The consequence was the group of a Committee on Labor of the Council of National Defense, designed to advise as to the relations between labour and employers during the battle. At a meeting of the presidents of the vital railways, held in Washington, April 11, plans were made for organizing an govt committee, composed of the presidents of five railways and of two ex-officio members one every from the Council of National Defense and the Interstate Commerce Commission, with Fairfax Harrison as chairman. Having settled this level, a method or the opposite, then let them conscientiously act accordingly. Victor Berger, member of Congress from Wisconsin, was convicted and sentenced for disloyalty, then re?lected to Congress, which refused to seat him. Authorized by a joint resolution of Congress, dated July 10 1918, the government assumed management of telegraph, telephone and marine cable techniques, underneath the U.S. Control of all radio stations within the jurisdiction of the United States had been placed under the Secretary of the Navy April 6 1917; on April 28 the transmission of cable messages between the United States and international nations had been positioned under the same supervision and worldwide phone and telegraph messages underneath the Secretary of War; censorship of the mails started Nov. 2, beneath the course of the Post Office Department.