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Show . APPOINT BOARD TO DISPUTES 1 a . ' ' ; McAdoo Announces Plan to . Have Jurisdiction of Employment. WAHHINOTON, Nov. W.-Kmploy. mnt illaputra Involving- railroad toleB-raphrrs. wHchmen, clvrka and maintnanr of way men horcaftw will b adjusted by a new railroad J administration board of adjustment, j "No, I," establishment of which wa; announced today by Director General 1 McAdoo. Thla body, consisting of four representatives appointed by the 1 regional directors and one each by the Order of Railroad Telesraphera, Switchmen's union. Brotherhood of Railway Clerka and United Brotherhood Brother-hood of Maintenance f Way Km- j ployea. will pass only on dispute over i Interpretation of contracts of the employes. If the employes and railroad executives are unable to airree. Its functions are similar to those of pre-vteyely pre-vteyely org an I led boards at adjuat. ment for the four trainmen's brotherhoods brother-hoods and for shop employe. Mem be re will be named soon. The director general vlso authorised the railroad administration's division of labor, directed by W. B. Carter, to consider dispute Involving employment employ-ment conditions, but not waves for smployes of tha American Railway Express company. This was prompted by sporadic etrtkea of expressmen In the Bouth after discharge of certain employes. The director general referred to A former order specifying; that no discrimination dis-crimination may be mads against railroad employes on account of membership mem-bership In unions, and explained that thla applies to express, employes. Disputes arc to be referred to the railroad administration's division of labor only after employes' organisations organisa-tions and the chief operating officer of the ex pree company have failed to agree. Wage matters will continue to be handled exclusively by the board of -rati road wages and working con-, l.tlnnai |