Show WILSON STANDS ba WAR LABOR 80 WILL SEE THAT RECOMMEND recommends A A IN telegraphers H cac ARE CARRIED OU OUT IT in letter to telegraph heads the ih president gives them to u understand that they must comply nil 2 the requests of the board washington evidence that 1 pro re 5 1 ja dent wilson intends to see c unit that ti recommendations of the national W labor board are arc followed out to t tji letter was seen friday in tile the text test 01 i his communication to tile heads lend s of tho the wo two great telegraph colip companies allies that they accept the boards h in their controversy with their eul plo 1 the fact that the president deritt had peer p taken up the easy becat became known june jim 14 with the anno announcement uneL jentof of clarence n H mackay president of the postal telegraph cable company that his company would valve nake its right to discharge men nho have hare joined a union the war labor boards decision in the case was that the men should be permitted to join unions the presidents letter to the telegraph heads reads my attention has been called to the fact that the national war labor board after a careful consideration of the questions at issue between the t telegraph companies and their en em 1 plo have aniced at a decision the essential points of 0 which are ein braced in the following I 1 I 1 1 the tha employees have a right to i join aurlon a union if they so desire and men discharged for joining the union should be reinstated 2 IQ the ie company should not be required to deal with the union or to recognize it 3 committees of employees should be recognized in presenting grievances 4 where employees and employers fall to agree the question in dispute should be determined by the national war labor board 5 the telegraphers union should not initiate strikers or permit its members to initiate them but should submit all grievances to the national war labor board 1 I am informed that the representatives of the union are willing to al accept this decision but that the representatives senta tives of the telegraph companies have bare not accepted it may I 1 not say that in my judgment it is imperatively necessary in the national interest that decisions of the national war labor board should be at accepted by both parties to labor disputes to fall fail to accept them Is to jeopardize the interests of the nation very seriously because it constitutes a rejection of the instrumentality set up by the government itself for the tha determination of labor disputes set up with a sincere desire to arrive at justice in every case and with the tx express purpose of safeguarding the action against labor difficulties during the continuation of the present war all these circumstances being takes taken into consideration I 1 do not hesitate to say that it is a patriotic duty to operate cooperate co in this all important mat fer with the government by the we use of the instrumentality which the gov lorn lern ment has set up 1 I therefore write to ask that I 1 may have your earnest operation cooperation co in tills this matter as in all others and that you wW will set an example to the other employer 5 of tile country by a prompt and cordial acquiescence |