The Connecticut labor news., 1922-01-27

legeS as well as the puDl1C, more and more concern these days as evidenced by l the increasing number of times subjects relating to such relations are taken as the basis for intercollegiate debates. The | most recent one occurred on Saturday night when Yale and Amherst met in the first debate ever held between those two colleges and resulted in a tie, the subject being Resolved, That industrial disputes are encouraged by the presence of standing industrial arbitration boards. The Yale team here which took the negative side of the debate, won from Amherst while the Amherst team at Amherst which had the negative, won form Yale. The result of the debate, which was undoubtedly very scholarly, must have been a keen disappointment to John E. Otterson, president of Winchester's and we'll known anti-union advocate, who ac- cording to the account of the debate in the Yale News, "worded' the subject and presided at the section of the debate in New Haven The Yale team here which was opposing MT. Otterson's statement, won out over Amherst and he didn't re- ceive any comfort when the Amherst team at home also opposing the subject, triumphed over Yale men. Both mega tive sides thus won out but the college debaters split honors doing it.
 The speeches in direct argument were limited to twelve minutes, while those of the rebuttal were allowed six minutes. Contrary to past custom, only two sepak- CTS and an alternate composed a team, in stead of the usual three men and an al ternate
 The debate in Lanpson Lyceum at Yale was opened by Stewart B. Nichols, 22, of the Amherst affirmative. He stated that the very existence of the mechanism of arbitration boards encour- ge disputes, first because 1t is easy for labor to take advantage of the boards, lose; second, because the publicity given to the decisions of the board sets an ex- ample for laboring men everywhere.
 Thomas Vennum, '23, the first Uni versity speaker, pointed out the three types of arbitration boards: Voluntary government boards, compulsory govern ment boads and voluntary boards arising inside industry. Voluntary government boards, he said, are a negligible quan- tity but the voluntary boards inside ,,1 creasing disputes
 J. Harold Merrick, '22 of Amherst then took the floor and attempted to prove that the operation of arbitration boards encourages disputes. He then showed that every dispute is unsatisfac- tory to one or both parties becouse of the method by which the boards reach their decision, because of the nature of the decisions. Furthermore, he stated that the operation of boards encourages unionism, a direct agency in encouraging disputes.
 Robert Guthrie, Page, '22, the last speaker for the University, outlined the fact that compulsory arbitration is nat ural step of industrial evolution, work ing out a coherence of the efforts of labor and capital. He argued that compulsory arbitration removes the power of corpo- rations and unions, the feeling of inse- curity of unions the work of labor agi- tators, and the desire of unions for strength. "Compulsory arbitration" he stated, 'in its inception faces handicaps to be overcome with experience; the prejudices against innovation and change the lack of time to work out the best machinery, and the lack of an indus trial code"
 After the rebuttals, the judges formed their decisions, voting unanimously for the University
 The debaters and officials were as fol- lows:
 Amherst-Stewart B. Nichols 1922 J. Harold Merrick, 1922 Yale-Thomas Vennum, Io2; Robert Guthrie Page 1922, Horace J. Voorheis, 1923, alter nate.
 Judges-C. o. Moore, C. H. Ward, T M. Steele.
 Presiding Oficer-J. E. Otterson.
 In the debate at Amherst Frank B Davidson, 1922, of the University Team opened the affirmative. He outlined the reasoning of the case, showing that arbitration boards have given an open in- vitation for labor to bring up disputes have tended to organize unorganized la bor so as to present it's demands more ef- fectively,an have offered labor agita- tors a better opportunity to stir up trouble.
 The second speaker, Bradford J. Will