Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1920-01-06
US. TRIBUNAL To
END LABOR WARS
industrial Conference Recon-
mends Nationwide System
as Remedy.
REPORT JUST MADE PUBLIC
Invites Fullest Discussion From Men
and Women in Every Walk of Life
plan Now in Its Element
airy Stage.

Washington, Dec. 30.-The creation
of a national industrial tribunal and
regional board of inquiry and adjust
ment for the settlement of all disputes
between labor and capital is the chief
recommendation in the preliminary re-
port of President Wilson's second in
dustrial conference.
Asserting that the public has long
been uneasy about the power OF
great employers and is fast becoming
uneasy about the power of great Ia
Dor organizations, the report says the
community must be assured against
the domination of either, and provision
is made for the representation of the
public on the proposed industrial trib-
unal.
The plan of the conference is In
reality proposal for the creation of
national industrial court with sub
sidiary agencies to assist it in main
tanning peace between labor and capt.
tai, and thereby safeguarding the
public interests.
While the plan is now in its ele-
mentary stages the purpose of max
ing it public at this time is to invite
the fullest discussion from men and
women in every walk Of life. The
conference desires criticism especially
and when it recOnvenes on January T.
it intends to take up all ideas that
have meantime been submitted to it.
The report says:
THE national industrial tribunal
shall have it's headquarters in
Washington, and shall be composed
of nine members, chosen by the
president and confirmed by the senate.
Three shall represent the employers of
the country, and shall be appointed
| upon nomination of the secretary of
commerce. Three shall represent en-
ployees, and shall be appointed upon
nomination of the secretary of labor.
| Three shall be representatives of the
public interest. Not more than five of
the members shall be of the same po-
| litical party.
1.-THE tribunal shall be, in general,
board of appeal. It's determinations
on disputes coming TO it upon an ap-
peal shall be by unanimous vote. In
| case it is unable to reach determine
ton, it shall make and publish major
ity and minority reports which shall
| be matters of public record"
In providing for the operation of the
proposed system, the conference sag
| gests the division of the United States
| into II districts similar, so far as
| boundaries are concerned, to those es-
tablished under the federal reserve sys-
| TEN.
Each of these regions would have a
chairman appointed by the president.
| He would be the representative of the
| public interest and would serve for a
| period of three years, with he chief
executive exercising the privilege of
reappointment. AS a bulwark to the
| regional chairman, the national indus
| trial tribunal could, at its discretion,
| choose one or more vice chairmen and
provide for the establishment of addi-
tiOnal regional boards.
| Somewhat akin to jury service is the
method suggested for the selection of
representatives of employers and en-
plOyees for the regional boards. The
secretary of commerce and the secre-
tary of labor would be authorized TO
prepare panels for the approval of the
president, and upon service on re-
| gional board mans name would au-
tomatically go to the bottom of the list,
| thus insuring a complete rotation.