. The National Civic Federation review . ctober 30 the two commit-tees, now with authority to act, met at the rooms of theCivic Federation. This joint meeting, after six hours of discussion,agreed that there should be formed a joint commissionempowered to settle all disputes, to be composed of anequal number of members, to be elected by the twobodies as each grievance should arise, its decisions tobe subject to ratification by both associations; in case1 >f disagreement by both sides, the question at issue tobe decided by arbitration ; the decisions of the arbitersto be final and binding. I
. The National Civic Federation review . ctober 30 the two commit-tees, now with authority to act, met at the rooms of theCivic Federation. This joint meeting, after six hours of discussion,agreed that there should be formed a joint commissionempowered to settle all disputes, to be composed of anequal number of members, to be elected by the twobodies as each grievance should arise, its decisions tobe subject to ratification by both associations; in case1 >f disagreement by both sides, the question at issue tobe decided by arbitration ; the decisions of the arbitersto be final and binding. It was proposed that both as-sociations should pledge themselves to co-operate anduse their entire joint influence and power to secure com-pliance with the decisions of this tribunal. The pro-posed agreement also included a pledge that thereshould be no strike or lockout during the period whenthe settlement of any question was pending. In accordance with this agreement the two committeesmet in conference on the following day, took up the. several demands and grievances presented by both sidi 3and re:.ched a settlement satisfactory to them all. It will be observed that at this stage of the case therehad been developed a device to insure the enforcementof any decision reached by arbitrators. This is impliedin the pledge that both associations would co-operateand use their entire joint influence and power to sus-tain the decision. It is important to emphasize thispoint, because it reappears in the final agreement, per-fected months afterward, and now in force in this in-dustry. Thus ends the first chapter 01 this dispute. Its second series of events was caused by the renewalof the desire of the Lithographers Association for anarbitration agreement. This desire, before expressed asa request, was announced by the association on Febru-ary 9, 1904, in the form of anultimatum, that unless an ar-bitration agreement, to be bind-ing for one year, should besigned by March 15 by theunions re
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