Salt Lake Telegram | 1934-07-17 | Page 2 | Mediators Fly to West Coast

l I MEDIATORS FLY TO lOWEST WEST COAST Wagner and Donaghue Are Silent on Plans During During Dur Our ing Stay in S. S SL L. L Were We're willing to do anything be anything be mediators arbitrators br or r even messenger mes mes- enger senser boys boys In in order to settle the theP P Pacific coast strike speedily Thus briefly did two of ot Uncle Sams Sam's labor mediators Senator Robert Robert Robrt Rob- Rob ert rt F Wh Wagner ner of New York and P. P A A. Donaghue chief examiner of ot the new national labor reference board state their heir positions position as they stopped briefly lit in n Salt Lake City Tuesday afternoon en n route to Portland Ore and aop San Francisco Further than that they declined to discuss their plans I l have come cOlne west to h help lp in set ling labor troubles trouble not make speeches peeches to o discuss plans before I arrive on the he ground said Senator Wagner lIe He Ic was en route to Portland What I do in S San an Francisco depends depends de do- on the developments after I reach each there and the wishes of ot the mediation bo board appointed by President dent Roosevelt to function there I Ivill will vill work in cooperation with this board Mr Donaghue explained Salt Lake City was the parting of the he ways for the two federal officials as 13 they sped across the continent Senator Wagner left for Portland where a general strike is impending and ind Mr Donaghue continued toward San Francisco where the general strike has tied up the entire bay area They are traveling via United Air Lines Both men saw in the labor unrest sweeping weeping the country the traditional accompaniment of ot recovery from de de- de Always It as prosperity has returned re- re turned to America after a business decline history shows that strikes have lave broken out said Senator Wag Wag- nero ncr Labor no doubt feels that it is not sharing as it should in the grow grow- growing ing In prosperity and strikes follow tollow Both men declined to comment on the advisability of ot using national guardsmen in settling labor ties ies Back of ot the senator is a long lisl list of ot successful labor trouble media lions Called back from Europe last August he headed the N R A laboi board until it was dissolved witt with passage of ot the labor bill substituted for tor the Wagner measure by congress Mr Donaghue returned to Wash Washington Washington Washington ington D. D C C. last Friday after aUer playing playing play play- ing an Important role in settlement of ot the troublesome Milwaukee street railway troubles He lie was not allowed to rest for lor long however and Monday Monday Mon Mon- day started for tor the Pacific coast