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Show fLEN'SflON i j LABOR DISPUTES ' I V- Kansas Governor Will Address I G. 0. P. Convention Urging Judicial Settlement - CHICAGO, June A, Governor Al- - . 1 len, of Kansas, who Is to nominate General Wood, arrived today and an-I an-I nounced that he would offer a platform plat-form -plank declaring for judicial set- I tlemcnt of industrial disputes as tho ' paramount issue before the nation. f "We had thought that internation- I al questions would be the chief is- I sue," said Governor Allen, ' but" now industrial problems are our principal ; concern. I will appear before the res- : . olutions committee to ask a plank . establishing a federal tribunal to de- j ' cido Industrial controversies after ' conciliations and all other efforts have f failed. I have great hopes that such a plank will be adopted a clear dec- lnratlnn fnr m-nf not l-n nf tu. ..i.n I . i" me jjuuik; i against economic pressure of Indus- trial strife. I believe economic prea- J 1 sure is the term but it means taking ( the public by tho throat and shaking It down by a strike." p j. Effort By Labor. j Governor Allen's determination pre--sages a debate before the resolutions f committee, the American Federation of Labor having planned to send rep- 1 resentatives here to present organ- I ized labor's views. Governor Allen t .. I said he would not propose anti-strike ' i legislation like tho Cummins' rail-! rail-! road law nor demand adoption of the plan he put. through in Kins is nor any other spevific plan In.t wo.iirt ' 'demand -a declaration . of prineiii3p.-" ' rI , providing fou a pl?.i wr.roh would not ! - tako away the iiuU '.dual k rijrht to " . I cies between men to suspend industry c and also curb union leaders' powers - V. to call strikes. ; . Governor Allen had an engagement J ' ' with General Wood to Jifcuss plana I'V for presenting the genernl'? name ur.J other affairs of the Wood movement, I Final Work On Platform. ' : With the arrival today of Ogden 1 . ' t Mills, chairman of tho Republican ex- ' ecutive committee on policies ana i' platform, final conferences on u,.. ar- tides of tho Ropu.bUc.-tji platform ;o I be submitted to the convention ars i expected to begin. The-resulc-j of tho work of Mr. Mills' committee aro tc bo turned over to the lenolutlons Committee, said as the function oi the Mills' committee is purely advis-ory. advis-ory. "The nlnotccn sub-committees miV6 been at work for six months and through tho returns of more than IH 100,000 questionnaires and by other kJI moro than a million Republicans In . ovcry field of public activity and in- terest,' Mr. Hays said. IH "Full public hearings before the res-olutions res-olutions committee will, however, be held on all pertinent questions and jH Interested parties will be given an op- jH portunlty to present their views. jH William Jennings Bryan arrived y here this morning and went to tno University club, where ho mot Virgil G. Hinshaw. president of the national Prohibition aommlttoe. sent out rroni jl the Prohibition party's offico tot a conference with him. |