| Show kalt arfi AND EMP employed LOrED the national house of Re represents presenta tives has passed a bill to arrange for the settlement of differences between the emp employers and employee emp loyes of railway lines of course sudi such a 9 measure c can affect only interstate lines and does not apply to those which do not erl extend beyond the borders of the state in which they originally operate tints thus excluding street car systems and ana it a few others jhb bill provides that mat lil 18 case of a dispute as to the hours O ot of t work conditions of employment wages or otherwise the chairman of oi mhd interstate commerce Commiss commission fon acting jointly with the commissioner of 0 labor shall on being requested by either party to the dispute to adjust the same try to do so by madi mediation fel tiou in the event of the failure of such an aid endeavor the controversy may inay then be ba settled by means of arbitration by a board consisting as usual of three persons one chosen by each part and the two thus selected to name at wild third any decision rendered by such board Is f to be accepted as a finality finali tv orr on both sides and the award to is to remain in force for the period of one year rt ft is understood that the bill contemplates a law which shall be rather experimental perl peri mental in its scope and operation than otherwise but it la Is or will be unquestionably such an experiment as A 49 justified by the times in which we lives live by its terms organized labor will receive the recognition of law and no discrimination on the part of employers as against employed emp loyes Is to toe be allowed arbitration may to some extent interfere with the lawyers business b USIA eow but we are not presumed to take that into con it is the chea cheapest lesL most direct and in the long run ran ireat mow satisfactory method of adjusting differences feren ces and it is to be hoped the blo will go through the senate and receive the presidents signature capit capital aj fw aa well a as labor agrees that some effective me means ansof of dispelling dissatisfaction 1 or at least re reducing duding it to the lowest possible limits should be devised gna nothing better than the plan proposed has as been suggested in we have as much protect toa by law for the laboring classes as ag sly asly other state can boast of a great deij more than the majority of anem naf only do our statutes conta contado dW lal all the ithe provisions contain in he bill spoken of but numerous 9 at 04 sais aa AOA 9 0 0 ano in apu am I 1 eight hours work a full day whether the work be public or in some cases private the cases referred to are work in or about mines and mining mills or smelters shelters sm elters this law had to run the complete gamut of Jud judicial ludio iclal ial process having been finally deZI declared ared valid by the supreme court of the united states many other equally good things relative to working people might be named but the foregoing will suffice |
