Union Asks Conant Choose N.Y. Harvard Club Arbiters

NEW YORK, April 9 Locked-out Harvard Club employees here asked today that President Conant choose or sit on as arbitration panel of three University alumni to settle the three-week-old dispute.

In an exclusive release tonight, the CRIMSON learned that Club officials will receive this Union request tomorrow in a registered letter which offers to arbitrate before any board of alumni, preferably University faculty members, so long as they have not been associated with the management side in labor disputes.

Meanwhile, hearings at the State Board of Mediation continued without success this week. Local 6, Hotel and Club Employees Union, AFI, filed a complaint with the State Labor Relations Board charging the Club with unfair labor practices.

Attack Club Policy

The Union claimed that the Club is "refusing to bargain in good faith," because it indicated that it will disregard final Mediation Board suggestions.

A Club representative turned down the suggestion of arbitration by a Mediation Board member this week, it was learned, on the grounds that mediation practice forbids the offering of advice until hearings are completed.

Management has countered Union demands for higher wages and a shorter work week with statements that operations of the Club are "on a close to break-even basis," and that total wages have doubled during the past five years.