Evening star., 1936-11-14
ASKS Arbitration
. IN A. F. OF |. ROW.
Berry Offers Plan as Faction
Is Determined to Gust
|. John w. Lewis.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
TAMPA, Fla, November l4.-George
L. Berry, President Roosevelt's CO.
ordinator for industrial cooperation.
today proposed arbitration to prevent
the threatened split In the American
Federation Of Labor.
Berry, also president Of the Print
ing Pressmens Union and Of Labor's
Non-Partisan League, told reporters
labor always had insisted upon arbi-
tration in its scraps with employers
and now should use 1t In its own in
ternal feuds.
Berry dropped this proposal into
pre-convention atmosphere charged
with determination Of craft union
leaders to oust from the Federation
John L. Lewis, president Of the United
Mine Workers, and his 10 rebel unions.
The federation's metal trades de.
partment instructed John p. Frey, its
president, to introduce resolution at
the convention. starting Monday. call
ing for expulsion Of the rebels.
Green Roars Disapproval.
william Green, federation presi-
dent, in two speeches. roared his dis
approval Of Lewis tactics, predicted
that the rebellion would collapse and
said that when the unorganized were
brought into unions, the A. r. OF L.
would do the Job.
The federation's failure TO bring
more than 1000. 900 workers into its
ranks led Lewis and his allies to set
UP the Committee for Industrial Or
ganisation last Fall. Lewis said this
failure, was due largely to the fedora
tion's policy Of organization by craft.
His committee set out to bring all the
workers in each big industry into one
big union. The A. r. Of L. Executive
Council then suspended 10 Lewis
unions, with about 100000 members,
for "insurrection.
Expulsion Seems Possible.
Even Lewis friends here agreed to-
day expulsion seemed probable. The
Committee for Industrial Organtza.
tion's admission to membership last
week of the United Radio and Electro
cal Workers and the Industrial Union
of Marine and Shipyard Workers. both
denied A. F. of L. charters, appeared TO
have intensified the feeling against
the rebels.
Berry, however, quietly talked with
the craft unions leaders about his ar
bitration proposal. and hoped that 1t
or another peace move-would stop
a break that all sides agreed would
mean a long and bitter labor war.
IT suggest appointment Of q COM
mittee made up Of equal numbers
from each side with neutral arbiter,
with the majority decision to be &C.
cepted in advance by all" he said.
This course, 1t would seem to me,
would be entirely in harmony with
the policy pursued by the American
Federation Of Labor since its organiza-
ton.
Labor has insisted upon this prin-
cipie in its dealings with employers.
Why not in its own afiairs?"
Berry emphasized he spoke as
labor man, not as q Federal ofncial.
Frey Case TO Be Aired.
The Frey expulsion move viii go TO
the conventions Resolutions Commit
tee, headed by Matthew Vol, o fedora
ton vice president and vice president
of the Photo -Engravers' Union. A
committee report to the convention
probably will be made late next week
or early the second week Of the ses-
sions.
The federation's executive council
was slated to meet today, but any &C
ton on the rebellion was improbable.
The council will submit to the conven-
ton Monday its report on the suspen-
sions and ask for approval.
Green predicted the approval vote
would be overwhelming. The Lewis
faction controlled about one-third OF
the voters at last years convention.
Most of these came from unions now
suspended.
Considerable discussion among the
gathering delegates was evoked by
the election yesterday Of Charles p.
Howard, president Of the Topographic
cal Union and secretary Of the Lewis
committee, as a vice president Of the
federation's union label trades depart
ment.
At the same time, the metal trades
department decided to use stationery
printed by non-union labor until the
typographical Union forces Howard
out of the Lewis COMMITTEES.