of difforent industries and including in-cluding provisions for conciliation and local ana national. arbitration. Ho fa-ored fa-ored a governmental board to act voluntarily when efforts to agree on au arbitration board fail. Difficulties between the prcssmon and assistants' union and tho United Tv-pothetac Tv-pothetac tvere describod by Albert W. Finlav of Boston, chairman of tho exceu-tivo exceu-tivo "board of tho latter organization, who argued in favor of tho "open fchop.' Newspapers employing nono but union labor, said James Si. Lynch of New Vorl. former president of the International Interna-tional Typographical union, can pro- IHHe more cncapiy i.nnn nonunion nev. papers. He described agreements between be-tween his organization and tho American Ameri-can Newspaper Publishers ' association, and said that a national wage scalo in the newspaper publishing business would be impossible unless a practical monop-olv monop-olv were established. Edward A. Crane, an architect of Philadelphia, and O.'M. Eldlitz of Now York spoke on behalf of tho employers of the building trades. Mr. Eidlitz said that both sides must be thoroughly organized to get the best results, and added that "most of tho trouble is caused bv young fellows who think thoy can beat" the game." J. T. Williams of "Washington. D. C, president of the building trades department of tho American Amer-ican Federation of Labor, and TV. .T. Spencer of Washington, D. 0., secretary and treasurer of the same organization, described successful efforts to 36 awav with jurisdictional disputes in their trades. The hearings on collective bargaining are to be concluded tomorrow" with testimony by Samuel Gompors, president of the American Federation of Labor: .1. Au. Emery, counsel of tho National Association of Manufacturers; J. E. Williams of Illinois, chairman of the grievance committee in the cloak, skirt and suit business in Now York, and W, Mackenzie King, former minister of labor of Canada, |