Evening star., 1945-11-09
Labor Farley
Reaches Accord
On Bargaining
Committee Studies
Machinery to Settle
Inter-Union Rows
By JAMES Y. NEWTON.

The National abor-Manage-
ment Conference has reached
accord on "full acceptance" of
the principle of collective bar
gaining, Secretary George w.
Taylor announced today as he
gave reporters a progress report
on the conference.
DR.. Taylor said this was "sig-
nificant fact" since controversy
over labor's right to bargain with
management over conditions of
work broke up similar industrial
peace conference after the World
War. The delegates to the present
conference, he added, are deter
mined to improve bargaining and
procedures for arriving at work
agreements.
In another development, DR.. Tay-
lor reported that the committee
considering the problem Of union
jurisdictional disputes is exploring
the possibility of establishing ma
chinery for settlement of interunion
rows" by the unions themselves.
No-Strike Clauses Studied.
Secretary of Labor Schwellenbach
suggested at the opening of the
conference that labor appoint a
"czar" to adjudicate jurisdictional
disputes without strikes.
Still another committee, DR.. Tay-
lor said, is considering the feasibility
Of Incorporating no-strike, no.
lockout clauses in contracts. He
added the group was studying the
idea Of provision for an impartial
chairman or umpire to decide dis
putes over Interpretation of exist
ing contracts.
Such an umpire would settle the
issue finally after other parts of
grievance machinery had failed.
DR.. Taylor said this machinery
was designed to minimize so-called
wildcat strikes" which he pointed
out have occurred despite provision
in contract banning a strike dur
ing its lifetime. This happened here
this week in the transit work STOP
page.
Committee to Call witnesses.
A committee studying ways of
minimizing disputes over the draft
ing of first contracts between a 'un-
ion and company was said to have
made considerable progress" The
group looking into ways of strength
ening the Labor Departments Con-
Citation Service, DR.. Taylor contin-
ued, has decided to call in witnesses.
He said EdgarsL. Warren, head of
the service, already has outlined the
functions of his department. Later,
the committee will call in DR.. John
r. Steelman, special assistant to
President Truman and former head
OF the service, as well as field con-
ciliators employed by the Labor De-
partment.
DR.. Taylor declared there was no
indication that any of the confer
ence committees have discussed pos
sible legislation that might be help
full in charting a course to indus
trial peace.
These developments came after a
heated exchange between John l..
Lewis and CIO President Philip
Murray indicated strongly that a
CIO resolution based on president
Truman's program of maintenance
Of wage levels would be killed by the
conference Executive Committee.
The committee was recessed until
Tuesday to provide cooling off
period" for members. Since the
wage issue is before the committee
there can be no action until that
time either on the Murray resolu-
ton or substitute.
Delegates See Progress.
Meanwhile, management dele
gates, who took little part in the hot
Lewis-Murray debate behind closed
committee doors yesterday, ex-
pressed belief the conference was
making good progress" toward its
objective of finding procedure to
minimize industrial strife, despite
the deep cleavage in labor ranks.
II believe this conference can ac-
complish some worthwhile things
said H. w. Steinkraus, president of
Bridgeport Brass Co. and member OF
the Executive Committee. THAT
little flareup Gewis-Murray con-
troversy) was not of major signifi-
canoe. I do not think labor and
management are very far apart on
the fundamentals of the conference
I think we can come through with
some recommendations to minimize
industrial strife that will be really
constructive for. the country"
Mr.. Steinkraus said too much OF
the 'froth" is getting the headlines
and not enough of the good, hard
work we have been doing"
David Sarnoff, president of the
Radio Corp of America, viewed the
labor wrangle over the wage issue as
evidence that democracy in our
country still functions" He de-
scribed the incident as nothing tc
alter our course of progress" adding
that earnest efforts are being made
to bring labor and management to-
gether. He said it was much
healthier to get opinions on the
(See CONFERENCE, Page A-3)