Albuquerque morning journal., 1910-12-03
RAIL WAY MEN TO
WORK WITH THEIR
employees
Becoming Recognized That In-
terestS of Companies and
Men Are Identical Under the
Present Conditions,

Railway employees in undertaking
to promote the cause of the compan-
les which they serve have much
wider FIELD for operation spread out
before them than that Of the eNef-
ton of their political influence IN pc
half OF the companies and one Whlch
promises even more fruitful results
says the Railway Record. ~ many
division headquarters throughout th'
country those engaged in the railway
enterprise i'm one capacity or another
constitute majority OF the popuia-
ton and may be considered the gov
erning element therein.
10 a Very large extent they are
the creators of public sentiment anu
give tone thereto. IN such commuhl-
ties that part oi the population not
directly engaged in the railway lh-
dustry is largely occupied in catering
TO the wants and supplying the needs
of those actually engaged in that IN
dustry.
This latter element as class Is
usually keenly alive to its dependence
upon the railway portion OF the com
munity for its own well being ana
nrosneritv and. as rule. it is mcr
susceptible to influence from that
section of the community upon Whlch
II feels itself dependent Upon TINS
part of the community railways en-
ploves may be most successIul ~ eN-
nrtinr such an influence Ns VIII pflllN
about an entire change in publc
sentiment toward the railways ahu
all that concerns their interests
Railway employees wherever they
can exert an influence of any Rnu
should be most insistent In impress
ing facts upon every one win Wh"iii
they come in contact Their own wen
being and prosperity IS aDsolu'e'S
dependent upon the success MnlVli
attends their efforts IN TINS dlrecti''"'
In the communities referred TO thc
nresumption has too long obtained
that ne interest Of railway employees
and railway companies are diamei-
ricallv opposite 70 each other. IN
fact The impression has been allowed
to prevail that the interests OF the
two are directly opposed TO one an
other. and that what viii accrue 10
The advantage of the one must To
similar extent be detrimental To the
other. ia
However. such an impression htd
its origin and however long " ilN9
been in the ascendancy, 1t is qule
time that it De utterly uprooted anu
no longer be permitted 10 nave au'
mace in public opinion. In the up
rootine Of II. railway employees them
selves. should take the most acllNc
nort Their interests are so Intimately
ana vitslIv interviewer with those oi
the cnnpanies which they serve as !"
ho mart and parcel of the same iapfle'
ono part of which cannot be lhJuI
iorslv affected iu any way without the
whole participating TO the fullest eN-
tent in the injury suffered.
If should be no difficult task ior
railway employees to mould pup'io
opinion in the communities oi Wul.'
tbev are the most important part III
the manner here suggested. For sN
ample. in amy one OF these comm VIZ
,ias tbern may be merchants VINO
supply the families ol these IaliN"s
onnloves with the necessaries "l
Bfn Tho success ana prosperity ol
orcb and every one of these mer-
chants are dependant upon the go"a
viil of the railway employees ana
their families which are thus served
II must not be- supposed for "a mo-
nent that what IL here said appn's
only 10 railway employees located an
division headquarters. and who may
constitute q majority "f the p"pula
ton in the community "f which the.
form a part lt applles WIN 'i."'
for%. To- eyer, railway cmpioye. lr-
respective of the class or communitN
to which he may belong. and to every
RAILWAY official within tho bounds oi
the United states What is 10 the ln-
trest OF one in this respect y
.,tuailv To- the interest of aH i'n"
what must De- regirded as the tutf
which ono has imposed upon MIN
,nnst rest with equal force upon
..,.,.r,-,,n. employed in the railway in-
,l,sfr, irrssncciiNe of the capacity
ar ioeaiit, Ina which such employment
has been obtained
Heretofore there has not been rcal-