Arizona republican., 1903-08-15
FOUND BAD FAITH
The !. 7. u. on the North
ern Arbitration Case.
1t Is Found by the Committee That
the Publishers Themselves First
Nullified the Understanding.

Washington. Aug. 1.-THE committee
on arbitration of the Typographical
union made the following report today:
In the famous Spokane and Seattle
cases in which President Lynch is
charged by Commissioner Driscon with
violation of the arbitration agree
ment, we find after careful considera-
ton of all evidence adduced:
That the publishers precipitated the
trouble by display of bad faith in the
outset. We believe the arbitration
agreement was promulgated by honor
able men who We're unable at its in
/ ception to see the loopholes through
which an unfair publisher or union
might take advantage of it. We believe
that the apparent bad faith of the
above mentioned publishers nullified
the arbitration agreement as applied to
thCm and justified President Lynch and
the executive council to take the course
they did.
I Commissioner Drscoll and President
! Lynch agree and so does your commit
tee that the whole trouble arises over
/ the lack of a code of procedure which
shall define how any question is to be
arbitrated. We hold that this code of
procedure should be fixed only by the
parties who conceived and promulgated
/ the original arbitration agreement.
We submit that this agreement was
effected without arbitration in its popu-
| lar sense, and now that it has been dis
covered that the agreement is ineffec-
] tive without a code of procedure, we
recommend that if the agreement is
to live, its acknowledged shortcomings
shall be remedicd as above set out.
] Ne hn
agreement contemplated the arbitration
of questions of the l. 7. T.. but should
! be confined only to questions over and
beyond wage scales, the new ones pre-
posed by the dissatisfied parties. The
l. T. L. law in existence at the incep-
! tion of the arbitration agreement can
not be arbitrated for the reason that
| by referendum vote alone can it be
| receded from CT altered. The |. L. U.
constitution and bylaws like those OF
the United States government represent
| what the members of the union believe
! to be principles that cannot be arbi-
trated and their arbitration was not
! contemplated, they are necessary to
| the life of the organization and must
| be maintained
Commissioner Driscoll proposes to
arbitrate with our president the ques-
! ticn pending in Spokane and Seattle,
and to leave it to any man that they
may agree on. For the reasons adopt
| ed our committee is of the opinion that
| this cannot be done. The publishers
| demard the arbitration of matters pro-
! hibited by our laws and therein vio-
| lated the agreement putting themselves
! beyond the pale of arbitration. We as
sert that We believe in arbitration, hut
arbitration is only possible where par
ties to a dispute approach the question
! in a fair manner.
| We recommend that the convention
indorse President Lynch and the exc
cutive council in the course they have
pursued, believing that it was the only
way open when the discovery was made
that the publishers were not living w
tc the spirit of the contract
President Lynch at this point All
| swered to the charge made by Commits
sioner Driscoll. d representative Of the
Publishers association, that he and
| the executive council viola ted their
| agreement in connection with these
cases He was loudly cheered when he
| finished.
A motion to consider the report in
executive session was voted down.
After addresses by number Of the