Show MEDIATION by col B boter editor the manufacture and industrial news bureau salem ore city and district with large lumber paper fruit and woolen mill industries has become a community questions of wages working hours blousing and sanitary conditions affecting labor are settled by voluntary mediation the city and district comprises about thirty thousand population and has rural and city industries labor unions and loggers legion this system was accepted by the federation of labor selecting three representatives of labor and the employers selecting three these six serving without pay deal with any matter voluntarily brought before them by consent of both labor and employing interests their findings after full hearing by argument and presentation of all abo facts are binding on both sides but subject to appeal in case of a deadlock a seventh man Is chosen unanimously and then a majority decides all decisions being by secret ballot this system obviates settlement by any political interference on the part of state or national wage boards or arbitration bodies the system known as voluntary mediation is being established in great britain and is growing fast in this country it is inexpensive |