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Show ILOW FAVORS THE FIREMEN Believes Arbitration By Erdman Act to Be Proper Method New York, Jan 28 The firemen of the eastern railroads, fighting for higher wages, received the support of Scth l.ow president of the National Na-tional Civic Federation In his speech today at the opening of the federation federa-tion s annual meeting In tho pending coutrocrsv he-twecn he-twecn the railroads and the fire men." said Mr Low. both sides are willing to arbitrate, but the firemen demand that the arbitration shall be by the Krdman act, so that witnesses may he sworn and )erjurv punished; while the railroads stand for an arbitration ar-bitration such as was held by agreement, agree-ment, with the engineers In this controversy i think the firemen clearly are right The report told what bad l.e.n accomplished ac-complished In the federation In im-pro; im-pro; ik the condition of workers in department stores, factories and hotels ho-tels Parker's Report Tho report of the committee on re-! re-! form in legal procedure presented by Alton U. Parker, urged the federation to oppose a Joint congressional resolution reso-lution providing for determination bj popular v ote of the question whether an unconstitutional act should stand as law when the I'nlted States supreme court declared It unconstitutional. The committee favored a senate bill making It a misdemeanor for senator!, sena-tor!, representatives or delegates to receive compensation or to act as counsel in matters where the United States might be Interested. Samuel Ciornpers, president of 'he American Federation of Labor pie-sided pie-sided at a session devoted to the discussion dis-cussion of pensions of government employes. |