The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1916-12-05
WANTS CONGRESS 10
DENY RIGHT TO STRIKE
lin Message to SoIons President
Demands Investigation of
AlIsLabor Disputes.
.RAILR R0AD. LAWS ARE. ASKED.
Wilson Turns His Back to Sam
Gompers and the Rail
road Brotherh0ods.
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NA.s f1 1NffFON, T2ec, President
Wilson n address All the oFenlnE of
7he session Of Congress today Mas
wholly devoted tn domestic Subjects.
nriEcipally the problem of railway
# LEGISLATION.
IN the nall Or the House with SEN
ators and representatives asse1nbl cd
i'l joint session President Wilson jim.
accordarce with the custom he began.
"a the opening Of his term read his
address from the clerks desk
The president not only renewed his
recommendation for legislation to.
prevent nation wide railway strike
#ol. lockout before there HAN been ;tp-
poftnnity for inyestigation bur de-
Tended it against the attack of or
s,tnized labor as nothing abitrarv 81
unjust and tlre justif1able EhfeEuard-.
#irg by society of The necessary pro
cseseS uf it's very life N
# Aside from recommendations for
Y tile n- ssage OF the Porto Rico govern
5tnnt bill. the corrupt practices bill
ami the Webb hill to lcHalize AIaeri-
san coll tectiEe selling agencies abroad.
t.lr presidents address was devoted
Nholly 10 the railway situatibn The.
onlyfeatlrE which lladnnt l3een fore.
cast was the elimination of thc pro
pQaal tlat Congress give explicit ap-
.proEal To consideration hy the Inter
state Commerce Commission oi an in.
acHeasG IN freight rates to meet adtli-.
#tiaaal expenditures by the railroads.
eansFd bls the operation 0f the .Afia!li-
son laW
ot!a%t he president took the ro5i-#
#tinn that the power of the Interstate
#CoElu.erce Commission t0 grant am
iI.sr,sase rf rates On the ground 4e-3
EfEFYal ~ tsTE TTTF r$
recommendation by tha Congress Mlthi
regard to such d matter mtPht saGltlI
to draw in question the scope OF thn
commissions authority orits inclina-I
tion to do Justice when there IN no
rersnn to doubt either
The other recommend ations #on. The
railroad situation made in q special
message during the last session.
which were not put into law. We're RE-
newed today. They include:
Immediate provision for the en-
largement and administrative reor-l
ganization Of the Interstate Com
lnerce6 commission along the lines en-
bodied in the bill recently passed byl
the House of Representatives and
now awaiting action bs the Senate;
in order that the commission may
be enabled to deal with the many
great and various duties nov devoIT-
ing upon. it with a nronptncss and
thoroughness which are. With its
present constitution andmeanss OF ac- I
tion, practically impossible.
An amendment Of the existing
federal statute which provides for the
mediation, conciliation and arbItra
ton of such controversies al the pres
ent bE adding to#i 4 provision that.
in case the methods OF accom- m oda-sl
tion now provided for should tail aj
public investigation of the merits OIL
every such dispute shall he instituted
and completed before a strike or lock-
out may lawfully he attempted.
1.-THE Judgement in the hands OIL
the executive of the. power, in case of8I
military necessity. to take control OIL
such portions of such rolling stock
of the railways of the country as nIay.
be required for military use and to \
with authority to draft into the mil
itary service of $S>e United States such
train crews and administrative Of
tlcials5 as the circum stances may re
Quire# for their safe and efticien mt use.
The renewed Recommendation for
compulsory inFestt CATION Of labor
disputes on railways before strikes or
lockouts are allowed, which has
aroused the opposition Of the railroad
brotherhoods, and Of the American
Federation of Labor. was defended5|
in the presidents message. He de-
clared he would hesitate to recon-
mend a law which would force indi-
vidual worEmen to continue in an EN-
ployment which they desire to leave.
but that no such principle was irl-aI
volyed IN the suggestion that the op-I
Grafton OF railways Of the country
should not be stopped by the con-
centrated action of&bodles of men ur9z
H til a public tnvestigatio for the bene-
1T Of the public has been Instituted
''Iti is based upon the very different
principle he continued, that the
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