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Show RAIL EMPLOYEES WIN IN FIGHT ON ESCH BILL VOLUNTARY CONCILIATION PLAN VOTER House Rejects Compulsory Compul-sory Arbitration Provision Pro-vision in Measure by Decisive Majorities. Proposal Made by Sweet of Iowa and Approved by Employees Wins After Day of Debate. wasrduvon; Nov. h tnf nork.r oor. a compiet. victor- In il'e t.tii. y t:.n..i-!i 11 .rt.ntti.-ti ui theii lUn for xluntn' oonclllatlon of Ulr dispute. Id Ih !Uoh U'.l. Tha uvoaa ra-Jri! ra-Jri! n plan of compulaorr arbitration. Including an antlslrt.c provision, and alao the plan written Into the hill by UM liou.. tntcratate commerce committee. Wt4 '. aaa dccrlle.I aa a "tnlddlo , STOurid'- t elwarn t:iat adoptc.l and com-I com-I pulaory u toll ration No direct vote on I Ins anti.trlke proposal was taken. On hot."i voles the proponent, of the sory arbitration, and tn. I! to W, cast aside the committee plan for that lu I dorapd ly tie a-nrker. "nal action came sft.r practically the entlr. day had been devoted to di bate of t.le thre. plan., and. after adoption of the v.ork.rs' ilan, leiietsail effort, to Include In-clude an nntlstrlke provision met with I defeat through parliamentary tactics. FLAN IS APPROVED BY RAIL EMPLOYERS. The plan approved by the railroad employees, em-ployees, which wa drafted by Representative Represen-tative Sweet. Republican. Iowa, and offered of-fered In the house by Representative Anderson. An-derson. Republican. Minnesota, would legalize le-galize te machinery uaad by the railroads rail-roads and their employees before and during dur-ing federal control for the settlement of dispute, with commissions on labor disputes dis-putes ocln.? added to consider cases appealed ap-pealed from Lie Join boards that first consider them. In brief, the plan dlvl-les the railroad (Continued on Page 2, Column 4.) (UKUilf COKILMTi PLAN m (Continued From Pape One.) workers Into three rfaggtfl, and for each U establishes an adjustment hoard and an appeal ommiS8ion. No penalty AffctltSt strike or lockout Is Impound, and mem-brrsliip mem-brrsliip on all s'x of the hoards would be restricted to the workers and their employers em-ployers and divided equally between them. Both the roads and the employees would be directed by the plan, as written into the bill, "to exert every reasonable effort and adopt every available means to avoid an Interruption" of traftlc. and to this end the three hoards of adjustment would he created, those being: substantially substan-tially the same as those existing under the railroad administration. THREE ADJUSTMENT BOARDS PROPOSED. The three adjustment hoards would each deal with disputes of certain classes of t lie fourteen railway unions. One board would Include representatives of the four big brotherhoods the engineers, the firemen, the conductors and the trainman i another would Include t he machinists-, the botlermakers. the blacksmiths, the carmen, car-men, the sheet metal workers and the electrical workers; and the third would Include the telegraphers, the switchmen, railway clerks and the way and shop laborers. la-borers. Railway executives would name four, six and four representatives, respectively, respec-tively, as members of rhese boards. Corresponding to each board there also would be set up a commission to consider appeals, which could be sent to them by half of the members of a hoard. These commissions would be of the same size as t be boards, with the select method of choosing members obtaining, but with duality of membership between hoards and commissions prohibited. Headquarters of all six trlhunals will be In Washington. After determining the. machinery for adjusting labor disputes, the house became be-came Involved In a more bitter fight, centering cen-tering about extension of t he interstate commerce commission authority in regulating regu-lating car service, which was carried into the night session. Before the fight became be-came sharp, however, the house, without Objection, approved a chance hi existing commerce law so that, the interstate commerce commission may, upon Us own Initiative, compel a division of Joint mica so as not to "unduly prefer or prejudice any participating carrier." VIGOROUS OBJECTION COMES TO NOUGHT. "Short lines often refrain from making complaint against their trunk line connect con-nect Ions for fear of giving Often ," declared de-clared Chairman BiOtl, explaining the necessity ne-cessity for the change. As soon as the section proposing extension exten-sion of the interstate commerce commie plon authority over car ear vice had hecn read, several members, particularly those from Texas, sought to prevent adoption haVe the right to prescribe priorities Of shipments. Including' tho levying Of am-bargoes. am-bargoes. and. further, the commission would d eel tic on the extension or abandonment aban-donment of any railroad line, except an Intrastate one. "This MOtlOtl lets the state commissions commis-sions attend their own funerals and nothing noth-ing cine,' declared Representative Sanders, San-ders, Democrat. I .oulslana, w hile others Msserted that car shortages would become worse instead of better under Interstate commerce coin mission regulation. Denying claims of the oppontnta or the section, t'halrinan Dflcti an Id that tt 'would give the com mission tho power to direct a carrier to furnish equipment," and that benefits to shippers were certain cer-tain to result. To dispose of the section, the house remained i" session until late in tho nigh l . I -oaders plan to press final ac-llon ac-llon on the bill tomorrow night, although consideration of a new statutory rule of rate-making was expected to prodUQa a contest. : of the section. BeCgUM Of broadening the definition of "car service" ami giving the interstate commerce commtaalop complete com-plete control of trafllc movement in ;m "emergency," tho section was RttaoKfd by members as a "robbery of elate rights" which would canter "absolute" control of trafllc with the Inlcrstato commerce com-merce com mission. ICwrly In the evening session opponents of tho sect Ion scored a part lal victory when, by a vote of 8T to :t!. they forced adaption of no amendment, offered by Repreientgttlve Bwagti Etepubiloani lowaj expressly pro Idlng t Iih t stato lallrnad com missions won hi rel at n the authority, QS limited only by the state police powers, to require "Just a tul reasonable freight iuiiJ passenger service" and distribution of equipment for Intrastate truffle. "This amendment takes the vitality out of the car service act." declared Chairman Kscb, opposing the proposal of the committee. com-mittee. "It has mora strings than tho federal authority." Keep Up Their l ighi. Not content with a partial victory, opponents op-ponents of Mir "car lervloa" MOtlon, led bv the Texas delegation, sought lo eliml-ngte eliml-ngte It In Us entirety. The fight, however, how-ever, wits In vain, and as finally adopted the section gives tho luterstale commerce commission bmndei' powers than cmt-oleed cmt-oleed by the car service buroa u of tho rallrood admlnlatrtttlon. By Its terms, the jtlfladlotion Of the i interatate eomtnarca commission would include the use, coiilrol. suppl . inove- ment, dlatrlbittion. exchange and inter- change r locmnnllves and cars and also the supply, movement and operation of trains. It also would write lnh law t he Interatate commerce ommleaton rule eliminating "u saigned nara" tor coal ...i... .. r ii I. ., in., ..mi ill. i. lit.ii w .nil. I |
