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Show AFL-CIOPEACE PARLEY OPENS WASHINGTON. Oct M (UP-Representatlves (UP-Representatlves of the Committee fcr Industrial Organisation and the American Federation of Labor, seeking u bring peace In their two-year labor war, today successful! success-ful! negotiated preliminary barriers bar-riers to discussions and agreed to meet again thla afternoon. The three A F L delegates, spokesmen spokes-men for I.6O0.0O0 organised workers, and 10 representatives of the CIO who claimed to apeak for 1.700,000 members, said they decided upon procedure to be followed la their peace conference during a cloeed morning session. Emsrgtnf from the three-room hotel suite where the opening discussions dis-cussions took place, George M. Harrison, Har-rison, leader of the federation delegation, dele-gation, and Philip Murray, chairman chair-man of the CIO ronfereeea, collaborated collab-orated In a joint statement. They aMd: "We spent the morning discussing discuss-ing the procedure which will be followed fol-lowed and wa will meet again. "We are not lying to you. That's straight. Wa only held a general discussion of matters of procedure. "By thla we mean we discussed the procedure to bo followed In this conference. Maybe we will have some newa thla afternoon." The statement was made by Harrison Har-rison but Murray told reporters it could bo considered a joint statement. state-ment. Harrison waa asked whether by the "procedure" It waa meant "procedure "pro-cedure to bo followed at a proposed unit conference of larger delegations delega-tions from both groups." He refused to reply specifically. Murray and Harrlaon apparently presided jointly over the first conference. con-ference. On tho basis of the joint statement. state-ment. It appeared that tho first rough outlinsa of ths reconciliation problems confronting tha conference confer-ence had been explored, and first direct atepa toward settlement of labor's war could begin when the conference reconvenes later today. |