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Show BROTHERHOODS TO OPPOSE WILSON'S PROPOSED PLANS By International News Service. 1 WASHINGTON. Dec. 5. The four big railroad brotherhoods are preparing to submit to congress and to the president a plan for the settlement of disputes between be-tween the railroads and their employees which will do away with the objectionable "compulsory arbitration" feature of the president's recommendation to congress today. The legislation urged bv President Wilson would force all employees to remain re-main at work during investigation of the causes of their disputes with their employers em-ployers and until settlement short of' strikes or lockouts had been attempted. I In fighting the "compulsory arbitra-1 ' linn" fen f; t e of the r r'-fid en '' h recorci -j lot-i.d itK.n in"- A m-r. ;ci -Vi r iiion f ! I.al.'.r v. :!! .in hinds v.lrii broiher-1 broiher-1 hoods. S:timi"l fioriiprrs de'darM hi or-itizat or-itizat ion w.-.n pn- a.i .-d to 'Tt-MSt. ev-rv :i ;. ttoi.pt. to Imios: in", olunrary scrvlt u'.i upon our p'-of'----" It is und-r - rood (hut t he phin under cni.hidf-iaMon rrnvi.IcK ih.it at't-r the rai.-ro rai.-ro id i-nit -y ' lt1c aiT-tiS hive bf-'-n S'ib-!iiltn:d S'ib-!iiltn:d to Lrit- r;iilio;id ui'.ws tiie ni.'-n sc.;il re.-na.n at work durir; 4 a sr.irciri'-d lime, whtb: the d.-mands a: under eon-fid-i-atlon, and during tr,at time no strike uill i,e i-all-d, and tun railroads will he bound hy law a.'iiri.-U organizing a lockout, lock-out, during the period of in vrstif.a tion. If at the end or this peiiod the rat!-roiids rat!-roiids and mMi ar unable to come to a working aremnt, tiien hoth are free to attempt to enforce thf-lr demands without with-out further legal restrictions. |