Arizona republican., 1918-06-03

stances, but to rely for a redress of grievances solely on the lodging of complaints by committees of your employees with our board and the boards action thereon. You would be given the express right under sucn compromise to discharge any em- ploye who sought remedy for griev- ances in any other way and the board would sustain the discharge.
 Under such a compromise, which would be consistent with our princi- | pies, the board would have the power | to secure you against the danger of a strike as completely as practical machinery can provide against it. | Thus would be removed the danger O. a resort to a strike and consequent public injury upon which you have based your obligation to exclude union men from your employ"
 | Personnel of Note
 The motion by which the report
 was accepted and ordered given 10
 the public also provided that the
 manner in which the individual mem
 bers voted should be made known They voted as follows:
 For the report: William H. Taft
 and Frank P. Walsh, joint chairmen;
 Victor Olander, representative Inter-
 national Seamen's union; T. M
 Guerin, representative United Broth
 erhood of Carpenters and Joiners
 Adam Wilkinson, representative oi
 United Mine Workers: Thomas Say
 age, representative International As
 sociation of Machinists. and T. A
 Rickert, representative United Gar
 ment Workers.
 Opposed to the report: Loyall A
 Osborne, vice president of the West
 inghouse Electric and Manufacturing
 company; F. G. Hood, president o
 the Hood Rubber company; C. EdwiI
 Michael, president of the Virginia
 Bridge and Iron company; w. Ii
 Vandervoort. president of the Roo
 and Vandervoort Engineering com
 pany; B. L. Worden, president O
 the Lackawanna Bridge company. Statement by Carlton
 "The telegraph company under stands" declared a statement issued by Mir Carlton tonight, that it's em-
 pIoyes thave made no complaints to the national war labor board respecting hours of labor, rates of pay, or gen
 eral working conditions. The company does understand that the officials O f an organization known os the Com mercial Telegraphers Union of Anne
 rica, whose membership is made III
 of a small contingent of telegrapher.
 not in the employ of the company
 about 2,500 in number, and principally
 resident in Canada, desire to enlarg, , their membership among approximate
 ly 10000 w. U. employees, of whon
 about one-half are directly engaged il q working the wires.
 'The telegraph company understand!
 that in organizing the national wa . labor board, 1t was intended that or : Tanizations that were unionized should , remain so and those pursuing the pol { icy of an open shop should not b' r changed. By inference it is equall.
 clear that organizations non- union II F character should also pursue that pol
 icy during the period of the war.
 appears clear that the board shoul,
 act as mediator in disputes that aris
 between employees and employers un o der the labor relationship and policie f that existed prior to the war; that tn n principles formulated by the war labo !, conference board and recommended :. o the president have as their fundament , | al basis the continuance of the rela . tios affecting the organization of em
 ployes existing at the opening of tn Il war and that is the telegraph com e pany's understanding of the effect c a the presidents proclamation approvin f and adopting such principles.
 n 'If this is not true and if these prin h ciples are interpreted as comlallin = this company and others in like situa n tion to abandon their settled policy an
 leaving outside organizations free t IF work as they may see fit among fpei " employees, then the hands of the efil 1t ployers are tied and the principles ( $ the war labor board furnish a cloa a behind which a propaganda for tn D. unionizing of labor in every industr IF may be carried on without let or hin h drance."
 d konenkamp Statement
 e $. J. Konenkamp, president of tt u Commercial Photographers union, aftt IS he had read the report of MT. Taft an
 MT. Walsh, issued a statement in whic
 he declared that strike of telegraph Ie CTS would be called.
 d ''rhe report of the national war ls l. bor board" said the statement, icon 1t pels the union to take the initiati,
 and declare strike against the Wes le ern Union Telegraph company, ly order to enforce the decision of tl s. board. The mediatore have not r, sd ported on our grievances against Il IT Postal Telegraph company.
 ot The Commercial Telegrapher Id Union of America had agreed to ol CT serve the rules laid down to eovel a. the national war board if the telegrat