Why He Approves

Washington, Keb. 4 -The nniended labor arbitration bilí agreed on by the house commlttee on labor after conference with the representatives of the organizutions of locomotivo engineers, fcrainnicn, flreinen and oonductors has boen reported to the house by Erdman of Pcnnsylvania Incorporated in the report accompanying the bill are two letters addressed to Chairman McGana approring the bill, one from Carroll D. Wright, commissioner of labor, and the other from the labor reprosentatives above referred to. The bill agreed upon by the coinmittee, Wright sets forth in his letter, contains all the vital principies ineluded in the bill presented by himsolf and Kernan ? an outcome of the inveatigation of the Chicago strike. What Wright Thinka of tile Bill. "It isa bill," he says, "which, in its provisions, sceks to place labor on a more thorough basis than it now occuples. It. also, in most material sections, brings to labor organizations the opportuuity for really perfecting their work and for cooperating with the managers of railroads in preventing strikers and all manner of violence, in avoiding threats and in eliminating intimidations. It gives employés an opportunity to be heard - whon receivors are in control of railroads - upon the question of the reduction of their wages and the couditions of thoir employment, should changes therein be souglit by receivers. l'rovífeioji íor Arbitration. "The bill provides so far as arbitration is concerned for Immediate action, flrst to secure conciliation or mediation, and failing in that the constitution of a board of arbitration the awards of which may be final if the parties coming before it agree that they shall bo. The rights, privileges and prerogatives of both labor and capital, as represented in the operation of interstate railroads, are thoroughly securjd and protected by the bill, and It so nearly comprehends all the features of the bill which was drawn by themajority of the recent strike commission that I seo no reason whatevor for criticising it odverscly." Indorseuient by Labor Leaders. The other letter is signed by E. E. Clark, Order of Railway Conductors; Krank P. Sargent and F. M. Arnold, Brothi'rhood ot Locomotive i'iremon; P. M. Arthur, Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers; 1) L. Cewz and W. G. Edans, Brotherhood of Raüroad Trainmen, and W. V. Powell, Order of Railrtra.y Tolegraphers. "Uur position," the U-t!cr says, "is based on the fact that the-.,' organizations are composed of reasoDuble and law-atnding men who ask no ssptcial favors and des. re nothing but svhai is right and fair. We are not disposed to allow any personal preference in ihe matters of detail to stand in the way Of the enactment of some law that will give arbitration a fair test.:' Xot tu Favor of fttate Socialism. In objccting to soction 10 of the bill as Driginally drawn by the attorney general, which gave government the right to bring siiits in equity to prevent a continuance oí a strike, the labor men say, "We believo that it con tempN ates in vesting fcho representatives of the genpra.1 governmont with authority which is not consistent with the accepted understanding of tho rights of proporty owners or individual citizens. In short, we look upon it as a long step in the diroction of government paternalism or eventual government ownership of railways; or, to use a briefer and strenger teriu, state soeialism puro and simple."