The sun., 1908-10-01
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mont was psrfeeted al the WaltloFf. Astoria
Yesterday afternoon under tho Mans ~
the falway Business Association, whOue
rurpusn In 20 purpue n campaign ~ edu.
cation In order ~ make tho public better
.riuainted with the railroads
The manufacturers are led Ia dn ihla
,af only because AZ this time they hplicve
the railroads need friends who will speak
up far them hut because ~ the result ~
Iark II business aud State and national
legislation affecting tho railroads tho
business ~ the manufacturers ~ ma.
terias and equipment has fallen OF In
some cases ~ per cent.
Col George A. Post president ~ tho
standard Coupler Company. who presided d
at the meeting. said IN explaining its
purpose:
IT was not called with reference 10
any existing campaign. nor for the pir.
pose Of eleCting or licking anybody,
II is the result Of a great deal Of discus
sion among the manufacturers. who have
been for a long time suffering from the
inability Of the railroads To purchase the
things they make We feel that the atti-
tude Of hostility toward the railroads
can best he combated not by force
and invective but by the injection into
the present state of the public mind Of the
organized good nature of the sellers Of
railway materials and supplies,
we are the broadest gagged, best
nat red freest spending group of men
you can ftn1, Gnl we believe We can ad-
minister an elective cure for the public
grouch against the railroads. When a
man has something 10 sell he smiles all
day long and stays up Lite at night until
he thinks that the last man he can smile
on has gone to bed. When he gets up
early the next morning. before the pos
Sihle purchaser is stirring, and no matter
how he feels, he commences smiling again.
1T is possible that the railroads have
not followed the ideas of good nature
as the merchants have, so we can be OF
service to the people who mean so much
10 us. The concerns represented here
to-day have vast capital, employ hun
dreds OF thousands Of men and buy more
tickets and pay more freight yearly than
the political screamers against the rail-
roads do in fifty years, We haven't been
the 'pampered pets Of the railroads,
an we've had the frozen palm from them
and have had to sit in their corridors cool
ing our heels and waiting their pleasure.
but they are sorely in need of aid just
now. and we are meeting to see what we
can do for them"
When the meeting opened in the ban
quet room Of the Waldorf the officials Of
more than 100 manufacturing concerns
were present, including the American
Locomotive Company. the Pressed Stee
Car Company, the American Car and
Equipment Company, the Baldwin Loco
motive Works the Bethlehem Steel Com
rapy, tho Chicago Railway and Equip
fnent Company, the American Car and
Electric and Manufacturing Company
the lngersol- Rand Drill Company, the
Railroad Supply Company. the New York
Air Brake Company, the Union Switch
and sigma! Company, the Joseph Dixon
Crucible Company the Cleveland Frog
end Crossing Company, the Standard
? Col. Post touched in his speech on the
many idle locomotives and cars, closed
shops and idle train crews and working
men and said:
'The railroads Of America just now are
wrath trust. We hear much of the dep
relations Of trust magnates and the
injustice and expressions OF predatory
wealth. But what OF the devastating
attacks Of predatory wrath upon the rail-
roads? There has been an arnalgamation
of all the small local hostilities to railroads
that have been started-here through the
peevishness OF some station agent there
through the brusque manners of an
uncivil trainman, elsewhere through the
ayarice OF some wicked stock jobber, or
in some quarters by the frosty ,pomposity
f,f fityn Thaun Trat
factories have poisoned the minds Of
whole communities, and agitators have
taken up the promotion of the wrath
trust They have roamed abroad
throughout the land, putting crimps in
railroads that made them writhe In the
have emptied the dinner pals Of the army
Of railroad employ ees. No trust that was
ever organized in this country has il
in its power to create the thousandth
part Of the havoc, rob 80 many Of employ
ment, strike terror TO the hearts OF in
vestors, and diminish the incomes Of
widows and Orphans as has this "jugger-
naut Of agitation the wrath trust,
Following the address by Col; Post
speeches were made by Col. II. G. Prout,
ice-president and general manager of
the Union Switch and Signal Company;
T. 4 Griffin Of the Griffin Wheel Company.
4. II. MuIliken Of the Pettbone- Mulliken
Company. Charles A. Moore of Manning.
Maxwell 4 Moore. N. Paul Fenner OF the
American Valve and Meter Comoany.
j. s. Cohln Of the Franklin Railway Sup
ply Company. and Gen. Charles Miller OF
the Galena Signal Oil Company. The
speakers were agreed that the associa-
ton should be formed as ojected, and
the following resolu ton was adopted:
R'soIrrd. That 1t Is the sense Of this
meeting that there should he an organiHa-
tIon for tho general purpose OF conserving
the interests of the railways of our country
and the interests also OF the members Of
this association which are intimately as
sociatcd with those of the railways:
That said association. shall be composed
OF such corporations. firms and individuals
doing business as manufacturers Of rail-
way materials and equipment contractors
OF railway construction and dealers in mis-
celianeous railway supplies as may desire
10 be enrolled as members thereof.
These officers were elected; President,
George A. Post; vice-presidents, II. H.
Westinghouse, o. H. Cutler, W. II. Mar
sn i, t.. s. s. Keith, II H. Mulliken, q. p.
LetchWorth, Charles A. Moore; executive
committee, W. B. Pearce, Y. Y. Kelly,
y. g. prout, J, S. Coffin \ Paul Fenner,
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