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Show ifllf RULE tSSTIEIIS iing House Employees hreaten to Give Up Arbitration Plan. riGO Aug. 13.-Threata by repress repre-ss of employees to give up the ailon plan of settling labor troubles packing houses were made dur-Srlrs dur-Srlrs today of wage Increase de-n. de-n. v.fore Federal Judge Alschuler. treats followed reaffirmation by :S. Abchuler of his decision of yester-... yester-... Abcnuic struck last week fefrSority rights and return To'nToll secretary of the Stock i Labor council, stated that he n-iJ n-iJ i resigning his position and telling V"zfon to close Its doors "I fake their money when I can't de-.fe de-.fe goods." he said: "the seniority j o makes the agreement impossi- tvrm that packers had used all T In their means to crush -organic to were made by John Fltzpat- - "Lent of the Chicago Federation Ptnr He said packers had pollce-tTialled pollce-tTialled to the stockyards for this S.,.e had attempted to bring about Hots In the yards during the recent t". f. and had used underhand methods T Ll'lv to bring labor into discredit. Forney James G. Condon, representee represent-ee Pikers, denied the charges that , Llovers were in any way vlolat ng i agreement under which packing , .j, have been run during the war, - reused workers of violations when ' r.1 repeatedly went on strike. Judge " uieV stated that the agreement was I on the proposition that the men d remain at work, and warned them 1 emplovers could construe a walkout tt violation if they so desired. ., i question of seniority rule came up when complaint was made that 125 a ers at the Independent Packing com-0 com-0 who had gone on strike last week eturned to work Monday, had been arged without regard for the Benior-Ble. Benior-Ble. Tick J. Brennen, president of the Vany, stated that the men had not 5 discharged but laid off because of J of "work for them. "ce the men when they returned to were not told that they were new jTy.'ees, Judge Alschuler held that the "I r'lty rule must hold In this case and ( "'-ers last employed should be layed off , the case of Armour & Co. and Morris ., where returning employees were , i to nil out requests for employment .treated as new men, they will be re-jfj-id as such, the Judge ruled. |