The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1920-10-08
BUSINESS INTERESTS
:. FIGHT CLOSED SHOP
Big Business Is Afraid Labor viii
Get Its just Dues Through Ma
tional Adjustment Boards.-Fear
Plumb Plan.
BY Helen Augur,
Staff Correspondent for Federated

. New York, IN. Y. Bureau)-The
setting up Of national labor stand.
ards and the settlement Of industrial
problems occurring on the railroads,
through the reestablishment of Ma
ton Adjustment Boards, is being
fought by every considerable business
interest of the country.
The Merchants Association of New
York has beat the war-drum sum-
moning all the private business inter-
ests Of the country into an en-
trenched battle against share by
labor and by the government in the
industrial management of railroads.
This battle is now taking the form
of pressure on Chairman r. M; Bar
ton and Vice. Chairman Henry T.
Hunt of the United States Railroad
Labor Board, to settle the matter of
establishing the joint board in pri-
vate conference before any public
hearings begin. A recent letter from
Hunt to the Association indicates that
the matter "can be talked over quiet
ly" as desired.
The proposal to establish the
boards was presented by B. N. Jewell,
president OF the Railway Employees
Department Of the American Federa-
tion of%Labor. Il provides ssfSr -
continuation Of the three Adjustment
Boards created by the United States
Railroad Administration. Board
Number One consists of ten members,
five of them are seelcted by the car
riers and the other five form the
unions Of Engineers, Firemen, Con-
ductors, Trainmen and Switchmen.
Board Number Two consists of twelve
members, six Of whom are drawn
from the Machinists, Boilermakers,
Shipbuilders, Blacksmiths, Sheet Met
al Workers, Electrical Workers and
Carmen. Board Number Three has
five of It's ten members from the Tele-
graphers, Clerks, Freight Handlers,
Maintenance Men, Signalmen and
Stationery Firemen.
That portion Of the Merchants As
sociation which has already proved
itself perhaps the most efficient and
violent opponent of labor organika-
tion-the Citizens Transportation
Committee, is again the real leader
of the war. During the summer the
Transportation Committee attempted
to break the strike of the union team
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