The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-05-16
NATIONAL WAR
 LABOR PROGRAM
 is ANNOUNCED
Presidents Proclamation Creating National War La
 bor Board and Officers.
OFFICIAL REPORT OF
 CONFERENCE BOARD
Men Who Have Task of Set, ting Disputes Between
 Capital and Labor.
A PROCLAMATION,


 Whereas, in January, nineteen hun dred and eighteen, the Secretary of Labor, upon the nomination of the president of the American Federation of Labor and the president of the National Industrial Conference Board, appointed a War Labor Con ference Board for the purpose of de- vising for the period of the war method of labor adjustment which would be acceptable to employers and employees; and, Whereas, Said board has made a re- port recommending the creation for the period of the war of a National War Labor Board with the same number of members as, and to be se- lected by the same agencies that ere ated, the War Labor Conference Board, whose duty it shall be to ad just labor disputes in the manner, specified, and in accordance with cer- tain with certain conditions set forth in the said report; and,
 Whereas, The Secretary of Labor has, in accordance with the recom mendation contained in the report of said War Labor Conference Board dated March 29, 1918, appointed as members of the National War Labor Board, Hon. William Howard Taft and Hon. Frank P. Walsh, representatives of the general public of the United States; Messrs. Loyal A. Osborne, l.. F. Loree, w. H. Van Dervoort, c. B. Michael, and B. l.. Worden, represen- tatives of the employers of the United States; and MessTs. Frank J. Hayes, William l.. Hutcheson, William H. Johnston, Victor A. Olander, and T.. A. Ricektr, representatives of the em- ployes of the United States:
 Now, therefore, I. Woodrow Wilson, President of the United States of America, do hereby approve and af- firm the said appointments and make due proclamation thereof and of the following for the information and guidance of all concerned:
 The powers, functions, and duties of the National War Labor Board shall be to settle by mediation and conciliation controversies arising be- tween employers and workers in fields of production necessary for the effect i've conduct of the war, or in other fields of national activity delays and Instructions in which might, in the opinion of the National Board, affect detrimentally such production; to provide, by direct appointment, or otherwise, for committees or boards to sit in various parts of the country where controversies arise and secure settlement by local mediation and conciliation; and to summon the par ties to controversies for hearing and action by the National Board in event of failure to secure settlement by mediation and conciliation.
 The principles to be observed and the methods to be followed by the National Board in exercising such powers and functions and performing such duties shall be those specified in the said report of the War Labor Conference Board dated March 29, 1918, a complete copy of which is hereunto appended.
 The National Board shall refuse to take cognizance of controversy be- tween employer and workers in any field of industrial or other activity where there is by agreement or fed ~ eral law a measn of settlement which has not been invoked.
 And do hereby urge upon all em- ployers and employees within the United States the necessity of utilizing the means and methods thus provided for the adjustment of all industria disputes, and request that during the pendency of mediation or arbitration through the said means and methods there shall be no discontinuance o1 industrial operations which would re- sule in curtailment of the production of war necessities
 In witness whereof I have hereuntc set my hand and caused the seal O the United States to be affixed.
 Done in the District of Columbia this eighth day of April, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and eighteen, and of the independ ence of the United States the ont hundred and forty-second.
 WOODROW WILSON. ~