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Show AIM TO COMI ALL ORGANIZATIONS Of IAN LINES Arbitration and not strikes will be the keynote ef a convention to be held In this city June i next, and will b attended at-tended by neerty W representatives of machinists, bollermalcere, blacksmiths, coppersmiths, tinsmiths and car and airmen air-men of the Himman system. A preliminary prelimi-nary meeting was held la Sacramento last March, at which It was decided that the general meet ins; should be held. In this city on Juno ft. The meeting will likely last a week. John J. Suthons, fraud lodge deputy of the Brotherhood of Railway -Carmen of America, Is In this dty to arrange for the Juno convention. In discussing the purooeee of the convention this moraine: Mr. Suthons said: "The purpose of this meeting will bo , to get the various crafts tog-ether. In the past one craft has gone out on a strike, ; or walkout, and haa not received the sup- j port of the other crafts. Too often the craft that haa gone out had little reason for Its action. The matter could have been settled had It been arbitrated. "The purpose of the June meeting; In this city will be to get all the men together, to-gether, that when a Just complaint Is made, and the railroad or any other company com-pany refuses to recognise It. the other members will be behind them In their light. One of the big objects of the meeting meet-ing with be to so organise that when a craft haa a complaint It will submit It to the local officers. If they cannot adjust ad-just It. It will be submitted to higher officers of-ficers of the organisation. "These officers will try In their turn to arbitrate the matter, and If they fall, a general strike of all of the crafts will be called. "Personally I feel that 90 per cent of the labor troubles can be settled by arbitration, arbi-tration, and the sooner that capital and labor come to understand this fact, the better It wlU be for both." |