Putnam patriot., 1913-07-18
AVERT STRIKE
 BY PEACE PLAN
Brotherhood Leaders and Rail- road Presidents to Arbitrate
UNDER THE NEWLANDS BILL
There Will Be No Delay in Passing on Wage Demands of 100000 Train men and -Conductors-Presde
 Wilson Play Big Part.

Washington. - President Wilson helped to avert the threatened strike .of nearly 100000 trainmen and con ,ductors on the Eastern railroads, when, after conference at the White House, representatives of the rail- road companies, and the brotherhoods agreed with legislative leaders on the terms of the Newlands bill, amending the Erdman Arbitration act, and prom ised to submit their differences to ad- indication under the amended law. President Wilson described the meet ing as simple and satisfactory"
 The conference which resulted in this momentous decision was the largest that has been held since Presi- dent Wilson took office, and assembled at three o'clock in the afternoon in the Presidents room in the executive office. Those participating in the gathering were:-
 Senator Newlands, chairman of the Interstate Commerce Committee.
 Senator Kern, democratic floor leader.
 Representative Clayton, chairman of the Jdiciary Committee.
 Representative Mann, republican floor leader.
 Secretary William B. Wilson of the Department of Labor.
 President Samuel Req, of the Penn sylvania Railroad.
 President Daniel Willard of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad.
 President George W. Stevens of tho Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad.
 President William c. Brown of the New York Central Railroad
 Frank Trumbull, chairman of the Executive Committee of the Chesa- peake and Ohio Railroad.
 Seth Low, president of the national Civic Federation
 Marcus M Marks. chairman of the Committee on Mediation and Arbitra- ton Legislation of the National Civic Federation.
 Ralph M Easley, chairman of the Executive Committee of the National Civic Federation.
 HF6SIuGnI A. D. 6lcOh OA l4AC Order of Railway Conductors.
 President w. G. Lee of the Brother hood of Railway Trainmen.
 Grand Chief Warren s. Stone of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers.
 President w. s. Carter of the Brothefhooh tof Locomotive Fjremen.
 The Erdman act, as amended by the Newlands bill, provides that the board of arbitration shall consist of "six, or if the parties to the controversy pre- fer so to stipulate, to a board Of three persons, which board shall be, chosen in the following manner: In the case of "a board of three, the employer or employees, parties respectively to the agreement to .arbitrate, shall each name one arbitrator, and the two arbi- trators thus chosen shall select the third arbitrator; but in the event of their failure rso name the third arbi- 'trator within five days after their first meeting, such third arbitrator shall be named by the Board of Mediation and Cancellation. In the ease of a board of six, the employer or em- ployes, parties respectively to the agreement to arbitrate, shall each name two arbitrators, and the four ar bitrators thus chosen shall, by ma jorfty vote, select the remaining two arbitrators; but in the event of their failure to name the two arbitrators within fifteen days after their first meeting the said two arbitrators, or as many of them as have not been named, shall be named by the Board of Mediation and Consolidation"