UN General Assembly
1965

83. For this reason we welcome the initiative of the United Kingdom in introducing an agenda item on the peaceful settlement of disputes [A/5964]. The United States will eagerly participate in exploring the many paths it may open. 84. It is, if I may say so, an item in which I take a keen personal interest, for the greater part of my adult life has been spent in intimate association with the process of third-party settlement of the differences and disputes which arise between a free labour movement and free employers. I have often seen disagreements become aggravated or prolonged not because they were irreconcilable, but simply because the parties involved could not agree upon the go-between. And we in our own country have now developed machinery, such as the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service, which has filled this gap and in so doing has greatly advanced the pacific settlement of labour disputes in our own country.