Show UNION LABOR AND LAWYERS JOINING HANDS HANDSON ON PROBLEMS Better Handling of Labor La ol Dispute Expected to Follow WARMER RELATIONS President of Bar Bai Reports On Conference Between Be Be- Between tween Groups BUFFALO N. N Y Y Aug 31 By By ByThe The Associated Press Hope Hope that re recent re- re recent recent cent conferences between represents represents- Lives ives of the American Bar association and the American Federation of Labor may bring about legislation that will permit Interstate commerce labor dis dis- disputes disputes to be settled by modern mth ds was expressed today by Charle Charle- S. S Whitman president of ot the association In n his annual address at the open- open openIng openIng openIng Ing ot of the time associations association's annual con con- The former lormer governor ot at New York ork declared It his belief that nothing on the horizon ot 01 federal legislation of offers of- of fers greater promise than these con conferences con con- PROGRESS REPORTED These Mr Whitman said were initiated by an Invitation which I 1 extended to Mr William Wilham Green president ot at the American Federation of Labor at its convention at Detroit in October 1926 to appoint a committee to operate co-operate with this associations association's committee on commerce in drafting legislation leg on lines JInes laid own clown in that committees committee's report in 1926 This report dealt with the matter of federal legislation in the field o of adjusting industrial controversies The lve council of the time American n Federation of or Labor expressed its con con- concurrence currence the establishment bJ In the tr recommendation of jo cordial JI JIa a relations f tI for forthe forthe between the two organizations MODERN METHODS This conference which brought brough the members of the two committees to New York from widely scattered l points took up the problem which simply stated Is the settlement of In Industrial In- In IndustrIal disputes affecting or relating to interstate te commerce by modern methods methods methods-methods methods to which lawyers lawyer can give hearty assent |