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Show LABOR BOARD IS GIIMIIliE j Flat Rejection of Plan for Settling Set-tling Unrest Is Urged by Former Secretary ' WASHINGTON. April S Flat rejection rejec-tion of the plan proposed by' President Wilson's second industrial conference for tho Fettlemcnt of labor unrest was urged before the senate labor committee commit-tee today by W. Jctt Lauck. secretary of the old war labor board. Mr. Lauck was the first witness at hearings on the conference plan preliminary to the drafting of legislation lo carry into ef feet such of it as the committee may deem advisable. Mr. Lauck told the committee that the industrial unrest throughout the world was due to the fact that labor I organizations were "demanding a greater measure of conirol by labor industry," in-dustry," as well as larger earnings and shorter hours. This, he said, was due to a "new conception of democracy," requiring that the principles of political politi-cal democracy be taken into the industrial indus-trial field. The conference report, hu said, did not meet this. Tho conference likewise, he said, had failed "to use trade unionism as a basis for collective bargaining;" did not provide any principles on which to base settlements and had recommended recommend-ed regional methods of dispute settlement settle-ment rather than industrial boards in each industry. Tho "principles of the war labor board," Mr. Lauck said, should he taken as a basis for legislation legisla-tion Instead of the industrial conference confer-ence ropqrt. |