. The National Civic Federation review . ovides for the peaceof disarmament, all disputes between employer andwage-earner to be settled through the machinery pro-vided for arbitration. The old plan provides that nounions should strike and that no member of the Em-ployers Association should lock out before the matterin dispute has been brought before the General Arbi-tration Board and settled. The important section providing for the closed shopreads as follows: The employers, parties to this arbitration plan, agree to employmembers of the trale unions only, directly or indirectly, throughsub-co
. The National Civic Federation review . ovides for the peaceof disarmament, all disputes between employer andwage-earner to be settled through the machinery pro-vided for arbitration. The old plan provides that nounions should strike and that no member of the Em-ployers Association should lock out before the matterin dispute has been brought before the General Arbi-tration Board and settled. The important section providing for the closed shopreads as follows: The employers, parties to this arbitration plan, agree to employmembers of the trale unions only, directly or indirectly, throughsub-contractors or otherwise, on the work and within the terri-tory described in Section 1 of this plan. (Section 1 defines this territory as all the territoryknown as Greater New York, unless otherwise specifiedin trade agreements.) This is far more definite than the corresponding pro-vision in the old plan, which permitted the employmentof non-union men, in case a union is unable to providesufficient workmen, who shall become members of the. OTTO M. EIDLITZ,Chairman General Arbitration Board. union, if competent. Under the new provision, a non-union workman must join the union of his craft, beforehe can find employment; and the unions, by their ownrules, are obliged to admit any competent workman ofgood character, thus removing an arbitrary restrictionthat some unions had before imposed. Sections 4 and 5, relating to the General ArbitrationBoard, are entirely new, and follow: There shall be a General Arbitration Board, consisting of tworepresentatives from each employers association affiliated withthe Building Trades Employers Association and two representa-tives from each union recognized as a party to this plan. The General Arbitration Board shall exercise the powers dele-gated to it by the several provisions of this plan; shall determinethe manner of adjustment of any dispute which is not specificallycovered by this plan; shall adopt and amend a code of procedure,and shall deter
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