JOINT CONFERENCE.

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JOINT CONFERENCE.

Ford Executives Have Settled One Dispute. i Press Association—Copyright. Detroit, Jan. 19. i It is announced that Mr. Sloan, j president of the General Motors Cori poration, will confer with Miss Frances Perkins, Secretary of Labour, and Governor Murphy to-day at Washington in an effort to arrange a joint conference of union and cooperation officials to settle the motor strikes. If Mr. Murphy and Miss

Perkins succeed in winning Mr. Sloan » to their viewpoint it is expected tliat i they will arrange a conference beI tween Mr. Sloan and Mr. Lewis, both I of whom have been keeping in the I background but are the real powers ! in the strike. i ■ Following intervention by an of- • fleial of the Ford Motor Company, i the dispute has been settled. Under i the agreement the 350 men laid off i last will return to work and the plant will be reopened to-morrow. The union alleged that the lay-offs were due to union activities, but the , company executives denied this and sold it was due- to a lack of material. This is the second time the Ford ■ executives have intervened to fettle ! strikes in plants with which the com- | pany deals. Participants in the ■ Washington conference refused to i comment upon it, but indicated that i they were no nearer an agreement.