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Show WALSH FORESEES EIGHUfi DAY Labor Board Chairman Says Decision Is Basis of Future Rulings. NOT YORK, Sept. 18. The general application of the principlo of a basic eight-hour day by the war labor board In settling all future working hour disputes dis-putes was forecast here tonight by Frank P. VVhI.sIi, joint chairman of the board, in announcing the decision of Chief Justice Jus-tice Walter Clark of North Carolina, umpire um-pire apopintod by the board to settle a working dispute between the Molders' union and the Wheeling Molders & Foundry Foun-dry rompnnv of Wheeling, W. Va. justice Clark's decision, which becomes automatically the ruling of the war labor hoard, directed that In the future molders mold-ers should be required to work more than eight hours a day "only when an emergency exists," and directed appointment appoint-ment of a permanent committee of four to decide when an emergency actually exists. In announcing the decision. Mr. Walsh said it will serve "as a strong precedent In the adjudication by the war labor board of future controversies involving the question of the length of the working work-ing day." According to Mr. Walsh, there are 300 such cases pending. Justice Clark is the first umpire chosen by the war labor board for adjudication of a controversy which could not be settled set-tled unanimously by the board. |