Evening star., 1937-05-04
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Secretary Perkins proposed expan-
sion OF State labor mediation services
today to help settle and prevent strikes
during the development Of collective
bargaining.
She said in an address prepared
for her second labor-industry collec-
tive bargaining conference:
THE first of these conferences
brought about the understanding that
1t will be the purpose Of management
and labor to practice collective bar
gaining as it is defined in the national
labor relations act (Wagner acD, now
the law of the land under the recent
Supreme Court decision.
Many employers and workers, how
ever, lack experience in collective bar
gaining. Because Of this there will
be need for cooperation among State
and Federal agencies engaged in con-
ciliation work-and representatives OF
labor and management-so as to mini
mize stoppages of work through mis-
understandings by either workers or
employers.
Highly Useful Service.
Federal and State conciliators can
perform highly useful service in the
public interest, with the cooperation
I am sure they will receive from labor
and management in the coming
months.
when differences arise and a con-
ference is called which fails to make
hesdway toward an adjustment q
conciliator should be summoned.
Negotiations should not be broken
of without calling on the services of
such an expert. Very often his ideas
and advice will be helpful in finding
solution or limiting the points OF
disagreement"
Gov Frank Murphy of Michigan
and Gov. Herbert H. Lehman of New
York have proposed mediation boards
for their States as part Of sug-
gested labor relations law.
The Michigan measure. which
would prohibit strikes until the board
had exhausted all possibilities of me-
diation, was opposed last night by
Homer Martin, president of the
United Automobile Workers of Amer
lea He called it "inimical to the
interests Of the working people"
Miss Perkins conferences grew out
OF the Supreme Court valuation Of the
national labor relations act. She in
vited to today's meeting more than a
score Of labor and business leaders
including representatives of the United
States Chamber Of Commerce, which
last week recommended amendment OF
the Wagner act to provide labor union
responsibility.
Conference Attendants.
Those at the conference:
For industry-R. R. Deupree, pres
4dent, the Proctor & Gamble Co.;
T. G. Graham, B. F. Goodrich Co.;
Carl R. Gray president Union Pa
cif1c Railway Co.; Frank Griffin, vice
president, Viscose Corp: jeremiah G
Hickey, president, Hickey-Freeman
Co.; Gerard Swope, General Electric
Co.; S. Clay Williams, R. j. Reynolds
Tobacco Co.; Harper Sibley, former
president, and George H. Davis, pres
ident, Chamber of Commerce OF the
United States; Harold Whitman, pres
1dent, Esmode CRhode sland) Mills.
Labor-James T. Carey, president
United Electrical and Radio Workers;
John P. Frey, president, American
Federation of Labor Metal Trades De-
partment; Sidney Hillman, president,
Amalgamated Clothing Workers
Frank Morrison, secretary, A. F. of L.;
I. M. Ornburn, president, A. F. Of L.
Label Trades Departments; Emil
Rieve, president, American Federation
Of Hosiery Workers; M. H. Hodges. In
ternational Brotherhood Of Electrical
Workers, and Ora L, Gassaway, United
Mine Workers.