Show COMMISSION HEARS FROM GOMPERS Labor Leader Indorses in Ma Main n Plan for fOt Insuring Railroad Rail Rail- road By lly Associated Press Washington D. D C. C Nov r 7 Some Sonic of oC the difficulties lIkel likely to be bo encountered ten d In the administration of oC the tho proposed proposed 1110 pro pro- posed workmen's compensation w V ww w were emphasized today when hen President of C the American Federation of oC Labor took Issue with members of oC tho employers employers' liability l and antI workmen's compensation commission regarding the awarding tribunal to bo be created create Mr Gompers In the main Indorsed the commissioners commissioners' plan for Cor Insuring railroad a against accident but when he took up the question of oC ad administration administration all all- ministration he lie advanced all a theory theor that did not meet the approval al of oC sone Ofle orthe cf or the tho commission lon Ho Insisted that the tribunal should consist rf t three i.-em- i. bers one oC whom should represent the employers and another r the while the lie third should bo ho a ph clan of standing st chosen by the other two The commission has no not noi formulated a n provision pro covering this important I part of oC the law Ia but S Senator Suther Sutherland land JantI and antI Representative o Moon Indicate a decided leaning toward the tho selection tion of or awards hoards boards b by the federal cou courts Mr Sutherland pointed t out that Mr Gompers' Gompers plan would be In effect a system of or arbitration He said aid tho lie third man of the board would b be the arbiter while the lie other wo vo would b be bd mere attorneys attorney for the two sides Mr Gompers would not agree that any one man should have ha the selection of oC arbiters To conf confer r this authority on the courts Is equivalent to saying that the lie courts are arc not governed go b by politics and anol anolI 1 I am not riot sure that this Is 15 always the caSt case he lie said Ho lie hastened to add that he did not ot believe that as a 0 rule the courts were prompted b by Improper motives but said that the environment cn and education education tion of most Judges were such as to render them Incapable of correctly de determining do- do t questions affecting IndustrIal Industrial Industrial Indus Indus- trial life JI Jr E. E Core chairman of or tho the Joint board of oC the eastern Pennsylvania lines for the Brotherhood of oC Locomotive Locomotive tive U Firemen and urged that th tho entire burden of oC damages be borne horne b by the railroads This he conceded conceded con con- ceded would force an Increase of OC railroad railroad rail rall- road rates In the end therefore the tho responsibility would woul fall on the public where according to his theory theor It rl rightfully belonged Speaking for men President W. W G. G Lee of oC the Brotherhood of Railway Rail flail wa way Trainmen urged etI the lie abandonment of all ideas of oC lump sum payments sayIn sayIng saying say- say In Ing that in a large larg-e majority of cases the money was oon soon spent with the re result re- re suit sult that In man many cases the Injured became a public charge char |