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Show SAMUEL H. 150TSFORI), third national vice president presi-dent International Kotary chilis, a speaker at yester-i yester-i day's conference. ii r ' M X III! x ,v j ill n - . . -. yvsi-'- v. ' , ,i ;i l 1 ll I'l v : v i s A , v v I I 'i A ' j ' ! N I! II " 4 11 CARPENTERS SPLIT m mm Head of Organization Insists In-sists on Enforcement of Closed Shop. WASHINGTON. Feb. 1?. Although the strikes of caj-pentcrs in t-atcrn shipyards were at an end today after intervention by President Wilson, the government and carpenters brotherhood leaders apparently apparent-ly were far apaxt tonight on arrangements arrange-ments to prevent future trouble. William I Hutcheson, president of the brotherhood, at a conference with Chairman Chair-man Hurley of the shipping board, Charles. Fiex, general manager of the emergency fieet corporation ; Samuel Gompers and members of the shipbuilding labor adjustment adjust-ment insisted the closed -shop principle should be enforced and declined to leave lha question to the decision of the adjustment ad-justment board. A further conference between Hutche-son Hutche-son and hi aid'y will be htM tomorrow with the adjustment board, at which shipping board officials said tonight they vere hopeful a satisfactory conclusion w.iuld he reached. Hutcheson Insisted tonight that before the government held the. carpenters to the open-shop principle. It should take over all shipyards and eliminate profit taking by private interests. If this were done, he said, the carpenters would be j willing to work on any terms the gov-1 gov-1 ernnient might prescribe. "On every $ U'C- paid the carpenters ! bv shipvard?," said Huicheson, "the shipyards ship-yards themselves take $7. That is what , the carpenters object to. The strikes are over, but the question itself Is not set-tied. set-tied. Tiie carpenters Insist that tbe-y have tiie riffht to choose the men with whom they phall work. The employer is taking advantage of the situation to try to crush the labor unions. "We are not fighting the government and we a re not trying to obstruct the shipbuilding programme, but we are fighting" fight-ing" the shipbuilder. If the government would take over the yard? the question would settle itself." ! The fact that other union heads have ' agreed to leave the settlement of all dif-. dif-. ferences to the adjustment board was , pointed out at tiie conference, but Hutche-son Hutche-son declared he had no authority to sign anv such an arrangement for the carpenters carpen-ters 1: it would take from them their constitutional con-stitutional right?. |