The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-01-13
WILLKIE WILL
 GET WAR POST
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(Continued from Page D for assisting the new labor board as "umpires or arbitrators."
 In most important cases that come before the war labor board, Early said, the board members will sit as panel with selected umpires from the supplemental list. Wants Him In War Post
 There have ben reports for some time that MT. Roosevelt is planning to utilize Willkie's services in a war post. Early's emphasis that the Roosevelt-Willkie meeting today was not necessarily to discuss Willkie's role as an umpire or arbitrator re- newed speculation that the pres ident may still have more import ant post in mind for his 1940 rival.
 One of the first tasks of the new war labor board may be a determin- ation of the explosive closed shop is- sue. The test may come in the case involving labor demands for a union or closed shop at the Kearny, N. J., plant of the Federal Shipbuilding and Drydock Company.
 The Navy, at the direction of MT. Roosevelt, took over the Kearny plant last fall after the National Defense Mediation Board failed to settle the dispute between the com- pany and the Industrial Union of Shipbuilders (CIO). It returned the management to the company last week.
 Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox was said to have told the union and the company that if they could not settle their dispute by direct negotiation 1t would be sent to the new war labor board as soon as 1t was created. John Green, the union president, has informed Knox, President Roosevelt and Sec retary of Labor Francis Perkins that direct negotiations have now col lapsed.
 Request of Industry
 The war labor board was estab- lished on the request of industry and labor representatives to carry out their pledge of uninterrupted war production and peaceful settlement of all disputes by negotiation, con- ciliation, mediation and arbitration.
 Six of the members were on the old mediation board, which it re- places. William H. Davis, chairman of the new board, also was chairman of the NOME which collapsed after ruling against United Mine Workers President John L. Lewis demand for a union shop for captive" coal miners. The union ship was grant, ed later by an arbitration board.
 One of the most difficult problems facing the new board is whether to take jurisdiction on closed shop demands.
 Both the American Federation of Labor and the Congress of Industrial organizations have insisted that the closed shop should be within the boards jurisdiction.
 Industry representative have been equally insistent that closed shop demands should be settled by direct negotiations and some said they never would agree to arbitration. Procedure Order
 The order outlined this procedure for settling disputes:
 l. The parties should first re- sort to direct negotiations or to the procedures provided in a collective bargaining agreement.
 "2. If not settled in this manner, the commissioners of conciliation of the Department of Labor shall be notified if they have not already intervened in the dispute.
 8. If not promptly settled by conciliation, the Secretary of Labor shall certify the dispute to the board, provided, however, that the board in its discretion after consul tation with the secretary may take | jurisdiction, the board shall finally determine the dispute, and for this purpose may use mediation, volun- tary arbitration, or arbitration un- der rules established by the board"