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Show FRANK P. WALSH, counsel coun-sel for the employees of the meat packers, who is trying try-ing to bring about arbitra-I arbitra-I tion. ?v A J " fa ' - ' J&r I W IL ft xv" MAY PUT DISPUTE . UP TOlEfflT Counsel for Packing House Employees Determined to Force a Decision. WASHINGTON, Jan. 23. Representatives Representa-tives of the union packing house workers awaited tonight an answer to their request re-quest for a conference with the packers, submitted today to the president's mediation media-tion commission. The commission planned to transmit the request tomorrow, and in the meantime tho packers and their counsel coun-sel would not comment upon the development. develop-ment. Spokesmen of the men said if tlie conference con-ference were refused a final effort would he made to obtain arbitration under the agreement sigWd Christmas day and failing fail-ing that, they would feel they had done everything possible to avert "a cessation of production. What will happen then will depend on the president, to whom, the labor representatives have suggested that the government tako over tlie plants during dur-ing the war. Frank P. Walsh, counsel for the men, and John Fitzpatrick, president of the Chicago Chi-cago Federation of Labor, and tlie other union leaders had a long conference with the mediation commission this afternoon. They reaffirmed their readiness to have the questions settled by an impartial arbitrator ar-bitrator and declared they desired the arbitration to include only the original demands de-mands presented for settlement under the agreement signed last month, which is alleged al-leged to have been broken by the packers. |