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Show WMllES WAGEDEMANDS Stockyards' Employes Should Be Granted All Six of Their Pleas. CHICAGO. March 7. Urging that all six of the demands of the men be granted, Attorney Frank P. Walsh today to-day delivered his closing argument in the packers' wage arbitration. In closing the caso for the packers Attorney James G. Condon suggested that the arbitrator fix the working day for unskilled men at one hour more than for skilled labor so as to provide for the necessary clean up of the plants after killing and dressing beef. The court room was crowded with stockyards employes and their friends when Mr. Walsh began to speak. "The children of these stockyard workers are hungry because their parents cannot earn a living wage," said Mr. Walsh. "They are insufficiently insuffi-ciently clad and insufficiently shod. The workmen are making a real sacrifice sac-rifice every day. What sacrifice are the packers making comparable pith theirs?" The assumption of the packers that they have the right to fix wages, the lawyer denounced as undemocratic. He extolled the virtues of labor unions and insisted oh the right of collective bargaining for wages and conditions of service. "Capital may not know it, but it is tho labor union which is going to save their property and prevent a situation such as that which had demoralized Russia," said Mr. Walsh. "Many employers em-ployers have not the vision to see what threatens them." Mr. Walsh informed Judge Samuel Alschuler, the arbitrator, who has been a lawyer all his life, that a"n arbitrator in a labor dispute should be a man who works with his hands. Attorney Frank P. Walsh said he ' 6elieved in the settlement of labor troubles by arbitral Ion until such time as there such a perfect balance of power between capital and labor thai neither side can take advantage of the other. a |