The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1895-01-18
.OLyLY ON ARBITRATION.
A New Measure Devised by the
Attorney General,
PREVENT STRIKES AND LOOKOUTs

by Submitting Wage Controversies 20 a !
Commission Composed of the Chairman
of the Interstate Commerce Commission
and One Representative of Each Side.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 1S.--A labor arbitra- |
tion plan has been devised by Attorney
General Olney, and was introduced yester-
day by Chairman McCann, of the house
committee on labor, and is intended as a
substitute for the one framed by Labor
Commissioner Carroll d. Wright as a re-
suit of the labors of the Chicago strike
commission. In several points the bill is
more far reaching in its propositions than
any that has been brought forward The
terms railroad and 'employe" are de
fined in the bill, and the latter class in
cludes those working on cars operated by
the carrier under lease making the car
rier responsible for their acts as though
they were employed directly by him. The
wages paid to employees, it is stipulated,
| shall be reasonable and just.
In case of wage controversies the chair
man of the interstate commerce commits
| sion and the commissioner of labor are to
communicate with the parties endeavOr-
| ing to effect an amicable settlement, and
| If this mediation fails the controversy may
| be submitted to a board of arbitration of
which the chairman of the Interstate com
merce commission shall be chairman, and
which shall consist also of one commits
siOner chosen by the employer and one by
| the labor organization to which the em-
ployes interested belong Where two or
more classes of employees are interested
their organizations shall agree upon their
representative.
Other features are: The parties shall
stipulate in writing, that pending the ar
bitration, the existing status shall not be
changed. The award shall be final unless
set aside for error of law apparent on the
record. The parties shall faithfully exc
cute it, and it may be enforced in equity
so far as the powers of a court of equity
permit. Employees dissatisfied with the
award shall not quit work without three
months notice in writing The award
shall be continued in force for two years,
and during that period no new arbitration
between the same parties on the same sub
| ject shall be had.
After filing the award with the clerk of
the United States circuit court of the dis
trict in which the difficulty occurs thirty
days shall be allowed for filing exceptions
in matters of law, after which it shall go
into effect if no exceptions are taken. If
they are taken it goes into force ten days
after their decision.
If an agreement of arbitration shall be
entered into by employees individually, in
stead of organizations, the board shall not
be created unless the chairman is satisfied
that they represent their associates. Dur
ing that time it will be unlawful for or
ganizations or employees to order, aid or
abet a strike or boycott, or to leave their
employment without giving thirty days
notice in writing, nor can they be dis
charged without thirty days notice, eX,
cept for causes mentioned. Violations of
this provision are made a mistlemeanor
punishable by 81 900 fine or one years i'm
prisonment.
Membership in incorporated labor or
ganizations, it is provided, shall be termi-
mated by indulgence in lawlcssness, vio-
lence destruction of property, intimtda-
ton or threats by members during strikes
but they are not to be held Individually
liable for debts of the organization.
The employees of roads managed by re
ceivers appointed by the federal court
shall have the right to De heard througi
the officers of their organizations or thei
Representatives in the courts.
Employers who make it a condition o
employment chat men snail not be Nom
bers OF any labor organization or discharg
or threaten to discharge men for sucI
membership, or discriminate against then
because of it, or enter into contracts CON
pelling the men to contribute to any fund
for charitable social or beneficial objects
or if discharging men conspire to preyen
them from obtaining employment els,
where, shall be guilty of a misdemeanol
punishable by fine Of from 500 to 81 90,
If disputes threatening to injuuousl
affect the interest Of the people of any sec
ton are not submitted to arbitration tn
attorney general is authorized to apply |
the district court for receivers for the raj
road, to take possession of the propert
and run it in the interest of the public.