Evening star., 1938-11-30
Administration Aides
Seek New Labor
Peace Farley
Would Smooth Path for
Debute on Revision
Of Wagner Act
Ry the Associated Press.

Ry the Associated Press.
Administration aides, with an eve.
on the impending congressional bat
tie over revising the Wagner Act,
are trying to bring organized labor's
warning factions back to the peace
conference table this winter. e;
A high officer of the administra-
ton, who declined to be quoted by
name, said today that new nego-
tiations before spring were the goal
of current efforts to end the 3-year-
old strife between the c. I. o. and
the American Federation of Labor.
One usually well-informed C. I. O.
official predicted presidential inter-
vention before January l.
But an A. F. of L. leader expressed
the opinion that President Roose-
velt would talk with John L. Lewis
OF the c. I. o. and President Will
liam Green of the federation sepa-
rately before publicly supporting
any proposal to settle the conflict.
Widespread Demands.
Many politicians and labor experts
believe labor peace would avert a
tug-of-war by union partisans over
changes in the Wagner Labor Rela-
tions Act.
There have been widespread de-
mands in industry and among anti
administration members of Congress
for its modification and for cur
tailment of the powers of the Ma
tional Labor Board. Congress prob
ably will debate the subject early
in its 1889 session.
The federation wants the Wagner
Act revised to provide greater pro-
lection for its craft unions in COL
lective bargaining relations. 1t con-
tends that the Labor Board has
favored the C. %.
The c. I. O., on the other hand.
has declared there is no need for
changes in the law. 1t will oppose
the A. F. of L. amendments.
1t was learned that influential
pressure outside of labor ranks-pre-
sumably by the White House-might
be employed if final nudge was
needed to bring the C. l. o. and A.
F. of l.. representatives together to
talk peace.
Leaders Pessimetic.
A survey of labor leaders, how
ever, disclosed that most of them
viewed the prospects of new peace
conferences pessimistically. One of
the federation's high command said
the chances of labor peace had les
sened since the c. I. O.'s Pittsburgh
convention and that negotiations for
unity could not be reopened until
Mr.. Lewis had withdrawn his de-
mands
Mr.. Lewis stand on peace nego-
tiations is that all c. I. o. unions
those once in the federation and
those organized since the break in
1935-be taken into the A. F. of L.
and chartered before any attempt
is made to reconcile the jurisdic-
tional conflicts
In its Pittsburgh convention. the
c. I. o. did not include this propo-
sition in the policy it adopted as its
official attitude toward labor unity.
The convention acknowledge unity
as the goal in the labor movement,
but asserted with finality" that it
could not compromise its purpose to
organize workers into the industrial
unions to attain the goal of unity.
At the bottom of the A. F. of L.
c. I. o. split is the latters campaign
to establish one big union for all
workers in each basic industry. The
federation convention of 1885 voted
down a proposal that this plan of
organizing the unorganized and the
unskilled workers be made part Of
the A. F. of L. structure long ago set
up by the craft unions.