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Show ARBITRATION IN TIE II STRIKE May Be Resorted to If Conciliatory Con-ciliatory Efforts Are Not Successful. Washington, Aug. 6. Information reaching Washington from New York indicates that the committee of rall-wav rall-wav managers of tho 225 railroad systems sys-tems In the United States and the representatives of the engineers, firemen, fire-men, rainmen and conductors are unlikely un-likely to effect a direct settlement of differences and hat the federal board of mediation and conciliation will have to intervene. It is believed here that Wedensday will be the crucial day and the members mem-bers of the mediation board, all of whom will be In New York at the time, will make a formal tender of their good offices them If neither side shall have requested their services. Somo doubt was expressed today over the success of mediatory efforts by tho board and it was said that In the event of failure by the conciliators to bring the employees and the roads together arbitration of the controversy controv-ersy will be urged upon both parties by Wilson. Will Accept Arbitration. It was asserted In an authoritative quarter that the railway brotherhoods In caso of irreconcilable disagreement with the managers, will appeal to the board of mediation and conciliation to interveno, and that should such friond-ly friond-ly intervention also fail the brotherhoods brother-hoods will accept arbitration if proposed pro-posed by President Wilson. It was considered certain that the railroad managers would not refuse to arbitrate, as they have advocated such a course from the beginning. If the issue comes to that point the arbitration will take place under the provisions of the federal act providing for mediation, conciliation and arbitration arbitra-tion between common carriers and their employees. This act provides for the creation of an arbitral board of three to six persons. per-sons. The railroad managers and the employees each would name one conciliator con-ciliator who would choose the third if the board is to be composed of three members; and, If six, each would select se-lect two members, and should they fail to agroo upon the third, or two mebmres of the board, the appointment appoint-ment would be made by the board of mediation and conciliation. Provisions of Law. The law provides that an agreement to arbitrate: 1. Shall be in writing. 2. Shall stipulate that the arbitration arbitra-tion is had under the provisions o the federal law. 3. Shall state whether the board ot arbitration is to consist of three or six members. 4. Shall be signed by duly accredited accred-ited representatives of the employers and of the employees. 5. Shall state specifically the questions ques-tions to be submitted to the board for decision. 6 Shall stipulate that a majority of the board shall bo competent to make a valid and binding award. 7. Shall fix a period from the date of appointmentOf arbitrator or arbitrators arbi-trators necessary to complete the board, within which the board shall commence its hearings. S. Shall fix a period from the be ginning of the hearings within which the board shall make and file its awards, provided that this period shall be thirty days unless a different period be agreed to. Time to Be Fixed. 0. Shall provide for the date from which the award shall become effective effec-tive and shall fix the period during which the award shall continue in force. 10. Shall provide the respective parties to the award will faithfully execute it 11. Shall provide that the award and the papers and proceedings, including in-cluding the testimony certified under the hands of the arbitrators and which shall have tho force and effect of a bill of exceptions, Bhall be filed In the clerk's office of the district court of the United States, In this instance in-stance in New York City, and shall be final and conclusive upon the roads and employees unless set aside for error to law apparent on the record. 12,. May also provide that any differences dif-ferences arising as to the meaning or application of the provisions arbitrators arbitra-tors award shall be referred back to the board or to a sub-committee of tho board for a ruling, which ruling shall have the same force and effect as the original award. Speeches at Maes Meeting. Dudley Field Malone, collector of tho port; Frank P. Walsh, chairman of the committee on Industrial relations, rela-tions, and several officials of the brotherhoods nddressed mass meetings meet-ings here tonight In favor of the eight-hour day. The meeting was attended at-tended by more than 600 chairmen of tho adjustment committees representing repre-senting workers on all the country's railroads. Mr. Malone declared the railroad operators should realize that "stupid lack of economic vision In handling this problem will do more to an agitation agi-tation for government ownership of railroads than anything the advocates of government ownership could accomplish." ac-complish." He added: "Tho railroad companies said that $1,500,000,000 represented the wages nnJH in pmnlnvPM on fhft rallrnoHo in America, but they fail to tell the public that there are 1,800,000 employee, em-ployee, which means that each man gets about $833 a year, which in these days of economic strees Is not a living liv-ing wage." s Decline to Talk. New York, Aug. 6. Officials of the four railroad brotherhoods who-arc who-arc in tills city to attend the conference confer-ence of managers here next Tuesday and inform them of the result of the vote of tho 400,000 workers, which is reported to be overwhelmingly in favor fa-vor of a strike on 225 railroads unless their demands for an eight-hour day and time and a half for over time are granted, declined tonight to make any statement that might indicate their future course. Timothy Shea, one of the brotherhood brother-hood leaders, who is superintending the count of the ballots, said tonight the canvas is not yet complete, but that the entire vote will be counted before Tuesday, W. G. Lee, president of the Brother-hood"ofRaUroaVErainmoa, Brother-hood"ofRaUroaVErainmoa, said he would have no statement to make until after the result of the vote had been laid before the railroad officials. |