NO COMPULSORY ARBITRATION.

Maoriland Worker, Volume 3, Issue 53, 15 March 1912, Page 2

NO COMPULSORY ARBITRATION.

I{i'V. Pereira-Mendez, of New York, prosi d<'lit of the Fiuon of Orthodox Jewish (.'DHjir-'^.iLions of tho United States and C.mada, recently wrote to President 'J'iil'l suggesting that the time was ripe to coiiiineneo agitation for compulsory ailiitrntion. The American Labor movement lias expressed itself as jjpposeil to compulsory arbitration, and id is not likely that any change will take place to modify its views. President Tivl'tj in answer to the letter of the reverend gentleman, is-reported to have replied: "'Compulsory arbitration in industrial eontixiversios is one whicli would have t<> bo dealt with primarily by the Slates rather than tiie l'Vdoral Government. The principal field in which the Federal Government .could act would 1h» that of controversies between railroads and their employees, and a step has already boon taken there by providing a mechanism for voluntary arbitration. Tt is doubtful whether any proposition for compulsory arbitration of these disputes would at this time meet with sufficient favor to brine: such procedure within the realm of present possibilities."